Bangladesh stands eighth among the Asian countries in terms of women’s parliamentary representation with women occupying 20% of the seats in the national parliament. Nepal with 30% closely followed by the Philippines with 27% is the Asian leader with women occupying of the seats in its national parliament.

Veteran Indian journalist Dilip Padgaonkar, who was widely respected for his secular and liberal approach on key issues facing India and the world, dies at a hospital in Pune.

Malaysia decided on Friday to carry on with a regional soccer tournament co-hosted by Myanmar, days after a Malaysian minister said it was considering pulling out in protest against Myanmar's bloody crackdown on ethnic Rohingya Muslims.

Twelve people have been arrested in eastern India for trafficking newborn babies, who were smuggled out of clinics in biscuit boxes,

Pakistan Sindh province Thursday passed a law making "forced conversions" punishable with a life sentence and forbidding minors from

Alarmed by the escalation of tension with India along the LoC , Pakistan yesterday asked the UN to act before the situation snowballs into a "full-fledged crisis".

A Sylhet court sends industrialist Ragib Ali to jail in two cases filed grabbing land of Tarapur Tea Estate in the district.

Stage actress Kismat Baig was shot by unidentified gunmen in Lahore on Thursday, police told DawnNews. She is currently in critical condition.

Former Pakistan cricketers and an ex-Pakistan Cricket Board chairman on Tuesday demanded of the International Cricket Council (ICC) to ban Indian skipper Virat Kohli for ball-tampering.

India said three of its soldiers were killed yesterday on the de facto border in disputed Kashmir and blamed Pakistani troops.

The death toll from India's worst train accident in years rises to 146 after rescuers used cranes to lift the last of the twisted metal wreckage to check for bodies underneath.

Top10wala.in compiles a list of 10 major train accidents in India with number of death tolls pointing out the reason behind those accidents. Most of these incidents happened because of manual faults.

More than 116 people are killed in their sleep and nearly 200 injured when 14 coaches of an express train derailed in northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, local media said quoting officials.

India’s National Investigation Agency conducts raids at 10 offices of Islamic Research Foundation (IRF), an NGO of Zakir Naik in Mumbai.

Three Indian soldiers were killed and four seriously wounded in a separatist attack in the restive northeastern state of Assam, officials say.

A day after External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj tweeted about her kidney failure, a traffic constable of Madhya Pradesh Police offers to donate one of his kidneys to her, reports NDTV Online.

As the World Internet Conference in Wuzhen charts the way ahead for the web, we look at the many ways it has transformed life in China.

Praising Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's demonetisation decision, Microsoft founder Bill Gates has said it is a "bold move" and will deflate India's shadow economy.

Former Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapakse is planning to break away from the ruling coalition, his brother announced

Illegal migration has been an election issue and has been cleverly exploited by some political parties in India particularly to seek votes in the Northeastern States. And predictably this was also used by the BJP in the 2014 Indian elections when Modi had threatened to pack off all illegal Bangladeshis.