By Rafiqul Islam DHAKA: Bangladesh's plan to build a dam on the Ganges River to ease water shortages in its southwest coastal region...
By Rafiqul Islam DHAKA: Bangladesh's plan to build a dam on the Ganges River to ease water shortages in its southwest coastal region...
Statkraft power plant in Norway By Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU: Norwegian energy giant Statkraft AS has withdrawn its plan to build a hydropower project...
File photo for representation only. MANILA: The Philippines has filed a protest against China's test flights on an artificial island in the South...
Quetta, Pakistan: At least 15 people were killed in a blast apparently targeting police outside a polio vaccination centre in the southwestern Pakistani...
JALALABAD, Afghanistan: Afghan security forces exchanged fire with gunmen barricaded in a house near the Pakistan consulate in the eastern city of Jalalabad...
Quetta: Police officials confirmed a bomb blast kills 14 near polio eradication centre in Pakistan city of Quetta.
Cilacap, Indonesia: A jailed Indonesian firebrand cleric Tuesday challenged his conviction for funding a militant group in court, as a hundreds-strong crowd chanting...
By James Pearson SEOUL: Footage released last week by North Korea purporting to show the firing of a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) appears...
Representative image KABUL: Afghanistan’s chief negotiator in peace talks that began in Pakistan this week said on Tuesday that he was hopeful Taliban...
The campaign is led by Masooma Ranalvi, a 49-year-old publisher who has launched an online petition in which she describes how she was...
Representative image Kabul: A special Afghan task force has seized more than a tonne of heroin in a raid on an illegal narcotics...
Pilot whales are seen swept ashore on a beach near Tuticorin, Tamil Nadu, India, 12 Janaury 2016. Chennai, India: Forty-five whales have died...
Screenshot of CCTV footage. New Delhi: A video secretly filmed by an Indian man -- apparently showing his wife beating his elderly mother...
Pakistani Rangers searched New York times journalist's home. (Photo: Twitter) Islamabad: Pakistan's paramilitary Rangers force raided the home of a New York Times...
A file photo of US Marines taking positions after exiting an amphibious assault vehicle (AAV) during a beach exercise at San Antonio in...
Beijing: A Swedish man working for a human rights group in China has been detained on suspicion of endangering state security, another advocacy...
Syrian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Walid Al Moualem (L) shakes hands with Indian Minister of External Affairs Sushma Swaraj...
US-trained Philippine Army troops arrive in Jolo island for deployment against Abu Sayyaf rebels on August 24, 2002, as part of a government...