Nepal police shot dead a protester as fresh clashes erupted in the country's southern plains yesterday, a day after an 18-month-old boy and seven officers died during demonstrations against a new constitution.

Violent clashes at a protest in western Nepal have killed at least seven police officers and a child.

Police claim to have detained three people with five kilograms of gold and contraband yaba tablets from Dhaka’s railway station.

Thailand's police chief yesterday insisted his officers were making "a lot of progress" in the hunt for the Bangkok shrine bomber despite

Sri Lanka's two biggest parties yesterday agreed to form a national unity government committed to "ethnic reconciliation" after a surge

Pakistan's bottomfeeding on American aid is about to end unless it terminates its policy of covertly using terrorism to further its

A Pakistani court bans an Indian film about the 2008 Mumbai attacks in response to a petition filed by Mumbai attacks alleged mastermind.

Police in Narsingdi arrest a man on charge of trafficking dozens of youths to Malaysia through the Bay of Bengal.

A court here yesterday granted two-day remand for seven leaders and activists of Jamaat-e-Islami in a sabotage case.

The mayor of Shahjadpur municipality in Sirajganj district has been sued on charge of attempting to rape a councillor's wife.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi suggests a joint exercise by the disaster management forces of South Asian countries for a joint response to natural calamities as he held talks with visiting Bangladesh Premier Sheikh Hasina.

Sri Lanka's former strongman Mahinda Rajapakse admits his dream of a political comeback was over after conceding defeat in parliamentary elections.

Two people were killed and nine others injured by lightning in Bochaganj upazila yesterday.

Two suicide attackers yesterday killed a Pakistani provincial minister, who had campaigned against militants, and at least 15 other people, after detonating a bomb at a meeting the minister was attending.

India summons Pakistan's envoy in New Delhi to protest against civilian deaths in recent troop firings along their disputed border, hiking tensions ahead of talks between the nuclear-armed rivals.

The wreckage of an Indonesian plane carrying 54 people has been found in the remote western Papua region.

The death toll from massive explosions in China's port city of Tianjin rises to 112 and 95 people are still missing.

Three civilians were killed yesterday in Indian-controlled Kashmir when the car they were travelling in was hit by a mortar shell fired by Pakistani soldiers, police said, as the rival nations continued to exchange heavy fire across their de facto border in the disputed territory.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday warned that corruption was eating away at India "like a termite" as he used an independence day speech to pledge his commitment to eradicating graft and poverty.

Eighty-five people are now known to have been killed in giant explosions in the Chinese port of Tianjin on Wednesday, local officials say.