India's foreign secy to visit Dhaka Wednesday

India's Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar will arrive in Dhaka on Wednesday on a two-day official visit to meet the government high officials to discuss Bangladesh’s security and other bilateral issues.
9 May 2016, 05:39 AM

India bus crash kills 14 after road collapse

An overcrowded minibus fell into a deep gorge in India's northern Himalayan region of Himachal Pradesh after a portion of the road caved
8 May 2016, 18:00 PM

Afghanistan executes six Taliban inmates

Six Afghan Taliban inmates on death row were hanged yesterday, government sources said, in the first set of executions endorsed by
8 May 2016, 18:00 PM

UN calls for reforms in Sri Lanka judiciary

United Nations human rights experts on Saturday urged Sri Lanka, which is under scrutiny for its human rights record during the 26-year Tamil insurgency, to implement judicial reforms to speed up prosecutions.
8 May 2016, 18:00 PM

Pakistani activist murdered in Karachi

A prominent Pakistani journalist and human rights activist, Khurram Zaki, is shot dead in Karachi.
8 May 2016, 11:25 AM

Tagore's encounters with luminaries of the West

Rabindranath Tagore, during his visits abroad, he engaged in intriguing conversations with brilliant minds from across the world – starting from British sci-fi master HG Wells to French dramatist-art historian Romain Rolland to genius German physicist Albert Einstein – where he spoke about the correlation of art and science, international relations and religion, and multiculturalism.
8 May 2016, 08:08 AM

Myanmar jade mine landslide kills 13

A landslide in northern Myanmar's notoriously dangerous jade mining region has killed 13 people, a local official said yesterday, the latest
6 May 2016, 18:00 PM

Mumbai court strikes down beef ban

An Indian court on Friday struck down a tough law that had banned the consumption of beef in the western state of Maharashtra, dealing
6 May 2016, 18:00 PM

Yet another ministry for Suu Kyi!

Myanmar's president has urged the creation of a new ministry for Aung San Suu Kyi's state advisor position, official media reported
6 May 2016, 18:00 PM

Nepal crisis ‘averted’

Nepal's main Maoist party that props up the fragile coalition said on Thursday it had abandoned efforts to form a new government,
6 May 2016, 18:00 PM

Manmohan, Sonia, Rahul briefly detained during protest

Members of the Congress party, including Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi, party President Sonia Gandhi and former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, were briefly detained at a police station in Delhi for defying orders as they tried to march towards Parliament.
6 May 2016, 11:46 AM

High turnout in last phase WB state polls

The staggered six-phase polling to elect a new legislature in West Bengal of India ended yesterday with an estimated
5 May 2016, 18:00 PM

How Islamic State in Bangladesh began

Radicalised worker Rahman Mizanur recruited countrymen in Singapore with help of material linked to terror groups.
5 May 2016, 05:07 AM

ISA detentions: Bangladesh must have zero tolerance for terror, says Bangladesh envoy in Singapore

The High Commissioner of Bangladesh to Singapore has urged his compatriots here to report their peers if they suspect them to be extremists.
4 May 2016, 05:33 AM

Terror cell 'unfazed' by earlier arrests

Around the time that Singapore announced in January the arrest and deportation of 27 radicalised Bangladeshis under the Internal Security Act (ISA), S-Pass holder Rahman Mizanur, 31, came up with plans for an extremist group and began recruiting his countrymen.
4 May 2016, 05:29 AM

US, India discuss anti-submarine warfare

India and the United States are in talks to help each other track submarines in the Indian Ocean, military officials say, a move
2 May 2016, 18:00 PM

Lanka sets up panel to probe Panama Papers

Cash-strapped Sri Lanka announced Sunday it was setting up a special panel to chase after nationals likely to figure in the
2 May 2016, 18:00 PM

Afghanistan's Ghani blasts Taliban 'slaves'

President Ashraf Ghani said Afghanistan faced a terrorist enemy led by Taliban "slaves" in Pakistan in a sombre speech to parliament yesterday that nonetheless left the door open to resuming peace talks with parts of the Taliban.
25 April 2016, 18:00 PM

Pakistan dismisses 12 army officers from service over 'corruption'

In an unprecedented move, Pakistan Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif dismisses 12 army officers, including a three-star general, from service over alleged corruption today.
21 April 2016, 12:34 PM

An India-Pakistan love story that went horribly wrong

It's often said that falling in love can be dangerous. But as a young man growing up in the town of Rampur in northern India, Mohammad Javed never imagined his love for a Pakistani relative would see him branded a terrorist and sent to jail for eleven and a half years.
21 April 2016, 03:21 AM