The Sapan event was organized at a time when majoritarian authoritarianism and discrimination on basis of religious and ethnic identities are on the rise across South Asia

In a deal with considerable strategic significance for South Asian geopolitics, Sri Lanka will extend the lease of 14 oil tanks in Trincomalee oil farms to India for 50 years, Lankan Energy Minister Udaya Gammanpila said on Friday, adding the deal, which will also include the joint development of 61 other unused tanks, will be signed next week

The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), a banned militant group active in the northwestern part of Pakistan, has claimed 46 attacks on the country’s security forces since the one-month ceasefire, brokered by the Afghan Taliban, came to end on 9 December

Pakistan on Thursday formed a separate committee, the Pakistan Hindu Temple Management Committee, under the Ministry of Religious Affairs to manage religious sites of the country's minorities, Hindus and Sikhs

I have been made a scapegoat, former Afghan president Ashraf Ghani has said on the fall of Kabul, in a radio interview with BBC Radio 4’s Today, as he spoke publicly for the first time

Communist parties in Nepal have locked horns with the top election body after the latter removed “communism” from one of the communist parties' statutes, terming it a contradiction with the constitution

Six terrorists, including two Pakistan nationals, have been killed in two separate shootouts with Indian security forces in the Anantnag and Kulgam districts of Jammu and Kashmir, police said

Sri Lanka’s foreign reserve exchange reached $3.1 billion dollars in December, up from $1.5 billion recorded last month, the Central Bank of Sri Lanka informed on Wednesday

Bangladesh’s Law Minister Anisul Haq has defended the Digital Security Act (DSA), which has been used against journalists and dissenters, saying the act doesn’t restrict media freedom

Senior Maldivian journalists have met the Indian High Commissioner to Male, Manu Mahawar, and held discussions for seeking assistance in training and other educational opportunities for Maldivian journalists in India

State enterprise mafia has destroyed Pakistan Railways, Minister for Railways Azam Khan Swati said, as he pushes for the commercialization of stations as part of his bigger reforms to overhaul the sector

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina hit out at the US and questioned its commitment to democracy and the rule of law as Washington continued to shelter one of the killers of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Hasina’s father and the founding father of Bangladesh, who was brutally assassinated on 15 August 1975 along with most of her family member

The drug crisis is the biggest economic challenge facing the country today, Maldivian Home Minister Imran Abdulla said on Tuesday, weeks after the government formed a special task force to tackle the growing trade in banned drugs

Pakistan has placed economic stability at the core of its comprehensive National Security Policy, a first of its kind vision document the government has prepared for the next five years, starting from 2022

India and Pakistan don't miss any chances to hit out at each other for either country's acts of omission and commission with strong statements, but this time Pakistan took it a level higher by summoning the seniormost Indian diplomat at the High Commission in Islamabad and asked him to convey their “serious concerns” over hate speeches targeting Muslims at a Hindu politico-religious congregation in the pilgrim town of Haridwar and calling for violence and assassination and against them, the Indian media said