The United Nations' human rights investigator on Myanmar urged Bangladesh on Tuesday to drop plans to start repatriating hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees to Rakhine state this month, warning they would face a "high risk of persecution".

In a shocking revelation, the head of the Federal Investigation Agency’s (FIA) cybercrime wing says data from "almost all" Pakistani banks was looted in a recent security breach.

In yet another name change, the BJP government in Uttar Pradesh yesterday announced that Faizabad district in the state will be henceforth known as Ayodhya. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Adityanath made the announcement at a function to mark the Deepavali function in Ayodhya in the afternoon.

More than 400 Afghans were killed or wounded in poll-related violence during three days of voting last month, the UN said yesterday, making the parliamentary ballot the deadliest on record. The vast majority of the 435 casualties happened on the first day of voting on October 20.

India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party yesterday suffered a jolt when it failed to retain a parliamentary seat which has been its long-held bastion in the southern state of Karnataka as ruling Congress and its alliance partner Janata Dal (Secular) won two other parliamentary constituencies and won both the assembly seats that went to by-polls last weekend.

Facebook Inc says a human rights report it commissioned on its presence in Myanmar showed it has not done enough to prevent its social network from being used to incite violence.

Lawyers for two Myanmar Reuters journalists yesterday filed an appeal against their seven-year jail sentence linked to their reporting on the Rohingya crisis, the news agency said.

Twitter suspended the account of a ultra-right Pakistani cleric on Sunday following inflammatory statements targeting the judiciary, prime minister, and military after the acquittal of a Christian woman accused of blasphemy, the government said.

Sri Lanka's speaker of parliament said yesterday he would not accept a former president, Mahinda Rajapaksa, as the new prime minister until he proves he commands a majority in parliament.

Sri Lanka's speaker of parliament says he would not accept a former president, Mahinda Rajapaksa, as the new prime minister until he proves he commands a majority in parliament.

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Punjab police arrested 1,100 suspects till Sunday evening and registered 130 cases against them for their involvement in injuring policemen and people and damaging public and private properties during the protests following the Supreme Court verdict acquitting Aasia Bibi of blasphemy charge.

Pakistan government was criticized yesterday for reaching a controversial deal with protesting Islamist hardliners, who were incensed

Bangladesh remains the lowest hydropower producer among other countries in Asia since 2017. However, Bangladesh, with a capacity of 230 megawatts, is working towards increasing their capacity by commissioning more projects, says a latest report.

A Sri Lankan court yesterday ordered the arrest the country's top military officer over the abduction and murder of 11 people during the Tamil civil war.

Sri Lanka's speaker yesterday summoned parliament to meet next week in defiance of the president as a constitutional crisis darkened with an MP saying he was offered millions of dollars and a minister's post to defect to a rival camp.

Former Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed returned home from exile yesterday, two days after the country's Supreme Court withdrew a warrant for his arrest.

India has lodged a strong protest against a proposed bus service from China using a road through Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir saying the move will be “ in violation ” of India's sovereignty and territorial integrity.

Pakistan's Imran Khan won praise for his stance against religious hardliners yesterday, as demonstrators blocked major roads to protest the Supreme Court's overturning of a blasphemy conviction.

The Sri Lankan president's party yesterday reignited a constitutional crisis over which of two rival prime ministers heads the government by insisting that parliament will remain suspended.