New Delhi (Sputnik): Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has warned the international community about a possible covert cross-border operation by India.

New Delhi (Sputnik): A man in India got so engrossed in his cellphone conversation that he couldn't stop talking - even as he almost got hit by traffic as his scooter slipped out from under him. A video clip of the incident is causing hilarity online.

New Delhi (Sputnik): India and France have reiterated that their defence cooperation is one of the strongest pillars of their bilateral relationship, and they are making substantial progress in this sector.

New Delhi (Sputnik): A mentally unstable man scaled a wall and ended up on the runway at Mumbai airport; almost causing a tragedy as he approached the engine of a plane which was ready for takeoff.

New Delhi (Sputnik): Amid rising anger at the diplomatic level, the armed forces of India and Pakistan exchanged heavy fire on the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir, leaving one Indian soldier dead. The Indian Army said that it was retaliating to Pakistani fire.

New Delhi (Sputnik): The US has expressed deep concern over China's redeployment of coast guard's ships into the waters off the shore of Vietnam near India's oil block in the South China Sea.

New Delhi (Sputnik): The UN has stated that superstar Priyanka Chopra retains the right to express her personal views amid Pakistani officials' calls on UNICEF to drop her status as a goodwill ambassador over a tweet supporting the Indian army.

New Delhi (Sputnik): The Indian state of Tamil Nadu is on high alert following intelligence reports that six Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorists have entered the territory through the Rameshwaram-Sri Lanka route.

New Delhi (Sputnik): Pakistan government officials, however, maintained the group has not blacklisted their country but put it "under observation for one year," and that they have been told to do more to fulfil the requirements laid out by the action plan.

New Delhi (Sputnik): Overseas members of Pakistan’s opposition People’s Party (PPP) reportedly punched Pakistan’s Railway Minister Sheikh Rashid and pelted him with eggs as he was coming out of a hotel in London.

BEIJING (Sputnik) - The Hong Kong Supreme Court on Friday extended for an unspecified period a ban on rallying in the city's international airport, media reported.

New Delhi (Sputnik): French President Emmanuel Macron, in an apparent snub to his US counterpart for his offer of mediation to resolve the Kashmir imbroglio, said that India and Pakistan should resolve it bilaterally, without any third party interference.

Earlier, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said that Japan still expects South Korea to keep its promises on the contentious issue of wartime forced labour and to work to rebuild trust after South Korea's decision to scrap a deal to share military intelligence.

New Delhi (Sputnik): A woman and two of her relatives have reportedly been charged with murder and criminal conspiracy after police in India’s most populous state, Uttar Pradesh, discovered the decomposed body of a child in a jute bag in their house.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Friday Japan still expects South Korea to keep its promises on the contentious issue of wartime forced labour and to work to rebuild trust after South Korea's decision to scrap a deal to share military intelligence.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - North Korea is ready for both dialogue and confrontation with the United States, the Asian country's Foreign Minister, Ri Yong Ho, said on Friday in the wake of US State Secretary Mike Pompeo’s announcement of plans to impose tougher restrictions on the country if it does not abandon its nuclear arsenal.

Google Security announced Thursday it had disabled 210 YouTube channels for behaving “in a coordinated manner while uploading videos related to the ongoing protests in Hong Kong.” Noting the reasoning was “consistent” with that fielded by Twitter and Facebook in their account takedowns, this can only mean they posted pro-Beijing content.

Analysts are raising alarm about a uranium enrichment facility in North Korea that appears to be leaking waste into a nearby river.

While anti-extradition bill and pro-democracy demonstrators are taking to the streets in Hong Kong, a slew of millionaires from the area are abandoning the city and taking advantage of Australia’s wealth-based visa program.

In anticipation of the world’s largest astronomical instrument, Beijing is set to construct a permanent regional data hub that will house its Tianhe-2 supercomputer to make sense of reams of data acquired from space.