The Bangladesh Bank will release the fund to the commercial banks while the entrepreneurs will apply for the loans by submitting estimates of the money they need to pay wages and allowances of workers and employees

Rajbiraj (HIMALAYAN NEWS SERVICE): Nine persons from Rajbiraj, Saptari, who had participated in a Muslim congregation in India and returned home after secretly crossing the border have been placed in quarantine

Sri Lanka’s gross domestic product grew 2.3 percent in 2019, down from 3.3 percent a year earlier, the statistics office said as the country started to stabilize after a currency collapse triggered by money printed to keep rates down in 2018, ECONOMYNEXT reported

Sri Lanka is searching for 36 passengers who had arrived in Sri Lanka in Malindo Air 0D-185 flight on March 17, after one person in the aircraft was confirmed to have Coronavirus Army Chief Shavendra Silva said

The Pakistan government has decided to extend the ongoing lockdown for another two weeks until April 14 to contain the spread of novel coronavirus in the country, it was reported

Pakistan has welcomed the recent announcement by the Afghan leadership regarding the formation of a negotiation team for the much-awaited intra-Afghan dialogue with the Taliban as per the peace deal signed by the militant group with the US, a media report said on Thursday

India's National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday registered a case against the Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP) over the recent gurudwara terror attack in Afghanistan's Kabul in which 27 people died, making it the first case registered for terror activity outside India

Special ferry flights of Japan Airlines and the Iraqi government have been allowed to operate to Delhi for repatriation of Japanese and Iraqi citizens

Although nearly two decades have passed since the collapse of Taliban regime, Afghanistan has been in a whirl of violent extremism and insurgency and endured nearly as many years of unbroken warfare

At least eight members of the same family were killed and two others injured on Wednesday after their vehicle was hit by a roadside explosion in Afghanistan's restive southwestern province of Helmand, a police official told EFE

The government has moved to suspend all public programmes marking Pahela Baishakh, the Bengali New Year, as part of its efforts to halt the spread of the novel coronavirus

As many troops as necessary will be deployed to stem the coronavirus outbreak in Bangladesh, Chief of Army Staff General Aziz Ahmed has said

All seven provinces of Nepal have started COVID-19 sample testing after receiving Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) machines on Tuesday

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan's Coronavirus Relief Fund is accepting donations from today (Wednesday) to help those "who have been made destitute by the lockdown" imposed due to the Covid-19 outbreak

In a show of solidarity, Bhutanese contributed millions of Ngultrums to the Covid-19 relief fund in the past week