The government has appointed Rear Admiral M Shaheen Iqbal as the chief of Bangladesh Navy by promoting him to the rank of vice-admiral

Nurunnahar Begum is 62. She and her family of eight have been living in Horinkhola Government Primary School, also used as a cyclone centre, in Koyra upazila's Dakkhin Bedkashi for two months now

Six days after Pakistan announced the resumption of Afghan exports to India through the Attari-Wagah border to facilitate transit trade, the first consignment of goods crossed over to India in two trucks on Saturday

Beginning this month, Khesar Gyalpo University of Medical Sciences of Bhutan with support from Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) will implement a technical cooperation project

Sri Lanka’s Hambantota port run by China Merchant Ports (CM Ports) group said it had teamed up with Colombo Dockyard floating repairs in vessels that are already docking. A Marshall Islands-flagged crude carrier ‘Marine Hope’ was repaired at Hambantota under the partnership

A delegation from the Power and Energy Ministry conducted an inspection tour to the Trincomalee oil tanks this week, amidst ongoing negotiations with India to secure around 20 of the tanks for Ceylon Petroleum Corporation to run by itself

An Afghan Sikh named Nidan Singh Sachdeva who was kidnapped by the Taliban from Paktika province in eastern Afghanistan, almost a month ago, has been rescued

The Independent Human Rights Commission says that 17 armed attacks were carried out against mosques, gurudwaras and other worship places as well as prayer leaders and other worshippers since last October

Political and military analyst Ali Ahmad Jalali calls for lifting every obstacle put on the road to peace negotiations, saying that this is only the Taliban to get benefit from the talks postponement

Lawmakers in Afghanistan’s parliament on Saturday summoned acting Minister of Interior Affairs Massoud Andarabi to report on the recent mortar shelling by the Pakistani military forces on the eastern provinces of Kunar and Nuristan

Technical Advisory Group (TAG), on Saturday, revealed that the analysis of weekly statistics collected regarding the COVID-19 response show a spike in the spread of the virus within the community

Despite economic turbulence due to COVID-19, India's overall food exports since March have increased 27 percent

India's quest for building its energy security may see it continue to pursue investment opportunity in Farzad-B gas field in Iran even though ONGC Videsh Ltd (OVL) may not get to develop the block that it discovered over a decade ago

Mobile phones glued to their ears and eyes fixed on the other side of the gate, several people wait near the Phuentsholing main gate every day

The 21st Century Economic Roadmap is still in a preliminary stage almost six months after its high-level roundtable was formed under the chairmanship of the Bhutanese prime minister on January 24