NEW DELHI, June 18 — India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi maintained in a conversation with United States President Donald Trump late yesterday that a ceasefire between India and Pakistan after a four-day conflict in May was achieved through talks between the two militaries and not US mediation, India’s senior-most diplomat said.

AHMEDABAD/NEW DELHI, June 14 — India's government is urgently inspecting all Boeing 787s after a devastating Air India crash that claimed at least 270 lives this week, the aviation minister said today, adding that the authorities were investigating all possible causes.

BEIJING, June 4 — Alarm over China's stranglehold on critical minerals grew on Tuesday as global automakers joined their United States (US) counterparts to complain that restrictions by China on exports of rare earth alloys, mixtures, and magnets could cause production delays and outages without a quick solution.

NEW DELHI, May 27 — India has approved a framework for building the country's most advanced stealth fighter jet, the Defence Ministry said today, amid a new arms race with Pakistan weeks after a military conflict between the neighbours.

ANKARA, May 22 — India and Pakistan have expelled each other’s diplomats, declaring them “persona non grata” and ordering them to leave their respective countries within 24 hours, Anadolu Ajansi reported.

NEW DELHI, May 22 — Pakistan will not get water from rivers over which India has rights, said Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi today, a month after a deadly attack in Indian Kashmir led New Delhi to suspend a key river water-sharing treaty between the neighbours.

TAIPEI, May 20 — Apple supplier Foxconn will invest US$1.5 billion (RM6.44 billion) in its India unit, the company said in a filing, as the iPhone maker shifts more manufacturing out of tariff-hit China.

SAN JOSÉ, May 16 — United States (US) President Donald Trump intensified pressure on Apple chief executive Tim Cook to shift more manufacturing to the US, criticising the company's growing production in India, the German Press Agency reported.

ISLAMABAD/NEW DELHI, May 14 — Pakistan has said it remains committed to a truce with India agreed after four days of intense fighting last week, but vowed to respond with full resolve to any future aggression by New Delhi.

PUTRAJAYA, May 13 — The Foreign Ministry (Wisma Putra) is closely monitoring developments in South Asia, particularly concerning the safety of Malaysians in India and Pakistan.

KUALA LUMPUR, May 13 — Malaysia has decided to impose definitive anti-dumping duties on the importation of certain flat-rolled products of iron or non-alloy steel from China, India, Japan, and South Korea.

NEW DELHI/ISLAMABAD, May 13 — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi warned Pakistan yesterday that New Delhi would target “terrorist hideouts” across the border again if there were new attacks on India and would not be deterred by what he called Islamabad’s “nuclear blackmail”.

NEW DELHI, May 13 — Indian authorities yesterday announced the reopening of 32 airports it closed down for civilian flight operations due to airspace restrictions in the wake of heightened tensions with Pakistan, Xinhua reported.

JAMMU, May 12 — The military operations chiefs of India and Pakistan are today set to discuss the next steps for the nuclear-armed neighbours, India said, as a ceasefire returned calm to the border, and their equity markets edged higher.

ISLAMABAD/NEW DELHI, May 11 — Nuclear-armed neighbours India and Pakistan agreed to a ceasefire on Saturday after US pressure and four days of fighting, but within hours, explosions rang out in border cities and towns and India accused Pakistan of violating the pact.

ISLAMABAD/JAMMU — Pakistan and India launched strikes and counter-strikes against each other's military installations today, prompting United States (US) calls for the nuclear-armed neighbours to begin talks and defuse their escalating conflict, the most intense since 1999.

ISLAMABAD/NEW DELHI, May 10 — Pakistan said it launched a military operation against India early today, targeting multiple bases including a missile storage site in northern India as the neighbours extended their worst fighting in nearly three decades.

JAMMU, India/ISLAMABAD — India and Pakistan accused each other of launching drone and artillery attacks overnight into Friday morning, as tourists and villagers fled the third day of the worst fighting between the nuclear-armed neighbours in nearly three decades.

KUALA LUMPUR, May 7 — AirAsia Malaysia has temporarily suspended flights to and from Amritsar, India, following the closure of Amritsar’s Sri Guru Ramdas Jee International Airport.

KUALA LUMPUR, May 7 — The ringgit ended slightly lower against the US dollar on Wednesday, close ahead of Bank Negara Malaysia’s (BNM) overnight policy rate (OPR) decision tomorrow.