The court is always supreme, but sometimes the court has to plead helplessness. On Friday, September 23, the apex court of India pleaded such helplessness when a petitioner wanted direction to abolish mosquitoes from India. Mosquitoes are the... More

Myanmar's army chief on Saturday (Sept 23) blamed Rohinyga militants for an explosion outside a mosque in Rakhine state, as a rights group accused the military of starting fires in the region to prevent refugees from returning. The... More

Senior journalist K J Singh and his 92-year-old mother were found murdered at their residence in Punjab's Mohali, officials said today. While 64-year-old Mr Singh's throat had been slit, his mother Gurcharan Kaur was suspected to have been... More

Bangladesh's prime minister on Thursday proposed creating UN-supervised safe zones inside Myanmar to protect Rohingya Muslims who are fleeing a military crackdown to seek refuge in her country. "These people must be able to return to their homeland... More

The Supreme Court Friday said states were under obligation to compensate victims of violence by cow vigilante groups even without any judicial order. “We do not have to say that. All states are under an obligation to... More

Pakistan refuses to be a "scapegoat" for Afghanistan's bloodshed or to fight wars for others, Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi told the United Nations on Thursday. Addressing the UN General Assembly, Abbasi did not explicitly criticize US President... More

Shelling along the disputed border between Pakistan and India killed six civilians, and wounded an additional 30 people, officials from the two sides said on Friday, in the latest confrontation between the two nuclear-armed countries. The clash came... More

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee doesn’t learn from the past, despite being admonished by the court repeatedly. It is a repeat of 2016, when immersion of the goddess Durga was restricted to a certain timeframe. This... More

India is considering supplying arms to Myanmar’s government in a sign of strong support for a neighbor that faces criticism for its crackdown on Rohingya Muslims. The arms were discussed during a visit by the chief of Myanmar’s... More

The BSF has sealed the Indo-Bangla border and stepped up its vigil along the area in the wake of the Rohingya refugee crisis. "We have alerted our troops and mobilised resources on the entire 4,096-km India-Bangladesh border. We... More

A reporter covering political unrest in India’s northeast was beaten to death during violent clashes, officials said on Thursday, two weeks after the high-profile murder of another prominent journalist. Shantanu Bhowmick was set upon with sticks as he... More

Myanmar’s vice president told the United Nations on Wednesday that security forces in his country’s Rakhine State, from which hundreds of thousands of people have recently fled, have been instructed to take “full measures” to avoid collateral... More

The Indian government is looking to deport about 40,000 Rohingya Muslims living in India, triggering debate over whether the world's largest democracy and an aspiring global power should turn away refugees seeking asylum. India has welcomed thousands of... More

Caught in the crossfire between Myanmar's military and Rohingya insurgents, hundreds of Hindus who have fled to Bangladesh are placing their hopes on the Hindu nationalist government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in neighbouring India. Nearly 500 are... More

The arrest of Samiun Rahman, a British citizen of Bangladeshi origin, in East Delhi on September 17, came a day before the government in New Delhi told the Supreme Court that the 40,000 Rohingya refugees in its territory constitute... More

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has called upon the OIC member states to show a unity for solving the Rohingya crisis before it is too late and placed some proposals before the OIC, including full implementation of... More

Pak  Foreign Secretary Tehmina Janjua said Pakistan and the United States of America can work together to attain their common objectives of defeating Daesh in Afghanistan and the region. Talking to US Under Secretary of State Tom Shannon... More

Reacting to today’s (Tuesday) speech by Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s State Counsellor and de facto leader, on the crisis in Rakhine State, James Gomez, Amnesty International’s Regional Director for Southeast Asia and the Pacific, said: Aung... More

Pakistan received foreign direct investment (FDI) worth $235 million in August 2017, up 147% compared with $95 million in the same month of last year, according to data released by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) on... More

The Rohingya crisis is both a humanitarian and security issue, Bangladesh Minister Mohammed Shahriar Alam on Monday said and did not rule out the possibility of links between Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) and "foreign terrorist organisations". Bangladesh... More

Law enforcers are struggling to stop the spread of Rohingyas from registered as well as temporary camps as middlemen and locals are helping the refugees to settle outside the camps. The middlemen are particularly targeting young Rohingya girls,... More