After the militant attack at Gulshan’s upscale café Holey Artisan Bakery on July 1 last year, law enforcers started launching operations at the hideouts of suspected militants across Bangladesh. On the map, 14 such anti-militancy drives including yesterday’s raid in Kushtia were marked. Click on the each marks to see brief information on the operation.

Indian security forces shot dead a top Islamist militant who was accused of killing six police officers during a seven-hour gun battle in

A government minister was mocked on social media for urinating in public despite the prime minister's flagship public hygiene drive as

A Pakistani reporter has been detained and charged under cybercrime laws for criticising security forces on social media, officials and his

The ongoing troop face-off between India and China on the Sikkim-Bhutan-Tibet tri-junction has emerged as the biggest such

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday condemned a string of murders targeting minorities under the pretext of protecting

The tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan has protested to its mighty neighbour China over road building in disputed territory that set off

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi beaks his silence over a wave of attacks on people accused of eating beef or slaughtering cows, saying that killing in the name of an animal sacred to majority Hindus was wrong.

Myanmar authorities should immediately release three journalists arrested in northern Shan state yesterday on accusations of unlawful association after they covered an event organised by an armed ethnic group that is banned by authorities, the Committee to Protect Journalists has said.

In Asia, the biggest motor vehicle production plants are in China, Japan, India and South Korea. China, though, captures a bigger pie of the global market share in auto production than any other Asian country.

Pakistan begins Eid in mourning as the death toll from an oil tanker explosion rose to 153, with scores more injured after they were caught in a fireball while scooping up spilt fuel.

Government forces in Indian-administered Kashmir are locked in an intense battle with armed militants who took cover in a school after opening fire on a group of soldiers on the eve of Eid.

The death toll from multiple attacks in Pakistan rose to 57, officials said yesterday, a day after the bomb and gun assaults in three

A shift in consumers' diet preference and flourishing baked food market pushed Bangladesh to hit a record high on wheat imports in current fiscal year. In this fiscal year, wheat import stood at 5.4 million tonnes till mid-June, show government statistics.

India is the world's largest milk producer, with 18 percent of global production, followed by the US and China. But when it comes to milk export, Thailand is the largest milk exporter in Asia.

A radical Buddhist monk wanted in connection with a string of hate attacks in Sri Lanka surrendered Wednesday after four weeks on the

Government forces killed three suspected rebels during a fierce overnight gunfight in Indian-administered Kashmir, the army said

An Indian national facing execution after being convicted of spying in Pakistan has sought clemency from the country's army chief, the

The electronic government procurement (e-GP) system developed by a Bangladeshi software firm is launched in Bhutan.

India’s mainstream opposition parties nominate former Lok Sabha speaker Meira Kumar as the country’s presidential candidate.