Wily Pakistan leg-spinner Yasir Shah wishes a Test face off with magician Indian offie Ravichandaran Ashwin in a battle of two fast wicket-taking spinners.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged BRICS leaders yesterday to take a strong united stand against the "mothership of terrorism" in the South Asian region, in a thinly veiled reference to Pakistan.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi brands Pakistan a "mother-ship of terrorism" at a summit of the BRICS nations, testing the cohesion of a group whose heavyweight member China is a close ally of its South Asian arch-rival.

Expressing warmth and lauding the strong ties between the two countries, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi welcomes Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to the BRICS summit with a tweet in Bangla.

President of the World Bank Group Jim Yong Kim is scheduled to arrive in Dhaka tomorrow on a two-day visit.

Pakistan's government has imposed a travel ban on a leading journalist after he sparked an uproar by reporting that civilian officials had

Myanmar's border guard yesterday buried nine officers killed in mysterious raids in the western state of Rakhine, as the military tightened control over a region long scarred by violence between Buddhists and Muslims.

Pakistan's National Assembly yesterday passed legislation closing a loophole that allowed people who killed in the name of "honour" to go free, mandating life imprisonment even if the victim's relatives forgive the murder.

Pakistan's media regulator has launched a crackdown on companies airing Indian television channels and content, officials said yesterday, after an escalation of violence in the disputed Kashmir region between the nuclear-armed neighbours.

The Indian army says that its soldiers foiled an attack on an army camp and killed three suspected rebels in Indian-controlled Kashmir.

Even as his government continued to insist that India had not conducted surgical strikes across the Line of Control (LoC), Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif hit out at India for its 'aggression'.

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal says Bangladesh will stay beside India if the neighbouring country is attacked following the ongoing tension with Pakistan.

Indian police have arrested six members of an Islamic State-inspired group suspected of plotting attacks on key figures and public places during the Hindu festival of Diwali, the national counter-terrorism agency says.

Regretting that the regional environment is “not conducive” to host the 19th Saarc Summit, current chair of the regional grouping Nepal says member states must ensure their territories are not used for cross-border terrorism.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has offered to act as mediator between India and Pakistan to defuse rising tensions over disputed Kashmir. The offer comes after Pakistan's ambassador meets with the UN chief and urges him to personally intervene, while India says it does not want to aggravate the situation.

In backdrops of “surgical strikes” on terror launch pads across the de facto border in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, the Indian authorities issue an alert for stepping up vigil at different important places across the country.

Pakistan officially announces the postponement of 19th South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc) summit amid pull out of five nations including Bangladesh and India.

Sri Lanka joins with Bangladesh, India, Bhutan and Afghanistan to pull out of the 19th Saarc Summit in Islamabad citing reasons that Pakistan’s environment is “not conductive”.

Sonia Gandhi, head of India's main opposition party Congress, yesterday said a "strong message" has been sent with the surgical strikes by the army against terror bases in Pakistan across the Line of Control (LoC) and insisted that Islamabad bears a "great responsibility" in the continuing cross-border attacks in India.

India was on high alert yesterday fearing a Pakistani backlash after its military carried out surgical strikes on terror launch pads across the Line of Control (LoC).