Gunmen killed two Shiites and wounded a third in Quetta on Sunday, the latest in a recent series of attacks on the religious minority, police said.

China has agreed to resume sharing of hydrological data of the Brahmaputra and Sutlej rivers, external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj said in Beijing on Sunday, months after Beijing stopped the practice following the stand-off between Indian and Chinese troops at Dokalam.

India and China today agreed to resume the Kailash Mansarovar Yatra through the Natha Lu route in Sikkim, Ministry of External Affairs today said, 10 months after the pilgrimage was stopped following the Doklam standoff.

The ongoing over USD 60 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project, which forms a part of Beijing's ambitious transnational Belt Road Initiative (BRI), is according to a report, turning out to be an economic as well as a security headache for both China and Pakistan.

China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi will be the new special representative for India-China boundary talks. Wang's appointment was confirmed today when External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj who held bilateral talks with her Chinese counterpart . . . .

The White House has announced Mira Ricardel, a senior official in the department of commerce, as the nextdeputy national security adviser.

China's recent decision to provide Pakistan with the military version of Beidou, its hi-tech ballistic missile tracking and monitoring system, has once again certified a well known strategic view that Beijing uses Islamabad as the first choice exporting nation for testing its weaponry under supervision.

The legendary AK-47 assault rifle (Avtomat Kalashnikova model 1947) has been the backbone of many modern armies and it famed for its simple design, ruggedness, ease of use and maintenance.

India's state-owned Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers (GRSE) and Elbit Systems of Israel will build together Elbit's Seagull unmanned surface vessels. A model of the Seagull USV was presented at GRSE's pavilion at DefExpo 2018.

Russia is prepared to provide a wide range of anti-aircraft weapons and military equipment, which have been successfully tried in real conditions, to India, Director General of the Russian state arms exporter Rosoboronexport Alexander Mikheev said on Friday.