A group of 70 Kashmiri students studying in Dhaka is stranded at Benaport, the border area between India and Bangladesh, after their colleges were shut due to the COVID-19 pandemic that has left over 16,500 people dead worldwide

A Taliban official has disclosed group’s secret ties with Pakistani intelligence agency (ISI) in a letter to media

Sri Lanka is yet to record a death by the COVID19 disease but Judicial Medical Officers (JMO) across the country have been sent Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) to be followed if a patient in a hospital succumbs to the coronavirus

Doubts over Taliban’s honestly and commitments to peace raised among Afghans and in foreign diplomatic circles after tens of soldiers and police were killed Thursday in a group of armed men’s attack on their joint checkpoint in the southern province of Zabul

Prime Minister Lotay Tshering has said that the detection of second positive case in the country doesn’t bring in any changes to the government’s strategies and preparedness plan for now

Authorities in Bangladesh have closed the country's largest brothel for 15 days as a preventive measure to stop the spread of the novel coronavirus

The possible threat of Covid-19 pandemic has increased the number of people leaving Kathmandu Valley

Many Maldivian MPs have urged the Maldives Broadcasting Commission, which regulates and develops the broadcasting sector in the archipelago, to take action against media organisations that are spreading fake news on the COVID-19 pandemic situation in the country

In the wake of the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday urged the people of his country to opt for a 'Janata Curfew'  (people's curfew) on Sunday from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m

Ignoring the growing global threat and alarm over the fast-spreading coronavirus (Covid-19), Pakistan hosted a cricket tournament and Tablighi Ijtema

Nepal has urged its citizens to stay indoors, not to organise cultural and religious functions of more than 25 people in its bid to check the spread of coronavirus in the Himalayan nation

At Maker village in  Kerala in southern India, there are two robots who dispense sanitizers by spraying it on employees hands and even distribute masks to those who need them. They even clear ones doubts about the novel coronavirus

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina pledged to make Bangladesh a land of gold (Sonar Bangla) as the country celebrated the birth centenary of its founder, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, amidst public health scare over COVID-19 pandemic

As a country which did not go through a lock-down even during the 30-year war, there is no need to do so now in the wake of COVID-19 pandemic, said Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. He said while the other countries had recorded a large number of deaths in the wake of the COVID-19 infection, Sri Lanka had managed to mitigate such a situation

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is to be commended for taking the initiative in enabling a cyber SAARC summit on Sunday (March 15) to deal with the growing COVID 19 challenge. Leaders of all the SAARC (South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation) countries, barring Pakistan, which was represented by an official,  were linked through video and the deliberations indicated high-level political resolve to deal with this pandemic