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SS Rajamouli says Varanasi, his adventure film starring Mahesh Babu, Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Prithviraj Sukumaran, is five to six times larger in scale than RRR. Yet the director puts…
India and Azerbaijan moved to rebuild relations on October 23, 2026, with talks in Baku focused on an economic relationship that already includes more than 1,000 Indian companies, about $1.2…
Bangladesh has requested court judgments and an explanation from Saudi Arabia after two Bangladeshi nationals were executed in Makkah on 14 October 2026 without advance notification to its diplomatic missions.…
A Chinese fishing boat suspected of maritime militia activity approached within about 2.7 nautical miles of Taiwan's restricted waters on August 16 while operating alongside a coast guard ship and…
United Nations human rights experts have urged European Union governments to stop forcibly returning Afghans to places where they face serious harm, warning that deportation arrangements with the Taliban must…
Many North Koreans forcibly returned from China remain unaccounted for three years after mass repatriations resumed, independent United Nations human rights experts warned on October 21, 2026. They urged Beijing…
POSCO's union has announced an indefinite strike beginning at 7 p.m. on November 2, 2026, after wage negotiations at the South Korean steelmaker failed to bridge a gap between workers demanding a 7.1% increase in basic pay and management offering 2.5%.…
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ordered frontline commanders to strengthen combat readiness, political loyalty and military discipline at a conference in Pyongyang on October 22 and 23, 2026. The…
Japan's proposal to cut the consumption tax on food and nonalcoholic beverages from 8% to 1% has entered detailed scrutiny in the House of Representatives, bringing a promised two years…
South Korea's National Intelligence Service told lawmakers on October 23 that social media claims that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un had died were false, according to people briefed at…
Sixty-one of 74 organisations led by Afghan women face possible closure, restrictions on broadcasting images of living beings now extend to 25 of Afghanistan's 34 provinces, and Shia educational and…
China's Communist Party will hold its fifth plenum in Beijing from October 26 to 29, 2026, with a sweeping decision on party discipline before it and a leadership body diminished…
Japan's government submitted a bill to parliament on October 23, 2026, that would require advance approval for land acquisitions and ownership transfers in designated areas near sensitive facilities and on…
Sri Lanka's Ministry of Finance has decided to close 34 state institutions, President Anura Kumara Dissanayake said on October 23, 2026, as his government seeks to reduce the cost of…
A ₱23 million road intended for Nueva Ecija appeared near Benham Rise on a map. Another, worth ₱30 million and intended for Cebu, appeared in the Celebes Sea near Indonesia.…
Sixty percent of garment factories and 74% of factories making travel goods and bags failed temperature and ventilation requirements in Better Factories Cambodia assessments covering 2025. Indoor temperatures reached 41°C,…
A rookie television reporter drank four cans of beer and four glasses of wine in about an hour, told viewers she still felt confident about driving, then struck a dummy…
Afghanistan's Taliban authorities told drivers on December 26, 2021, not to transport women travelling more than 72 kilometres unless a close male relative accompanied them. The guidance placed responsibility on…
Between 53,000 and 65,000 people are held in four North Korean political prison camps, according to a recent report by the Korea Institute for National Unification, a state funded research…
ABC reporter Will Murray and bystander Daniel Hainey pulled a driver from a sinking vehicle on Buchanan Road at Morayfield, north of Brisbane, on Thursday, October 22, 2026, after intense…
Zaime Zaime, the Chinese safety app formerly known as Sileme, has announced annual software prices of 99 yuan and 199 yuan as it shifts from a viral tool for younger…
Delhi residents are expected to be able to submit their own census details from January 10 to 24, 2027, before enumerators begin visiting homes on January 25, according to senior…
Uzbekistan plans to build New Karshi in Kashkadarya Region for an initial population of 500,000, with President Shavkat Mirziyoyev directing officials to prepare for eventual growth to one million residents.…
Singapore ordered the removal of 65 apps containing harmful content and secured corrected age ratings for another 24 after its first assessment of five major app stores. Sexual content accounted…
China launched the Yaogan-50 03 remote sensing satellite at 6:15 p.m. Beijing time on October 23, 2026, adding a third spacecraft to a series intended to survey land and natural…
WhatsApp is rolling out scheduled messages to selected iPhone beta testers using iOS version 26.42.10.19 through TestFlight. The feature lets users arrange delivery between 10 minutes and two weeks ahead,…
South Korea's military faces allegations that it uses only about 40% of the imagery from its five 425 reconnaissance satellites because equipment on the ground cannot download and analyze the…
Apple's first foldable iPhone reaches buyers on October 23, 2026, starting at $1,999, with Microsoft Word and Outlook still awaiting layouts designed for its larger screen. Apple has highlighted more…
