At least 16 Hindu pilgrims are killed and 27 injured after a bus carrying them skids off a mountain road and falls into a gorge in Indian Kashmir, says a senior police official.

A Tibetan student has self-immolated in India after shouting "freedom", police said yesterday, injuring himself critically. The student set

At least five persons have died in Gujarat following heavy rain. Thousands of people were rescued and shifted to safer location in different districts of the Indian state, officials said.

On an overcast evening, on a boat criss-crossing a river on the Bangladesh-India border, Payal, 16, hides under a fishing net hoping to reach India where her agent says a dance tutor’s job awaits her.

A joint statement issued in Dhaka during the three-day state visit of HE Maithripala Sirisena, president of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka to the People’s Republic of Bangladesh is given here.

Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena leaves Dhaka for Colombo wrapping up his three-day 'historic' state visit pledging to carry forward the longstanding bilateral relations with greater trade and investment cooperation between Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

Students of engineering colleges and technical institutes in India will have to take part in yoga, sports or other socially relevant activities in addition to their regular academics to be awarded a degree.

Comedy group AIB has been accused of posting offensive content on Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a complaint filed by the Mumbai police.

Bangladesh and Sri Lanka agree to enter into a free trade regime by this year. The two countries reach the decision during official talks between Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena and Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in Dhaka.

India continues to modernise its atomic arsenal with an eye on China and the country's nuclear strategy which traditionally focused on

China, India, Indonesia and Vietnam have the world’s four biggest coal-fired power plants in pipeline. Together, they represent 82 percent of the 718 units globally under construction.

Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was fighting for his political future yesterday after judicial investigators ruled his family had

Two Myanmar nationals are detained with over one lakh yaba tablets in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar.

Pakistan yesterday released 78 Indian fishermen held for trespassing into its territorial waters, officials said. The fishermen were released

In 2012, a Taliban gunman shot her in the head for advocating education for girls in her native Pakistan. On Friday, Nobel Peace

Pakistan's first robot waitresses are serving up smiles for customers at an upscale pizza restaurant in the ancient city of Multan, better known for its centuries-old Sufi shrines, mango orchards and handicrafts.

China warned yesterday that the withdrawal of Indian troops from disputed territory was a precondition for peace as tensions rise in a

Sri Lanka yesterday vowed to grant greater autonomy to its Tamil minority in a new constitution after an influential Buddhist monk said

Now it is rusting hulk in a small town railway station, but Indian authorities want the stall where Prime Minister Narendra Modi sold tea with his father to become a global tourist magnet.

The next India-Bangladesh friendship dialogue will be held in Cox’s Bazar of Bangladesh at the beginning of 2018.