The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has sent a fresh tranche of emergency medical supplies to help Pakistan and Nepal fight the deadly Covid-19 pandemic

Traders from Pakistan and Afghanistan have urged the two nations to set aside political differences and make joint efforts to boost bilateral and transit trade

India continues to report a sustained slide in the daily new COVID cases. The country has reported 60,753 Daily New Cases in the last 24 hours

Four lions infected with Covid19 at the Arignar Anna Zoological Park at Vandalur, Tamil Nadu have the coronavirus belonging to the Pangolin lineage B.1.617.2 and are Delta variants as per WHO nomenclature, Zoo officials said

A delegation of senior Afghan leaders, including former Afghan president Hamid Karzai and chief peace negotiator Abdullah Abdullah, is likely to make a visit to Doha, Qatar, within the next few days to meet Taliban leaders, media reports say, amid the rapidly deteriorating security situation in Afghanistan

Many people are showing symptoms of Covid-19 in Nepal’s Bajhang, a district in its northwestern Sudurpashchim province. However, when health officials visited them in villages, most people refused to get tested

Maldives’ Home Minister Imran Abdulla was on Saturday questioned by a parliament committee, which initiated an inquiry in connection to the case of the failed assassination bid on the country’s former president Mohammed Nasheed last month

The Sri Lankan government has to pay close to Rs. six billion as consultancy services for a scrapped light rail project that was proposed by the regime of former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe under a Japanese concessional loan

Sri Lanka Fisheries Minister Douglas Devananda has slammed India’s experts and fishermen who dubbed Sri Lanka "irresponsible"of  over a project to submerge discarded vehicles in the sea to create an artificial reef

A strong pro-China element in the current government’s policy would also make things complicated, as one cannot surely say how China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) would be linked to the development agenda of other political forces, writes Indika Hettiarachchi for South Asia Monitor

AIIMS chief Dr Randeep Guleria has said the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic may hit India in the next six to eight weeks

A Royal Bengal Tiger died on Friday from an "accidental firing" by forest guards in the  Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve (KNP & TR) in Assam, officials said

Twitter India faced some tough questions from the Shashi Tharoor-led parliamentary committee on IT including why the social media giant had not appointed a Chief Compliance Officer in the South Asian country

Afghan students, who study in Pakistani universities and have returned home on vacation, fear they might soon miss their examinations if Islamabad does not open the border between the two nations

The Afghanistan government seems to be thinking hard whether to hand over the responsibility of running the  Kabul airport to Turkish forces, media reports said