Dhaka: Bangladeshi police Saturday said they have arrested an Islamist extremist accused of being one of the "masterminds" of last year's deadly siege...
Dhaka: Bangladeshi police Saturday said they have arrested an Islamist extremist accused of being one of the "masterminds" of last year's deadly siege...
SHANGHAI: A man in China's central Henan province has become the latest person reported to have died this winter from H7N9 bird flu,...
Kathmandu: Ten years after the end of Nepal’s bloody civil war, the Himalayan republic has failed to punish perpetrators of human rights abuses...
Beijing: Footage of a 92-year-old Chinese woman reportedly kept for years by her son in a pigsty has incited an online firestorm, as...
Yangon: Myanmar and Bangladesh have agreed to start consultation for verification and repatriation of refugees, said a statement of the Myanmar Foreign Ministry...
Colombo: Several districts in Sri Lanka would face severe drought conditions in the coming three weeks as very little rain was expected, the...
Colombo: Sri Lanka yesterday tightened the rules governing the around one million tuk-tuks -- rickety three-wheel taxis -- on its streets after road...
New Delhi: The replacement of Mahatma Gandhi's photographs with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's in Khadi Village Industries Commission (KVIC)'s annual calendar and diary...
Guwahati: India’s army chief yesterday said that more "surgical strikes" would be carried out in Pakistan"if the situation warrants", local media reported. "Surgical...
Beijing: China has a range of economic, diplomatic and military options to retaliate if the US and South Korea proceed with deployment of...
Ho Chi Minh City: John Kerry began his swansong tour as US Secretary of State in Vietnam on Friday, defending Washington's 'pivot' to...
Davao, Philippines: With a visit to Philipine President Rodrigo Duterte's bedroom, having one of the world's rarest birds named in his honour and...
CHENNAI, India: For Dhanalakshmi S and her family, a small shack squeezed among scores of similar dwellings on a narrow street in the...
NEW DELHI: Bangladesh will be taking a step backwards in efforts to end child marriage if parliament approves changes to a law which...
Hanoi: Five people, including a Thai man, were found dead in a fish sauce storehouse in Vietnam on Thursday after they were suspected...
SEOUL: Ban Ki-moon exchanged New York for Seoul Thursday and was immediately met with a barrage of enquiries over his political ambitions. The...
ZAMBOANGA CITY, the Philippines: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrived in Manila on Thursday, becoming the first head of the state to visit...
TUBAN, Indonesia: Students took to the streets in major cities across Indonesia on Thursday, calling on the government to reduce the price of...
