Subrahmanyam Jaishankar retains his position as India's External Affairs Minister in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's administration in his new term. Photo:VCG. Indian media reporte

China has announced a 7.2% increase in its defence budget, bringing the official figure to over $245 billion. However, experts believe the actual expenditure is at least 40-50% higher due to undisclosed allocations.

India and China are working towards a more predictable and stable relationship following years of border tensions, said External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar. Speaking at Chatham House in London, he highlighted ongoing discussions on troop disengagement,

Beijing: China has reached second place in the Global Soft Power Index. In the sixth Global Soft Power Index report, China has been identified as the second most influential country in the world. The United States is ranked first on this list.

Saudi Arabia is not modeling itself after China or India. It is forging a path entirely its own, built on its unique history and ambitions. The question is no longer whether Saudi Arabia is changing—it is whether the world is ready to recognize and embrace it.

India's finished steel imports from China, South Korea and Japan hit a record high in the first 10 months of the financial year, according to provisional government data seen by Reuters on Tuesday.

The slowing economic growth rate and rising gold prices in the past year have resulted in a record surge in loans against gold jewellery. Data released by the Reserve Bank of India shows that gold loans grew 68 per cent in the first nine months of this fiscal year, up from 12.7 per cent for the same period last year.

In the early 2000s, Russia and China had heeded US preferences regarding the Korean Peninsula by engaging in multilateralism with the Six-Party Talks to deal

The recently announced U.S. tariffs on steel imports mean that countries like China, which export to the U.S., will need to find new markets — and that could lead to steel dumping in places like India.