Eminent writers, scholars and cultural activists have issued a joint statement voicing frustration over failure to bring the killers of writers and free thinkers to justice.

Airlines in Nepal have been forced to cancel more than half of their domestic flights because of an ongoing fuel shortage, an official said

Indian financial markets took fright yesterday at the humiliating defeat suffered in the pivotal Bihar election by Prime Minister Narendra

The government yesterday reminded the opposition that the victory of the Mahagathbandhan in Bihar's assembly polls should not be

Sri Lanka's police minister resigned yesterday following allegations he tried to shield a private security firm under investigation for gun

Nestle relaunches its popular Maggi noodles in India, five months after a food scare saw them taken off shelves.

Myanmar's ruling party concedes defeat in the country's general election as the opposition led by democracy figurehead Aung San Suu Kyi appears on course for a landslide victory.

Taking a dig at Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi over NDA's setback in Bihar, Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi said that the prime minister should "step on the accelerator or people will throw him out of the driver's seat" even as he hailed the defeat of the "divisive agenda of BJP and RSS" in the assembly polls.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party has been defeated in a stunning outcome to the electoral battle in the country's third-most populous state Bihar where a coalition of regional parties led by Nitish Kumar swept back to power.

The Indian state of Tamil Nadu is to hire the country's first transgender police officer after a court cleared hurdles that faced one applicant.

Nepal's busiest entry point for goods from India has witnessed a new wave of unrest after police failed to clear a border blockade, the

Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has asserted that war with India was not an option, media reported yesterday.

SC upholds HC verdict asking Aktel, now Robi, to stop using national anthem as ringtone. In May, SC issued similar order to Banglalink and Grameenphone.

At least 18 people were killed and up to 150 trapped yesterday when a factory collapsed near the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore, officials said, adding to a number of industrial disasters to hit the South Asian nation.

Controversial Bharatiya Janata Party MP Yogi Adityanath yesterday compared Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan with Pakistani terrorist Hafiz Saeed, the mastermind of Mumbai carnage, over his “extreme intolerance” comment.

Terming Indian film star Shah Rukh Khan a “Pakistani agent”, controversial Vishwa Hindu Parishad leader Sadhvi Prachi says he should be sent to that country, a day after the actor added his voice to the protest against “extreme intolerance”.

Police in separate drives arrested two leaders of Jamaat-e-Islami in Sadar upazila of the district yesterday. The arrestees are ASM Abdul

A Rangpur court on Monday denied the bail petition of two suspects in Japanese national Kunio Hoshi killing case.

Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has condemned Saturday’s separate attacks that killed publisher Faisal Arefin Dipan and injured another publisher Ahmedur Rashid Chowdhury Tutul.

Martial arts expert Keshab Swain breaks his own Guinness world record of smashing 85 green coconuts with his elbow in one minute in Bhubaneswar, Indian state of Odisha, which he set in 2012, reports The New Indian Express.