A group of Rohingya Muslims that attacked Myanmar border guards in October is headed by people with links to Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, the International Crisis Group (ICG) says.

A commission set up by Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi to investigate attacks on border posts and the army's

The Arctic shattered heat records in the past year as unusually warm air triggered massive melting of ice and snow

Karnataka Minister HY Meti, entangled in an alleged sex scandal, resigns saying he wants to save his government embarrassment but denies that he has done anything wrong.

In a bid to intensify surveillance and security along the India-Bangladesh Border, the Assam government decides to raise four new battalions of border police.

A commission set up by Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi to investigate attacks on border posts and the army's brutal response says security forces abides by the law in a Muslim-majority area of northwestern Rakhine State.

New satellite images and eyewitness accounts indicate involvement of Myanmar army in burning Rohingya Muslim villages, according to Human Rights Watch.

Bangladesh and India will celebrate the Victory Day in Dhaka and Kolkata through exchanges of delegations comprising freedom fighters from Bangladesh and Indian war veterans.

Pakistan has named a new head of its powerful military Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI), two weeks after replacing the

Cricket legend Arjuna Ranatunga announces he is reviving his bid to build a record-breaking 100-metre tall Christmas tree in Sri Lanka's capital despite opposition from the Catholic church.

On November 8, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi surprised his country with an announcement banning 500- and 1,000-rupee notes-worth about $7 and $15 respectively - in a move to crack down on tax evasion, black money, corruption and terrorism funding.

Two suspected rebels and a civilian were killed in a shoot-out with government forces in southern Kashmir, police said yesterday,

The death of Junaid Jamshed, a Pakistani rock star-turned-evangelist, in a plane crash has stirred debate over his legacy, raising questions that cut to the heart of Pakistan's widening cultural schisms.

The UN has urged Myanmar's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi to visit northern Rakhine state, where the army is accused of carrying out a brutal crackdown on the Muslim Rohingya minority.

Two people are killed and two others are critically injured after a newly-constructed six-storey building collapses in India's Hyderabad.

A Pakistani aircraft carrying 47 people issued a Mayday call before losing radar contact and crashing into a mountain, killing

India’s Tamil Nadu state’s political party AIADMK says a total of 77 persons has died of grief and shock over the party supremo J Jayalalithaa’s illness and subsequent death.

The Allahabad high court in India calls the Islamic practice of divorcing a woman by saying the word 'talaq' three successive times "unconstitutional" and calls it a violation of the rights of Muslim women.

A bed-ridden Egyptian woman weighing 500kg has been granted visa by Indian Embassy in Cairo following intervention by External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj.

India and Bangladesh are going to introduce water vessels for tourists of both the countries soon, Secretary of Shipping Ministry Ashoke Madhab Roy says.