Bangladesh is eagerly awaiting a preferential trade agreement with Sri Lanka for a mutually beneficial and robust trade relationship between the two countries supported adequately by strong shipping connectivity, according to its envoy

Pakistan has assured the US that it would remain a reliable partner for peace in Afghanistan as there was a fundamental convergence between the two countries on the need for a peaceful settlement in the war-torn country

Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who holds the defense portfolio, and Japanese Defence Minister Nobuo Kishi held a video teleconference to discuss the promotion of defence cooperation and exchanges between the two countries

India has evacuated all diplomatic staff and security personnel from its consulate in the southern city of Kandahar in Afghanistan as the Taliban closes in on the second biggest city of the country

Zalmay Khalilzad, the US special peace envoy for Afghanistan, has reached Doha, Qatar, to push for “determined diplomacy in pursuit of a peace agreement” between the warring Afghan parties

Bhutan has now secured surplus Covid-19 vaccines as the United States confirmed donating 500,000 vaccines to the country

In a boost to the country’s pandemic response, Nepal’s National Public Health Laboratory has now been equipped to perform genome-sequencing tests that will enable authorities to identify various variants of the Covid-19 virus prevailing in the country

Sri Lanka has started issuing digital vaccination certificates to people who had received both doses of Covid vaccines

Sri Lankan Health Ministry has warned of the possibility that Covid-19 patients of the new Lambda variant could be found in the country at any time

Four civilians were killed in two separate explosions in Kabul and Kandahar provinces of Afghanistan on Saturday morning, police and security sources confirmed.

Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani on Saturday held the Taliban responsible for the ongoing violence in the country in which at least “200 to 600 people” are being killed every day

Bangladesh Health Minister Zahid Maleque said on Saturday that a total of six million doses of Covid-19 vaccine developed by US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer will arrive in the country under the COVAX facility early next month

Continuing their polemical exchanges, Islamabad has asked India to dismantle what it calls “terror infrastructure against Pakistan” as it rejected New Delhi's denial of involvement in last month's terrorist attack in Lahore

Pakistan has told the United States that peace in Afghanistan is still winnable and called for greater cooperation with China and Iran in bringing stability to the war-ravaged country

The second wave of COVID-19, which caused an unprecedented rise in cases and deaths across India, is not yet over, the government warned on Friday, urging people to avoid crowding and keep wearing masks