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Bangladesh ferry toll rises to 21

Last Updated: Thursday, August 7, 2014, 12:09

The toll in a ferry that capsized in Bangladesh rose to 21 Thursday, after 10 more bodies were recovered, an official said.

Nepal ends search for landslide survivors, declares 156 dead

Last Updated: Wednesday, August 6, 2014, 22:32

Nepal on Wednesday called off a search for survivors and declared 156 people dead after a landslide at the weekend, making it the deadliest to hit the Himalayan nation in three decades.

Rajapaksa to visit Pakistan later this month

Last Updated: Wednesday, August 6, 2014, 20:39

Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa will visit Pakistan later this month to take stock of the bilateral relations and identify potential areas for cooperation.

Clerics in Pak town ban women from going out without male kin

Last Updated: Wednesday, August 6, 2014, 18:11

Reminiscent of Taliban rule in neighbouring Afghanistan, a group of clerics in Pakistan`s northwestern tribal region has barred women from venturing out of their homes without a male relative, warning that the violators would be fined and socially boycotted.

UK bomb hoax suspect faces mental assessment

Last Updated: Wednesday, August 6, 2014, 16:34

A 47-year-old man, arrested for allegedly making a mid-air hoax bomb threat that forced a Qatar Airways plane carrying 282 people to make an emergency landing at Manchester Airport.

Nepal says 123 missing in landslide are dead; toll 156

Last Updated: Wednesday, August 6, 2014, 16:32

The landslide took place early Saturday at Mankha village in Sindhupalchok district.

Bangladesh police seek ferry owner, captain as murder case lodged

Last Updated: Wednesday, August 6, 2014, 16:30

The ferry, the MV Pinak-6, went down on Monday in a river swelled by monsoon rains about 30 km (18 miles) southwest of the capital, Dhaka, on Monday.

Drone strike kills five militants in northwest Pakistan

Last Updated: Wednesday, August 6, 2014, 14:43

Two missiles slammed into a house in a village in the Datta Khel area in the border region of North Waziristan, security officials said, injuring two militants, besides the five dead. 

Sri Lanka groups say government wary of UN war crimes probe

Last Updated: Wednesday, August 6, 2014, 14:28

Authorities in Sri Lanka are clamping down on the activities of civil society groups, who accuse the government of trying to discourage survivors of the country`s civil war from giving evidence to a UN war crimes investigation.

Sikh man killed in Pakistan

Last Updated: Wednesday, August 6, 2014, 14:25

A Sikh man was killed and two other Sikhs were wounded Wednesday when gunmen opened fire at a group of Sikhs in a market in Peshawar in Pakistan, the media said.