China's relations are starting to improvewith Japan, India and other countries that former U.S. President Joe Biden courted, just as Donald Trump brings his more unilateralist approach back to the White House.

A renewed push by Japan’s biggest banks and other global lenders in India is driving down loan prices with the new players having more appetite for riskier credit, according to the country head for Barclays Plc.

Indian prime minister Narendra Modi had plans for India become a $5 trillion economy by 2025. The country is still over $1 trillion short of this target.

An X account, Crime Reports India, currently blocked in India, shared the image of a man with the caption, ‘Pramod Rathore of Haryana arrested in Japan… [for] molesting Japanese girl.’

This country has the the largest nominal GDP in Asia and the second-largest globally, behind the USA with $30.33 trillion (£24 trillion).

According to recent reports, Tokyo has agreed to India running its own high-speed prototypes on the same infrastructure, set to be ready by 2026-27. Previously slated to receive the Shinkansen E5, India now looks forward to the E10, capable of reaching speeds up to 400 kmph—an upgrade from the E5’s 320 kmph limit.

U.S. officials say the Trump administration would begin formal international engagements this week when Marco Rubio — expected to be confirmed soon as secretary of state — meets with the foreign ministers of India,

India’s interest in Eurodrone builds off a joint statement signed with Germany in October 2024 to deepen defense cooperation and which includes a “specific focus on technology collaboration, manufacturing/co-production and co-development of defence platforms and equipment.

SHIZUOKA, Japan -- Japanese machine tool maker Star Micronics aims to increase its sales volume in India tenfold with an eye on the country's rapidly growing appetite for medical devices.

Assam Chief Minister, during his ongoing visit to Assam, held multiple engagements with top Japanese officials, discussing the strengthening of Assam-Japan ties and inviting more investment into his state.

CAG reported handling a total of 1.99 million tonnes of airfreight in 2024, up 14.6 per cent from 2023. Read more at straitstimes.com.

A Chinese man Thursday was sentenced to death for killing a man in a knife attack near Shanghai last summer. A Japanese mother and her child were also injured on a Japanese school bus in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province.