More than 40 Myanmar-based civil society organisations call for a “truly independent” international investigation into the situation in Rakhine State, where state-sponsored attacks against Rohingya Muslim civilians have escalated in recent months.

United Nations should intervene in Myanmar's Rakhine State to stop further escalation of violence against Rohingya Muslims and avoid another genocide like in Cambodia and Rwanda, says Organisation of Islamic Cooperation's special envoy to Myanmar.

Former chief justice MM Ruhul Amin dies of heart diseases at a hospital in Singapore. He was 74.

The son beats the father in the battle for retaining Samajwadi Party’s election symbol ‘biçycle’ in India's biggest state of Uttar Pradesh.

Rajasthan Education Minister Vasudev Devnani says cow is the only animal that inhales as well as exhales oxygen, reports The Indian Express.

Every day is the same. He wakes at 6:45 am, eats breakfast 20 minutes later and reports for work at eight o'clock

Thailand faces more hardship from unseasonable floods that have killed 40 people in its south, with more rain

India’s flamboyant politician Navjot Singh Sidhu joins main opposition party Congress ahead of fresh elections to Punjab state legislature next month.

The Bangladesh Embassy in Riyadh is making extensive arrangements to hold job fairs on January 30 and February 1 in Riyadh and Jeddah respectively to attract Saudi recruiting companies, reports Arab News.

Around six million people have been displaced from their homes due to the effects of climate change in Bangladesh, International Organization for Migration (IOM) says.

The new army chief takes a tough stand on terrorism and ceasefire violations along the border.

At least 23 people are drowned when an overloaded boat capsizes in the Ganga river near Patna in India.

Kolkata High Court directs the authorities concerned to submit a fitness status report of the policemen in the West Bengal Police and Kolkata Police forces in a month.

Keeping themselves confined to a tiny room with no light inside, two young Rakhine Muslim women have been struggling to get rid of the trauma and forget the brutality they had gone through.They remain speechless for minutes seeing the presence of a newsman at Kutupalong refugee camp in Ukhia. Later, they reveal the horrors -- reprisals, rape and burning people and houses.

The ruling party MPs in Myanmar's Rakhine state government refuse to meet a UN envoy.

Supreme Court rejects a request from the Sahara conglomerate to be given more time to deposit 6 billion rupees ($88 million) by February 6, despite the group's argument that a shortage of cash in the country is making it hard to raise the funds.

Bangladesh and Myanmar agree to boost cooperation on security between the two countries. Both the countries agree to sign two memorandums of understating (MoUs) on holding a dialogue on security, cooperation and construction of a border liaison office.

Taking a dig at Rahul Gandhi for his remarks about Congress coming back to power at the Centre in 2019, information & broadcasting minister M Venkaiah Naidu says the Congress vice-president is "daydreaming", according to a report published in The Times of India.

Nepal yesterday sacked the chief of its earthquake reconstruction body, a move seen by critics as politically motivated and likely to

Bangladesh holds a long talk with visiting Myanmar envoy, which very likely has the Rohingya issue in major focus and ended without a press talk.