Facebook's chief executive and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg says the social media company is aware that its tools have been used to spread anti-Rohingya propaganda and "incite real harm" in Myanmar.

Nobel peace laureate Malala Yousafzai yesterday left for Britain after an emotional four-day visit to Pakistan, officials said. Malala made a surprise return visit to Pakistan last week more than five years after she was shot in the head by a Taliban gunman for advocating girls' education. An airport official confirmed her departure.

Afghanistan's legislative elections will be held on October 20, officials said yesterday, following three years of delays. The polls were repeatedly pushed back due to security fears and logistical issues within the fragile unity government. If held, candidates will contest the 249 seats in the National Assembly for five-year terms.

A Nepali Sherpa is hoping to summit Mount Everest for a record-breaking 22nd time next month, during the busy climbing season that each year sees hundreds of climbers reach the top of the world.

India's national space agency has lost contact with a satellite days after it was launched into orbit with much fanfare, authorities say.

Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai visited her hometown in Pakistan’s Swat Valley for the first time since she was shot by a Taliban gunman as a teenager, two security officials and a family friend say.

Myanmar's parliament elects a staunch ally of Aung San Suu Kyi as the country's new president, allowing her to maintain a tight grip on top-level decision-making.

Pakistan has defended its record on nuclear safety after the United States sanctioned seven Pakistani companies over alleged links to the

Pakistani police arrests 12 people — including members of a village council, elders and relatives — for ordering a man to rape a girl in revenge for the rape of his sister.

Bangladesh is not expecting much help from foreign donors as it forges ahead with plans to relocate 100,000 Rohingya refugees to an uninhabited island, an undertaking that does not yet have a timeline, Mohammed Shahriar Alam, state minister for foreign affairs, says in an interview.

The Pakistan government has rejected former dictator Pervez Musharraf's request for security on returning to the country to face a

India’s top court has agreed to examine the constitutional validity of the prevailing practices of polygamy and 'nikahhalala' among Muslims and asked the government and the Law Commission to give their view on the issues.

The bodies of the rest three Bangladeshis, who died in the US-Bangla plane crash in Nepal’s Kathmandu, arrive in Dhaka.

Maldives President Abdulla Yameen will lift a 45-day state of emergency on Thursday and the government will bring bribery charges

Prithula Rashid, the co-pilot of the ill-fated US-Bangla Airlines plane that crashed in Nepal, killing 51 persons including 28 Bangladeshis, will be buried in Mirpur Martyred Intellectuals’ graveyard.

One of the injured victims of the US-Bangla plane crash, Shahin Bepari, is brought to Dhaka while another survivor Imrana Kabir Hashi is flown to Singapore.

Sri Lanka President Maithripala Sirisena says he has lifted a nationwide state of emergency imposed on March 6 after Buddhist-Muslim clashes.

A joint-team of experts will decide the place where the black box of the crashed US-Bangla aircraft will be decoded, the chief of Nepalese investigation team says.

Four days after the US-Bangla aircraft crash, the House of Representatives in Nepal endorses a condolence motion in remembrance of the deceased.

Sri Lanka has lifted a week-long ban on Facebook after the tech giant agreed to step up efforts to remove hate speech posted on its