A schoolboy drowned in a canal in Mahiganj-Ershadnagar area of the city on Saturday night.

The government of India works on an ordinance to amend the Citizenship Act to grant citizenship to "persecuted" Hindu refugees from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Myanmar has set a minimum wage of 3,600 kyat ($2.80) for an eight-hour work day.

At least 10 civilians were killed yesterday as India and Pakistan traded fire across their disputed border, officials said, less than a week

The share of Hindus in India’s total population has recorded a marginal decline between 2001 and 2011 while that of Muslims has increased slightly over the same period, according to the latest census data on the religious profile of the country.

A Supreme Court lawyer sends a legal notice to government requesting it to scrap Section 57 (1) of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Act which has come under severe criticism recently.

Nepal police shot dead a protester as fresh clashes erupted in the country's southern plains yesterday, a day after an 18-month-old boy and seven officers died during demonstrations against a new constitution.

Violent clashes at a protest in western Nepal have killed at least seven police officers and a child.

Police claim to have detained three people with five kilograms of gold and contraband yaba tablets from Dhaka’s railway station.

Pakistan's bottomfeeding on American aid is about to end unless it terminates its policy of covertly using terrorism to further its

Thailand's police chief yesterday insisted his officers were making "a lot of progress" in the hunt for the Bangkok shrine bomber despite

Sri Lanka's two biggest parties yesterday agreed to form a national unity government committed to "ethnic reconciliation" after a surge

A Pakistani court bans an Indian film about the 2008 Mumbai attacks in response to a petition filed by Mumbai attacks alleged mastermind.

Police in Narsingdi arrest a man on charge of trafficking dozens of youths to Malaysia through the Bay of Bengal.

A court here yesterday granted two-day remand for seven leaders and activists of Jamaat-e-Islami in a sabotage case.

The mayor of Shahjadpur municipality in Sirajganj district has been sued on charge of attempting to rape a councillor's wife.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi suggests a joint exercise by the disaster management forces of South Asian countries for a joint response to natural calamities as he held talks with visiting Bangladesh Premier Sheikh Hasina.

Sri Lanka's former strongman Mahinda Rajapakse admits his dream of a political comeback was over after conceding defeat in parliamentary elections.

Two people were killed and nine others injured by lightning in Bochaganj upazila yesterday.

Two suicide attackers yesterday killed a Pakistani provincial minister, who had campaigned against militants, and at least 15 other people, after detonating a bomb at a meeting the minister was attending.