The death toll from heavy rains lashing Sri Lanka rose to 11, while 7,000 people have been affected, the Disaster Management Center said on Tuesday

Indian High Commissioner Vikram Doraiswami said that from November 15 Bangladeshi nationals will be able to fly to India on a regular flight and stay a maximum of 30 days if they carry a tourist visa

Security chiefs of seven countries, including Russia, Iran and the five Central Asian nations, are participating in the November 10 regional security dialogue being hosted by India's National Security Advisor Ajit Doval, that will see them discuss terrorism within Afghanistan and across its borders, the threat of radicalization and extremism, and cross-border movement of terrorists, among other major issues

The new US Special Representative for Afghanistan, Thomas West, who took over from Zalmay Khalilzad, is travelling to Europe and Asia, and is to visit India, coinciding with New Delhi hosting the Regional Security Dialogue on Afghanistan

Nepali Army chief Gen Prabhu Ram Sharma on Tuesday embarked on a four-day visit to India to enhance defence ties between the two neighbouring nations whose armies have fraternal ties

Bangladesh’s former chief justice Surendra Kumar Sinha has been sentenced to eleven years in prison on Tuesday in a money laundering case he had earlier termed politically motivated

Sri Lanka has been looking to enhance its existing economic and commercial ties with India, Sri Lankan envoy to New Delhi Milinda Moragoda said, adding the two countries should explore different spheres to boost their bilateral relationship

The Taliban, the new rulers of Afghanistan, has allowed the girls’ schools of higher secondary level to open in the western city of Herat, almost after three months after the group captured power

Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Gulzar Ahmed inaugurated the rebuilt Shri Param Hans Ji Maharaj temple in Karak, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) province, on the occasion of Diwali and felicitated the Hindu community on the special occasion, UNI news agency said quoting Pakistani media. In December last year, a mob led by a local cleric and others had attacked the temple and demolished it completely

The Tehreek-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), also known as the Pakistan Taliban, and the Pakistan government have both separately announced--hours apart from each other--a temporary nationwide ceasefire, which may be further extended with the consent of both parties, as part of the ongoing peace talks to end over a decade-long-insurgency raging in the country’s northwestern part

Stressing that this is the century of Asia and Africa, and the Indian Ocean Region is a vital economic space that both these continents share, India's Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla on Monday said that a new cooperative architecture for the common maritime space of the region that ensures security for its inhabitants, driven by current realities and the aspirations to lead better lives, is necessary to grasp the opportunity from the shifting economic currents

The nationwide strike of public transport buses in Bangladesh was called off late on Sunday after the government agreed to raise the fare of diesel-operated buses and minivans by approximately 27 per cent

States surrounding Afghanistan are under growing pressure as its nationals continue to flee their homeland to neighboring nations amid the tense security and economic situation under the Taliban (a terrorist group, banned in Russia) rule, Jan Egeland, secretary-general of the Norwegian Refugee Council, said on Monday

The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) has directed the country's TV channels to flash the new poilitical map of Pakistan ahead of the primetime 9 pm news bulletin

The World Health Organization (WHO) and the UNICEF, a UN agency for children and women, began on Monday a nationwide polio vaccination drive-- the first in the last three years--in Afghanistan, the country now under the complete control of the hardline Islamist group, the Taliban