India's contribution to the improved global growth outlook extends well beyond the immediate AI boom or the performance of energy-exporting economies. The IMF's assessment points instead to a combination of domestic demand, demographics, market expansion and structural reforms as important drivers of India's longer-term prospects.
The consistent increase in cases of rape, sexual assault, sexual harassment and abuse against young children, girls and women, coupled with the inability of the authorities to punish the culprits, has prompted females in Pakistan to take it upon themselves to be equipped and physically trained to handle such vicious assaults by gearing themselves up with Tasers, pepper sprays, knives, weapons and training themselves for self-defence
The delegation of the European Union said it is funding fifteen agencies in Sri Lanka and two in the Maldives to build higher education capacity
The Maldives Army orientation-training programme for 50,000 graduates, recruited to the public sector in line with the President’s Vistas of Prosperity and Splendour policy statement begins under phases on Monday (14) in 51 island-wide Army Centers
Three people who tried to smuggle 1000 kilograms of turmeric pieces from Tamilnadu, India to Mannar via sea have been arrested on Saturday (12) by the Indian Coast Guard officials
Bangladesh has recorded 1,812 new cases of the coronavirus in a daily count, taking the tally of infections to 339,332
The Asian Development Bank and Pran Dairy Ltd, a member of one of the biggest food and agribusiness groups in Bangladesh, have signed a $10 million loan agreement to support dairy value chain during the coronavirus disease pandemic
Colleges will begin taking classes online for newly admitted grade 11 students in October amid the coronavirus pandemic
Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) president Nazmul Hassan said that the board were perplexed by the conditions that Sri Lanka had asked to be maintained for the Tigers' upcoming tour of the island nation
Bangladesh has a stock of 5.25 lakh tonnes of locally grown onion and it will require six lakh tonnes more to meet domestic requirements until the next main harvesting season, typically the March-April period
The US Embassy in Dhaka has started accepting applications to renew certain classifications of non-immigrant visas from yesterday
A new report revealed on Monday that eight in 10 Afghan children said "they've learned little or nothing" during the nationwide lockdown enforced due to the COVID-19 pandemic
Abdullah Abdullah, head of Afghanistan's High Council for National Reconciliation, has returned to Kabul following the much-awaited talks with the Taliban in the Qatari capital of Doha
Indian Ambassador Vinay Kumar reaffirmed his country's steadfast and unflinching support for a democratic and republic Afghanistan in its pursuit of stability and prosperity at a time as Afghanistan government and Taliban militants have embarked on a journey to reach a settlement to end the grilling conflict
The Ministry of Public Health on Monday reported 56 new cases of the coronavirus out of 365 samples tested over the last 24 hours
Two negotiators on the team representing the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, Ghairat Bahir of Hizb-e-Islami and Fatima Gailani, an academic, did not travel to Doha for the opening ceremony on Saturday
