The government has urged Myanmar to fully concentrate on implementation of its obligations and commitments necessary for a durable solution to the long-pending Rohingya crisis.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi received the United Arab Emirates’ highest civilian honour during a visit yesterday to the oil-rich Gulf nation, reinforcing ties between the countries even as he faces criticism over stripping occupied Kashmir of its autonomy. The

Sri Lanka has ended a four-month state of emergency declared after Easter suicide bombings by Islamist extremists that killed 258

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan yesterday alerted the international community to a possible “false flag operation” by the Indian leadership to “divert attention from massive human rights violations” in occupied Kashmir.

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen says Bangladesh will take a tougher position over Rohingya issue saying the global leadership must resolve it quickly to ensure greater peace and stability in the region.

An Indian court yesterday ordered a former finance minister into police custody for questioning for four days, in a case stemming from government approval of foreign investment in a local media company, a judge said. The rare action against P Chidambaram, a top leader

India’s health ministry has proposed a ban on the production and import of electronic cigarettes.

Young men sit beside a pile of rocks and a bonfire, protecting the only entrance to a besieged neighbourhood they call “Kashmir’s Gaza” as a mosque loudspeaker broadcasts slogans of liberation.

Amid rising tension over occupied Kashmir, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has said there is “no point” talking to Indian officials, adding that his overtures for peace and dialogue with New Delhi so far have proven futile.

Single-use plastics have been banned in the Everest region to reduce the vast amounts of waste left by trekkers and mountaineers, Nepali authorities said. In addition to seeing a record number of climbers this year, a government-led cleaning initiative on Everest -- the world’s

Indian External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar leaves Dhaka for Kathmandu saying Bangladesh-India relations are now on a "positive trajectory".

More than 2,000 people have been forced to flee from their homes, and 19 have been killed, since fighting broke out between government troops and ethnic minority insurgents in northern Myanmar last week, government officials say.

India’s Chandrayaan 2 spacecraft entered lunar orbit yesterday, executing one of the trickiest manoeuvres on its historic mission to the Moon. After four weeks in space, the craft completed its Lunar Orbit Insertion as planned, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said in a statement.

Seeking to assuage mounting anxieties in Assam over exclusion of names in the final National Register of Citizens (NRC) to be published on August 31, the Indian government has said non-inclusion of a person’s name in the document does not by itself amount to him or her being declared as a foreigner.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has formally invited his Bangladesh counterpart Sheikh Hasina for a bilateral official visit to India in the first week of October next.

Sri Lanka’s President yesterday named war veteran Shavendra Silva as its army chief, drawing sharp criticism from the United States over the appointment of an officer who has been accused of human rights violations.

The yak herders use the voice messaging app to bring missing yaks home collaboratively. Thirty-two-year-old Wangmo from Dangojang hamlet says WeChat has made yak herding much easier.

Two days after Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh hinted that India’s “no first use” for nuclear weapons might not be etched in stone, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan yesterday expressed concern about the “safety and security of India’s nuclear arsenal”

The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has asked India to immediately lift curfew in occupied Kashmir that has paralysed life across the valley. Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi revealed the OIC decision in a video message.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s yesterday started his two-day visit in Bhutan with a message of trust and friendship.