Human rights organizations are raising alarms over escalating violence against Hindus, Christians, and Buddhists in Bangladesh. Reports sug...

The United States has voiced concerns over the detention of hundreds of individuals associated with the Awami League in Bangladesh. This cr...

"The Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) is a discriminatory law that goes against the constitutional values of equality and international huma...

Nobel peace laureate Muhammad Yunus was convicted on Monday of violating Bangladesh's labour laws in a case decried by his supporters as po...

Saudi Arabia is investigating reports of poor conditions for migrant workers at Amazon warehouses in the country. The investigation was ini...

At least 17 Rohingya refugees drowned when their boat broke up at sea while heading from Myanmar's Rakhine state to Malaysia, with rescuers...

Amnesty said 70% of the executions in the Middle East and North Africa were carried out in Iran, where their numbers rose by 83% from 314 i...

Authorities have filed 71 cases in connection with the violence during the Hindu festival of Durga Puja, a Bangladesh police spokesman said...

"Governments across South Asia must immediately address healthcare shortages and urgently strengthen their healthcare systems to respond to...

“With the aim to change the race of the Bengalis, rape was carried out in a systematic way against 200,000 women of Bangladesh by the Pakis...

The UAE is home to 2.8 million Indian expatriates, the largest expatriate community in the country.

Top US think-tanks have questioned the secrecy of trial and the US NSA visit here next weekend is expected to see some plain speak by India...

In her speech today, Suu Kyi expressed sympathy for the "suffering of all people" swept up in the violence but did not address accusations ...

According to the report, India did not register a single execution in 2016 but it had more than 400 prisoners who were to be executed at th...

The figures from India mirror worldwide data, which shows a 22 per cent decrease in executions in 2014 compared with the previous year.

At least 778 people were executed worldwide in 2013, including one in India, global human rights body Amnesty International said today.

More than 2.3 mn foreign workers, including Indians, as well as illegal immigrants have registered under a new programme that aims to creat...