Sri Lanka announced yesterday it would start hanging drug criminals, ending a near-half century moratorium on capital punishment as

The United States says it is tightening the distribution of visas to Myanmar and Laos after both countries refused to accept their citizens deported from the country.

Troops shot dead three stone-throwing protesters including a 16-year-old girl in Indian-administered Kashmir yesterday, as tensions rose ahead of the anniversary of the death of a rebel commander.

Maryam Nawaz Sharif, daughter of Pakistan's ex prime minister Nawaz Sharif, yesterday told reporters that she and her father would return to Pakistan within 10 days to appeal against a court verdict that gave Sharif 10 years behind bar.

India will further smoothen the process of granting visa for foreigners and is implementing the Immigration Visa Foreigners’ Registration and Tracking (IVFRT) in a mission mode for their safety and convenience, the country's Home Minister Rajnath Singh says.

A Pakistani court sentences ousted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to 10 years in prison over his family's purchase of upscale London flats in a major blow to his party ahead of a general election in July.

The Pakistani opposition party led by former cricket star Imran Khan is gaining ground in opinion polls ahead of a July 25 general election, with one survey showing it pulling ahead of the ruling party and another showing it only slightly behind.

Turkey will sell four corvette ships to Pakistan's navy, Defence Minister Nurettin Canikli was quoted as saying by state-run Anadolu

Bangladesh is deploying thousands of extra police to Rohingya refugee camps in the south, officials said, after a series of mostly unexplained killings that have sown fear among hundreds of thousands of people who have fled from neighbouring Myanmar.

The Indian High Court bestows the status of "legal person or entity" to animals in northern state of Uttarakhand saying "they have a distinct persona with corresponding rights, duties and liabilities of a living person."

Malaysia wants to deport the undocumented migrants detained in the ongoing crackdown which includes almost 250 Bangladeshis.

The government of former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak spent years systematically obstructing probes into the alleged looting of state fund 1MDB, while also ruthlessly muzzling critics, according to current and former government officials.

As India braces for state-level and fresh parliamentary elections in the coming months, the country's Election Commission has launched an Android-based app to report any irregularity during the democratic exercise.

The transit camp in Myanmar's Rakhine state stands ready to welcome back 150 Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh every day.

The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) is going to streamline the SAARC Visa Exemption Scheme and develop its security software for implementation across the region.

Six people have been killed in a landslide in Phakant, Myanmar's Kachin state that hit the staff quarters of the Township Development Affairs Committee, the official Global New Light of Myanmar reports.

South Korea's biggest cryptocurrency exchange, Bithumb, says it lost 35 billion won ($31.5 million) worth of cryptocurrencies in a hacking attack, highlighting concerns that cryptocurrency exchanges are vulnerable to cyber attacks.

At least 12 people are injured in a clash between two groups of Rohingyas at Nayapara camp in Teknaf of Cox’s Bazar.

Thousands of Bangladeshi tourists go to Kolkata every day for various reasons. Most of these tourists are Muslims. Unless for dire needs, these tourists do not stay in this Hindu-majority town during the Eid celebrations.

The Indian government has announced it will not extend the "suspension of operation against terrorists" in Jammu and Kashmir state announced at the start of the month of Ramandan in May.