When Myanmar votes next month in what has been billed as its first free and fair election in 25 years, around 4 million of his fellow citizens, won't be taking part.

Allegations that Sri Lankan troops committed war crimes are "credible", a judge appointed by the island's former president has concluded

An Indian Uber taxi driver was convicted yesterday of raping a young female passenger in the capital last year, a case that sparked fresh

Pakistan's top religious body has said women are not required to cover their faces, hands or feet under Islamic Sharia law, a rare judgement from the conservative council of clerics seen as "encouraging" by rights activists yesterday.

The Congress yesterday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi had failed in his “constitutional and moral obligations” by not against those spreading hatred.

The Maldives' highest court has overturned an unprecedented sentence of death by stoning for a woman convicted of adultery, a crime in

A day after his critical comments regarding the lynching of a Kashmiri truck driver for alleged cow killing, Independent lawmaker of Jammu and Kashmir Engineer Rashid was attacked with ink yesterday.

The deputy prime minister of fuel-starved Nepal said yesterday that Indian officials have assured him of increased supplies.

The death toll from Typhoon Koppu climbed to 16 and many residents of flooded farming villages in the Philippines remain trapped on their rooftops with animals being floated down fast-rising rivers.

Two alleged criminals are shot dead in a clash between two groups of robbers in Badshaghona area in Cox’s Bazar district town this afternoon, police say.

A toddler and a five-year-old girl were raped in separate attacks in New Delhi overnight with at least one gang-raped, police said yesterday, as activists warned of an "epidemic" of sexual violence in the capital.

Two Indian girls aged two-and-a-half and five years old were raped in separate incidents in New Delhi overnight.

Thirteen people, including three children, were killed on Saturday and ten others injured when a mini-truck carrying a marriage party collided with a bus at Andhra Pradesh.

Brac Founder and Chairperson Sir Fazle Hasan Abed receives the 2015 World Food Prize for his outstanding contribution to enhance the world's production and distribution of food to those most in need.

A senior leader of India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has said that Muslims living in the country should give up consuming beef.

This is not the first time the cow has become mixed up with politics. Conflicts over cow slaughter sparked religious riots in India.

Margaret Atwood and Stephen Fry are among the authors who will be attending the Jaipur Literature Festival.

An ascendant Hindu nationalist group wants minority Muslims and Christians to accept that India is a nation of Hindus, and is pushing some of them to convert.

The High Court summons two ward councillors of Dhaka to appear before it on charge of constructing their offices by grabbing the land of a canal in Jatrabari area of Dhaka.

A two-member team from the Japanese embassy in Dhaka seek Rangpur district administration’s cooperation in probing the murder of its national Kunio Hoshi.