The Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority (PCAA) has completed the scrutiny process of 262 pilots, while show-cause notices have been issued to 193 pilots suspected of having 'dubious' flying licenses, the media reported on Monday

The Punjab Primary and Secondary Healthcare Department withdrew the government's lockdown order on Sunday, allowing resumption of "pre-COVID-19 practices subject to adoption of SOPs/guidelines"

Former United National party (UNP) parliamentarian Vajira Abeywardena has said that the UNP Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe made a statement last Friday (07) that he was ready to resign from the leadership of the party

Sri Lanka’s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has published 28 ministries and 40 state ministries identifying their specific functions

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has directed the authorities to make the preparations to deal with another possible wave of prolonged flooding in Bangladesh next month

Seventeen more Bangladeshi Tabligh Jamaat members, including eight women, returned home last night after languishing in an Indian jail for 40 days

US peace envoy Zalmay Khalilzad on Twitter welcomed the Loya Jirga’s declaration and President Ghani’s decision to sign the decree ordering the release of the remaining prisoners

At least two people were wounded in a magnetic mine blast in Kabul city on Monday morning, eyewitnesses said

The Parliament’s Committee on Independent Institutions has advised the Attorney General’s Office to formulate a bill that would grant power to the government and parliament to regulate media outlets in the Maldives in the form of a media commission

As the pandemic severely hits the economy, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the rural economy of India is on a strong footing, bucking the overall economic slowdown, courtesy the "record" procurement of farmers' produce by the government

Though its tally of COVID-19 cases has crossed 21.53 lakh (over two million) so far, India is continuing with its policy of ramping up tests and has set a new high of over 7 lakh (700,000) tests in a single day, the Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry said on Sunday

India categorically said on Sunday that Gautam Buddha was born in Lumbini in Nepal thereby defusing a potentially new controversy with Nepal over  Buddha's birthplace after Kathmandu had responded to remarks attributed to External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar

There has been a 50 percent decline in incidents of security forces killed in Jammu & Kashmir during operations this year so far compared to last year's corresponding period, data has revealed

The Indian Embassy in Kathmandu on Sunday handed over 10 ICU ventilators to the Nepal Army, which were provided by the Indian Army, to assist Nepal’s defence force in its fight against the COVID-19 pandemic

Amid the continuing diplomatic standoff between Nepal and India over the ongoing boundary dispute, the government is seeking suggestions on how to get India to sit down for talks