A team of doctors recently joined the COVID-19 vaccination initiative and reached the higher reaches of the mountains in Doda district to inoculate the Gujjars and Bakarwals, the traditional tribes of Jammu and Kashmir

The Indian Coast Guard (ICG) received information from Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre (MRCC) Colombo in the late hours of June 16, 2021 about a mid-sea oil spill about 450 km south-east of Chennai

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday virtually launched a Customised Crash Course programme to train 100,000 frontline workers for COVID-19

Bangladesh has been nominated as a member of the Food and Agricultural Organization from the Asia region for three years from 2022

Around 2000 women trafficked to India have returned to the country over the past ten years through legal means with the assistance of two non-governmental organizations

Amid a rising Covid-19 surge in Afghanistan, especially in capital Kabul, the US embassy has ordered a near-complete lockdown

In a conversation with Indian news channel WION, leader of the opposition Sajith Premadasa said Sri Lanka should join the G7’s B3W initiative to challenge China’s BRI

The amount of money deposited by Bangladeshi clients in the banks of Switzerland has dropped by 7 percent year on year in 2020 amid the coronavirus pandemic

Transnational terrorist organizations like al-Qaeda and ISIS might be able to regroup in Afghanistan in two years, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin warned, adding the groups could pose a medium-level threat to the US

Bhutan, a country that gives primacy  to gross national happiness (GNH) over gross domestic product (GDP),  has seen a steady rise in suicide cases

Both President Bidya Devi Bhandari and Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli have submitted their response to the country’s supreme court, defending the move to dissolve the country’s parliament

In what came as another setback for Nepal’s vaccination program, the European Union (EU) will not donate vaccines directly to countries. Instead it would route them through the WHO’s COVAX, further delaying the supply

Bhutan’s national council, the upper house of parliament, has passed the Civil Society Organizations (Amendment) Bill 2021, proposing the government to provide adequate resources to these organizations in the country

Exploitation, bullying, blackmailing are among many ways women and children are increasingly being targeted on cyberspaces by criminals in Bangladesh

A Pakistan Army soldier was killed in a terrorist strike near Turbat International Airport in Balochistan province on Thursday, according to the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR)