Pakistan is ready for a short or long conflict and will inflict heavy losses on India in case “war hysteria” overcomes Indian leadership, Defence Minister Khawaja Asif has said.

A Tamil lawmaker became leader of the opposition in Sri Lanka's parliament for the first time in 32 years yesterday, in the latest sign of progress towards ethnic reconciliation on the once bitterly divided island.

The CBI yesterday charged former telecom minister A Raja with misleading then Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh on the issue of allocation of 2G spectrum licences and having a "habit" of making false statements.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday called for a focus on "climate justice" rather than climate change, saying the poor suffered most from global warming.

The United Nations called yesterday for dialogue and an end to violence in Nepal following clashes between security forces and protesters opposed to a

Four suspected rebels and a soldier were killed early yesterday in Indian Kashmir in a gun battle near the de facto border with Pakistan, the second incident in

Police arrested a village doctor at Gazipur village under Benapole Port Police Station in Jessore district on Wednesday on charge of

A court here yesterday granted two days' remand for six arrestees in a case for killing three suspected abductors in Santhia upazila under

Charge sheet in a case for stealing medicine of Dinajpur Medical College Hospital [DjMCH] has not been submitted in last 10 months.

Thousands of aman farmers affected by the recent flood in the district are facing uncertainty due to lack of saplings for replanting in their fields.

Two months after foreign countries and international agencies pledged $4.1 billion to help Nepal recover from its worst natural disaster, the government has

India's competition investigators have accused Google of abusing its market dominance in online searches in the country, deepening the US Internet giant's

Sri Lanka's president urged the new parliament yesterday to take "difficult political decisions" to bring about ethnic reconciliation six years after the end of a decades-long separatist war.

At least eight people were killed and 27 injured when protesters went on the rampage during a general strike called by students' unions in northeastern Indian state of Manipur overnight over controversial tribal rights laws, media reports said yesterday.

Iran is eyeing wider trade cooperation with Bangladesh especially in energy sector as the sanctions imposed on Iran are set to be withdrawn.

India's Supreme Court yesterday suspended an order of the Rajasthan high court banning santhara - the controversial Jain ritual of fasting unto death. Earlier

Returning to power in 1980, the then Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi had considered a military strike on Pakistan's nuclear installations to prevent it from acquiring weapons capabilities, a declassified CIA document has claimed.

India's economy grew at an annual rate of 7% between April and June, official figures have shown.

National Human Rights Commission of India asks the Indian government to pay Rs 5 lakh in compensation to the family of Felani Khatun, who was shot dead by the Indian Border Security Forces (BSF) in January 2011.

The Supreme Court clears the way for the lower court to resume trial proceedings of a graft case against BNP leader Mirza Abbas.