Myanmar's top leaders will hold talks this week with opposition chief Aung San Suu Kyi, the first since her party's landmark election success
Myanmar's top leaders will hold talks this week with opposition chief Aung San Suu Kyi, the first since her party's landmark election success

Portugal President Anibal Cavaco Silva has appointed Antonio Costa, an Indian-origin, as the new prime minister after the government formed following the...
Bangladesh police have arrested a man belonging to Jamaat-e-Islami for threatening Professor Anisuzzaman and Muntassir Mamoon with death

Tamil Nadu chief minister Jayalalithaa's office has issued a defamatory suit against popular Tamil weekly Ananda Vikatan for running a comprehensive series...
The National Human Rights Commission has issued a notice to the Tamil Nadu government, after taking suo moto cognizance of a report published in a paper on how colourful wrist bands are used by schools in southern districts to identify the caste...
A woman journalist in Kerala has been facing online abuse and her Facebook page has been temporarily blocked after she shared her account of classmates being abused at a Madrassa when she was a child.
Sri Lankan naval personnel have arrested 20 fishermen on charges of allegedly violating the International Maritime Boundary Line.
A criminal case has been registered against a YSR Congress lawmaker from Andhra Pradesh for allegedly slapping an Air India station manager at Tirupati Airport
Former Punjab chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh was appointed as the chief of the Congress party in the state.
Radical Sikh unit Dal Khalsa lashed out at Punjab Deputy Chief Minister's claim that they and other Sikh groups were responsible for disturbing the communal harmony.