People in seven South Asian countries including Bangladesh have a higher risk of heart disease at an early age than any other ethnic group.

Indian food safety regulator has issued countrywide alert on adulteration of food items specially packed products like milk, water, oil, reported The Times of India.

Pakistan's Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan yeterday said the government planned to centralise responsibility for monitoring and

A woman and her 10-month-old son were murdered in Gupti union under Faridganj upazila of the district yesterday.

Thousands take part in a mass yoga programme in the Indian capital, Delhi, on the first ever International Yoga Day.

Five arms peddlers were held in Chapainawabganj and Tangail districts yesterday and the day before.

Three people die and three others are injured after a truck and a pickup van collide head-on in Banani area of Dhaka.

Pakistan's ISI had held Osama bin Laden prisoner for nearly six years in Abbottabad and handed him over to the US in a staged raid, a media report said on Wednesday in new

Four moderate earthquakes with magnitudes between 4 and 5.2 jolted Nepal early on Wednesday, taking the total number of aftershocks to 320 after the devastating

Pakistan yesterday released 113 Indian fishermen after a similar gesture by New Delhi was announced to mark the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

Congress yesterday questioned Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's continued "silence" in the Lalitgate and asked him to come out of his "meditation" and answer the nation as he too is "liable".

Money held by Indians in Swiss banks fell by over 10 per cent last year to 1.8 billion Swiss franc (about Rs 12,615 crore), amid an enhanced clampdown against the famed

The salaries of the officials and employees of Joypurhat Sugar Mill have remained unpaid for the last three months as the mill's sugar

Pakistan yesterday hanged seven prisoners, bringing the total number put to death since executions resumed last December to 160,

A group of eminent intellectuals in India have expressed deep concern over the "thoughtless articulation of jingoist sentiments" by high-level representatives of the government and BJP in the wake of the Army operation in Myanmar and urged it to disassociate itself from them.

A group of eminent intellectuals in India have expressed deep concern over the "thoughtless articulation of jingoist sentiments" by high-level representatives of the government and BJP in the wake of the Army operation in Myanmar and urged it to disassociate itself from them.

Nepal is set to reopen all the heritage sites in the Kathmandu valley to the public, in a bid to attract tourists after April's devastating earthquake.

The flood situation remained static in Gaibandha, Bogra and Kurigram districts yesterday.

Armed robbers looted cash and gold ornaments worth Tk 4 lakh from a house after injuring four people at Purbo Bapta village in Sadar

The Aam Aadmi Party yesterday dragged the Prime Minister's Office into the raging row over External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj extending help to scam-tainted former IPL chief Lalit Modi alleging that “PMO may have been in the loop“.