The foreign currency reserve of Bangladesh hits a new record crossing a $ 27-billion mark.

An Indian court has rejected a federal police report which had ruled that two teenage girls found hanging from a tree in India last year took their own lives and were not gang-raped and murdered.

Indian security forces in Kashmir killed on Thursday a top commander of Islamist militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), who allegedly was involved in several attacks in the disputed region in recent years.

Relief agencies are battling to reach cold and hungry survivors of a devastating earthquake that has killed more than 360 people in Pakistan and Afghanistan, with entire communities still cut off in the mountainous region.

Geeta, an aurally and verbally challenged woman, who returned home after being stranded in Pakistan for over a decade, yesterday met President Pranab Mukherjee here.

Underworld don Chota Rajan, one of India's most wanted criminals who has been on the run for nearly two decades, has been arrested in Bali by Indonesian police which acted on a Red Corner Notice issued by Interpol. The arrest was made on Sunday.

Heavy cross-border fire from Afghanistan killed seven Pakistani soldiers yesterday at a checkpoint in a troubled tribal area, the army said. It said the

Heavy cross-border fire from Afghanistan killed seven Pakistani soldiers yesterday at a checkpoint in a troubled tribal area, the army said.

A police "raid" on Kerala House here to check if it served beef triggered a storm yesterday, with the chief ministers of Kerala, Delhi and

An Afghan man carries a solar panel after an earthquake in Farkhar district of Takhar province, Afghanistan, yesterday

Heavy cross-border fire from Afghanistan kill seven Pakistani soldiers at a checkpost in the troubled tribal area of South Waziristan, the army said.

The canteen of a Delhi guesthouse belonging to the southern Indian state of Kerala was visited by police after a right-wing Hindu group complained it had beef on its menu.

Monday's tremor shares an overall cause with the Nepal earthquakes in April and May: the slow collision caused by India pushing north into the Eurasian continent. But they are not directly related.

Rescue efforts are being stepped up to help those affected by the magnitude-7.5 earthquake which hit remote areas of Afghanistan and Pakistan on Monday. More than 360 people are known to have died, most of them in Pakistan, and at least 2,000 were injured.

Underworld don Chota Rajan, one of India's most wanted criminals, has been arrested in Bali by Indonesian police which acted on a Red Corner Notice issued

Nepali officials left for China yesterday to negotiate a fuel deal and ease crippling shortages after protests over a new constitution blocked imports from its sole supplier India, a minister said.

Pakistan uses militants as proxies to counter India's growing influence in Afghanistan, according to a set of documents released by WikiLeaks from the hacked personal email account of CIA director John Brennan.

In the photograph that made Kim Phuc a living symbol of the Vietnam War, her burns aren't visible - only her agony as she runs wailing toward the camera, her arms flung away from her body, naked because she has ripped off her burning clothes.

A major earthquake struck the remote Afghan northeast, killing more than 200 people in Afghanistan and nearby northern Pakistan, injuring hundreds and sending shock waves as far as New Delhi, officials say.

A young deaf and mute Indian womanwho was stranded in Pakistan for a decade has returned home, but said the family she identified in photos was not hers.