Two Nepalese maids have accused a Saudi diplomat of rape and torture while they were working in his home outside the Indian capital.

Though literacy increased on an average of 18 percent since the mid-90s in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan, 27 million children aged

Football legend Pele is scheduled to visit Kolkata as a special ambassador for an international football tournament next month.

A Chittagong court places apparel businessman Enamul Haque on a five-day remand for his alleged involvement in financing militant outfit Shaheed Hamja Brigade.

Social Welfare Minister Syed Mohsin Ali has been put on life support at Birdem hospital, will be flown to Singapore.

Pakistan is ready for a short or long conflict and will inflict heavy losses on India in case “war hysteria” overcomes Indian leadership, Defence Minister Khawaja Asif has said.

A Tamil lawmaker became leader of the opposition in Sri Lanka's parliament for the first time in 32 years yesterday, in the latest sign of progress towards ethnic reconciliation on the once bitterly divided island.

The CBI yesterday charged former telecom minister A Raja with misleading then Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh on the issue of allocation of 2G spectrum licences and having a "habit" of making false statements.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday called for a focus on "climate justice" rather than climate change, saying the poor suffered most from global warming.

The United Nations called yesterday for dialogue and an end to violence in Nepal following clashes between security forces and protesters opposed to a

Four suspected rebels and a soldier were killed early yesterday in Indian Kashmir in a gun battle near the de facto border with Pakistan, the second incident in

Police arrested a village doctor at Gazipur village under Benapole Port Police Station in Jessore district on Wednesday on charge of

A court here yesterday granted two days' remand for six arrestees in a case for killing three suspected abductors in Santhia upazila under

Charge sheet in a case for stealing medicine of Dinajpur Medical College Hospital [DjMCH] has not been submitted in last 10 months.

Thousands of aman farmers affected by the recent flood in the district are facing uncertainty due to lack of saplings for replanting in their fields.

Two months after foreign countries and international agencies pledged $4.1 billion to help Nepal recover from its worst natural disaster, the government has

India's competition investigators have accused Google of abusing its market dominance in online searches in the country, deepening the US Internet giant's

Sri Lanka's president urged the new parliament yesterday to take "difficult political decisions" to bring about ethnic reconciliation six years after the end of a decades-long separatist war.

At least eight people were killed and 27 injured when protesters went on the rampage during a general strike called by students' unions in northeastern Indian state of Manipur overnight over controversial tribal rights laws, media reports said yesterday.

Iran is eyeing wider trade cooperation with Bangladesh especially in energy sector as the sanctions imposed on Iran are set to be withdrawn.