China on Thursday defended its projects in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, which Prime Minister Narendra Modi had strongly objected to during his visit to that country last month. Straight away rejecting clarifications of LAC, China said it prefers a pact with India on a code of conduct to maintain peace along the border.

India and on Wednesday night finalised a new strategically important 10-year defence framework pact envisaging joint development and manufacture of defence equipment and technology including jet engines, aircraft carrier design and construction.

More than 1000 Nepalese children have returned to school in Nepal after a month of two devastating earthquakes that left 8,700 people dead and 23,000 injured. Schools had been shut since the tremors badly damaged classrooms.

A 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck off the Japanese coast on Saturday, geologists said, shaking buildings in Tokyo and setting off car alarms. Despite the huge power of the quake, there was no risk of a tsunami, The Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre reported.

Saudi Arabia will be the privileged destination to have world’s largest hotel with 10,000 rooms at a whopping USD 3.5 billion in the holiest city of Mecca. Designed by Dar Al Handasah group, the project has a total built area of 1.4 million square meter and will be set in the Manafia area in Mecca’s central zone, DesignMENA reported.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has reached Shanghai to conclude his three-day visit to China. After signing 24 agreements on $10 billion in Beijing, all eyes will be on another deal of same whopping amount in Shanghai.

Gunmen stormed into a guest house filled with foreigners in Afghanistan capital Kabul on Wednesday evening. The incident killed 5 people, including 2 Indians and 1 American. The area was seized by the Army soon after the attack began at 8:30 PM local time.

A bunch of terrorists on bikes open fired a bus in Karachi that killed at least 40 people. Claiming their first ever attack in Pakistan-Afghanistan region the Islamic State took responsibility of the attack on pink bus.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who embarked his three-nation trip on Wednesday night, reached China’s Xian on Thursday early morning. This is his first stop in the country where he will reside for three days. Before leaving PM addressed a press conference and expressed confidence that the trip will deepen mutual trust and set a "new milestone" for Asia and the developing nations.

Moments after second major earthquake measuring 7.4 Richter scale hit Nepal, a major landslide was reported in the area. Here is the video shot by a person on his camera.