The death toll from a collapsed flyover in eastern India rises to 25, after emergency workers toiled through the night to find any remaining survivors trapped under huge slabs of concrete and metal girders.

Students from reputed Indian educational institutions are turning to shops where PhD thesis are sold for Rs 30,000 and upwards.

The government can recover 40 percent, or about $34 million, of the $81 million stolen by hackers from Bangladesh’s central bank and laundered through the Philippine banking system, the country’s Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto says.

Myanmar entered a new era yesterday as the first civilian-led president took charge, officially ending decades of military control.

Pakistan has detained more than 200 people since the Easter Sunday park bombing which killed 73 people including many children, officials said yesterday, as the militants behind the attack taunted the prime minister.

On 11 March, panic struck engineers at a giant power station on the banks of the Ganges river in West Bengal state.

A suicide bomber who attacked a park thronging with families celebrating Easter killed at least 72 people in Pakistan, with children among the dead. More than 200 people were hurt when explosives packed with ball bearings ripped through crowds near a children's play area in the park in Lahore, leaving dozens dead or bloodied.

The Pakistani army deployed troops on the streets of the capital yesterday after thousands of stone-throwing supporters of an Islamist assassin who was hanged last month clashed with police in chaotic scenes.

Unfazed by the criticism he drew for mentioning Kashmir in the previous match, Pakistan cricket captain Shahid Afridi once again thanks supporters from the valley for turning up to cheer his team in the lost World Twenty20 match against Australia in India.

Pakistan made an official protest to India after detaining a man it says is an Indian spy who illegally entered the country and was captured on Thursday in the violence-plagued province of Baluchistan.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi extends good wishes to India and Bangladesh cricket teams, who are scheduled to lock horns in an ICC World Cup T20 match at Bengaluru.

Bangladesh and India take a stride into bilateral relationship with the exchange of internet bandwidth and electricity in the warm ambiance of Holi. In exchange for 10 GBPS internet bandwidth from Bangladesh, India will supply 100MW electricity.

A security guard in the Pakistani city of Karachi has shot dead an 11-year-old boy wearing a monster mask, police say. The boy had sneaked up on the guard

Authorities in western India have banned groups of people from gathering near water sources in a drought-ridden city following violent skirmishes between increasingly desperate residents, officials said yesterday.

Foreign Ministers of South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc) member countries arrive in Pokhara to attend the 37th Saarc Council of Ministers meeting to be held tomorrow.

Businesses and industries, already reeling from a financially challenging environment, say they are being hit hard by the freeze on new foreign workers.

Google's artificial intelligence (AI) program on beat South Korean professional Lee Sedol in the ancient board game Go, recovering from Sunday's loss to win its fourth match in a five-game series.

The death toll from torrential rain in Pakistan rose to 28 yesterday after more homes collapsed in the southwest and northwest, officials said. They said 17

A hardline Indian Hindu movement yesterday announced it was abandoning its trademark khaki shorts to try to modernise the dress code, 91 years after adopting the austere military-style uniform.

Underprivileged Indian children now can dream of making it big in cricket as a former Indian government employee, is helping them turn that dream into reality.