Indonesia's President Joko Widodo says he needs time to tackle the forest-burning which creates a haze every year over South East Asia.

An explosion ripped through a speed boat carrying Maldives President Abdulla Yameen yesterday, injuring his wife and two others but

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has hailed the political power of social media, as he visited the headquarters of Facebook in

While the old Cold War enemies have called a truce, the historical animosities in our patch of the world seem unlikely to let India and Pakistan to come in from the cold.

Enjoy the salient features of India Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s speech at Facebook Townhall.

Police arrested the president of Manikganj district unit of Islami Chhatra Shibir (ICS) from bus stand area on Saturday on charge of

Police arrested a man and seized 34 gold bars from his possession in Khetlal upazila of Joypurhat district on Friday afternoon.

India's reaction to Nepal's new constitution and the violence preceding and following it has been criticised by Nepal's media and Twitter users.

The world's largest democracies, India and the United States, agreed measures to deepen their security and economic cooperation on Tuesday, part of an ambitious drive to boost trade between them five-fold.

The government appoints a new chairman to the telecom regulator after cancelling the appointment of another before his taking the charge.

The High Court rejects a writ petition seeking order on the government to scrap the medical and dental admission tests held on Friday.

A Sylhet court yesterday sentenced three people to life imprisonment for killing a youth in Kamalganj upazila of Moulvibazar in 2012.

Nepal Sunday adopted a new constitution aimed at bolstering its transformation from a Hindu monarchy to a secular democracy, as violent protests raged against some of the terms of the charter.

Persecuted Rohingya Muslims of Myanmar and thousands of Bangladeshi nationals have undertaken perilous journeys across the Andaman Sea to reach countries in Southeast Asia.

Indian soldiers shot dead five suspected rebels near the heavily militarised border in Kashmir yesterday as they tried to sneak in from the Pakistani side of the

Pakistani Taliban attacked an air force base in the country's restive northwest yesterday, killing at least 29 people, most of them soldiers, in their deadliest assault in months following a major military offensive against them.

The chairman of Kamardani union parishad (UP) in Gaibandha Sadar upazila went into hiding on Wednesday as his involvement in black

In another 10 years, Indian Capital Delhi will record the world's largest number of premature deaths due to air pollution among all mega cities in the world.

Authorities in India's most populous state, Uttar Pradesh, say they have been overwhelmed after receiving 2.3 million applications for 368 low-level government jobs.

Sri Lanka promised yesterday to punish those found guilty of war crimes but stopped short of supporting an internationally backed probe, a day after a damning UN report on abuses committed during the island's conflict.