South Asia

US aerospace giant Boeing recently delivered the final five of the 22 Apache helicopters to the India which was almost instantly deployed at critical...

"In the initial phase, the small but sturdy Cheetah helicopters that have an established record in high-altitude flying are sent on surveillance sorties," wrote Rawat. " Gunjan is amongst the pilots who fly into the valley covering the Kargil–Tololing–Batalik area, surveying it from the air and reporting any activity they spot," she added.

China has been accusing India of being "hijacked by domestic radical nationalism and that it has failed to manage it" since New Delhi took...

But even amid a harsh crackdown on the Uighur population in China's Xinjiang region, Pakistan PM Imran Khan has refused to be drawn into the domestic affairs of Pakistan's long-time ally and focussed on Kashmir.

Sri Lanka's ruling Rajapaksa brothers have secured a two-thirds majority in parliamentary elections, giving them powers to change the constitution and unravel democratic safeguards,...