Story Archive
2016-09-12
Bezwada Wilson’s effort to end manual emptying of human excreta has earned him Asia’s Ramon Magsaysay Award.
2016-09-10
An explosion of a boiler started the blaze, authorities say.
2016-09-09
Attack on deaf and mute homeless woman is latest in incidents of “mob-justice” in Assam.
2016-09-08
The crisis is the worst to hit the region since an insurgency peaked in 1991, experts say.
2016-09-06
Meanwhile, celebrations of the canonization of the Albanian-born nun carry on in India.
2016-09-05
More than two dozen media workers have been killed in India since 1992, a new study says.
2016-09-03
Mir Quasem Ali is the sixth man put to death for war crimes since 2013.
2016-09-02
Mir Quasem Ali is set to become the sixth opposition politician to be executed since 2013.
2016-09-01
Thailand has “only 13” cases; Singapore infections soar.
2016-08-31
Shafik Rehman, a British national, must turn in his passport before he can leave jail.
2016-08-30
Mir Quasem Ali is a tycoon and chief financier of Jamaat-e-Islami.
2016-08-29
JMB figure tasked Indian suspect with creating an IS cell in India, officials say.
2016-08-29
Secretary of State John Kerry delivers message during a one-day stop in Dhaka.
2016-08-27
Officers kill Tamim Chowdhury, an alleged leader of a militant faction.
2016-08-26
Rights groups hail ruling as a shot in the arm in fight against gender inequality.