Parliament’s Economic Committee has approved to collect a tax of USD 8 from every tourist arrival to the country, when it reopens, due to the COVID-19 situation in the country

The National Emergency Operations Center (NEOC) has announced that five more individuals have made recoveries from the COVID-19 virus in the Maldives

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina called West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and enquired about the damages caused by Cyclone Amphan

A Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) plane with over 100 people onboard crashed in a residential area in Karachi near the city's Jinnah International Airport on Friday, a spokesman for the flag carrier said, but did not confirm any casualties

The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Pakistan has increased to 50,694 with 1,067 deaths, the Health Ministry said

The body count from the coronavirus infection in Bangladesh climbed to 432 after 24 new deaths, the highest in a single day, were registered

Bangladesh-based Beximco Pharmaceuticals has become the world's first company to produce a generic version of the antiviral drug Remdesivir, originally developed by US-based Gilead Sciences, it was reported on Friday

Moody's Investors Service said on Friday that economic damage as a result of India's coronavirus lockdown will likely be extensive and reflect the country's inherent economic vulnerability and fiscal constraints

Pakistan’s current account deficit – the difference between country’s expenditure and income – spiked to $572 million in April 2020 but remained largely under control and affordable on the back of recent growth in the country’s foreign currency reserves

Bangladesh is on course to availing $250 million in loans from the World Bank this fiscal year to bring in reforms to address jobs challenges by modernising trade and investment environment, strengthening systems that protect workers and improving policies that enhance access to jobs for vulnerable populations

Bangladesh has incurred losses worth 11 billion taka ($129 million) due to cyclone Amphan which has caused damages to housing, infrastructure, fisheries, livestock, water resources and agriculture, according to initial government estimates

Afghanistan's Ministry of Public Health has registered 542 new cases of coronavirus that gets the total number of people infected with the virus to 9,216 across the country

The Afghan cabinet has approved a plan to gradually ease the Kabul lockdown which will allow businesses to open for certain hours, while President Ashraf Ghani has urged citizens to stay in their homes during Eid, says the Presidential Palace

In his meeting with the US Special Envoy for Afghanistan Reconciliation, Zalmay Khalilzad, the head of the Taliban Qatar Based Political Office; Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar has warned that “any further” delay in the implementation of the US-Taliban peace deal would “harm” the fragile Afghan peace process

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and political rival Abdullah Abdullah signed a power-sharing agreement on Sunday, nearly two months after both declared themselves the winner of last September’s presidential elections