The Maldivian government will finance loans to local businesses affected by the pandemic at an “interest rate like never seen in the country’s history,” the country’s Finance Minister Ibrahim Ameer said, detailing the government stimulus plan to revive the country’s economy

National Conference leader Omar Abdullah, who attended the crucial meeting hosted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi with political leaders of Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday evening, said it was the duty of the central governmnent to restore the broken trust of the people

Training guns on the Congress, which has been accusing his government of authoritarian actions, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said the "dark days" of the "Emergency", imposed in 1975 by then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi,  can't be forgotten, accusing India's Grand Old Party of decimating democracy through the controversial step taken on this day 46 years ago

A total of 21 electric vehicles (EV) charging stations were installed in six districts of Bhutan, making driving of electric vehicles drive even easier now, one of the first countries in South Asia to show such environmental advancement in combating pollution

The dissolution of the House of Representatives of parliament has put democracy at risk in Nepal, said Nepal's former prime minister and leader of opposition Sher Bahadur Deuba, whose claim to form the government was rejected by President Bidya Devi Bhandari on 22 May

The United States will retain at least 650 troops in Afghanistan after the withdrawal of its forces from the country for the protection of diplomats in Kabul, reported the American newswire Associated Press

The Afghan government has been losing around $32000 in daily custom revenue as the Taliban insurgents seized a dry port on its northern border with Tajikistan

The United Nations Human Rights Office has dubbed as “selective” and “arbitrary” the presidential pardon granted to a former Sri Lankan MP convicted to life imprisonment for the murder of a fellow politician

Former Sri Lankan Prime Minister and present opposition MP Ranil Wickremesinghe has advised the government to engage with the International Monetary Fund to tide over the economic crisis

Nepal’s President Bidya Devi Bhandari on Thursday appointed 20 people to eleven constitutional commissions under a controversial ordinance that has remained challenged in the country’s Supreme Court for the last six months

Afghanistan will receive three million doses of Johnson & Johnson single-dose Covid-19 vaccines by the United States, The White House on Thursday announced, hours after Afghan President Ghani landed in the United States for his first meeting with President Joe Biden

Four men from Kargi, in remote Ladakh region, that was once a part of Jammu and Kashmir, have been arrested by Delhi Police's Special Branch in connection with an explosion outside the Israeli Embassy in January this year

The Government of India, Government of Mizoram and the World Bank have signed a $32 million Mizoram Health Systems Strengthening Project to improve management capacity and quality of health services in the northeastern border state of Mizoram, particularly for the benefit of under-served areas and vulnerable groups

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared he was committed to restoring democracy in Jammu and Kashmir, especially strengthening grassroots democracy, and told the restive union territory's political parties that its statehood would be given back at an appropriate time

Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a three-hour-long meeting with all political leaders of Jammu and Kashmir for the first time in 22 months with assurances that he was committed to the democratic process with early restoration of statehood and assembly elections following the completion of the ongoing delimitation exercise