Upholding the dream of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said that she wanted to see her country free from hunger and poverty.

Bangladesh has proposed to Canada to devise an effective mechanism to move forward with the deportation of Nur Chowdhury...

The fourth meeting of the Nepal-India joint commission began in New Delhi yesterday, setting the tone for the minister-level meeting scheduled for today.

Rice harvesting season Farmers harvest rice on a field in Lalitpur, near Kathmandu, yesterday.

With two weeks to go until the US election, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump touted his newest hotel venture yesterday, citing it as an example of his business success and ability to “get things done” for the American people.

The road remained deserted as people took part in a strike, keeping shops and schools closed to protest against the death of two university students in Jaffna.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said yesterday he wants US troops out of his country in the next two years and is willing to scrap defence pacts with longtime ally Washington if necessary.

An Afghan woman immortalised on a celebrated National Geographic magazine cover as a green-eyed 12-year-old girl was arrested yesterday for living in Pakistan on fraudulent identity papers.

Gunmen in the remote central-western Afghan province of Ghor rounded up dozens of civilians and executed them on Wednesday in an attack that officials blamed on Islamic State fighters retaliating for the death of one of their commanders.

A major Pakistani militant group worked with the Islamic State (IS) to carry out a huge raid on a police academy in the country’s southwest this week that left more than 60 dead, a spokesman said yesterday.

The US yesterday abstained for the first time from a United Nations General Assembly vote on a resolution calling for an end to a US economic embargo on Cuba, after opposing such measures every year for 24 years.

Opponents of Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro rallied in the streets yesterday and he convened a crisis security meeting as the leftist leader resisted their efforts to drive him from power.