Beximco Pharmaceuticals, one of the leading drugmakers of Bangladesh, announced it will invest with the Serum Institute of India (SII) to ensure Bangladesh receives COVID-19 vaccine on a priority basis, once approved by the regulator

The desire expressed by the two Dhaka city mayors to take over the responsibility of drainage management from Dhaka Wasa in a bid to end the capital's perennial waterlogging problem has widely been regarded as a popular idea

With no new COVID-19 cases for a week, residents in buffer zones and gewogs in Paro - Bhutan's valley town where its only international airport is located - started moving out of their homes yesterday

India has received the highest rainfall in August this year since 1976 -- 25 percent more than the average - after recording 10 percent less downpour than the average in July -  thus setting a new record after 44 years, the IMD said

The Afghan government and the Taliban both see the start of the intra-Afghan negotiations conditional to the release of their prisoners from each other's prisons

India on Friday breached its own previous day record of single-day spike of over 75,000 cases, by registering an unprecedented 77,266 fresh coronavirus infections in 24 hours

A weaker immune response, along with a higher rate of diabetes, obesity and hypertension among men has made them more susceptible to succumbing to the coronavirus than women, with some health experts claiming that women are "endowed by nature" with better immunity

Sarpang like any other dzongkhags in the country was on its way to ease the lockdown when a frontline worker test positive for COVID-19 yesterday

Nepal reported 1,100 new coronavirus cases in 24 hours, a record-high number of single-day infections in the Himalayan country

Nepal’s billionaire industrialist and a Member of Parliament Binod Chaudhary has tested positive for coronavirus infection

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has said that allowing his predecessor Nawaz Sharif to leave the country was a "mistake" and that his government "regretted" the decision

Pakistan has called on New Delhi to share initial findings of the death of 11 Pakistani citizens, who were found dead inside a rented farmhouse in Jodhpur on August 9

The Pakistan Foreign Office on Thursday accused India of blocking the implementation of the International Court of Justice’s verdict in spy Kulbhushan Jadhav’s case by not cooperating in the legal proceedings in the Islamabad High Court

Prime Minister and Finance Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa stated in Parliament that the government has decided to review all project loans of nearly nine billion rupees received during the previous administration

Norway is expecting to sign a new agreement with Sri Lanka on the development of fisheries management tools by next month, Norwegian Ambassador to Sri Lanka Trine Jøranli Eskedal informed Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa last evening at Temple Trees. From 2013 to 2019, USD 2.3 million has been disbursed to the Sri Lankan fisheries sector