New satellite images and eyewitness accounts indicate involvement of Myanmar army in burning Rohingya Muslim villages, according to Human Rights Watch.

Bangladesh and India will celebrate the Victory Day in Dhaka and Kolkata through exchanges of delegations comprising freedom fighters from Bangladesh and Indian war veterans.

Pakistan has named a new head of its powerful military Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI), two weeks after replacing the

Cricket legend Arjuna Ranatunga announces he is reviving his bid to build a record-breaking 100-metre tall Christmas tree in Sri Lanka's capital despite opposition from the Catholic church.

On November 8, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi surprised his country with an announcement banning 500- and 1,000-rupee notes-worth about $7 and $15 respectively - in a move to crack down on tax evasion, black money, corruption and terrorism funding.

Two suspected rebels and a civilian were killed in a shoot-out with government forces in southern Kashmir, police said yesterday,

The death of Junaid Jamshed, a Pakistani rock star-turned-evangelist, in a plane crash has stirred debate over his legacy, raising questions that cut to the heart of Pakistan's widening cultural schisms.

The UN has urged Myanmar's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi to visit northern Rakhine state, where the army is accused of carrying out a brutal crackdown on the Muslim Rohingya minority.

Two people are killed and two others are critically injured after a newly-constructed six-storey building collapses in India's Hyderabad.

A Pakistani aircraft carrying 47 people issued a Mayday call before losing radar contact and crashing into a mountain, killing

India’s Tamil Nadu state’s political party AIADMK says a total of 77 persons has died of grief and shock over the party supremo J Jayalalithaa’s illness and subsequent death.

The Allahabad high court in India calls the Islamic practice of divorcing a woman by saying the word 'talaq' three successive times "unconstitutional" and calls it a violation of the rights of Muslim women.

A bed-ridden Egyptian woman weighing 500kg has been granted visa by Indian Embassy in Cairo following intervention by External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj.

India and Bangladesh are going to introduce water vessels for tourists of both the countries soon, Secretary of Shipping Ministry Ashoke Madhab Roy says.

J Jayalalithaa is buried with full state honours at Marina beach, near to the memorial of her mentor MG Ramachandran with hundreds of thousands of people following her funeral procession to get a final glimpse of their beloved "Amma" or mother.

The European Union welcomes Myanmar government’s move to establish an inquiry commission into the recent violence in Rakhine state.

The life of the leader of India's southern state of Tamil Nadu hang in the balance after she went into cardiac arrest, drawing large crowds to the hospital where doctors were fighting to save the hugely popular former actress.

A kidnapped Bangladeshi migrant worker is rescued from Malaysia and six persons are held for their alleged involvement with the kidnapping.

There is little doubt that the questionable homegrown commission is simply a tool to temporarily quell the backlash that Suu Kyi is facing as a result of her silence and inaction on the army crackdown in the northwest, resulting in at least 86 deaths and 10,000 fleeing to Bangladesh.

India posts the world's fastest growth rate for a large economy in the September quarter, yet that offers cold comfort after misery inflicted by the government's unexpected move to remove high denomination banknotes from circulation.