The Health Ministry has reported 1,539 new cases of coronavirus infection in the last 24 hours taking the national tally to 58,327

An eighteen-member expedition team, including a member of the royal family of the Kingdom of Bahrain, has arrived in Nepal today to climb Mt Lobuche and Mt Manaslu

In a bid to support youth public policy training in Nepal, United States Ambassador to Nepal, Randy W Berry inaugurated the Pre-Professional Parliamentary Support Program (PPSP) on Tuesday

Scores of Nepali migrant workers languishing in various detention centres in Malaysia have been rescued and repatriated amidst the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic

Nearly 96 per cent of Pakistan's coronavirus patients have made a successful recovery, a status report issued on Wednesday by the country's nerve centre monitoring the pandemic read

An educational institute in Islamabad has been sealed after the emergence of 16 Covid-19 infections, National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) said on Tuesday

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has projected a strong economic recovery for Bangladesh in the 2020-21 fiscal year, when the gross domestic product (GDP) is expected to grow at 6.8 per cent

Bangladesh has appealed to the Indian government to withdraw the ban imposed on onion export as soon as possible, keeping the import flow of onion from India uninterrupted

Bangladesh has registered 21 new fatalities from the novel coronavirus, the fewest in a daily count since Aug 1, taking the death toll to 4,823

Four hundred and fifty-nine people were killed and 618 injured in road accidents across the country in August, a report said today

Runner Automobiles, a newly listed Bangladesh company with the stock exchange, is going to set up a three-wheeler manufacturing plant in Bangladesh with the association of Indian automobile giant Bajaj Auto Ltd

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said Bangladesh's economy is more or less in good shape now although the Covid-19 pandemic has dealt a severe blow around the world

The much-awaited intra-Afghan talks in Doha, Qatar, were sandwiched between bouts of violence. Days before the talks were to begin, Afghanistan's first Vice-President Amrullah Saleh was targeted with a bomb blast in Kabul, which killed ten civilians. During the talks itself, attacks and fights erupted across 18 out of the country's 34 provinces

Afghanistan police in the northern Takhar province have arrested two drug traffickers and confiscated illicit drug from their possessions, police spokesman for the province Abdul Khalil Asir said on Wednesday

Zabul police chief Hekmatullah Kochai on Wednesday said that at least 350 "ghost police" have been identified in the province, referring to police who are listed as being employed and who are paid but not serving in person