A Bangladeshi barge carrying fly ash sank in a river in West Bengal's South 24 Parganas district today after hitting a submerged pontoon jetty damaged by cyclone Amphan

Opening tourism would depend on the government’s directives and how the pandemic situation will unfold, according to the Director General (DG) of the Tourism Council of Bhutan, Dorji Dhradhul

Nepal's Ministry of Health and Population has confirmed six new cases, in addition to the 72 identified earlier today, and one fatality, taking Nepal’s Covid-19 tally to 682

High-resolution satellite imagery of the Himalaya show details as small as livestock grazing in a field. But what they cannot tell you is how communities on the ground are changing because of natural disasters, political upheavals, or migration

It is for the first time that drones and planes will be used to fight the locust attack in Rajasthan, said B.R. Karwa, project director, Agricultural Technology Management Agency

Pakistan's Chief of the Army Staff, General Qamar Javed Bajwa on Sunday visited the Line of Control (LoC) and warned the country’s eastern neighbour that disturbing the strategic stability matrix in the region can lead to dire consequences, said a statement by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR)

Afghanistan's Ministry of Public Health Monday reported 591 new cases of COVID-19 out of 1,095 samples tested in the last 24 hours, bringing the total to 11,582

The Maldives' Health Protection Agency (HPA) has just announced that 24 individuals have tested positive for COVID-19

Bank of Maldives (BML), which has been forced to close its branches and service centers in an effort to curb the spread of the new coronavirus, has announced that 90 percent of the transactions by its customers amid the outbreak were made online

Local non-profit Advocating the Rights of Children (ARC) has provided food packages to 382 vulnerable children living in 10 islands across the Maldives which have been quarantined due to the spread of the new coronavirus

Sessions will recommence in the Parliament starting from tomorrow, where strict safety and restrictive measures would be implemented

Six days after the beginning of lockdown 4.0, the Indian government on Sunday came up with new Standard Operating Protocol (SOP) to fly out those who are stranded in India due to the lockdown

A record 6,977 new coronavirus cases and 154 more fatalities were reported in the last 24 hours in India, taking the total number of such cases on Monday to 1,38,845, a Health Ministry data revealed

Sikkim reported its first coronavirus case and Arunachal Pradesh a fresh case while Assam registered 64 new cases in the past 24 hours, taking the state's total tally to 392 as on Sunday night

Maharashtra - India's most industrialised state that is also home to the country's financial and entertainment capital - saw its COVID-19 tally crossing the 50K mark with the highest single-day infections of 3,041 patients catapulting the number of cases to 50,231, besides 58 deaths, health officials said. This comes to roughly one death every 25 minutes, and a staggering average 127 new cases recorded every hour in the state