United Nations human rights experts on Saturday urged Sri Lanka, which is under scrutiny for its human rights record during the 26-year Tamil insurgency, to implement judicial reforms to speed up prosecutions.

A prominent Pakistani journalist and human rights activist, Khurram Zaki, is shot dead in Karachi.

Rabindranath Tagore, during his visits abroad, he engaged in intriguing conversations with brilliant minds from across the world – starting from British sci-fi master HG Wells to French dramatist-art historian Romain Rolland to genius German physicist Albert Einstein – where he spoke about the correlation of art and science, international relations and religion, and multiculturalism.

An Indian court on Friday struck down a tough law that had banned the consumption of beef in the western state of Maharashtra, dealing

Myanmar's president has urged the creation of a new ministry for Aung San Suu Kyi's state advisor position, official media reported

Nepal's main Maoist party that props up the fragile coalition said on Thursday it had abandoned efforts to form a new government,

A landslide in northern Myanmar's notoriously dangerous jade mining region has killed 13 people, a local official said yesterday, the latest

Members of the Congress party, including Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi, party President Sonia Gandhi and former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, were briefly detained at a police station in Delhi for defying orders as they tried to march towards Parliament.

The staggered six-phase polling to elect a new legislature in West Bengal of India ended yesterday with an estimated

Radicalised worker Rahman Mizanur recruited countrymen in Singapore with help of material linked to terror groups.

The High Commissioner of Bangladesh to Singapore has urged his compatriots here to report their peers if they suspect them to be extremists.

Around the time that Singapore announced in January the arrest and deportation of 27 radicalised Bangladeshis under the Internal Security Act (ISA), S-Pass holder Rahman Mizanur, 31, came up with plans for an extremist group and began recruiting his countrymen.

India and the United States are in talks to help each other track submarines in the Indian Ocean, military officials say, a move

Cash-strapped Sri Lanka announced Sunday it was setting up a special panel to chase after nationals likely to figure in the

President Ashraf Ghani said Afghanistan faced a terrorist enemy led by Taliban "slaves" in Pakistan in a sombre speech to parliament yesterday that nonetheless left the door open to resuming peace talks with parts of the Taliban.

In an unprecedented move, Pakistan Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif dismisses 12 army officers, including a three-star general, from service over alleged corruption today.

It's often said that falling in love can be dangerous. But as a young man growing up in the town of Rampur in northern India, Mohammad Javed never imagined his love for a Pakistani relative would see him branded a terrorist and sent to jail for eleven and a half years.

Myanmar President Htin Kyaw pardons at least 63 political prisoners on the country's traditional New Year Sunday, according to a watchdog group, in his first major political act since he was sworn in last month.

A young man was killed yesterday in Indian-administered Kashmir when soldiers fired on protesters, taking the death toll to five in

In a tragic incident, Veenu Paliwal, India's top woman biker, died in a road accident in Vidisha district of Madhya Pradesh on Monday evening, reports The Times of India.