Sri Lanka's new unity government is planning a range of measures to ensure reconciliation after decades of war, including creating an office for war reparations

At least 18 workers have been killed after the truck they were traveling in overturned in India's southern state of Andhra Pradesh

A youth was beaten to death on suspicion of theft at Harikhali village in Sharsha upazila of Jessore district yesterday.

Indian police yesterday said they were hunting for the owner of illegally stored explosives which accidentally detonated in the centre of a crowded town, killing at least 88 people.

Two Britons were killed and seven other passengers injured yesterday when a train carrying tourists to the hill town of Shimla in northern India derailed, police

Five demonstrators and a police officer died in clashes in southern Nepal as protests intensified against a proposed new constitution, police said yesterday.

At least 104 people have died when a cooking gas cylinder exploded in a packed restaurant in India's central Madhya Pradesh state, police said, with the blast shattering nearby buildings.

Files pertaining to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose in India state government's custody, will be put in the public domain, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has apologised to residents of the northern city of Chandigarh for inconvenience caused to them by his visit.

A court in India's western Mumbai city yesterday found 12 men guilty for their roles in the 2006 bombings of commuter trains.

Human rights lawyer Amal Clooney yesterday warned she will press for sanctions against the Maldives unless it frees former president Mohamed Nasheed, who has been controversially jailed for 13 years.

India and Pakistan yesterday decided to devise new strategies along the International Border (IB) in Jammu & Kashmir to put an end to incidents of ceasefire violations as they began their three-day DG-level border dialogue here.

India's government urged Saudi Arabia yesterday to cooperate in a police investigation into allegations one of its diplomats held two

Hundreds of Jatiya Kabi Kazi Nazrul Islam University students are suffering due to the poor condition of the road to the campus from

A temporary ban on the sale of meat in India's financial capital Mumbai has outraged people.

Two Nepalese maids have accused a Saudi diplomat of rape and torture while they were working in his home outside the Indian capital.

Though literacy increased on an average of 18 percent since the mid-90s in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan, 27 million children aged

Football legend Pele is scheduled to visit Kolkata as a special ambassador for an international football tournament next month.

A Chittagong court places apparel businessman Enamul Haque on a five-day remand for his alleged involvement in financing militant outfit Shaheed Hamja Brigade.

Social Welfare Minister Syed Mohsin Ali has been put on life support at Birdem hospital, will be flown to Singapore.