Nepal has cancelled an agreement with a Chinese company to build the largest hydroelectric plant in the impoverished landlocked

Human rights group Amnesty International pours scorn on a Myanmar military investigation into alleged atrocities against Rohingya Muslims, branding it a “whitewash” and calling for UN and independent investigators to be allowed into the country.

Widely criticised for her stance over Rohingya refugee crisis, Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi now tells her fellow Southeast Asian leaders that her country will take back Rohingya refugees after it signs an agreement with its neighbour Bangladesh.

Myanmar's army releases a report denying all allegations of rape and killings by security forces, having days earlier replaced the general in charge of the operation that drove more than 600,000 Rohingya Muslims to flee to Bangladesh.

A draft of the statement to be issued after a Southeast Asian summit makes no mention of the exodus of Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar's Rakhine state following a military crackdown that has been described by the United Nations as ethnic cleansing.

Pakistan's anti-graft court on Wednesday rejected ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif's plea for clubbing together three corruption

A suspected suicide bomber killed a senior police official and two of his colleagues in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi flags off the first Khulna-Kolkata passenger train “Bandhan Express”.

China will help Myanmar to fence its Rakhine border with Bangladesh, local media reports.

A video allegedly showing security staff of India’s IndiGo airline manhandling a passenger went viral, prompting the federal government to launch an investigation into the incident involving the country’s biggest airline.

Myanmar says that the UN Security Council's statement on the Rohingya refugee crisis can “seriously harm” its talks with Bangladesh over repatriating more than 600,000 people who have fled there to escape a Myanmar military crackdown.

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan will sponsor free meal for 1,000 underprivileged children under the Annamrita Midday Meal Scheme of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), an official in India says.

‘Bandhan Express’, the new passenger train service between Khulna and Kolkata, has been scheduled to be inaugurated on November 9 in a bid to ease communication between two neighbouring countries.

The United Nations Security Council urges the Myanmar government to “ensure no further excessive use of military force in Rakhine state,” where violence has forced more than 600,000 Rohingya Muslims to flee the Buddhist-majority Asian country.

Nearly a year and a half after the Panama Papers leaks shook the world elites by revealing the offshore holdings of some of the most powerful political players, the Inter­national Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) releases another treasure trove of data.

Amid widespread international criticism for failing to address the issue of displaced Rohingya refugees, Canada’s newly-appointed special envoy has said Myanmar State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi’s “pretence” will not help to resolve the ongoing crisis.

A Rahim Yar Khan-bound flight of Pakistan's national carrier lands in Lahore due to low visibility and asks passengers onboard to travel by bus to their destination.

Denying responsibility for posting a misleading video on a Facebook page maintained by Pakistan high commission, Islamabad has summoned Bangladesh envoy and protested Dhaka’s claim of distortion of history of Bangladesh declaring its independence.

Pakistan's ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif returned home yesterday to face trial in an anti-corruption case he calls political

Three-time Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina ranks 30th on the 2017 Power Women list of Forbes magazine. She was 36th last year and 59th in 2015.