Tag: South Asia

Pakistan will punish social media companies that fail to take action against online blasphemy, the interior minister said, adding he ...

One in four of the world’s children will be living in areas with extremely limited water resources by 2040 as ...

Africa can be proud of many remarkable achievements in recent decades. Giving 427 million more people access to improved drinking ...

The president of mainly Muslim Pakistan has signed into law a bill allowing the Hindu minority to register their marriages ...

The Islamic State Group claimed responsibility Saturday for a suicide bomb attack on a Bangladesh security forces camp, while police ...

The Saudi king has cancelled a scheduled visit to the politically-troubled atoll nation of the Maldives because of an outbreak ...

With his department reeling over President Donald Trump's proposed budget cuts and the international community worried, US Secretary of State ...

Police have charged a man with the murder of an Irish woman in the southern Indian state of Goa. Danielle ...

Nepal police Tuesday demolished the largest remaining settlement of people displaced by a powerful earthquake that struck nearly two years ...

Bangladesh's highest court Sunday ordered the demolition of a lakeside building occupied by powerful garment groups, a move welcomed by ...

Maldivian opposition parties protested Friday a planned visit by King Salman following reports that Saudi business interests were buying an ...

The Maldives government on Wednesday denied it was selling a cluster of small islands to Saudi Arabia, following opposition protests ...

Food Sovereignty Ghana (FSG) has said it “totally rejects the false impression” that the chairman of parliament’s Appointments Committee, Joseph ...

Bangladesh police said Friday they had arrested the "spiritual leader" of a banned Islamist outfit alleged to have carried out ...

Leading fashion brands including H&M and Zara will boycott a key industry conference in Bangladesh in support of garment workers ...

Farzana draws all eyes when she dances, with the twist of her hips and hair -- but today she is ...

The continuous whirl of hair dryers is a novel sound at the Blush Beauty Point parlour in Nepal's capital Kathmandu, ...

Google's venture to beam the internet to remote areas of the world via balloon has hit a legal snag in ...

Global economic growth is forecast to accelerate moderately to 2.7 percent in 2017 after a post-crisis low last year as ...

Several people have been injured in southern Sri Lanka during a protest against allowing China to build a port and ...