The Dominican government has stated to the court that fugitive Indian businessman Mehul Choksi, wanted in a bank fraud case, should be deported to India, media reports said

At least two people died as unknown gunmen attacked the security squad of the North Waziristan tribal district’s deputy commissioner on Tuesday, media reports said

Journalists in Pakistan have expressed their displeasure as the government pushes for new media laws that they allege would pave the way for “state control” over media. Under the proposed ordinance, all other existing laws regulating media will be superseded by the new law

As coronavirus cases remain high, authorities in Nepal have decided to extend the ongoing restrictions in Kathmandu, the country’s capital, for ten more days till 14 June

Nepal has received the medical supplies and aid promised by France in a ceremony held at Kathmandu’s Tribhuvan International Airport

Bangladesh’s elite Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has arrested four members of a human trafficking gang, including the mastermind, from different areas in the country in connection with the sensational trafficking and sexual assault of a Bangladeshi girl in India

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has stressed the need to improve defense ties with Tajikistan, as the two countries signed memorandums of understanding (MOU) for the sale of Pakistan-manufactured arms to the Central Asian country

Remittances by expatriate Bangladeshis recorded a whopping jump of around 40 percent--almost $22.75 billion in total-- in the last eleven months of the fiscal year 2020-21

MV-X Pearl Press, the Singapore flagged container ship that caught fire two weeks ago in Sri Lankan waters, is now sinking, the Sri Lankan Navy said in a statement on Wednesday. The ship still contains oil containers; however, there is no report of the oil spill so far

Jammu and Kashmir has administered Covid 19 vaccines to nearly 70 percent of its population in the 45 plus age group, with an official saying it was perhaps the best performance in the entire country

Jammu and Kashmir has announced special financial incentives for over 17,000 physicians, nurses and other staff and extended the services of retiring doctors who are in the frontline of the battle against the Covid 19 pandemic

Pakistan troops on Wednesday morning violated the ceasefire by firing a few rounds along the International Border (IB) in the Arnia sector of Jammu here, Indian authorities said

In a comedown from its earlier position, the Indian government has exempted "well-established" foreign COVID-19 vaccine makers from any bridging clinical trials if it has been certified by the National Control Lab of the country where it is made

Pakistan has allowed US warplanes to use its airspace in support of their forces fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan, Pakistani media reports said quoting a leading Hong Kong newspaper

At least ten people have been killed and over a dozen injured as three bombs went off in Afghan capital Kabul. The Taliban, the main Afghan insurgent group, has denied its involvement in the explosions