Brac Founder and Chairperson Sir Fazle Hasan Abed receives the 2015 World Food Prize for his outstanding contribution to enhance the world's production and distribution of food to those most in need.

A senior leader of India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has said that Muslims living in the country should give up consuming beef.

This is not the first time the cow has become mixed up with politics. Conflicts over cow slaughter sparked religious riots in India.

Margaret Atwood and Stephen Fry are among the authors who will be attending the Jaipur Literature Festival.

An ascendant Hindu nationalist group wants minority Muslims and Christians to accept that India is a nation of Hindus, and is pushing some of them to convert.

The High Court summons two ward councillors of Dhaka to appear before it on charge of constructing their offices by grabbing the land of a canal in Jatrabari area of Dhaka.

A two-member team from the Japanese embassy in Dhaka seek Rangpur district administration’s cooperation in probing the murder of its national Kunio Hoshi.

Two parties agree to share PM and President posts, allotting VP, Speaker and deputy Speaker berths to other parties

North Korea is to hold what is expected to be one of its biggest celebrations, marking the 70th anniversary of the ruling Workers' Party.

Lawmakers from India's ruling Hindu nationalist party in Kashmir kicked and punched an independent member of the state assembly on Thursday for hosting a party where he served beef.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurates and lays foundation stones of 15 development projects in seven districts including three power plants.

The death toll of Bangladeshi pilgrims from the Mina stampede has risen to 63, says Hajj Agencies Association of Bangladesh President Mohammad Ibrahim Bahar.

The Indian Shiv Sena is at it again. This time, the party has forced the organisers to cancel the Mumbai concert of renowned Pakistani ghazal singer Ghulam Ali.

Negotiators from Nepal's government and the main group protesting the country's new constitution discussed the main issue of the size of proposed states yesterday, but said little progress was made in their second day of talks.

Environmentalists called yesterday for a pollution tax in the Indian capital after a top court ordered the city and national governments to quickly come up with a plan to clean New Delhi's notoriously filthy air.

The main group of protesters opposing Nepal's new constitution said its negotiations with the government failed to reach a resolution yesterday even as a punishing border blockade continued to squeeze the country.

Calling India and Pakistan's recent spat at the United Nations a “tit for tat,” former Pakistan Foreign Minister Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri said both sides would inevitably return to talks.

A lawyer of convicted war criminal Salauddin Quader Chowdhury will meet him at Kashimpur jail-1 in Gazipur to discuss filing of a review petition against the Supreme Court judgement.

A man, whom police identified as the commander of Chittagong unit of banned militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh, is killed in a grenade explosion hours after his arrest with firearms and ammunition, according to the law enforcers.

The ferry terminal at Kumirmara point of Kumirmara-Bekutia ferry route in Pirojpur Sadar upazila is under threat as the Kacha River has