Bangladesh will push ahead with a controversial plan to relocate tens of thousands of Rohingya refugees from Myanmar to a remote island despite warnings it is uninhabitable and prone to flooding.

Pakistan orders Hafiz Saeed, accused by the United States and India of masterminding the 2008 attacks on the Indian financial capital Mumbai that killed 166 people, to be placed under house arrest.

The Maldives yesterday rejected a UN call to release former defence minister Mohamed Nazim and pay him damages after he was jailed

The killing of a top Muslim lawyer and adviser to Aung San Suu Kyi who was gunned down outside Yangon airport was a political assassination and a "terrorist act", Myanmar's ruling party said yesterday.

Senior officials of the eight member states of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc) will meet in Kathmandu to attend the Programming Committee.

A third Pakistani activist who went missing earlier this month is safe, his family told AFP yesterday, a day after two of the other

A legal adviser for Myanmar's ruling National League for Democracy is shot dead outside the country's busiest airport in Yangon.

Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani student activist and Nobel Peace laureate, said Friday she was "heartbroken" by Donald Trump's order on

Nepalese trail runner Mira Rai, also a brand promoter of ekantipur.com, is named the People’s Choice Adventurer of the Year by the National Geographic Channel selecting her over nine other nominees.

Eight Asian airports are among the World's busiest passenger airports. Beijing Capital International Airport remains the busiest airport in the region, according to the recently released data by Airports Council International (ACI).

Bangladesh mission in Kolkata launches machine readable visas (MRV) to relax the visa procedures for people of the neighbouring India.

The death toll in avalanches in the heavily militarised Himalayan region of Kashmir rises to 19 after the bodies of four more Indian soldiers are recovered, army and police officials say.

Avalanches killed 10 Indian soldiers in Kashmir after cascading onto an army post and a patrol along the de facto

Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khans "Raees" and actor Hrithik Roshan-starrer "Kaabil" have both managed to create a strong buzz at the box office, despite a clash. While "Raees" raked in Rs 20.42 crore, "Kaabil", which had a slow start, managed to collect Rs 10.43 crore, according to trade pundits.

Ministry of Foreign Affairs summons the High Commissioner of Pakistan in Dhaka, Rafiuzzaman Siddiqui, and asks him to beef up security in all Bangladesh missions in the country.

A Pakistani female lawmaker threatens to self-immolate after she was harassed by male colleagues in parliament.

At a party in Peshawar, the guests' saris twirled as they danced to the music and fed each other pieces of cake, but armed police guarding the door indicated this was no normal carefree birthday gathering.

Myanmar's deputy defence chief urges world to give his government "time and space" to solve a crisis involving the Rohingya Muslim minority amid concerns jihadists could exploit the situation. At least 66,000 Rohingya have fled to neighbouring Bangladesh, alleging rape, murder and torture at the hands of security forces.

Suspected militants ambushed an army vehicle Sunday and killed two paramilitary troopers in India's restive

A promise to marry cannot be considered an inducement in every rape case, the Bombay high court has ruled.