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Dhaka, April 27 (AFP): Kasem bin Abubakar was told nobody would buy his chaste romance novels about devout young Muslims...

Hannah Devlin/The Guardian Ottawa, April 17:  An immense river that flowed from one of Canada’s largest glaciers vanished over the...

Jawed Naqvi/Dawn YOU would have thought that water alone has the anomalous property of expanding when frozen. Delhi Chief Minister...

Dhaka, April14 (newsin.asia):  Pahela Baishakh, the first day of Bangali calendar, was celebrated across Bangladesh on Friday with traditional festivities...

Lahore, April 6 (Express Tribune): Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chairman Imran Khan has criticized the Indian lawmaker’s call to demolish the historic...

Colombo, April 4 (newsin.asia): The on-going court case in Sri Lanka challenging President Maithripala Sirisena’s  decision to gift a baby...

By Dr.Romila Thapar/www.sabrangindia.in   In the 1960s we were confident that the use of religion for political mobilisation would decline...

By Saima S.Hussain/Dawn According to a recent news report, insects are heading to Canadian grocery shelves. It’s not an attack...

Riyadh ,March 19 (DhakaTribune):  It was an encouraging initiative for a country not known for giving women a platform in...

Mumbai, March 19 (newsin.asia): Eman Ahmed, the Egyptian national who is believed to be the world's heaviest woman, has lost...