In encouraging signs, the Daily New Cases Covid 19 cases in India have fallen below 200,000 to a level seen 40 days before (Daily new cases were 184,372 on 14th April 2021)

Pakistan's literacy rate among children aged 10-year-old and above have stagnated at 60 percent, media reports said

Afghan special forces liberated 41 captives from a Taliban prison in the western province of Herat, the Afghan Ministry of Defence said on Tuesday

Former Sri Lankan Prime Minister and UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe has advised the government to follow medical advice and control the spread of the coronavirus infection, but said all citizens will not be able to receive the vaccine this year

The World Bank has approved USD 600 million for two projects in Bangladesh to help over 1.75 million poor and vulnerable people, The Daily Star reported

The United Nations has launched the Nepal Covid-19 Response Plan calling for financial support of USD 83.7 million to mobilize an emergency response over the next three months to assist 750,000 of the most vulnerable Nepalis affected by the pandemic, The Kathmandu Post reported

Bangladesh has confirmed two cases of rare black fungus, also known as mucormycosis, a disease that has wreaked havoc in several Indian states, especially among the people who recovered from Covid

Sri Lanka’s Department of Meteorology has warned that the cyclonic storm YAAS will become “very severe” over the next 24 hours with wind speeds up to 60-70 kph

Bangladesh Bank has approved a $200 million US dollar currency swap with Sri Lanka’s central bank. Bangladesh and Sri Lanka agreed to the arrangement during the visit of Sri Lanka Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa to Dhaka earlier this year

Nepal’s Foreign Minister Pradeep Kumar Gyawali hd a telephonic conversation with US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman and discussed bilateral cooperation including the Covid situation in Nepal

Pharmaceutical major Roche India on Monday announced that it has launched the first batch of antibody cocktail against COVID-19 in the country

India's gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate is likely to inch up to two per cent in Q4 of the fiscal year 2020-21, investment information and credit rating agency ICRA said

Australia will close down its embassy in Kabul this week, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced on Tuesday, citing the uncertain security environment, thus making it the first major country to shut down its mission after the announcement of foreign troop withdrawal from Afghanistan

Taking forward the growing partnership in agriculture between Israel and India, the two governments have agreed to enhance their cooperation in agriculture and signed a three-year work program agreement for development in agriculture cooperation, while affirming the ever-growing bilateral partnership and recognizing the centrality of agriculture and water sectors in the bilateral relationship

Indian High Commission (IHC) officials along with their family members were quarantined upon their arrival in Pakistan after one of them tested positive for coronavirus on Sunday