The United State is looking forward to partnering with Sri Lanka’s newly elected government and has called for upholding of human rights and rule of law

The Bangladesh Police on Thursday took Teknaf Police Station officer-in-charge (OC) Pradeep Kumar Das and eight others into custody, hours after an arrest warrant was issued against him in a case filed over killing of former Army Sinha Md Rashed Khan in police fire

As many as 161 people have lost their lives to the ongoing floods in Bangladesh, mostly from drowning, according to government data

The US State Department in a statement welcomed the Loya Jirga in Kabul, saying the Jirga will consolidate national support for peace in Afghanistan and determine the fate of the remaining Taliban prisoners which are a major obstacle to starting the intra-Afghan talks

Referring to the growing criticism of the millions of afghanis allocated by the Afghan government for the consultative Loya Jirga, Amrullah Saleh, the first vice president of Afghanistan, in a Facebook post on Thursday said that 4.2 billion Afs ($55.8M USD) are spent on the security of the VIPs in the country on an annual basis

After the completion of one year of the abrogation of Article 370 in Jammu & Kashmir, active militancy is in its "lowest" phase in the erstwhile state in decades and all terror groups are "leaderless" due to the continuous anti-terror operations by the security forces as well as the administration

India's Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Thursday asserted that the spread of coronavirus has been contained in the country, citing how half the total cases are from three states only and another 30 per cent from seven others

A 23-year-old student, K. Goutam Kumar, has developed an UV-E SAFE kit that helps in sanitising money, documents, files and other belongings within a minute

Scientists on Thursday explained the extreme rainfall event in Mumbai to an anomaly that will become a recurrent pattern with increasing warming of the ocean and poleward shift of the low-level jetstream that impacts the Indian summer monsoon

Samtse court sentenced a 16-year-old student from Gomtu to two years in prison for breach of public order and tranquillity and for criminal nuisance last month

Former Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay is among 350 De-Suups who completed the 41st accelerated De-Suung training programme on August 1 from Jigmeling, Sarpang

Nepal's Ministry of Health and Population has recorded 360 new cases of the coronavirus infection on Thursday, taking the nationwide count to 21,750

Police in Islamabad has submitted a report to the Pakistan Supreme Court regarding the kidnapping case of a journalist, who was abducted in the capital city last month and released hours later the same day, it was reported on Thursday

A Frontier Corps soldier was martyred while two others were critically injured in separate incidents of violence against Pakistan Army posts by terrorists and Afghan Border Police from across the border, the Foreign Office said in a statement late Wednesday

Pakistan has paid back Saudi Arabia $1 billion out of a $3 billion loan that it secured one and a half year ago to avoid default on international debt obligations after the kingdom decided to reduce its financial support, highly placed sources said