Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi assures of an early breakthrough of the Teesta river’s water sharing issue. Modi makes the announcement at a joint press conference with his Bangladesh counterpart Sheikh Hasina in New Delhi.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina describes the meeting with her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi to be "productive" as they sat together to take Bangladesh-India excellent bilateral relations to newer height.

A ferry boat capsizes in Myanmar's Ayeyarwaddy delta, killing 20 people and leaving more than a dozen missing, police say.

India has declared to provide assistance of US$ 4.5 billion for implementation of top priority projects in Bangladesh. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi made the announcement at a joint press conference with his Bangladesh counterpart Sheikh Hasina in New Delhi.

Bangladesh and India will formally launch commercial supply of High Speed Diesel (HSD) tomorrow with an inaugural consignment of 2200 metric tonnes of the fuel to Bangladesh.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in an article published in a leading Indian newspaper expresses the hope that her visit to India would take the cooperative relations between Bangladesh and India to a “new height” and pitches for signing of the Teesta river water-sharing deal.

Indian police are reviewing reports of missing children to try to identify a girl who was found living in a forest with a group of monkeys.

A prominent street in the heart of the Indian capital is named after Bangladesh's founder Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

Bangladesh and Myanmar will jointly work to remove land mines from their respective border areas. Both the countries agreed to take necessary steps in this regard in a bid to establish good border management, said a press release jointly issued jointly by Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and Myanmar Police Force (MPF).

Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi says ethnic cleansing is too strong a term to describe what is happening in the Muslim-majority Rakhine region.

Choice of food and trade in foodstuff are part of right to life, the Allahabad High Court says, giving the UP government 10 days to draw up a plan so that its crackdown on illegal abattoirs and meat shops don't deprive people of their livelihood or food.

A suicide bomber kills at least six people and wounds 18 when he blows himself up near an army vehicle taking part in a census in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore.

A cobbler in Indian town of Junagadh receives a notice from the Income Tax Department asking him to divulge the source of Rs 10 lakh deposited in his account during the demonetisation period.

India's legendary batsman Sachin Tendulkar has made singing debut with singer Sonu Nigam and unveiled his maiden song, Cricket Wali Beat, on the sets of Indian Idol Grand Finale.

A two-member police team from Maldives reaches Rajshahi from Dhaka to talk with the investigators dealing with a case filed over the death of Maldivian medical student and model Raudha Athif.

The custodian of a shrine in Sargodha allegedly killed at least 20 people and injured three others, police say.

A shopkeeper is arrested for allegedly selling "artificial eggs" to a woman in Kolkata.

Myanmar becomes a full member of South Asia Subregional Economic Cooperation programme of Asian Development Bank being the seventh country to join the group.

The leader of a Rohingya Muslim insurgency against Myanmar's security forces says his group will keep fighting "even if a million die" unless the country's leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, takes action to protect the religious minority.

Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi defended her civilian government's first year in power in a rare public address on Thursday night, saying her party was dedicated to rebuilding a nation ravaged by decades of army rule.