Bangladeshi women shows a slow performance in using modern contraception in the world. In a wider perspective, an ambitious goal to boost the number of women using modern contraception by tens of millions by 2020 is falling far behind, said experts.

New Delhi's homeless will be given cotton masks to help them survive in the world's most polluted major city, officials said yesterday,

South Korea's resumption of small-scale military drills with US violated a recent agreement aimed at lowering tensions on the Korean

India yesterday began the first of five state elections to be held in coming weeks, important tests for Prime Minister Narendra Modi as he plots a

A former woman colleague of journalist and politician MJ Akbar told a Delhi court yesterday that his reputation has been "destroyed" and

Supporters of Sri Lanka's fired prime minister and a top election official yesterday challenged in court the president's sacking of

South Korean military transport aircraft began a tangerine airlift to North Korea yesterday, the first of a gift of 200 tonnes of the fruit from the southern island of Jeju, South Korea's presidential Blue House said.

Bangladesh is ranked among the countries in South Asia which are less affected by organised crimes. The four South Asian countries- Nepal (107), Bangladesh (97), India (90) and Sri Lanka (85), are among the group of the countries that have been less affected by organised crime as compared to Pakistan, according to data published by World Economic Forum.

Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena dissolves parliament and calls a general election for January 5 in a move that is to likely deepen the country's political crisis.

Two Chinese coal mining executives have been sacked after an underground accident killed 21 people, Xinhua news agency says.

For Nurul Amin, a Rohingya Muslim living in a refugee camp in Bangladesh, the days since learning he and his family were among a group of people set to potentially be repatriated to Myanmar have been among the most frightening since they fled their home.

Moscow yesterday hosted international talks on Afghanistan aimed at kickstarting direct negotiations between Kabul and the Taliban militant group, both of whom sent delegations.

The customary cordiality of Southeast Asian summits may be missing when the region's leaders meet next week due to sharp differences over Myanmar, whose military has been accused of genocide against the country's Rohingya Muslim minority.

Beijing and Canberra should be cooperating in the South Pacific and not be cast as strategic rivals, China's top diplomat said yesterday, after Australia launched a multi-billion dollar fund to counter China's rising influence in the region.

Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a loan of over $200 million to improve rural road networks that may benefit 51.5 million

A meeting between US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and North Korean officials set for today in New York has been postponed, the US State Department said, but South Korea said the delay will not derail a second North Korea-US summit.

An Indonesian flight is grounded for an hour after passengers kick up a stink about what is in the hold - dozens of sacks of durian, arguably the world’s smelliest fruit.

In a shocking revelation, the head of the Federal Investigation Agency’s (FIA) cybercrime wing says data from "almost all" Pakistani banks was looted in a recent security breach.

Facebook Inc says a human rights report it commissioned on its presence in Myanmar showed it has not done enough to prevent its social network from being used to incite violence.

South Korea and the United States yesterday resumed small-scale military training that was indefinitely suspended following an historic summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.