The Bangladesh government has allowed people aged 40 and above to register for inoculation against COVID-19 as only a fraction of the people eligible for the shots are responding to the campaign

At least 13 bridges that were haphazardly constructed over rivers surrounding Dhaka city are set to be demolished to make way for smooth water traffic, officials have said

US President Joe Biden and India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi committed themselves to work closely on a range of issues from fighting terrorism and upholding territorial integrity to defeating the COVID-19 pandemic, rebuilding the global economy and promoting democratic values, according to the White House

At least 202 people are missing while 18 bodies have been recovered so far after a flash flood inundated a power project at Raini village in Uttarakhand's Chamoli district in the upper Himalayas, the state government said on Monday

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has appealed to the farmers to end their two-month-long protests and initiate talks to resolve the issue while assuring that the minimum support price, or MSP, for their produce will continue

Nepal Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli on Monday said that the ongoing border disputes with India will be resolved through diplomatic talks

Nepal's Minister of Communications and Information Technology Parbat Gurung said discussion was on with the Ministry of Health and Population to immunise members of the Federation of Nepali Journalists with Covishield vaccine free of cost

In a grim milestone, Pakistan's overall coronavirus death toll crossed the 12,000 mark on Monday, after the country registered 59 additional fatalities in the last 24 hours

Officials of Pakistan's Counter-Terrorism Department of the Sindh Police on Monday killed one and arrested five suspected militants in an intelligence-based operation in Karachi and foiled a potential terror plot, according to officials

Wide scale irregularities in administration of vaccination in Pakistan's Sindh province have come to the forefront, including administering the Chinese Sinopharm vaccine to people over 60 years of age, non frontline health workers and totally unrelated people, sources confirmed to The News

All Sri Lankan citizens between the ages of 30 – 60 years will receive the COVID-19 vaccine from the 01st of March at 4,000 centers island-wide, State Minister of Primary Health Care, Epidemics, and COVID Disease Control, (Dr.) Sudarshini Fernandopulle said

Two Bangladesh Army officers visited the Army Aqua Nodal Centre in Arunachal Pradesh for four days for training in white-water rafting, defence officials said on Monday

Pakistan has around 365 Hindu temples; among them, 287 are encroached upon by land mafias, and just 65 of them are currently being managed by the Hindu community

Maldivian Foreign Minister Abdullah Shahid on Monday departed for his two-day visit to Bangladesh on the invitation of his Bangladeshi counterpart, Sun news reported. During the visit the two nations are expected to sign two important memoranda of understanding

The Indian security establishment has found that in the last three years around 100 youth from Kashmir who travelled to Pakistan on a visa are missing