The US Embassy in Kabul on Sunday denied reports of an imminent evacuation and said it has “no plans to close the embassy”

In a significant citizen-friendly move by an embattled government, Nepal will soon launch the Citizen App--a mobile application for citizens to avail all government services - as the council of ministers has approved the Citizen App (Operation and Management ) Directive 2021

Authorities in Nepal have extended restrictions in the Kathmandu Valley, comprising three districts, for another ten days and also scrapped the odd-even rule it had earlier imposed for public transport

Asserting that the DNA of all Indians was the same, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat asked Muslims not to get "trapped in the cycle of fear" that Islam was in danger in India

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday addressed the CoWin Global Conclave as India offered the CoWIN platform as a digital public good to the world to combat COVID19

India-made Covaxin's recently published result on efficacy will help the vaccine in getting World Health Organisation’s (WHO) emergency approval, the chairperson of National Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation in India (NTAGI), Dr NK Arora said

Even as Jammu and Kashmir is opening up in phases, it is also ramping up medical infrastructure, particularly in childcare, to face a possible third wave of coronavirus infection which many scientists have warned about

Former Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has asked the government to introduce an amendment to the country's notorious Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) so that the act could not be used for arresting people for making posts on social media

Bangladesh may soon face an oxygen crisis, the country’s health authorities have warned, if the Covid-19 cases continue to rise at the current pace. Presently, there is no gap between supply and demand

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has sent 2,600 kg of mangoes as a gift for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The consignment left Bangladesh’s Benapole land port today

Agriculture made up 66.9 percent of Nepal’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 1970. Close to five decades later, agriculture accounted for just 25 percent of the GDP in 2018, although 60 percent of Nepalis still depended on it for a living, according to a report

Nepal’s ruling CPN-UML chair and prime minister K.P. Sharma Oli has given an ultimatum to the Madhav Kumar Nepal-led party faction to withdraw the signatures in the writ petition filed at the Supreme Court demanding the restoration of the House of Representatives and the appointment of Nepali Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba as prime minister

Bhutan’s Prime Minister Dr Lotay Tshering has said that the second dose of Covid-19 vaccination would be given before the end of the 16th week after the first dose

Border closure, travel restrictions and Covid-19 vaccine passport systems have limited the higher education opportunities for thousands of Bhutanese students who finished higher secondary school this year

Amid the deteriorating security situation in northern Afghanistan, Iran, Turkey and Pakistan have closed their respective consulate offices in Mazar-e-Sharif, the provincial center of Balkh, local media reports said