Brazil and India finalized a deal on critical minerals and rare earths on Saturday, followed by an agreement between Brazil and South Korea on Monday to increase their cooperation on minerals, technology, cultural exchange, and trade.
A report issued by Kenyan intelligence on Wednesday found that over a thousand Kenyans were recruited with false promises of good jobs in Russia, but then sent to fight on the bloody battlefields of Ukraine.
India on Friday joined the Pax Silica framework, a U.S.-led effort to create a secure supply chain for critical technologies that would be immune to meddling from China. India’s membership had been in doubt due to trade tensions with the United States under President Donald Trump.
The Department of Justice and the FBI have won a guilty verdict against an India-born executive at a U.S. Fortune 500 company who demanded kickbacks in exchange for hiring a job-seeker.
India sought to make a splash in the world’s fastest-growing tech industry this week by hosting an A.I. Impact Summit in New Delhi, with a who’s-who of industry leaders and artificial intelligence visionaries on the guest list. The summit was a public-relations disaster, because the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi evidently underestimated how much rivalry and personal animosity exists in the A.I. world.
A spokesman for imprisoned former Pakistani PM Imran Khan says he has been denied hospital care and treatment, leading to severe loss of vision.
Nikhil Gupta, 54, pled guilty on Friday to three charges of conspiracy to hire an assassin to kill Sikh separatist leader Gurpatwant Singh Pannun in New York City in 2023.
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) won a two-thirds majority of parliamentary seats in Thursday’s election.
Bangladesh on Thursday held its first general election since Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was ousted by violent riots in August 2024.
The Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a message on Sunday that it would heighten monitoring for a variety of diseases in anticipation of the Lunar New Year on February 17, including respiratory diseases such as Wuhan coronavirus and the bat-borne Nipah virus.
The Russian Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday that it still hopes to create a “cross-border payment infrastructure” for the BRICS economic bloc — in other words, an alternative currency that would dethrone the American dollar as the favored medium of international trade.
Several call centers in India were raided after an investigation found that hundreds of Maryland residents were scammed out of more than $48 million.
Pakistani media reported a suicide bombing attack on a Shiite mosque in Islamabad on Thursday afternoon, with at least 31 fatalities and 169 injuries.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday that India has not indicated it will stop buying Russian oil, as claimed by President Donald Trump on Monday.
Indian Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Hardeep Singh Puri appeared to confirm President Donald Trump’s claim that New Delhi would be expanding Venezuelan oil purchases in comments on Monday, stating that India was already buying Venezuelan oil and has refineries specially outfitted to handle crude from that country.
The Dhaka Special Court in Bangladesh on Monday sentenced former prime minister Sheikh Hasina to ten years in prison on two corruption indictments.
President Donald Trump announced Monday that the United States and India have reached a trade agreement and that India has committed to stop buying Russian oil.
The United States and India reached a trade agreement that will immediately lower American tariffs on Indian goods to 18 percent while opening India’s market to U.S. energy and other products, President Donald Trump announced Monday.
The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) on Friday said the “risk of further spread of infection” from the small outbreak of the deadly Nipah virus in India is “low.”
The Pakistani government on Thursday ordered enhanced screening for travelers arriving from “Nipah-affected or high-risk regions.”
China’s infamous Wuhan Institute of Virology has offered to help India contain an outbreak of the dangerous Nipah virus.
A private plane carrying a deputy chief minister crashed in an open field in western India on Wednesday.
The European Union has agreed to open its borders to mass immigration from India as it signed the largest free trade agreement in the history of the bloc.
An Indian couple was arrested for their involvement in allowing illegal activity, such as the selling of drugs and prostitution, to occur in their roadside hotel in Virginia.
Mass migration is terrible economics, President Donald Trump told an audience of Europeans at the World Economic Forum on Wednesday.
The family of a teenage Indian boy who groped a female American tourist is accusing the victim of “overreacting” to the incident.
The Chinese Defense Ministry confirmed on Friday that its military, alongside those of Russia and South Africa, would engage in drills known as “Will for Peace 2026” off the coast of South Africa.
Two illegal aliens from India are accused of smuggling more than 300 pounds of cocaine across the state of Indiana in their semi-truck.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) offered a dismaying projection for Japan’s economy on Friday, projecting mediocre growth in the first half of 2026 that will cause Japan’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to fall behind India’s.
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong has announced that a former customer service agent has been arrested in India in connection with a major security breach of the crypto trading platform that occurred in May.
India’s government is escalating its protests against the State Department’s new curbs on rampant visa fraud at U.S. embassies in the subcontinent.
Hindus in the Indian capital of New Delhi protested on Tuesday after a Hindu man was lynched and burned alive by a mob in Bangladesh.
Google and Apple have cautioned their H-1B visa workers against traveling outside the United States, citing substantial delays in visa processing that could last up to a year.
The Chinese Commerce Ministry announced on Friday it has filed a case with the World Trade Organization (WTO) against certain Indian tariffs and subsidies, saying they give Indian domestic industries an “unfair competitive advantage” and “harm Chinese interests.”
A 29-year-old husband and father of two young boys was killed in a crash allegedly caused by an illegal alien truck driver from India who had been released into the United States by the Biden administration.
Microsoft has announced plans to invest $17.5 billion in India over the next four years, focusing on the country’s rapidly growing data center market. Meanwhile in the United States, the software giant is laying off Americans, importing H-1B visa workers, and cozying up to the Chinese government.
India’s Foreign Ministry on Tuesday supported the “sovereignty” of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan against cross-border attacks from Pakistani forces.
President Donald Trump’s promised $100,000 fee for importing H-1B workers next year will be a trivial fee for Silicon Valley companies, says the Iran-born CEO of a recruiting company.
Russian President Vladimir Putin promised an “uninterrupted” supply of cheap oil to India after meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday, defying President Donald Trump’s effort to use tariff pressure to get India to stop funding Putin’s war machine in Ukraine.
Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in New Delhi on Thursday for meetings with top officials, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
