Scores of Rohingya Muslim refugees offer Eid prayers in Bangladesh, many of them recent arrivals fleeing a surge in communal violence in neighbouring Myanmar.

As Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi embarks on his first-ever bilateral state visit to Myanmar from September 5-7, the Rohingya issue will figure in his talks with the Myanmar’s top leadership.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will undertake a reshuffle of his council of ministers on Sunday in the third such exercise since he assumed charge more than three years ago.

Bangladesh has lodged a “strong protest” with the Myanmar embassy in Dhaka as Myanmar helicopters violated Bangladesh’s airspace near Ukhia in Cox's Bazar where Rohingyas fleeing violence in Rakhine state took shelter.

A United Nations human rights expert has expressed alarm at the deteriorating situation in Myanmar’s Rakhine State, affecting not just the Rakhine and Muslim populations but also other communities.

A Pakistan court brands former military ruler Pervez Musharraf a fugitive in ex-prime minister Benazir Bhutto's murder trial, but acquits five men accused of being involved in the 2007 assassination.

Rights body, Human Rights and Peace for Bangladesh (HRPB) submits a memorandum to the office of Myanmar embassy in Dhaka, demanding that Myanmar government immediately stop repression on Rohingyas and bring them back from Bangladesh to that country.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina urges the United States to put pressure on Myanmar to stop pushing-in Rohingya nationals to Bangladesh as US Acting Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Alice Wells pays a courtesy call on the premier at her office in Dhaka.

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About 18,000 Rohingya Muslims are estimated to have crossed into Bangladesh in the last week, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) says, seeking to escape the worst violence in Myanmar's northwest in at least five years.

Two toddlers were among at least six people who died after floods caused by heavy seasonal monsoon rains destroyed homes and disrupted traffic in India’s financial capital, police say.

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Militants killed three Indian policemen in the Kashmir valley after storming into a police camp yesterday in their biggest strike on a

Thailand's ex-prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra has fled Thailand, a senior party source told AFP, after she skipped a court

At least 28 persons are killed and 250 injured as arson and violence hit parts of northern Indian states of Punjab and Haryana following the conviction of a self-styled godman in a rape case.

Shortly after American President Donald Trump articulated Washington's new policy for Afghanistan and South Asia envisaging a

The death toll from floods sweeping South Asia has climbed above 1,000, officials said yesterday, as rescue teams try to reach millions

The United States must value Pakistan's role in Afghanistan and respect its security concerns, China's top diplomat Yang Jiechi told US

Many countries with land borders in Asia have long remained peaceful, others remain tense. Five Asian countries have no land border with other countries.

More than 24 million people are believed to be affected by flood in Bangladesh, Nepal and India with more than 700 people thought dead, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) says.