Sri Lankan police Tuesday arrested the legislator son of former president Mahinda Rajapakse for leading violent anti-India

Sex with a minor amounts to rape even if the couple are married, India's top court rules, closing a legal loophole that allows some perpetrators to escape punishment.

Myanmar launches its first bid to improve relations between Buddhists and Muslims since an eruption of deadly violence in August inflamed communal tension and triggered an exodus of some 520,000 Muslims to Bangladesh.

The United Nations launches one of its biggest ever cholera vaccination drives in the vast refugee camps of southeast Bangladesh amid fears of an outbreak among nearly a million Rohingya now living there.

The son-in-law of ousted Pakistani premier Nawaz Sharif was arrested at Islamabad airport yesterday by anti-corruption body on his

At least 14 Rohingya people, including 11 children, die after a boat carrying them capsized in the Naf River in Teknaf upazila of Cox's Bazar.

Around 18,523 pregnant Rohingya women, who have entered Bangladesh during the massive exodus of Muslim community of the Rakhine state in Myanmar following persecution there carried out by its military forces, have been suffering from many health-related problems.

Pakistan police announced a reward of nearly $5,000 yesterday for information that could help them nab a serial attacker who has

An unexplained dispute between Pakistan's interior minister and an elite paramilitary unit under his command is adding to political

Rohingya refugees arriving in Bangladesh amid a fresh exodus from strife-torn Myanmar have described whole villages being emptied and thousands marching to the border as security forces redouble efforts to drive remaining Muslims from their homes.

Bangladesh signs a massive credit line agreement of USD 4.5 billion with India. Primarily, 17 development projects have been identified for implementation under the credit line, says a press release of finance ministry.

Pakistan's Nawaz Sharif, who had to quit as prime minister after he was disqualified by his country's supreme court, was elected

Indian police today kills two militants who has attacked a security camp next to the main airport in the disputed Kashmir region, officials say.

Two children were killed yesterday in an exchange of fire between Indian and Pakistani troops in disputed Kashmir, Indian authorities

Six people were killed when a suicide bomber posing as a shepherd blew himself up near a Shia mosque in Kabul on Friday, police said, as Muslims prepared to commemorate a key Islamic event.

The death toll in Rohingya trawler capsize incident in Ukhia upazila of Cox’s Bazar rises to 20 as four more bodies are recovered from the Bay.

US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley calls on countries to suspend providing weapons to Myanmar over violence against Rohingya Muslims until the military puts sufficient accountability measures in place.

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warns that the violence against Myanamar's Rohingya Muslims in the northern part of Rakhine state could spread to central Rakhine, where 250,000 more people were at risk of displacement.

A three-year-old girl was anointed the new "living goddess" of Kathmandu by Hindu priests yesterday and taken to a palace in the

Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka tops the list of the most stressed cities in Asia whereas Sydney followed by Singapore, Taipei and Osaka are the least stressed cities in Asia, according to the data compiled by the UK-based firm, Zipjet.