Taliban insurgents are going after what is left of main pockets of government resistance in northern Afghanistan as they intensify their attacks on  Balkh and Takhar, the two key northern provinces which have resisted the Taliban offensive so far

Authorities in Bangladesh have decided to lift all travel restrictions on public transport from Wednesday next week despite the daily Covid-19 case count remaining as high as 10,000 and hospitals still struggling to accommodate surging patients

The Taliban made a major push into big Afghan cities this week, resulting in intense air bombing campaigns from the Afghan Air Force and the US forces in an effort to slow down the Taliban’s offensives

After almost missing the revised deadline of 16 weeks for the second dose of Covid-19 vaccination, Bhutan has now vaccinated more than 95 percent of its eligible adult population by administering double doses to each of its citizens of about 800,000 people

One of the suspects arrested concerning the assassination attempt on Speaker and former Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed has been released from police custody

Close on the heels of the visit of two top Pakistani officials to Washington, the US State Department has revised its travel advisory for Pakistan, upgrading it from "no travel", to "avoid unnecessary travels", saying the country’s security situation has improved in recent years

The Taliban on Saturday claimed the capture of the strategically important city Sheberghan, capital of the northern Jowzjan province

Iterating that his government gave topmost priority to the poor whose lives were destabilised during the coronavirus crisis, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said an estimated 800 million Indians have got free food rations so far during the ongoing pandemic

Aiming to check the spread of the rampaging Delta variant of Covid-19, Bangladesh on Saturday kicked off another phase of its mass vaccination drive aimed at inoculating 3.5 million people in six days, leaving behind months of uncertainty when the country had run out of vaccines

The Bangladesh government revised downwards its gross domestic product (GDP) growth for the fiscal year 2019-20 [ July to June] to 3.51, almost 2 points less than the 5.25 percent that the government had maintained so far

Pakistan National Security Advisor Mooed Yusuf this week said in the United States that his country would not recognize a “forceful takeover” in Afghanistan and, without naming the Taliban, which is seen widely as a progeny of Islamabad, added they would support a negotiated settleme

The Taliban on Friday assassinated the director of Afghanistan’s Government Information Media Center, days after a failed bid on the country’s defense minister

Acting fast on an issue that could potentially send political and communal tempers soaring, Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Friday ordered the immediate arrest of the culprits and reconstruction of a Hindu temple desecrated by a Muslim mob in a conservative town of eastern Punjab

India has launched a website to serve as a platform for connecting Indians all over the world for the country’s coming 75th Independence Day celebrations

The 2021 survey of the critically endangered white-bellied heron in Bhutan indicates numbers have fallen compared with 2020