Prime Minister Narendra Modi has lauded the work of a retired Indian Army officer who, along with her father, supported and fed stray animals during the coronavirus pandemic, and said such an initiative was a source of inspiration to society

At least 20 people have died after they got trapped under the rubble of their homes in Mumbai's Chembur and Vikhroli areas following heavy rains that lashed the city and its suburbs for several hours late Saturday night and early this morning

A day after the Sri Lankan regulatory body cleared the Chinese Sinovac Covid vaccine, three members of the expert panel which approved the vaccine resigned on Saturday, citing disregard to their advice against the approval, media reports said

Silsila Alikhil, the 26-year-old daughter of the Afghan envoy to Pakistan, was abducted and held for several hours in Islamabad, Pakistan’s capital

Amid continued fighting in Afghanistan, senior leaders of the Afghan government and the Taliban, the main Afghan insurgent group, held discussions in Doha, Qatar in a bid to fast-track the already stalled peace process

Nepal’s new government scrapped the appointments of eleven ambassadors which were made by the previous Oli government at the eleventh hour

Former Maldivian president Mohamed Nasheed has said that for him It will be “very difficult” to support the current government after it withdrew the hate crime bill

As part of its global reach-out to ensure the repatriation of the Rohingya Muslim refugees, Bangladesh has sought Russia's "active and fruitful cooperation" for facilitating the reintegration and return of the Rohingyas to their homeland in Myanmar

The Indian Navy has received two MH-60R multi-role helicopters from the US in a boost to its combat capabilities

Democracy means the protection of minorities and a civilization is judged only by how it treats its minorities, a state high court in India ruled on Friday in a significant pronouncement

The next 100-125 days are critical in the fight against COVID-19, the Indian government said on Friday

Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and his Bangladesh counterpart AK Abdul Momen discussed bilateral and regional connectivity, the vaccine situation, and expanding multifaceted cooperation, while emphasizing on resuming the activities of various joint mechanisms after the Covid scenario improves in both countries, during a meeting on the sidelines of a conference in Tashkent, Uzbekistan

Stopping a third wave of COVID-19 cases is a "priority", Prime Minister Narendra Modi told the chief ministers of six states during a virtual interaction on Friday, and called on them to step up efforts to follow the centre's 'test, track, treat and teeka (vaccinate)' system to contain the virus and also ramp up their health infrastructure

Covid vaccines currently in use in India reduce the chance of hospitalisation or mortality in case of breakthrough infections (or infections that occur after at least one dose of the vaccine), according to the results of an ICMR-funded study

Fighter aircraft of the Afghan Air Force, on their way to operations against the Taliban, have reportedly received warnings from Pakistan not to conduct operations in Spin Boldak, a border town near Pakistan witnessing heavy fighting between Afghan security forces and the Taliban