If doing something usually results in punishment, but you do it with impunity, you will not be punished for the deed. Indian security forces are given impunity by the government to do-as-they-please in the violently disputed territory of Jammu and Kashmir.

India will not announce a target year for its carbon emissions to peak, its environment minister tells the BBC.

Myint is one of more than 800 current and former slaves rescued or repatriated after a year-long Associated Press investigation into pervasive labor abuses in Southeast Asia's fishing industry.

Nepal is preparing to stop sending migrant workers to work in countries where employers do not pay for their air tickets and visas from 6 July.

Air strikes kill 10 suspected militants in Pakistan's northwestern Shawal Valley, intelligence officials say.

Sri Lanka President Maithripala Sirisena yesterday ordered the immediate dismissal of the parliament, a government spokesman said,

Abducted BGB Nayek Abdur Razzak reaches Teknaf with the BGB delegation that went to Myanmar to bring him back.

The death toll from a heatwave in southern Pakistan rose to 750 yesterday, but the scorching weather showed signs of easing, bringing some respite to the sweltering city of Karachi.

In a remark that is likely to give more ammunition to opposition in the Lalitgate, former Indian home secretary and BJP MP RK Singh yesterday said that "it is absolutely wrong to help a fugitive".

Sister Nirmala Joshi, who succeeded Mother Teresa as head of her Missionaries of Charity in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata, died yesterday at the age of 81, church officials said.

Nearly 700 people have died in a severe three-day heatwave in Pakistan, officials said yesterday, with medics battling to treat patients as a state of emergency was declared in hospitals.

People in seven South Asian countries including Bangladesh have a higher risk of heart disease at an early age than any other ethnic group.

Indian food safety regulator has issued countrywide alert on adulteration of food items specially packed products like milk, water, oil, reported The Times of India.

Pakistan's Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan yeterday said the government planned to centralise responsibility for monitoring and

A woman and her 10-month-old son were murdered in Gupti union under Faridganj upazila of the district yesterday.

Thousands take part in a mass yoga programme in the Indian capital, Delhi, on the first ever International Yoga Day.

Five arms peddlers were held in Chapainawabganj and Tangail districts yesterday and the day before.

Three people die and three others are injured after a truck and a pickup van collide head-on in Banani area of Dhaka.

Pakistan yesterday released 113 Indian fishermen after a similar gesture by New Delhi was announced to mark the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

Congress yesterday questioned Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's continued "silence" in the Lalitgate and asked him to come out of his "meditation" and answer the nation as he too is "liable".