India is mulling giving “national” tag to all projects under the ambitious inter-linking of rivers plan which would make it easier for generating huge funds, including from foreign agencies at softer interest rate, for them and expedite their implementation.

Myanmar sends a list containing names of more than 1,300 Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) members to Bangladesh.

Bitcoin’s popularity in Asia has had a positive influence on other alternative cryptocurrencies such as ethereum and litecoin. Clearly there is a great demand for such digital money, even though its volatility hurts.

Pakistan's ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif yesterday compared the corruption cases against him to a 'flop' movie as he appeared

Sri Lanka's top court has rejected a controversial attempt to extend President Maithripala Sirisena's term in office by an extra year,

Sri Lanka has revoked a 38-year ban on selling alcohol to women and employing them in places where the drinks are produced and sold.

Rohingyas who fled from the persecution of Myanmar security forces want to see a positive development including citizenship, security, and scope for enjoying their basic rights before they return to their country from Bangladesh, the UNHCR says.

Pakistan's army chief told a top US general the nation "felt betrayed" at criticism that it was not doing enough to fight terrorism, the

In an unprecedented development, four senior-most judges of India’s apex court after the Chief Justice address the media and said “sometimes things are not in order" in the administration of the Supreme Court".

A Pakistani journalist known for criticising the powerful military said he had escaped an abduction attempt after being assaulted by

Two Reuters journalists were formally charged by police in a Myanmar court yesterday with breaching a colonial-era secrecy law that

Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali hopes there will be a new beginning with Myanmar through Rohingya repatriation.

About 100 Rohingya children are stranded in Myanmar without their parents after military operations drove 655,000 people into Bangladesh since August, the United Nations says.

United States President Donald Trump among other top world leaders was awarded for “his overall achievement in undermining press freedom”, Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) says.

Four policemen were killed yesterday in a bomb blast set off by suspected Islamist militants in Indian Kashmir, police and reports said,

More than 48,000 Rohingya babies are expected to be born in Bangladesh this year, beginning their lives in camps and makeshift settlements where families rely on food rations to survive and live in flimsy tents made of plastic and bamboo.

Nepalese government’s decision to ban blind climbers from joining Everest expeditions has run into flak from the National Federation of the Blind, the World Blind Union and the National Federation of the Disabled who have called the move ‘discriminatory’.

Four policemen are killed in a bomb blast set off by suspected Islamist militants in Indian Kashmir, police and reports say, marking a deadly start to the new year in the restive valley.

The United States’ military spending has dominated the world for years, but recent data from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) shows China, Russia, Saudi Arabia and India are other four biggest spenders on military.

The United States is examining ways to mitigate any Pakistani retaliation as it piles pressure on Islamabad to crack down on militants, a senior US official says, cautioning that US action could extend beyond a new freeze in aid.