Four people have been arrested in connection with a human trafficking racket in which Bangladeshi women were being brought into India illegally, a Maharashtra Anti Terrorism Squad official said

For almost a year now, Pakistan had been trying to implement tough economic measures required to revive the stalled $6 billion International Monetary Fund (IMF) bailout package

Sri Lankan officials are expected to hold talks with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank for support as Colombo faces a severe economic crisis, including a shortage of fuel and essentials

Panic and fear gripped millions of residents of Kabul, Afghanistan’s capital, as Taliban fighters came knocking on the doors and searching their homes in what the group said is a security sweep in the city of almost five million people

The Maldives has announced that it was planning to extend visas of Ukrainian tourists who got stranded in the archipelago as commercial flights canceled their operations to Ukraine after the conflict broke out last week

After some governmental dithering and political shadow-boxing, Nepal Parliament has approved the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC)-Nepal Compact, a controversial $500 million grant agreement that will improve the country’s power transmission and road infrastructure, amid protests by a section of China-leaning left political parties

Almost 4000 Ukrainians are stranded in Sri Lanka and cannot return to their country where a Russian invasion entered the third day on Saturday

Two Hindu officers were promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the Pakistan Army in a rare recognition for Pakistan’s minority Hindu community which often comes under Islamist assault

The World Bank has approved a proposal to provide $300 million to Bangladesh to help strengthen its local governance against the pandemic shock and make them resilient to future shocks

Eight polio workers were killed in different attacks on Thursday in two northern provinces of Afghanistan, the United Nations confirmed

Iran has assured its assistance to help rebuild the Afghan economy, the Taliban’s Foreign Affairs Ministry said

Despite years of efforts by the government, child marriages in Pakistan continue to remain a major challenge for authorities

On a day that Russian President Vladimir Putin precipitated a global crisis by announcing a "special military operation" into neighboring Ukraine, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan became the first foreign leader to meet him in the Kremlin where he declared that he was seeking a "long-term, multi-dimensional relationship with Russia"

Sri Lanka has detained 22 Indian fishermen and seized two fishing vessels for allegedly poaching into Sri Lankan waters off the Jaffna coast, the navy confirmed on Thursday

A beating human heart travelled 350 km, from a man from Tamil Nadu in south India to a woman from the northern state of Jammu and Kashmir, whose only hope of survival was early life-saving heart transplantation