India's opposition yesterday called for a corruption probe into a multi-billion-dollar fighter jet deal, raising pressure on Prime Minister Narendra Modi as government lawyers threatened a leading newspaper with legal action for revealing details.

Pakistan intensified its crackdown against Islamist militants yesterday, with the government announcing it had taken control of 182 religious schools and detained 121 people as part of its push against banned groups.

Ruling Awami League casts a bright light on the condition of its General Secretary Obaidul Quader and says he will return home in a week or two.

High-resolution satellite images reviewed by Reuters show that a religious school run by Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) in northeastern Pakistan appears to be still standing days after India claimed its warplanes had hit the Islamist group’s training camp on the site and killed a large number of militants.

Pakistan has detained dozens of alleged militants after a suicide attack in Indian-held Kashmir last month which sent tensions between the nuclear-armed foes soaring, its interior minister said yesterday.

India launches “smart fencing” comprising electronic surveillance along a difficult stretch of its border in Assam with Bangladesh.

Bandhan Express will make a three-minute stoppage at Jashore Railway Junction from Thursday (March 7), allowing passengers to get on and off the train during their journey to and from Kolkata.

As tempers cool after an alarming confrontation between India and Pakistan, analysts say their leaders have emerged stronger -- with Narendra Modi burnishing his nationalist credentials and Imran Khan cast as a peacemaker.

Breaking a two-day lull, Pakistan’s troops resort to firing from mortars and small arms targeting Indian forward posts and villages along the de facto border in Akhnoor sector of Jammu and Kashmir, Indian defence officials say.

You may see desert and sand, but Sindh is actually the land that has been home to one of the oldest civilisations in the world.

A decisive crackdown on extremist and militant organisations in Pakistan looks imminent. “The action would soon be visible as things progress,” a source told a group of journalists in Pakistan.

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) handed over a member of Myanmar Army to Myanmar today, 39 days after he was “detained” along the border in Bandarban on January 24, an official of the Bangladeshi paramilitary force has said.

Bangladesh stands in the ninth position among its Asian neighbours in an international ranking as the most generous country. With an overall score of 31 per cent, the country has been ranked 74 in the world and fourth in South Asia in the CAF World Giving Index 2018.

A day after Indian Air Force (IAF) Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman’s release by Pakistan, Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman meets him and conveyed that the entire country is proud of his courage and determination, officials said.

A part of the Mumbai international airport's Terminal 2 in India is evacuated after authorities received what they said was a "non-specific" bomb threat call around 11:00am, reports NDTV.

Indian and Pakistani soldiers again target each other’s posts and villages along their volatile frontier in disputed Kashmir, killing at least six civilians and two Pakistani troops, officials say.

At least 23 Afghan security forces were killed in a Taliban attack on a joint US-Afghan base in southwestern Afghanistan, officials said yesterday, as fighting continues amid a pause in peace talks between the insurgents and American negotiators.

Three days after Indian war planes hit a terror camp in Pakistan, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi drives home his government’s tough posture in dealing with terrorism and said “India will longer be helpless in the wake of terror.”

Pakistan's foreign minister says he would not attend a meeting of foreign ministers from the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation in Abu Dhabi this weekend because his Indian counterpart had been invited to the event.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday asked Indians to "stand as a wall" with anger boiling over Pakistan's capture of a pilot as a crisis escalates between the nuclear-armed rivals.