Pakistani separatists riding motorcycles killed two naval officers in the restive province of Baluchistan, police officials said yesterday, near

Transactions in Muse are becoming difficult as Chinese banks have frozen over 1,000 bank accounts with estimated deposits of Ks40 billion (US$29.42 million) belonging to Burmese traders.

The attempt to rescue Musa Ibrahim and two Indian mountaineers who have been stuck at the base camp of Mount Carstensz Pyramid in Papua New Guinea for last six days, has been called off due to bad weather.

A Sri Lankan court issued a warrant yesterday for the arrest of a radical Buddhist monk accused of instigating arson attacks against the

Pakistan's prime minister Nawaz Sharif appeared before an anti-corruption investigation commission yesterday, in an ongoing case

Sri Lankan railway authorities announced a crackdown on selfies yesterday after a 12-year-old boy was decapitated and two other men

Three men who have fathered nearly 100 children among them are doing their bit for Pakistan's skyrocketing population, which is being counted for the first time in 19 years.

A Pakistani man has been sentenced to death for committing blasphemy on Facebook, lawyers said Saturday, the first conviction on charges arising from social media.

More than 5,000 Indians have lined up in the country's south, pinching their noses and sticking their tongues out to swallow live fish in an unusual traditional treatment for asthma.

Bangladesh ranks sixth among the world’s top 10 countries most affected by extreme weather events in the last 20 years, according to the Global Climate Risk Index by think-tank Germanwatch. On an average, a total of 679.05 people died in 185 climatic events in Bangladesh within the period of 1996 to 2015.

The leaders of rivals India and Pakistan have met for the first time in 17 months, at a summit in Kazakhstan, officials said, despite

Another student death in clashes in Indian-administered Kashmir has heightened tensions in the disputed territory and worsened

Nepal's new Prime Minister, Sher Bahadur Deuba, named his first cabinet appointments yesterday and put a former Maoist guerrilla in

A 'hungry' goat gives a rude shock to its owner when it chewed up currency notes worth Rs 66,000 that the man had kept in the pocket of his trouser, at Siluapur village in Kannauj district of Uttar Pradesh.

Bangladesh has advanced significantly in internet connectivity and effectively led major Saarc nations, with nearly 42.0 percent of total population using internet for various purposes, according to official sources.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has issued greetings on the 20th anniversary of the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation BIMSTEC.

At least 22 people were killed and 15 injured as a bus collided with a truck in northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh today, domestic media reported.

Pakistani forces yesterday said they had killed around a dozen Islamic State militants in a three-day raid prompted by intelligence

China has 331,110 megawatts of installed electricity-generation capacity - nearly seven times higher hydropower installed capacity than India and more than the rest of Asian countries combined.

Indian High Commission in Dhaka has alerted the visa applicants to avoid submission of fake documents saying such attempt will lead to summary rejection of the visa application.