The government has taken steps to address shortages of fuel and gas to some extent when compared to the earlier situation which had long queues that stretched for kilometres outside fuel and gas stations. But a well-planned recovery plan still cannot be seen that can address the long-term food security issues.
An all-party meeting under the convenorship of Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli was held Tuesday at the PM’s official residence in Baluwatar. According to Prime Minister Oli’s Press Advisor, Surya Thapa, the all-party meeting has concluded after nearly three hours of discussion, wherein various issues, including the country’s geographical boundary dispute with Indnia were discussed
Sri Lanka’s daily new Coronavirus cases hit a new high of 137 on May 16 taking the total to 1,319 on driven by returnees from Kuwait as the island it will review repatriation flights in June
The newly accredited Indian High Commissioner to Sri Lanka Gopal Baglay paid a courtesy call on Minister of Foreign Relations Dinesh Gunawardena at the Republic Building today, the Ministry of Foreign Relations said. On his first working day as the High Commissioner after presenting credentials on 14 May 2020, High Commissioner Baglay exchanged views on a wide range of bilateral issues with the Foreign Relations Minister during his call
The government will hold a meeting today to formulate a new plan to repatriate migrant workers from the middle-east after many returnees were found to be COVID 19 positive, and one 51-year old woman died from the disease
Amid calls by the opposition parties for auditing of the amount so far spent by the government in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic in the country, the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) has announced that the Prime Minister Corona Relief Fund (CRF) has swelled to over Rs4 billion
Apart from coronavirus pandemic, two more threats — locust attack and possible flooding — are looming over Pakistan and the authorities have been working on measures to counter all of them, said National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) Chairman Lt Gen Mohammad Afzal on Tuesday
When Pankaj Shahi, owner of a mango orchard in Belghat area of Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state, saw a few bats lying dead in a nearby orchard on Tuesday, he informed the forest officials. By the time the forest team arrived, more bats dropped dead from the trees and the tally had gone up to 52
Twenty-one people have died of coronavirus in the last 24 hours, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said today
The number of Bangladeshi police personnel who recovered after testing COVID-19 positive crossed 1,100 today
At least three people drowned and 16 others went missing as a boat capsized in the Jamuna river in Sirajganj's Chowhali upazila this noon
The Eid ceasefire between the Afghan government and the Taliban ends Tuesday. But the calls for the extension of the ceasefire get stronger both from the Afghan government and the public
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan said that an Iranian delegation arrived in Kabul on Tuesday to discuss the incident of Afghan migrants’ torturing by the country’s border guards on the borderline with Afghanistan
Afghan peace negotiation team is ready to carry intra-Afghan talks with the Taliban—a group that had hammered out peace deal with US on late February in Qatar
With the recording of 658 new COVID-19 cases within the past 24 hours, the tally has reached 11, 831 across Afghanistan, as the country is going through its peaking glassy of the pandemic virus
The World Health Organization (WHO) has donated 5000 more test kits for COVID-19 to the Maldives
