Almost 80 percent of resort workers have been fully vaccinated in the Maldives and 97 percent have received at least one dose, showed the data released by the country’s tourism ministry

The Taliban has said they won’t agree on a ceasefire until there is a new negotiated government acceptable to all, adding they don’t believe in monopoly of power

In a liberal measure seen as beneficial to the country's growing creative industry, digital content on OTT platforms in Bhutan will not need to go through the existing reviews and certification process as the country’s National Film Commission Secretariat (NFCS) has exempted these platforms from such filtering

In yet another endorsement of its remarkable economic growth story, Bangladesh has now received a pat on the back from the US, which said the country would remain most resilient and continue to attract foreign direct investment (FDI) despite the Covid-induced economic downturn

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has congratulated Sher Bahadur Deuba, Nepal’s newly-appointed prime minister days after the latter won the trust vote in parliament

Bangladesh will go into a two-week strict nationwide lockdown starting today as the Eid relaxation ended on Thursday and the positivity rate of 32 percent in the country touched a new high

As the civil war intensifies in Afghanistan, Taliban insurgents have reportedly killed over 100 people in Spin Boldak, a border town of the southern province of Kandahar in Afghanistan, a media report said, which was later confirmed by Afghan Interior Ministry

Calling the abduction of the daughter of the Afghan envoy in Islamabad a “serious incident”, New Delhi on Thursday lashed out at Pakistan for dragging its name into the issue, saying it was “stooping to a new low”

Maldivian President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih, who is on a three-day private trip to Sri Lanka, on Thursday met his Sri Lankan counterpart Gotabaya Rajapksa

The Maldives and India have on Thursday signed a Memorandum of Understanding on the exchange of pre-arrival information for trade facilitation and control of customs

The Indian Cabinet has approved the establishment of an Integrated Multi-purpose infrastructure Development Corporation for Ladakh, a picturesque Buddhist-dominated strategic area that was carved out of Jammu and Kashmir and made a Union Territory two years ago

The United States has donated 500,000 Rapid Diagnostic Tests (RDTs) to Sri Lanka as part of its commitment to support the island nation’s fight against COVID-19

The Taliban, the main Afghan insurgent group, controls about half of Afghanistan's total district centers, General Mark Milley, the chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff, said, adding the group seems to have gained “strategic momentum”

Former Afghan president Hamid Karzai said that he has suspected for “a long time” that the United States and some of its allies have tried to create a weakened Afghanistan with a splintered government

Days after losing the government,  the CPN-UML, the party headed by Nepal’s former Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli, is now preparing to take on the rebel MPs responsible for the fall of the government