Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, 70, has been ranked the fourth senior head of state based on age in Asia while Malaysian leader Mahathir Mohamad is the world’s oldest.

India's Supreme Court asks a Bharatiya Janata Party leader, who took oath as chief minister of the key southern Indian state of Karnataka on Thursday, to prove his majority in the state assembly tomorrow.

The Everest industry is suffering from a dangerous shortage of its most important resource: experienced Sherpa guides.

Pakistan's military has killed a senior member of Islamist militant group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi(LeJ) along two suicide bombers in a raid in

As passengers got stuck on the Dhaka-Chittagong highway for 24 hours just the other day, how does this traffic jam compare with other snarl-ups around the world?

Thunderstorms and rains lashed four states of India leaving at least 76 people dead and nearly hundreds injured on Sunday night, officials say.

Some Bollywood celebrities upload posts on Instagram, wishing their moms a very happy Mother’s Day.

Pakistani authorities have barred a US diplomat involved in a fatal traffic accident from leaving the country, forcing an American military aircraft flown in for his departure to leave without him, local media report.

Officials in Pakistan say violent rainstorms in the northwest have caused at least 15 deaths and injured dozens.

At least 12 people are killed as a dust storm and thunder shower hit parts of northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh last night, a senior official says.

Sri Lanka's president yesterday appealed to his prime minister to end a bitter power struggle and said the coalition government had failed to deliver promised reforms.

Members of Bangladesh Coast Guard have seized 14 lakh yaba tablets worth about Tk 70 crore from the Bay of Bengal in Cox’s Bazar’s Teknaf upazila.

An Indian court has deferred till July 17 the hearing on Bollywood super star Salman Khan's plea challenging his sentence of five years in prison for poaching endangered black bucks.

Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal is shot at and injured during a corner meeting in Narowal's Kanjrur tehsil on Sunday, in what Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif described as an "assassination attempt".

​Indian soldiers shot dead five Kashmir militants including a rebel university teacher in a gunfight that triggered protests in which five civilians were killed.

Unicef has estimated that more than 100,000 people including approximately 55,000 children, mostly Rohingyas, are at risk due to floods and landslides in Cox's Bazar district which is one of the most flood prone areas of Bangladesh.

Nepal’s Minister for Industry, Commerce and Supply, Matrika Prasad Yadav has said that Nepal and Bangladesh will be connected via a tunnel way so as to promote the transnational road connectivity.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says Bangladesh expects China, Russia, India and Japan to play a major role in resolving the Rohingya crisis.

Twin blasts in the Afghan capital Kabul kills 25 people, including journalists who had arrived to report on the first explosion and who were apparently targeted by a suicide bomber in a second attack, officials say.

The leaders of India and China are set to make their boldest attempt yet at rapprochement in talks this week just months after a