Bangladeshi hanged two top opposition leaders for war crimes committed during the 1971 war of independence against Pakistan after the country's President rejected their last-ditch mercy petitions to escape the gallows.

In the second killing of a foreign national in Bangladesh, a Japanese citizen was shot dead within a week of an Italian's death which was claimed by the Islamic State.

The Indian government is working on an ordinance to amend the Citizenship Act to grant citizenship to “persecuted” Hindu refugees from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan.

A Bangladeshi novelist has won Britain's oldest literary award with her debut novel In the Light of What We Know. Writer Zia Haider Rahman has joined some of world's greatest literary names by winning this year James Tait Black Literary Prizes,...

An investigation into the land and property dealings have suggested that the famous 221B Baker Street building, which is synonymous to the literary detective Sherlock Holmes is linked to notorious Kazakh businessman Rakhat Aliyev and his family. 

The Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina Wajed met with a large cross-party delegation of UK MPs including Virendra Sharma MP of Ealing Southall, at the event organised by the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association. She spoke about her...