The top United Nations human rights body agrees to send an international fact-finding mission to investigate widespread allegations of killings, rape and torture by security forces against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar's Rakhine state.

An Indian politician brazenly admits that he hit a steward on an Air India flight 25 times with his slipper during a row over a seat.

India’s Water Resources Minister Uma Bharti says that rivers and water will play an important role to strengthen the country’s ties with neighbouring countries including Bangladesh.

In line with the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party’s manifesto, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath orders a blanket ban on cow smuggling and closure of slaughter houses across the India’s most populous state.

Pakistan's parliament amends the constitution to reinstate secret military courts that try civilians charged with terrorism offences, something activists have warned will lead to human rights abuses.

The much needed Teesta water deal will not be inked during Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s upcoming India visit, Water Resources Minister Anisul Islam Mahmud says.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) attaches assets worth Rs 18.37 crore of the Islamic Research Foundation (IRF), an NGO based at Dongri in south Mumbai, in the Zakir Naik money laundering case.

Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif orders the re-opening of the two main border crossings to Afghanistan, after their closure last month following a series of attacks that Islamabad blamed on militants operating from across the frontier.

The Saudi king has cancelled a scheduled visit to Maldives because of an outbreak of swine flu in its capital, the government in Male

At least two Pakistani security personnel were killed in cross-border fire from Afghanistan yesterday, the military said, when gunmen

Political parties from southern Nepal withdrew support from the government yesterday, weakening an already fragile administration

As BJP had a grand Holi after their thumping victory in UP polls, a Pakistani girl has penned a letter to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi appealing to him to work as harbinger of peace “if he wants to win more elections in future.”

Indian Finance Minister Arun Jaitley was given the additional charge of the defence ministry yesterday after Manohar Parrikar resigned to

Sri Lanka has asked the United Nations for two more years to investigate war crimes as a previous deadline lapses, Colombo said

Nepal has reported firmed an outbreak of severe H5N8 bird flu on a poultry farm in the Koshi region, the World Organisation for Animal

With India's ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party's emphatic win in assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand

In a victory speech yesterday evening, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the BJP's near-historic victory in state elections is a mandate by the poor for the opportunities the BJP has afforded them and will continue to offer them.

To strengthen the fight against extremism and terrorism in South Asia and neighbouring countries, a three-day conference with the region’s police chiefs begins in Dhaka.

The Indian armed forces continue to lose around 100 personnel to suicides every year despite successive governments holding that several measures have been taken to reduce the stress among soldiers.

Since taking oath on May 20 2011, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has not taken her salary or allowances she is entitled to.