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Afghanistan quake kills 12, including 8 members of same family
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Myanmar junta chief elected president
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Pakistan hikes fuel prices sharply
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Nepal holds its first post-polls parliament session
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Myanmar House to elect new president today
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Nepal to issue formal apology to Dalits within 15 days
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Pakistan EC suspends 261 lawmakers for non-disclosure of financial statements

The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) suspends the membership of 261 lawmakers for failure to submit details of their finances under sub-section 42A of the Representation of People Act (RoPA) by September 30.
17 October 2017, 11:27 AM

Speaker for playing effective role in solving Rohingya crisis

Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury urges the international community to play an effective and sustainable role in resolving the Rohingya crisis which created a humanitarian crisis in Bangladesh.
17 October 2017, 09:24 AM

Cairo tops worst chart, London the best megacity

Dhaka has been rated as the seventh worst megacity for women and Cairo positioned the last in the list, followed by Karachi, Kinshasa and New Delhi, according to an international poll with women's rights experts.
17 October 2017, 07:05 AM

Rohingya crisis: UN calls for global solidarity ahead of pledging conference

Senior United Nations officials are urging the international community to come together in support of a 23 October pledging conference to “send a strong message to Rohingya refugees and their generous hosts in Bangladesh that the world is there for them in their greatest time of need.”
17 October 2017, 06:16 AM

UN report on Rohingya hunger withdrawn over Myanmar govt request, The Guardian says

World Food Programme (WFP) of the United Nations has withdrawn its critical report revealing recently desperate hunger among the persecuted Rohingya people after the Myanmar government demanded it be taken down, reports The Guardian.
17 October 2017, 06:07 AM

3 more Rohingya bodies recovered from the Bay

The death toll from the October 8 Rohingya boat capsize reaches 37 as three more bodies of Rohingya women were recovered from the Bay of Bengal in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar.
15 October 2017, 06:45 AM

Unemployment: Dhaka 6th in Asia; highest rate in Kathmandu, lowest in Phnom Penh

Dhaka ranked sixth among 25 Asian capital cities in official unemployment ratings, whereas Nepal’s capital Kathmandu has the highest rate and Phnom Penh, capital of Cambodia, recorded as the lowest in this regard, a study reveals recently.
15 October 2017, 04:47 AM

Dhaka among least safe, Tokyo safest cities in the world, says The Economist's Safe Cities Index 2017

Dhaka, the capital and megacity of Bangladesh, has been ranked one of the least safe cities in the world, whereas, Tokyo once again tops the list of The Economist's Safe Cities Index 2017.
14 October 2017, 08:26 AM

India announces fellowships for South Asian scientists

In a fresh outreach to its immediate neighbours, India announces fully-sponsored academic fellowships to scientists and researchers of South Asian countries including Bangladesh.
14 October 2017, 06:01 AM

Suu Kyi sets out aid plan to end Rohingya crisis

Aung San Suu Kyi has set out plans for a new humanitarian project to enable Myanmar's Rakhine State to emerge as a peaceful and developed region, which a close adviser says showed her determination to fix the country's refugee crisis.
14 October 2017, 05:52 AM

IOM DG due Sunday; he'll visit Rohingya camps

International Organization for Migration (IOM) Director General William Lacy Swing arrives in Dhaka on Sunday on a four-day visit to see current Rohingya situation on the ground.
14 October 2017, 05:50 AM

Myanmar’s Suu Kyi sets out aid plan to end Rohingya crisis

Aung San Suu Kyi has set out plans for a new humanitarian project to enable Myanmar's Rakhine State to emerge as a peaceful and developed region, which a close adviser said showed her determination to fix the country's refugee crisis.
13 October 2017, 15:10 PM

Lanka recovers cash stolen from Taiwan bank

Sri Lankan authorities have recovered more than $1.3 million stolen from a Taiwanese bank after two men were arrested in connection
12 October 2017, 18:00 PM

Taliban hostage family freed by Pak troops

A North American family that had been held hostage by the Afghan Taliban has been freed following an operation in Pakistan, the
12 October 2017, 18:00 PM

'It takes two to tango'

Pakistan has shown "genuine desire" to have peaceful relations with its "belligerent" neighbour India but it takes "two to tango",
12 October 2017, 18:00 PM

Rajapakse son arrested over anti-India protest

Sri Lankan police Tuesday arrested the legislator son of former president Mahinda Rajapakse for leading violent anti-India
11 October 2017, 18:25 PM

India's top court says sex with child bride is always rape

Sex with a minor amounts to rape even if the couple are married, India's top court rules, closing a legal loophole that allows some perpetrators to escape punishment.
11 October 2017, 11:34 AM

Myanmar takes first step to ease Buddhist-Muslim tension

Myanmar launches its first bid to improve relations between Buddhists and Muslims since an eruption of deadly violence in August inflamed communal tension and triggered an exodus of some 520,000 Muslims to Bangladesh.
11 October 2017, 04:46 AM

Mass cholera vaccinations begin in Rohingya camps

The United Nations launches one of its biggest ever cholera vaccination drives in the vast refugee camps of southeast Bangladesh amid fears of an outbreak among nearly a million Rohingya now living there.
10 October 2017, 08:13 AM

Ousted Pakistan PM's son-in-law arrested

The son-in-law of ousted Pakistani premier Nawaz Sharif was arrested at Islamabad airport yesterday by anti-corruption body on his
9 October 2017, 18:00 PM