At least 30 people were injured in a clash between two factions of BNP in Chandpur's Hajiganj upazila yesterday evening ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake may lack the political lineage of some of his rivals, but his leftist policies to help the poor and ...

Three decades after his father was assassinated as Sri Lanka’s leader, opposition chief Sajith Premadasa is a top contender ...

Sri Lanka’s right-wing President Ranil Wickremesinghe, who seeks re-election in today’s ballots, describes himself as the ...

Rahmanullah Gurbaz hit a superb century before leg-spin magician Rashid Khan marked his 26th birthday by taking five wickets ...

Cash-strapped Sri Lanka goes to polls today to pick its next president in an effective referendum on an unpopular International Monetary Fund austerity plan enacted after the island nation’s unprecede ...

A Hong Kong man was jailed yesterday for "seditious" posts on social media, becoming the third person to be imprisoned under a new national security law in the span of two days. Au Kin-wai, 58, was ...

A top politician in eastern India yesterday blamed authorities in a neighbouring state for causing a flooding crisis by opening dams after 26 people were killed and 250,000 others were forced to reloc ...

The BBC and the independent Russian news site Mediazona said yesterday they had documented the deaths of around 70,000 Russian soldiers since the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

The government has decided to take stringent actions against some deputy secretaries involved in a recent scuffle at the public administration ministry over the postings of district deputy ...

Iran summoned the acting head of Afghanistan’s embassy yesterday after saying a visiting Afghan official disrespected the country’s national anthem by not standing, days after a similar incident in Pa ...

Police yesterday recovered the body of a man from a bush near Jhilpara area of the capital’s Khilgaon Taltala.