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India's Gen Z-led Cockroach Janta Party used Instagram to force a minister's resignation, denting PM Modi's aura ahead of state polls

UN chief Guterres met Syria's Sharaa in Damascus on Saturday, the first visit to Syria by a serving UN chief since 2009

India's education minister Pradhan resigned Saturday, prompting the Cockroach Janta Party to call off its Delhi protests

Iran's Revolutionary Guards say they stopped four ships trying to transit the Strait of Hormuz after firing warning shots

Iran's FM Araghchi says there is no military solution to the Yemen conflict, urging dialogue as Saudi Arabia and the Houthis trade attacks

India's education minister Dharmendra Pradhan resigned Saturday after mass youth-led protests demanded his ouster over exam irregularities

India's Cockroach protest talks with ministers JP Nadda and Jitendra Singh end without breakthrough as demands for Dharmendra Pradhan's resignation persist.

Iran's military says it attacked US bases in Bahrain, Jordan and Kuwait with drones, retaliating for the latest American strikes

Indian reporters face beatings and 'godi media' chants as youth protest anger targets TV crews seen as pro-government

Bangladesh president resigns citing ill health, two years before his term was due to end, according to a letter seen by AFP

Iran warns countries against assisting in US attacks, vowing accountability as Tehran reports strikes and retaliatory drone attacks in the Gulf

India's Gen Z protesters accuse PM Modi of dodging accountability as student-led protests over exam leaks grow nationwide

Kashmiri rights defender Khurram Parvez and journalist Irfan Mehraj were released on bail years after their arrests on terrorism charges

Thousands rallied in New Delhi as anger over India's exam paper leak scandal collided with police crackdowns, pushing Modi to respond directly

India student protests intensify as CJP demonstrators demand Education Minister Pradhan's resignation, piling pressure on PM Modi's government

Opposition leader Rahul Gandhi was briefly detained outside PM Modi's residence as exam-reform protests led by the Cockroach Janta Party grip Delhi

Heavy rain hampers the search for dozens missing in Afghanistan's Nuristan flood, as the death toll rises to at least 23

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi demands Indian PM Modi's resignation after a police crackdown on CJP-led student protests injured dozens in New Delhi.

Afghanistan floods have killed 20 people and left more than 100 missing in Nuristan province, with mudslides destroying shops in Parun

India summoned the Russian envoy in New Delhi to protest a missile strike on cargo ship MV Golden Leo that killed four Indian sailors