After the statement from Japan’s foreign minister Fumio Kishida that Japan sees Arunachal Pradesh as a part of India, China condemned Japan by asking it to mind its own business instead of interfering in India-China relationship.
Russia and USA compete to become India’s main defence supplier
Being the world’s biggest arms importer, India has been the focus of both the giant arms suppliers – USA and Russia. This has been revealed again by series of the events that took place after Narendra Modi took the charge of the new government.
Pakistan’s new nuclear reactor operational
As a part of Pakistan’s programme to increase the production of miniaturized plutonium based nuclear weapons, its new heavy water reactor at Khushab nuclear site has probably become operational.
There must be limits to free speech: Pope
Speaking with reference to the attack on the satirical magazine Charlie Hebo, Pope Francis said that there are limits to freedom of expression, especially when it insults or ridicules someone’s faith.
Pak bans chief terrorist organisations
After the instructions from US secretary of state John Kerry who was on the visit to Pakistan, Pakistan banned 12 terrorist organizations including the Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) and the Hakkani network
US declares Pak Taliban chief as global terrorist
The US designated Maulana Fazlullah, the chief of Pakistani Taliban, as a global terrorist. TTP had claimed responsibility for the Peshawar attack that resulted in the deaths of about 150 people, mostly children.
Ban on burqa in Xinjiang
Legislators in Xinjiang province - a region of China with a large Muslim population, have approved a ban on women wearing a traditional Islamic garment known as a burqa in public.
ISIS gaining field in Afghanistan
The Sunni radical group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is said to be recruiting and operating in some provinces of Afghanistan.
Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha becomes the first Hindu chief justice of Bangladesh
Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha was on 12 January 2025 appointed as the 21st chief justice of Bangladesh. He will be the first Hindu Chief Justice in the judicial history Bangladesh
Al-Qaida takes responsibility of attack on Hebdo
Al-Qaida has taken the responsibility of the attack on the satirical news magazine Charlie Hebdo by saying that it had directed the attack “as revenge for the honour” of Prophet Muhammad