Apparently showing their affection for war criminals being tried in Bangladesh for their crimes against humanity, Pakistan has said the relations between the two countries 'should not be clouded' with a single issue.

China and Pakistan are closely coordinating moves to block India's entry into the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG).

Bangladesh has summoned Pakistan envoy in Dhaka in a quick response to the condemnation note Islamabad handed over for the execution of a top war criminal, Motiur Rahman Niazami. While Pakistan envoy insists that bilateral relations won't be harmed, Dhaka hands another strong protest.

Bangladesh and India will closely work together to counter violent extremism and terrorism, visiting Indian Foreign Secretary Subrahmanyam Jaishankar says.

The US Department of State’s Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs William E Todd will lead an interagency delegation on a visit to Bangladesh.

India's Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar will arrive in Dhaka on Wednesday on a two-day official visit to meet the government high officials to discuss Bangladesh’s security and other bilateral issues.

An overcrowded minibus fell into a deep gorge in India's northern Himalayan region of Himachal Pradesh after a portion of the road caved

Six Afghan Taliban inmates on death row were hanged yesterday, government sources said, in the first set of executions endorsed by

United Nations human rights experts on Saturday urged Sri Lanka, which is under scrutiny for its human rights record during the 26-year Tamil insurgency, to implement judicial reforms to speed up prosecutions.

A prominent Pakistani journalist and human rights activist, Khurram Zaki, is shot dead in Karachi.

Rabindranath Tagore, during his visits abroad, he engaged in intriguing conversations with brilliant minds from across the world – starting from British sci-fi master HG Wells to French dramatist-art historian Romain Rolland to genius German physicist Albert Einstein – where he spoke about the correlation of art and science, international relations and religion, and multiculturalism.

A landslide in northern Myanmar's notoriously dangerous jade mining region has killed 13 people, a local official said yesterday, the latest

An Indian court on Friday struck down a tough law that had banned the consumption of beef in the western state of Maharashtra, dealing

Myanmar's president has urged the creation of a new ministry for Aung San Suu Kyi's state advisor position, official media reported

Nepal's main Maoist party that props up the fragile coalition said on Thursday it had abandoned efforts to form a new government,

Members of the Congress party, including Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi, party President Sonia Gandhi and former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, were briefly detained at a police station in Delhi for defying orders as they tried to march towards Parliament.

The staggered six-phase polling to elect a new legislature in West Bengal of India ended yesterday with an estimated

Radicalised worker Rahman Mizanur recruited countrymen in Singapore with help of material linked to terror groups.

The High Commissioner of Bangladesh to Singapore has urged his compatriots here to report their peers if they suspect them to be extremists.

Around the time that Singapore announced in January the arrest and deportation of 27 radicalised Bangladeshis under the Internal Security Act (ISA), S-Pass holder Rahman Mizanur, 31, came up with plans for an extremist group and began recruiting his countrymen.