Separate bombs hit two minivans in a mostly Shiite neighborhood in the Afghan capital Saturday, killing at least seven people and wounding six others, the Interior Ministry said.

Sri Lanka is seeking an interim claim of $40 million from the operator of a fire-ravaged cargo ship to cover part of the cost of fighting the blaze, officials said Saturday.

Myanmar's military rulers have approved new investment in projects worth nearly $2.8 billion, including a liquefied natural gas (LNG) power plant that will cost $2.5 billion, the country's investment body said.

Myanmar poet Khat Thi, whose works declare resistance to the ruling junta, died in detention overnight and his body was returned with the organs removed, his family said on Sunday.

Multiple blasts at a school in the Afghan capital Kabul on Saturday killed at least 40 people and wounded dozens more, mostly female students, officials said, in an attack Afghan President Ashraf Ghani blamed on the insurgent Taliban.

For the first time, media organisations in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Nepal are coming together to report about the killings, attacks, harassment, and intimidation of journalists in these South Asian countries. It is the first such collaboration by media outlets in the region.

The Dutch think tank, European Foundation for South Asian Studies (EFSAS), has lauded Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s genuineness of purpose in tackling extremists with moral conviction and authority. A commentary published on April 23 outlined the differences between Pakistan and Bangladesh in dealing with extremism within the country.

Activists opposed to Myanmar's military junta called on people to stop paying electricity bills and agricultural loans from Monday and to keep their children away from school, raising new doubts about a bid by a regional bloc to end a post-coup crisis.

In a major decision to widen the Covid-19 vaccination drive, India today announced that people above the age of 18 would be eligible for the jabs from May 1, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi cautioning that the pandemic was spreading fast in smaller Tier 2 and 3 cities.

India tonight conveyed its condolence to Bangladesh over the loss of lives in a ferry disaster in Shitalakhya river in Narayanganj district, our New Delhi correspondent reports.

Pakistan's President Arif Alvi has tested positive for Covid-19, he said on Twitter on Monday, after receiving his first dose of a vaccine.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today reiterated Bangladesh's long-pending request for concluding the interim agreement on the sharing of water of the Teesta River with Bangladesh's fair share to alleviate sufferings of millions.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said ground-level cooperation is needed to check all those incidents happening along the India-Bangladesh border.

Bangladesh and India today signed five memorandums of understanding (MoUs) to enhance cooperation in various sectors, including disaster management, resilience, and mitigation, trade, ICT, and sports.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi jointly inaugurated five projects virtually, after the bilateral talks between Bangladesh and India at the Prime Minister’s Office in Dhaka today.

Bangladesh and Nepal on Monday signed four Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) to enhance cooperation between the two countries in tourism, sanitation, cultural exchange and railways link.

A senior Mumbai police officer filed a complaint in the Supreme Court on Monday accusing a state government minister of corruption, the latest development in a bizarre case that has transfixed the media for weeks.

Visiting Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa stressed on exchanging experiences between Bangladesh and Sri Lanka in socio-economic development of the two countries as he paid a courtesy call on President M Abdul Hamid at Bangabhaban this afternoon.

Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa today paid tributes to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

Bangabandhu is an icon of democracy and self-determination, and his legacy would endure for many generations to come, said Maldives President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih while paying homage to the Father of the Nation at Bangabandhu Memorial Museum in Dhanmondi-32 today.