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".

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

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

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.

Washington accuses Pakistan of playing a dangerous double game, taking billions in US aid while supporting militants attacking

Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif in a press conference asserts that the PML-N government does not care for United States (US) threats to cut funding to Islamabad in the war against terrorism.

A Reuters graphic makes use of data from the UN Operational Satellite Applications Programme (UNOSAT) to show hundreds of villages in Rakhine state that were once inhabited by the Rohingya, but have now been burned down.

Indian film superstar Rajinikanth announces his entry into politics and decision to form a party, marking the rise of another star in southern India’s political sky.