Nepal-China floods: Rain, rising rivers hamper rescue ops
31 August 2026
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South Asia
Pakistan suspends eight officials after infant ward fire
31 August 2026
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South Asia
Pakistan suspends eight officials after deadly infant ward fire
30 August 2026
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World
Nepal-China flash floods: Race against time to find nearly 3,000 missing
30 August 2026
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South Asia
Inside the human tragedy of Nepal’s flood
29 August 2026
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South Asia
Missing soar past 2,400 in deadly Nepal, China floods
29 August 2026
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South Asia
Lake overflows on Nepal-Tibet border, sparking panic and halting rescue
28 August 2026
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Natural Disaster
I watched my village disappear in an instant
28 August 2026
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South Asia
Hundreds feared dead in Nepal flash floods
28 August 2026
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South Asia
New barrier lake in Nepal raises fresh flood threat, China warns
27 August 2026
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South Asia
Nepal's big 3 parties unite against India
India's belated bid for a role in Nepal's constitution-making process has united the landlocked nation's top mainstream parties as never before.
4 October 2015
Maldives govt rejects UN ruling
A United Nations panel has ruled that the jailing of former Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed was illegal and called for his immediate release, the government of the atoll nation said yesterday as it rejected the ruling.
1 October 2015
Pak PM offers new peace initiative with India
Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has proposed a new peace initiative with India centred around the demilitarisation of the disputed territory of Kashmir, where a surge in cross-border shelling has killed dozens of civilians since last year.
1 October 2015
India man lynched over beef rumours
A 50-year-old man in northern India has been killed in a mob lynching allegedly over rumours that his family had been storing and consuming beef at home.
30 September 2015
Five convicts get death, life for 7 others
An Indian court sentenced five men to death yesterday for a series of bomb blasts that ripped through packed trains in Mumbai in 2006, killing nearly 200 people and injuring many more.
30 September 2015
Protest-hit Nepal 'may fly in fuel'
The Nepal Oil Corporation (NOC) is considering flying in fuel to the landlocked nation as it continues to face a crippling shortage of petroleum products.
30 September 2015
Indian court sentences five to death over 2006 Mumbai blasts: PTI
An Indian court on Wednesday sentenced five men to death for a series of blasts that ripped through packed trains in Mumbai in 2006.
30 September 2015
India man lynched over beef rumours
A 50-year-old man in northern India is killed in a mob lynching allegedly over rumours that his family had been storing and consuming beef at home.
30 September 2015
Indonesia ‘needs time’ to tackle haze
Indonesia's President Joko Widodo says he needs time to tackle the forest-burning which creates a haze every year over South East Asia.
30 September 2015
Maldives president unhurt in boat blast
An explosion ripped through a speed boat carrying Maldives President Abdulla Yameen yesterday, injuring his wife and two others but
28 September 2015
Modi hails social media power
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has hailed the political power of social media, as he visited the headquarters of Facebook in
28 September 2015
India-Pakistan: The madness of spy vs spy
While the old Cold War enemies have called a truce, the historical animosities in our patch of the world seem unlikely to let India and Pakistan to come in from the cold.
28 September 2015
Modi captivates Facebook Townhall
Enjoy the salient features of India Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s speech at Facebook Townhall.
28 September 2015
Manikganj Shibir chief held
Police arrested the president of Manikganj district unit of Islami Chhatra Shibir (ICS) from bus stand area on Saturday on charge of
27 September 2015
34 gold bar seized, one held
Police arrested a man and seized 34 gold bars from his possession in Khetlal upazila of Joypurhat district on Friday afternoon.
27 September 2015
Mind your own business
India's reaction to Nepal's new constitution and the violence preceding and following it has been criticised by Nepal's media and Twitter users.
23 September 2015
India, US renew ever closer strategic ties
The world's largest democracies, India and the United States, agreed measures to deepen their security and economic cooperation on Tuesday, part of an ambitious drive to boost trade between them five-fold.
23 September 2015
BTRC chief’s appointment cancelled before taking charge
The government appoints a new chairman to the telecom regulator after cancelling the appointment of another before his taking the charge.
23 September 2015
HC rejects plea seeking medical admission retake
The High Court rejects a writ petition seeking order on the government to scrap the medical and dental admission tests held on Friday.
21 September 2015
Three get life for killing youth
A Sylhet court yesterday sentenced three people to life imprisonment for killing a youth in Kamalganj upazila of Moulvibazar in 2012.
20 September 2015