Six Bangladeshi mountaineers will leave Bangladesh for Nepal on October 3 with the mission of conquering the Larkya peak of the Himalayan Mountains.

In India, drinking alcohol is primarily an outdoor sport played at night. The dark and the bottle go together. Even some upmarket bars have the lighting turned down low and the windows shuttered.

Waking up hundreds of miles above the Himalayas, astronaut Scott Kelly broke the US record for the most time spent in space with 383 days.

A monkey that sneezes when it rains and a "walking" fish are among more than 200 species discovered in the ecologically fragile eastern Himalayas in recent years, according to conservation group WWF.

Bangladesh, takes its education seriously but it is not alone in its incredible story of children defeating the odds just to reach school.

Pakistan on Sunday released 163 Indian fishermen held for violating its territorial waters as a goodwill gesture amid tensions over the disputed Himalayan territory of Kashmir and an attack on a police station.

A Bangladeshi youth scales the Nun peak of the Nun Kun mountain massif of the Himalayas.

For decades people have reported seeing an ape-man roaming the snowy wastes of the Himalayas. Is there any truth to the tales?

A moderate 5.7 earthquake struck in the already devastated Nepal Saturday afternoon which was felt in Dhaka and some parts of Bangladesh.

The devastating earthquake of April 25 has left Nepal’s fragile infrastructure in ruins, its popular trekking trails scarred by landslides and iconic World Heritage Sites in tatters.

The Nepal earthquake and its aftershocks have probably triggered many landslides, scientists warn.