The Supreme Court defers till Nov 17 the hearing on the petitions filed by condemned war criminals Mojaheed and Salauddin seeking review of its judgements that upheld death penalties for their crimes against humanity in 1971.

At least three people were killed and 12 wounded when a passenger train hit a bomb planted on a railway track in southwest Pakistan

Delhi yesterday introduced a toll for all trucks and commercial vehicles in an attempt to improve air quality in the world's most polluted

The Maldives government insisted yesterday its president had survived an assassination attempt on his boat even though the FBI found no

Indian writers including those who had returned their Sahitya Akademi awards yesterday wrote to the National Academy of Letters urging

Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi told tens of thousands of supporters yesterday to be vigilant against election fraud during a

Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday paid tributes to former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on her 31st death anniversary. “Tributes to

A documentary on beef eating habits in India has been withdrawn from a Delhi film festival for "technical" reasons, its organisers have said.

A colourful procession was held at Kawkhali upazila headquarters yesterday to mark the National Sanitation Month 2015. Kawkhali upazila

The foreign currency reserve of Bangladesh hits a new record crossing a $ 27-billion mark.

An Indian court has rejected a federal police report which had ruled that two teenage girls found hanging from a tree in India last year took their own lives and were not gang-raped and murdered.

Indian security forces in Kashmir killed on Thursday a top commander of Islamist militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), who allegedly was involved in several attacks in the disputed region in recent years.

Relief agencies are battling to reach cold and hungry survivors of a devastating earthquake that has killed more than 360 people in Pakistan and Afghanistan, with entire communities still cut off in the mountainous region.

Underworld don Chota Rajan, one of India's most wanted criminals who has been on the run for nearly two decades, has been arrested in Bali by Indonesian police which acted on a Red Corner Notice issued by Interpol. The arrest was made on Sunday.

Heavy cross-border fire from Afghanistan killed seven Pakistani soldiers yesterday at a checkpoint in a troubled tribal area, the army said. It said the

Heavy cross-border fire from Afghanistan killed seven Pakistani soldiers yesterday at a checkpoint in a troubled tribal area, the army said.

A police "raid" on Kerala House here to check if it served beef triggered a storm yesterday, with the chief ministers of Kerala, Delhi and

An Afghan man carries a solar panel after an earthquake in Farkhar district of Takhar province, Afghanistan, yesterday

Geeta, an aurally and verbally challenged woman, who returned home after being stranded in Pakistan for over a decade, yesterday met President Pranab Mukherjee here.

Heavy cross-border fire from Afghanistan kill seven Pakistani soldiers at a checkpost in the troubled tribal area of South Waziristan, the army said.