Myanmar government forces committed rape and other sexual violence against Rohingya women and girls during security operations in northern Rakhine State in late 2016, Human Rights Watch says.

Bangladesh calls out to the United Nations and other international communities for supporting the government’s plan to relocate Rohingyas to Thengar char in Hatiya.

Jamaat-ud-Dawa has rebranded under the new name of 'Tehreek Azadi Jammu and Kashmir', just days after its chief Hafiz Saeed was put

National Geographic's famed 'Afghan Girl' Sharbat Gula says in an exclusive interview with BBC that she was taken aback by the Pakistani government.

More than 100 children died of mystery illness for eating litchis on an empty stomach in a year in northern India, according to a research.

In a horrific instance of public apathy, an 18-year-old boy bleeds to death following a road accident as people take photos on their phones and film him instead of offering help in India’s Bengaluru city.

New Delhi, however, through a diplomatic note last month asked the secretariat to adhere to the “due working procedures” in the appointment of Thapa’s successor.

Salman Khan didn't want to miss a rendezvous with Jackie Chan when the king of martial arts came down to India.

Indira, India’s oldest elephant dies at 99, reports The Hindu.

A militant group held protests in Pakistan's major cities yesterday after its leader, one of the alleged masterminds of the 2008 Mumbai

Bangladesh will push ahead with a controversial plan to relocate tens of thousands of Rohingya refugees from Myanmar to a remote island despite warnings it is uninhabitable and prone to flooding.

Pakistan orders Hafiz Saeed, accused by the United States and India of masterminding the 2008 attacks on the Indian financial capital Mumbai that killed 166 people, to be placed under house arrest.

The Maldives yesterday rejected a UN call to release former defence minister Mohamed Nazim and pay him damages after he was jailed

The killing of a top Muslim lawyer and adviser to Aung San Suu Kyi who was gunned down outside Yangon airport was a political assassination and a "terrorist act", Myanmar's ruling party said yesterday.

Senior officials of the eight member states of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc) will meet in Kathmandu to attend the Programming Committee.

A third Pakistani activist who went missing earlier this month is safe, his family told AFP yesterday, a day after two of the other

A legal adviser for Myanmar's ruling National League for Democracy is shot dead outside the country's busiest airport in Yangon.

Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani student activist and Nobel Peace laureate, said Friday she was "heartbroken" by Donald Trump's order on

Nepalese trail runner Mira Rai, also a brand promoter of ekantipur.com, is named the People’s Choice Adventurer of the Year by the National Geographic Channel selecting her over nine other nominees.

Eight Asian airports are among the World's busiest passenger airports. Beijing Capital International Airport remains the busiest airport in the region, according to the recently released data by Airports Council International (ACI).