A team working to find facts about allegations on the drowning of Afghan migrants by Iranian border, claims that they were drowned by Iranian forces inside Iran

India's Health and Family Welfare Ministry on Monday said that the recovery rate of the Covid-19 patients in the country improved upto 31.15 per cent with a total 1,559 individuals cured from the disease in the last 24 hours

COVID-19 spreads through not following dos and don'ts and neglecting precautions, not religion or region, India's Health Ministry said on Monday, terming the reports of religion-based mapping of COVID-19 patients as "baseless, incorrect and irresponsible"

A study is on over the impact of the gas leak from South Korean company LG Polymers on the overall environment in the surrounding villages while authorities have sent samples from water bodies including a major water reservoir for analysis amid public apprehension that they were contaminated by chemical toxins

As Pakis­tan embraces further relaxation in lockdown amid a sharp rise in death toll and coronavirus cases last week, the government hopes that the virus will not spread as rapidly as previously had been estimated but takes measures to prepare the nation for the worst

The capital administration of Pakistan has extended the lockdown to prevent the spread of the coronavirus until May 31, but with a number of new exemptions

The Parliament House came alive on Monday as parliamentarians gathered to hold a much-debated assembly session after a lull about two months, caused by the outbreak of the coronavirus

A Pakistani human rights activist has called Islamabad's move to fortify its occupation of Gilgit-Baltistan by holding elections in the region illegal

Colombo resumed economic activities on Monday after Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa announced that public and private sector employees could re-start work after over a month since a curfew was declared on March 20 amid the COVID-19 pandemic

Sri Lanka is on the right track to contain the COVID-19 pandemic through increased tracking, testing, isolation, and treatment strategy, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday

Four explosions rocked the Afghan capital of Kabul on Monday, security officials said, adding that there were no immediate reports of any casualties

The Afghan government on Monday temporarily stopped the release of Taliban prisoners, saying the Taliban must bring its total number of released security force members to 200, while so far they have only "freed 105."

A group of activists and residents held a protest outside the Iranian consulate in Herat on Monday, calling for the punishment of those who were involved in the drowning of Afghan migrants in the border areas with Iran

The National Commission for Women and Children (NCWC) is seeing an increase in domestic violence cases in Bhutan in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic

The tally of novel coronavirus infections in Bangladesh has soared to 15,691 after a 24-hour count of confirmed cases exceeded 1,000 for the first time in another grim milestone