South Asia
Sri Lanka Completes Controversial $1 Billion Port Deal With China
Sri Lanka on Saturday sealed a billion-dollar deal to let a Chinese state firm take over a loss-making port in a move...
Who Could Be Pakistan’s Next PM?
Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was Friday ousted from the top office by the Supreme Court, but as the head of...
Another Four Arrested In Pakistan Revenge Rape
Pakistan police on Thursday arrested four more men involved in the rape of a teenage girl as punishment for a rape...
Historians Race To Preserve Dying Memories of Partition
Sitting in her Karachi home, Jamshed Jahan Ara looks straight into the camera as she explains in a trembling voice how...
Pakistan Police Arrest Village Council For Ordering Rape
Fourteen members of a Pakistani village council have been arrested for ordering the rape of a teenage girl as...
China To ‘step Up’ Troop Deployment In India Border Row
China warned on Monday that it will step up its troop deployment in a border dispute with India, vowing to defend its...
Pakistani Taxi App Offers Ride With A Marriage Matchmaker
A Pakistan app-based taxi service has launched an unusual add on, offering passengers the chance to share their ride...
India Says It Has International Backing On China Border Dispute
India's stand in its border dispute with China is supported by other countries, Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj said...
Strong Export Demand To Lift Asian Economies
Surging global demand for Asian exports and low oil prices will help China and the region's developing economies grow...
Global Terror Attacks Down, Iran Again Top ‘state Sponsor’
The US State Department said Wednesday that global terror incidents and deaths fell last year, while it maintained its...
Aborigines In Australia Longer Than Previously Thought
Aboriginal people have been in Australia for at least 65,000 years, longer than previously thought, roaming the area...
Study Throws Dog Domestication Theories To the Wolves
From the tiny chihuahua to the massive Saint Bernard, domestic dogs today trace their roots to a single group of wolves...
Pope Francis Unlikely To Visit India In 2017
Pope Francis is unlikely to visit India and Bangladesh this year as widely expected, a senior church official said...
ADB Warns Climate Change ‘disastrous’ For Asia
A business-as-usual approach to climate change will be "disastrous" for Asia, undoing much of the phenomenal economic...
Fast-Growing Pakistan Aims To Raise Contraception Use
Pakistan will raise the rate of contraception use to at least 50 percent within the next three years, the health...
11 Migrant Workers Die In Saudi House Fire
Eleven migrant labourers died of asphyxiation in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday in a fire that engulfed the windowless house...
Indian Troop Withdrawal ‘precondition’ For Peace
China's ambassador has said the withdrawal of Indian troops from disputed territory is a "precondition" for peace, in...
Prominent Bangladesh Government Critic Disappears
One of Bangladesh's most prominent government critics went missing on Monday after calling his wife to tell her he...
India Eyes Sale of Its Debt-Laden Airline
New Delhi is hoping to privatise Air India to make the ailing national carrier more competitive, but experts say debts...