Bhutan is set to become the world’s first country to vaccinate all its eligible population by this month’s end

Nepal’s ruling party, the CPN-UML, headed by Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli, is likely to avert a split as Oli and the rebel faction, led by former prime minister Madhav Nepal and Jhalanath Khanal, are close to striking a deal

Customs revenues of the Afghan government slumped by almost 70 percent in the last two months as the Taliban, who are going all out militarily to wrest power and control the country, extended its control over strategic locations, port towns, and key trade routes

Prime Minister Narendra Modi,  stung by domestic and international criticism over his government's handling of the pandemic that took more than 400,000 lives and its poor image projection over a number of controversies, dropped his health minister and his deputy in a major cabinet rejig that also saw the sacking of the powerful IT and law minister, the information and environment minister as well as the education minister,  all for purported poor performance

Authorities in Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir, ordered the reopening of all parks on weekdays - except Saturdays and Sundays - for visitors who are either vaccinated or carrying a valid negative RT-PCR within 48 hours

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has congratulated the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) — the nerve centre of Pakistan's coronavirus response — the team of the Ehsaas Programme and the State Bank of Pakistan after The Economist ranked Pakistan among the best performing countries in handling the coronavirus pandemic

Amid the significant reduction in the daily Covid-19 cases, the Maldives lifted curfew from capital Male and announced relaxation for vaccinated people in interisland travel

A senior Taliban delegation, headed by the group negotiator Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanekzai, has traveled to Tehran to discuss “bilateral issues” with Iran

Sri Lanka on Wednesday received 50,000 doses of Russian Sputnik-V Covid-19 vaccines as part of the deal it had signed for the supply of 7 million vaccines from Russia, media reports say

Bangladesh’s imports in the first eleven months of the current fiscal have recorded 17.32 percent growth in comparison to the same period the previous year, indicating a revival of economic activities driven by  increased domestic demand

There were as many as 40 deaths of tribal children in Maharashtra's Palghar district in the months of April and May due to malnutrition, thee district administration has confirmed

Calling the country’s victory in the United Nations General Assembly presidential election “a proud accomplishment”, Maldives President Ibrahim Mohammed Solih said it showed the archipelago’s diplomatic efforts gained global recognition

Former Maldives president Mohammad Nasheed, who escaped an assassination bid on 6 May, has expressed his dissatisfaction with the ongoing probe into the case and asked his government to also find the people who planned and funded the attack

The withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan is over 90 percent complete, Pentagon’s Central Command (CENTCOM) said on Tuesday, indicating the country is just days away from ending its 20-year-long military presence in the war-torn country

Afghan security forces have launched large-scale operations against the Taliban to retake the districts that had earlier fallen to the Taliban, said the country’s National Security Advisor Hamidullah Mohib. The Taliban militia has taken control of over 100 districts in the past weeks