Tag: South Asia

Bangladesh hanged three Islamist extremists including the leader of a banned militant outfit on Wednesday, after they were sentenced to ...

Nepal's government on Tuesday registered a new amendment bill to its controversial constitution in a bid to persuade all political ...

Pakistan will execute an Indian man arrested in the southwestern province of Balochistan last year who officials claim has confessed ...

Maldives opposition parties said on Monday they would launch a fresh bid to seize control of parliament by impeaching the ...

A top Islamist extremist under sentence of death has lost his last hope of avoiding the gallows after Bangladesh's president ...

India and Bangladesh signed a slew of agreements on Saturday, including a $4.5 billion concessionary line of credit from India ...

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday offered $4.5 billion in concessional loans to Bangladesh, underlining surging ties between the ...

The last free opposition leader in the Maldives has been arrested as part of a major government crackdown on rival ...

When Pakistani social media starlet Qandeel Baloch was found strangled, a crime to which her brother proudly confessed, thousands of ...

Sri Lanka's navy on Sunday arrested six Indians trying to smuggle 13.5 kilos (29.7 pounds) of heroin across the narrow ...

A Sri Lankan baby elephant gifted to New Zealand has been prevented from leaving the South Asian island after animal ...

Opposition parties in the Maldives accused the government Friday of waging a revenge campaign against their leaders after they narrowly ...

A Bollywood film hitting Indian cinemas on Friday tells the inspirational story of a tribal girl from rural India who ...

Exiled Maldives opposition leader Mohamed Nasheed vowed Wednesday to keep up the pressure on the government after it deployed troops ...

An expired Pakistani law allowing secret military courts to try civilians on terror charges was extended by the Senate for ...

The Maldives' ruling party has sacked the country's former strongman president Maumoon Abdul Gayoom as its leader after he led ...

The exiled former leader of the Maldives Sunday announced plans to take control of the national parliament after hammering out ...

The Taliban captured a key district centre in Afghanistan's southern Helmand province on Thursday while in the country's north, an ...

Caretaker Deepak Shrestha padlocked shut the quake-ravaged remains of the Trailokya Mohan Narayan temple in Nepal's capital Kathmandu to keep ...

China's defence minister will arrive in Nepal later Tuesday for talks on joint military exercises, a meeting that will be ...