Nepal President Bidhya Devi Bhandari, on the recommendation of the Council of Ministers, today summoned the budget session of Parliament at 4:00pm on May 8

The World Bank (WB) has said that it has prepared a $247.5 million programme to support Pakistan’s frontline healthcare staff and those whose lives have been affected by the novel coronavirus pandemic, which has aggravated the human and economic sufferings across the globe

With 2,553 new cases and 72 fatalities in the past 24 hours, the total number of COVID-19 cases in the country climbed to 42,533 on Monday morning, the Union Health Ministry said

Nearly 400 Afghan civilians have been killed and over 500 others received injuries in different act of violence carried out by the Taliban group in the past few weeks, security official said on Saturday

At least 23 Afghan migrants are alleged to have been killed by Iranian border troops, witnesses say. The Afghans who were trying to cross the border illegally, were arrested by Iranian border guards and were drowned

Sonali Bank has approved a loan of Tk 1,000 crore to Biman Bangladesh Airlines, which sought Tk 1,500 from the state-owned bank as it was reeling from a fund crisis due to ongoing global travel restrictions thanks to Covid-19 pandemic

The Economist magazine has placed Bangladesh on the ninth position in terms of different indicators of financial strength among 66 emerging markets in peril over the coronavirus crisis

Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli appears to have averted the political crisis that threatened to dislodge him from power

Parents of slain American journalist Daniel Pearl have approached the Pakistan Supreme Court against the Sindh High Courts (SHC) verdict acquitting and releasing the prime accused in their sons murder case 18 years ago, a media report said

Pakistan witnessed a record number of deaths from the coronavirus with nearly half of them being reported from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa alone, as the tally of countrywide confirmed cases surged past 18,700 on Saturday

Sri Lanka reported 15 new cases Saturday, raising the total number of people contracted the coronavirus to 705, the Health Ministry said

India is all set to supply around 14,000 metric tons of rice to Bhutan, a member of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC), from the Food Corporation of India (FCI) depot in Siliguri

With 2,644 new cases and 83 fatalities in the past 24 hours, the total number of COVID-19 cases in the country climbed to 39,980 on Sunday morning, the Union Health Ministry said

Casualties in militant attacks in Pakistan have slightly increased during the month of April, though the number of such assaults remained the same as compared to March, according to figures by an Islamabad-based think tank

Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharifs cardiac surgery has been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, his daughter Maryam Nawaz has said