New United States President Donald Trump must be “fantastically” happy with a “wonderful” Asean because it is the only “great” regional organisation that has no military might and has not been at war. The problem is, he might not know about the grouping at all.

If you have citizenship in Singapore, Japan and Malaysia, you have a great deal of travelling power. Singaporean passports have been ranked the most powerful passports in Asia and world's second-most "powerful" passport, according to a worldwide ranking for passports.

The third edition of Bengal Global Business Summit (BGBS) has been inaugurated at Kolkata in India’s West Bengal.

At least 22 children are killed when a school bus carrying them collided with a truck in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh's Etah district.

The Reserve Bank of India has injected 9.2 trillion rupees ($135.21 billion) worth of new currency notes into the banking system to help replace the notes banned in November, a parliamentary panel member quotes central bank governor Urjit Patel as saying.

A 42-year-old US citizen is arrested in Hyderabad for allegedly circulating child pornography on the internet, reports NDTV Online.

More than 40 Myanmar-based civil society organisations call for a “truly independent” international investigation into the situation in Rakhine State, where state-sponsored attacks against Rohingya Muslim civilians have escalated in recent months.

United Nations should intervene in Myanmar's Rakhine State to stop further escalation of violence against Rohingya Muslims and avoid another genocide like in Cambodia and Rwanda, says Organisation of Islamic Cooperation's special envoy to Myanmar.

Former chief justice MM Ruhul Amin dies of heart diseases at a hospital in Singapore. He was 74.

The son beats the father in the battle for retaining Samajwadi Party’s election symbol ‘biçycle’ in India's biggest state of Uttar Pradesh.

Rajasthan Education Minister Vasudev Devnani says cow is the only animal that inhales as well as exhales oxygen, reports The Indian Express.

Thailand faces more hardship from unseasonable floods that have killed 40 people in its south, with more rain

Every day is the same. He wakes at 6:45 am, eats breakfast 20 minutes later and reports for work at eight o'clock

India’s flamboyant politician Navjot Singh Sidhu joins main opposition party Congress ahead of fresh elections to Punjab state legislature next month.

The Bangladesh Embassy in Riyadh is making extensive arrangements to hold job fairs on January 30 and February 1 in Riyadh and Jeddah respectively to attract Saudi recruiting companies, reports Arab News.

Around six million people have been displaced from their homes due to the effects of climate change in Bangladesh, International Organization for Migration (IOM) says.

The new army chief takes a tough stand on terrorism and ceasefire violations along the border.

At least 23 people are drowned when an overloaded boat capsizes in the Ganga river near Patna in India.

Kolkata High Court directs the authorities concerned to submit a fitness status report of the policemen in the West Bengal Police and Kolkata Police forces in a month.

Keeping themselves confined to a tiny room with no light inside, two young Rakhine Muslim women have been struggling to get rid of the trauma and forget the brutality they had gone through.They remain speechless for minutes seeing the presence of a newsman at Kutupalong refugee camp in Ukhia. Later, they reveal the horrors -- reprisals, rape and burning people and houses.