Afghanistan had about 208,000 male university students in 2026, down from 306,000 in 2019, while recorded female enrollment has been zero since 2024. Together, those changes have reduced the university student population from roughly 425,000 in 2019 to less than half that number.…
All 17 Australian shallow water coral reef ecosystems face an extremely high risk of collapse by 2075, according to the first global assessment of coral reefs under the International Union…
Bangladesh has issued the Special Solar Power Installation Ordinance, 2026, opening rooftops, courtyards, unused land, tea gardens and water bodies to solar projects of up to 5 megawatts. The government…
An estimated 129.5 million Sundari trees in Bangladesh's Sundarbans show symptoms of top-dying disease, including 20.24 million classified as severely damaged, according to an ecological monitoring study conducted in 2024–25.…
Vietnam's Ministry of Agriculture and Environment has proposed moving all educational institutions online and directing eligible public employees to work remotely when the daily Vietnam Air Quality Index reaches the…
Wildfires came within 800 metres of a cave containing prehistoric paintings in Indonesia's Maros-Pangkep region, while more than 270 hectares of the surrounding national park burned between September 30 and…
Thailand is sending 50 teams to inspect more than 1,500 waste factories across five provinces, while pursuing heavier dumping penalties and possible asset seizures after investigations uncovered thousands of tonnes…
The Bishnumati reaches zero dissolved oxygen around Khusibu and Teku. The Bagmati becomes so contaminated by Chobhar that a water quality assessment describes it as extremely unsafe even for irrigation.…
The weather front that helps bring summer rain to East Asia has shifted about 213 kilometres north during September 10 to 30, moving from the Yangtze River basin and waters…
Kazakhstan will require eligible visitors from 85 countries, including Russia, to obtain electronic travel authorization before entering the country from July 1, 2027. Applications through QazETA will be free, must…
Thailand's domestic flight discount campaign recorded 46,780 claims by 16 October 2026, using about 47.3% of its allocation of 99,000. The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) is offering Thai travellers…
Singapore Airlines will introduce its next generation KrisWorld entertainment system on 41 refurbished Airbus A350 aircraft from 2027 and on its future Boeing 777-9 fleet, combining more than 2,500 entertainment…
South Korea welcomed 17.11 million foreign visitors between January and September 2026, putting it within 1.83 million arrivals of the 18.94 million recorded during all of 2025. Foreign visitors' tourism…
More than 2,000 fans gathered at Zhongli Tourist Night Market in Taoyuan on the evening of October 21 as Yeh Shuhua, the Taiwanese member of K-pop group i-dle, filmed a…
Nigeria defeated defending champions DPR Korea 3-1 at the Mohammed VI Football Complex in Salé, Morocco, on 23 October 2026, securing a place in the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup…
Pakistan wants to stage every match of the 2028 Women's T20 World Cup that does not involve India, with the United Arab Emirates emerging as the likely location for India's…
Abhishek Sharma needed only one delivery to claim a men's Twenty20 international record at Hagley Oval in Christchurch. Facing Matt Henry on the last ball of India's opening over, the…
Sumit Antil retained his Asian Para Games javelin title in Nagoya on Friday, October 23, 2026, throwing 72.46 metres on his second attempt to lead an Indian sweep of the…
Manny Pacquiao could return to the ring against former world champion Joe Cordina at Cardiff's Principality Stadium on December 11, 2026, exactly one week before the Filipino boxing great turns…
Afghanistan enter the UAE ODI Tri-Series final against Zimbabwe on Friday, October 23, 2026, with two wins from two matches, eight wickets from Rashid Khan and a commanding victory over…
Hideki Matsui, who hit 507 home runs across Japan and the United States and became the first Japanese player to win World Series MVP honors, is set to become manager…
Chinese table tennis star Fan Zhendong spoke out against covert filming on October 21, 2026, drawing a direct line between supporting an athlete and intruding into his private life. His…
BTS's Swim surpassed 1 billion Spotify streams as of October 24, 2026, becoming the first song released worldwide this year to reach that total, according to the group's agency, Big…
Ramayana's second instalment, starring Ranbir Kapoor and Yash, is reportedly moving from Diwali 2027 to Diwali 2028 because its major battle sequences need more preparation and shooting time. The first…
South Korea's commemorative stamps honoring League of Legends player Lee Sang-hyeok, known as Faker, sold 112,000 of their 140,000 sheets by 1 p.m. on October 23, 2026, according to Korea…
Ranbir Kapoor's Lord Rama fires a flaming arrow across the giant screens of New York's Times Square in a newly circulated video of the trailer for Nitesh Tiwari's Ramayana. People…
Aamir Khan expects Rajkumar Hirani to narrate the final version of a proposed 3 Idiots sequel within weeks, giving fans a concrete next step for a project that remains at…
Mariah Deborah's "Na Para Bang" has entered the Billboard Global Excl. U.S. chart at No. 106 for the week dated October 24, 2026, becoming the first song by a female…
Japan's government selected Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto and seven other people for the 2026 Order of Culture on October 23, making the creator of Super Mario the first person from the…
BTS's music video for "2.0" passed 200 million YouTube views at around 9:30 p.m. Korean time on October 22, 2026, becoming the first video from the group's fifth studio album,…
