Soon travelling between Indian and Bhutan will be possible by train.  A survey has been commissioned by India’s Railway Board to establish the Mujnai-Nyoenpaling line in a bid to provide a cross-border rail link between the neighbouring nations

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday put immense importance to research on demand, production and marketing to flourish small and medium enterprises (SMEs) of the country, The Independent reported.

Jalila  Haider, a human rights activist from Balochistan province of Pakistan, will receive the Inter­national Women of Courage award from US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo on Wednesday. 

Soon travelling between Indian and Bhutan will be possible by train.  A survey has been commissioned by India’s Railway Board to establish the Mujnai-Nyoenpaling line in a bid to provide a cross-border rail link between the neighbouring nations.

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan promised that 2020 would be the year of jobs and housing facilities for deserving people and said it was his government's mission to construct homes for low-income groups of society, Dawn reported.

The Taliban carried out more than a dozen attacks on Afghan army bases, officials said Tuesday, hours after ending a partial truce and throwing into doubt peace talks between Kabul and the insurgents.

India on Monday reassured Bangladesh that the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam will have no implications on its people and the government.

The US-Taliban negotiations that culminated with a peace deal signed in Doha began with former US President Barak Obama's administration, but remained a secret, the spokesperson for Talibans political office in Doha said. The Taliban hopes to reach an agreement with the Afghan government before the total withdrawal of the international troops within 14 months, the spokesman, Suhail Shaheen told Efe news in an interview on Sunday.

A recent study covering 13 towns across four South Asian countries -- India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Pakistan -- in the Hindu Kush Himalayan region shows the Himalayan towns are facing increased water insecurity in the wake of inadequate urban planning coupled with a rapidly changing climate

The international community has welcomed the signing of the historic US-Taliban peace agreement as an important step in achieving a lasting political settlement in Afghanistan.

Women in Peshawar will be able to offer Friday prayers in congregation after a 25-year hiatus as the law and order situation in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province has improved significantly following the launch of successful military operations, a media report said. Until the mid 1990s, women would offer Friday prayers in congregation at Sunehri Masjid (Golden Mosque) situated in the Peshawar cantonment but the practice was abandoned after terrorism badly hit the provincial capital, The Express Tribune said in the report.

The Afghans have appeared generally optimistic in anticipation of the long-awaited peace deal to be signed between the US and the Taliban in Qatar on Saturday following an experimental truce on week-long reduction in violence.

With the coronavirus outbreak showing no sign of abating, expedition operators in Nepal fear that the country was likely to suffer severe economic losses in the Everest climbing season that runs from March to May, it was reported.

After returning to the US from India, US First Lady Melania Trump shared fond memories of her visit to India on social media and and left Twitterati impressed.

Pakistan - where the first two cases of coronavirus has been confirmed of people who travelled from Iran - has suspended flights to and from Iran at midnight in light of the swelling number of coronavirus cases in the neighbouring country