India's contribution to the improved global growth outlook extends well beyond the immediate AI boom or the performance of energy-exporting economies. The IMF's assessment points instead to a combination of domestic demand, demographics, market expansion and structural reforms as important drivers of India's longer-term prospects.
Bangladesh has sought a post-COVID-19 extension of UK's Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) facility to Bangladeshi products until 2030 to boost trade and greater support to low-carbon climate-resilient development strategies for a faster post-pandemic SDGs recovery
Australia has provided Bangladesh Armed Forces with five tonnes of personnel protection equipment (PPE) under a defence cooperation programme to help prevent the spread of coronavirus
The death toll from Wednesday flash floods in Parwan rose to 129 on Saturday as the search for bodies trapped in the debris continued for the fourth day, the provincial governor’s spokesperson Wahida Shahkar said
President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih has stated that a full lockdown in Male’ area would bring with it several difficult challenges for the public
Maldives Police Service has launched an investigation into the rally held by the opposing PPM-PNC coalition on Friday
A domestic intelligence agency for the German state of Saarland has revealed that Pakistan had sought technology for weapons of mass destruction (WMD) "in order to retain a serious deterrent potential against 'arch-enemy' India"
The ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) postponed its Secretariat meeting scheduled for tomorrow till September 3, as two of the Secretariat members had to go into self-quarantine
Nepal Police arrested several e-commerce entrepreneurs, including more than 20 delivery persons, yesterday, stating that home delivery services were against prohibitory orders issued by the District Administration Office, Kathmandu, on August 26
On August 16, police arrested Bijay Mahara, 19, at his home in Garuda Municipality-8, Rautahat, along with 10 others over their alleged involvement in a murder that took place a day earlier.
A massive thunderbolt in Nepal’s remote Jumla district on Sunday killed at least 500 sheep grazing in pastures high in the mountains, according to belated reports from the remote mountain region of northwestern Nepal
An Anti-terror court (ATC) on Friday convicted three top leaders of Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) in various cases of terror financing
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday reiterated the government’s decision to reopen all educational institutions from Sept 15 and directed the provinces to finalise necessary arrangements in this regard
Though the storm had passed, it left a devastated Karachi, Pakistan's port city, in its wake on Friday, reeling from the record-breaking downpour the previous day and worried about the prediction of more rainfall
At least 106 people have died and 52 others injured in rain-related incidents across Pakistan, according to the country's disaster management authority
A 29-year-old Sri Lankan mother has given birth to quintuplets this morning at the De Soysa Maternity Hospital in Colombo, the hospital reported
