Courts in Thailand yesterday handed jail terms to an activist musician who set fire to a portrait of the king and to an opposition lawmaker for insulting the monarchy, their lawyers said.

The top leaders of the opposition Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) bloc are scheduled to convene in New Delhi on June 1 to assess their performance in the recently held Lok Sabha elections and strategize for the future.

Myanmar’s Rohingya community is once again under threat of attacks and displacement as fighting between a powerful ethnic army and the country’s ruling junta escalates in the western state of Rakhine, according to the UN and aid agencies.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police’s Detective Branch team, which is in Kolkata to probe the murder of MP Anwarul Azim Anar, has visited Bagjola canal in Polerhat near Kolkata

Indian police said Monday they had arrested a doctor and the owner of an unlicensed hospital where six newborn babies died in a fire in a crowded ward without fire exits

The death toll from a game zone fire in India’s Rajkot rose to 33, a top local official said yesterday, as rescuers scoured the site the morning after the blaze.

A three-member team of detective branch of DMP led by its additional commissioner Harun-Or-Rashid have reached India today to investigate the murder of lawmaker Anwarul Azim Anar in Kolkata on May 13

Seven newborn babies died in a major fire that broke out at a children's hospital in India's East Delhi's Vivek Vihar area last night

Owner, manager detained

Indian voters braved temperatures of nearly 45 degrees Celsius (113 Fahrenheit) in parts of the country as they headed to polling stations in the penultimate phase of the world’s largest election yesterday.

Fourty-three people who were on board a Singapore Airlines flight that hit severe turbulence remain hospitalised in Bangkok four days after the emergency, a hospital in the Thai capital said yesterday.

China has ended two days of military drills around Taiwan that saw jets loaded with live munitions and warships practise seizing and isolating the self-ruled island.

At least 20 people, including children, were killed in a massive fire that raged in a gaming zone teeming with people enjoying a summer vacation outing in Gujarat’s Rajkot city yesterday.

Two top rivals of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi who accuse his government of targeting them in unjustified criminal probes cast their votes in New Delhi yesterday as the country’s six-week election resumed.

Rescue operations ongoing

Indian High Commissioner Pranay Verma and Private Industry & Investment Adviser of Bangladesh Prime Minister, Salman Fazlur Rahman, MP, jointly inaugurated a new plant of India's leading pharmaceutical company, Sun Pharma, at Meghna Industrial Economic Zone

China's war games around Taiwan have ended, state media said, after two days of exercises that Beijing called a test of its ability to seize the self-ruled island

Amidst sweltering heat, India today began voting in 58 constituencies across six states and two union territories, including Delhi, in the sixth and penultimate phase of polling in the long-drawn parliamentary elections, in which Prime Minister Narendra Modi is seeking a rare third successive term

An estimated 11.13 crore people are expected to vote in the sixth phase of polling in India’s Lok Sabha elections covering 58 constituencies across six states and two union territories today.

Indian security forces have killed at least eight Maoist insurgents, police said yesterday, the latest clash in a decades-long conflict being waged in the country’s central forests.