A Hindu cobbler was rescued by police in Pakistan’s Sindh province after kidnappers released a ransom video demanding five million rupees from his family for his safe return home, Tribune reported

Around 119 former and incumbent state officials of the Maldives government are in the list of the suspected beneficiary in the MMPRC scandal that happened during the reign of former president Abdullah Yameen, reported Raajje TV

The United States has asked its citizens not to travel to Nepal amid exploding COVID-19 crisis in the Himalayan country. Nepal has almost touched 10,000 daily counts, reported The Kathmandu Post

The Indian government Wednesday opposed the branding of B.1.617 Covid variant as "Indian variant", pointing out that the word "Indian" was never used by the World Health Organization (WHO)

India, a country of 1.3 billion people, on Wednesday recorded the highest single-day COVID-19 toll with 4,205 infected patients dying across the country in the last 24 hours. The COVID-19 toll has now crossed the 250,000 mark

The coronavirus infections in India have reached the peak according to a tracker developed by the researchers at Cambridge Judge Business School and the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, said a Bloomberg report quoted by IBNS

Authorities in Sri Lanka are planning to issue digital vaccination IDs to vaccinated people

The Taliban has no justification for their jihad in Afghanistan now that foreign forces are leaving the country, said top UK commander General Sir Nicholas Carter

Bilawal Bhutto, the leader of the opposition PPP in Pakistan, mocked Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan’s recent visit to Saudi Arabia

Jammu and Kashmir: Civil Secretariat reopens in Srinagar

Nearly 90 per cent of India is witnessing a high Covid positivity rate, the government said on Tuesday adding that 640 districts out of the 734 are above the national threshold level of 5 per cent positivity rate

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will not travel to the UK to attend the G-7 summit in June, the government informed

After 44 Aligharh Muslim University staff, 19 professors and 25 non-teaching staff died of Covid-19, the varsity's vice-chancellor has written to the  Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) asking for genome sequencing of what he suspects a "lethal" variant of the novel coronavirus

Top US infectious diseases expert Anthony Fauci said on Tuesday that India's experience has taught the United States not to underestimate the potency of a second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic

The Balochistan government seems to be conflicted about the actual number of coronavirus patients admitted to various hospitals across the province, an episode exposing how Pakistan's actual picture of COVID-19 is grimmer than the official version