A son of Sri Lanka’s former President Mahinda Rajapaksa will contest the upcoming presidential election which will be held as the country grapples with its worst economic crisis in decades.

Nepal Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli extended an invitation to his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi to visit the Himalayan nation. Oli extended the invitation to PM Modi for the visit through visiting Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri, who paid...

Bangladesh’s chief advisor Muhammad Yunus visited the Dhakeshwari Temple in Dhaka on Tuesday, where he met with members of the Hindu community amidst a tense political climate. The visit was highly anticipated given the recent rise in attacks...

A large crowd gathered outside the United Nations headquarters in New York, demanding protection for Hindus and other minorities in Bangladesh.

Two extended Pakistani Hindu families entered India through the Attari border near Amritsar with all their belongings and travelled onward to Jodhpur and settle there, coinciding with the flight of minorities from Bangladesh in the face of a...

Thousands of minority Hindu community members staged massive protest rallies in Bangladesh’s capital and the north-eastern port city of Chattagram on Saturday, the second consecutive day, demanding protection amid nationwide vandalism that saw...

Reserve Bank of India has decided to keep policy rates on hold for the ninth consecutive time, citing strong demand and the need to maintain inflation’s declining trajectory. The central bank said that there is a need to remain vigilant amid...

Investors pulled a record amount of cash out of China in the second quarter of this year amid concerns about the health of the world’s second-largest economy, official data showed.

In volatile trades on Monday, the sensex closed a marginal 57-point lower at 79,649 points as investors on Dalal Street mostly discounted US short-seller Hindenburg Research’s report that alleged conflict of interest on part of Sebi chief Madhabi...

India's foreign exchange (forex) reserves jumped by $7.533 billion to hit a fresh record high of $674.919 billion for the week ended August 2. Reserve Bank of India (RBI) data showed that the overall kitty had dropped by $3.471 billion to $667.386...