Balendra Shah unseats former Nepal PM
8 March 2026, 03:26 AM
South Asia
Nepal's rapper-turned-politician looks set for landslide win
7 March 2026, 09:26 AM
South Asia
Three-year-old party set to sweep Nepal polls
7 March 2026, 03:33 AM
South Asia
RSP ahead in 110 constituencies in Nepal election with three confirmed seats
7 March 2026, 00:10 AM
South Asia
Nepal goes to the polls: Voters seek change after youth-led protests
6 March 2026, 03:17 AM
South Asia
Nepal's rocky road to elections: Five key dates
2 March 2026, 09:58 AM
South Asia
Afghan, Pak forces battle along border
2 March 2026, 02:10 AM
South Asia
Pak, Afghan forces clash as diplomatic efforts intensify
1 March 2026, 02:56 AM
South Asia
US says it supports Pakistan's 'right to defend itself' against Afghan Taliban
28 February 2026, 08:51 AM
South Asia
Pakistan bombs Kabul in 'open war' on Afghanistan's Taliban government
28 February 2026, 08:34 AM
South Asia
India sentences two to death over 2007 blasts
An Indian court Monday sentenced two members of a banned Islamist militant group to death for carrying out twin blasts in August 2007 in the southern city of Hyderabad that killed 44 people.
11 September 2018, 18:00 PM
‘Illegal Bangladeshis are not in Assam alone, but all over India’
Ahead of national elections, India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party has stepped up its campaign on the issue of National Register of Citizens making a strong pitch for widening its ambit from Assam to all other states of the country.
11 September 2018, 05:08 AM
Fuel Price Protests in India: Opposition blocks roads, railways
Nationwide protests against record high petrol and diesel prices shut down businesses, government offices and schools in many parts of India yesterday, and in some places protesters blocked trains and roads and vandalised vehicles.
10 September 2018, 18:00 PM
9,000MW power to be imported by 2041
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the government has planned to import 9000 MW electricity from neighbouring countries by 2041 to maintain the country's high economic growth.
10 September 2018, 18:00 PM
Pak sitting on billions worth of 'dead capital'
Prime Minister Imran Khan yesterday said Pakistan is sitting on hundreds of billions of rupees in "dead capital" in the form of state land and rest houses and official residences built on that land.
10 September 2018, 18:00 PM
China dominates Asian economies
From Xi’s China to Duterte’s Philippines, Asian economies have risen as the world’s best countries in terms of GDP.
9 September 2018, 05:08 AM
5 killed in Nepal chopper crash
A helicopter crashed into a hillside in central Nepal yesterday, killing five on board, including a Japanese tourist, officials said. One
8 September 2018, 18:00 PM
BGB-BSF conference adopts measures against border crimes
Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and India’s Border Security Force (BSF) agree on different measures against criminal activities at the border between the two countries.
7 September 2018, 11:26 AM
Gay sex no more a crime in India
India's top court scrapped a colonial-era ban on gay sex yesterday, in a landmark judgement that sparked celebrations across India and elsewhere in South Asia, where activists hope to push for similar reform.
6 September 2018, 18:00 PM
Lanka's ex-leader seeks comeback with night vigil
Tens of thousands of supporters of former Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapakse staged a huge night rally in Colombo late Wednesday as the ex-leader demanded snap elections.
6 September 2018, 18:00 PM
US, India seek to deepen ties
Top Indian and US officials yesterday touted deepening ties that will see greater cooperation between the two countries' militaries -- and will likely result in India buying more American arms.
6 September 2018, 18:00 PM
Indian girl, 9, gang-raped, murdered
Indian police have arrested a woman and four others after her nine-year-old stepdaughter was allegedly gang-raped and murdered, in
5 September 2018, 18:00 PM
Pak summons Indian envoy over LoC firing
Pakistan yesterday summoned India's deputy high commissioner to protest the "unprovoked ceasefire violations" across the Line of
5 September 2018, 18:00 PM
What's wrong with India's bridges?
A 66-foot deck of a bridge in south Kolkata collapsed on Tuesday evening, snuffing out one life, trapping several people and crushing many vehicles.
5 September 2018, 18:00 PM
Time to 'turn the page'
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan in Islamabad yesterday, in the first high-level US visit to the new government, looking to reset relations strained over Islamist militants and Afghanistan war.
5 September 2018, 18:00 PM
Founder of Haqqani militant network dies
Jalaluddin Haqqani, founder of the militant Haqqani network, one of the most powerful and feared groups in the Afghan insurgency, has died after a long
4 September 2018, 18:00 PM
'Rat fever' hits flood-ravaged Indian state
“Rat fever" has killed at least 12 people with another 54 suspected fatal cases in the southern Indian state of Kerala since August, after the worst floods in almost a century, authorities said yesterday. A total of 372 people have been infected with the disease, known properly as leptospirosis.
4 September 2018, 18:00 PM
Myanmar defends Suu Kyi's silence
A global outcry over the jailing of two Reuters journalists has been met with silence from Myanmar's civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi, a stony response that an official defended yesterday as a reluctance to criticise the judiciary.
4 September 2018, 18:00 PM
Outrage as 2 Reuters journos jailed for 7 yrs
Two Reuters journalists accused of breaching Myanmar's state secrets law while reporting on a massacre of Rohingya Muslims were jailed for seven years yesterday, fuelling international outrage a week after the army was accused of genocide.
3 September 2018, 18:00 PM
BGB-BSF DG-level biannual conference starts in New Delhi
The Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) takes up the issue of arrest of Bangladeshi nationals at the border and smuggling of narcotics from India into Bangladesh on the first day of the biannual conference with India’s Border Security Force (BSF) in New Delhi.
3 September 2018, 13:26 PM