India on Tuesday extended a $500 million line of credit to Sri Lanka for the import of fuel as a couple of power plants in the island country ran out of fuel amid a severe foreign exchange crisis

In a brazen assault, the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militants killed a policeman in Pakistan’s capital Islamabad as they attacked a police station

Sri Lanka has been exploring the option of procuring fuel, required for the operations of power plants, from India as regular supplies are affected amid a severe foreign exchange crisis

Maldivian authorities expressed “concern” as cases emerged of Indian teachers being harassed in the archipelago amid a growing hate campaign against India fueled by opposition political parties

Delhi Police’s investigations into the improvised explosive device (IED) recovered from the Ghazipur flower market on Friday have revealed that it was part of a 24-bomb consignment sent from across the border either through land or via a sea route by the Pakistani 'deep state' to local terrorists

After a year of India's inoculation drive againsts Covid-19, the government said over 93 per cent of the adult population had received at least one dose while over 69.8 per cent had been fully vaccinated

After a public uproar over the hate speeches against India's Muslims in the Hindu pilgrim town of Haridwar, and sharp questions raised by the country's Supreme Court,  the state police of Uttarakhand on Saturday arrested Yati Narsinghanand, a Hindu religious leader, the second such arrest in the past week

Days after Human Rights Watch (HRW) published its annual report with scathing references to Bangladesh on rights abuses, the country’s Information and Broadcasting Minister Hasan Mahmud termed it “one-sided, unacceptable, and politically motivated.”

India will extend $1.5 billion in additional lines of credit to Sri Lanka, Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar confirmed on Saturday, assuring the island country of its continuous “support in all possible ways for overcoming economic and other challenges”

Pakistan is "committed to providing all-out support to Afghan people to avert a humanitarian crisis", Prime Minister Imran Khan said, offering to send trained and specialist personnel to the country

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) Board has approved a $395.9 million extended credit facility (ECF) for Nepal to help it mitigate the pandemic’s impact on health and economic activity, supporting sustained growth and poverty reduction among others

Bangladesh has made the dope test mandatory for all professional drivers as authorities move to tighten regulations to check growing accidents

After Fitch Ratings, Standard and Poor's has now downgraded Sri Lanka’s sovereign ratings to ‘CCC’ with a negative outlook from an earlier ‘CCC+’ as its currency continued to be under pressure, indicating the island country may see a sovereign default scenario this year, a prospect the country’s central bank denied

In a significant pronouncement, the Supreme Court on Wednesday asked the state government of Uttarakhand to respond to legal petitions before it wanting to know why people accused of delivering hate speeches, that they said pose a grave threat not just to the unity and integrity of India but also endanger the lives of millions of its Muslim citizens - at a religious event in Haridwar, the Hindu pilgrim town, have not been arrested yet

India has historically extended assistance to the Maldives in every crisis, the archipelago’s Foreign Minister Abdullah Shahid said, defending his government’s India-friendly foreign policy as opposition parties intensify the “India Out” campaign that seeks to end what they perceive as "Indian military presence in the Maldives"