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

A rights watchdog on Thursday slammed the "draconian and arbitrary" powers given to the "dictatorship-era body", referring to the National Accountability Bureau (NAB), and urged the Pakistani government to stop using the institution to harass and intimidate opponents

Counting of votes cast in Sri Lanka's 16th general elections was underway on Thursday, a poll official announced

Sri Lanka Podujana Party of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has won all the polling divisions in the southern Galle District, taking 72 percent of the valid votes in the district amounting to 27,682

The Bangladesh government has ordered all its employees to return to offices, ending a window for 75 percent of staffers to work from home amid the pandemic

Bangladesh is sending aid, including food, and a medical team to Lebanon after the most powerful blast hit a country that has already been struck down by an economic crisis

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved an additional $3 million in grant assistance for procuring urgently needed medical supplies for emergency response to the coronavirus pandemic in Bangladesh

Economic Minister Fayyaz Ismail has warned that the next six months would be challenging for the Maldives

The government of Maldives has published guidelines for government offices to operate when it reopens on Sunday

Six major states in India have recorded more than one lakh coronavirus cases each since the outbreak of the pandemic, with the country logging over 19 lakh cases and nearly 40,000 deaths so far

Heavy rains, accompanied by gusty winds of up to 70 kmph, lashed Mumbai city and suburbs, the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) and coastal Konkan for the second consecutive day on Wednesday, hitting suburban train services and disrupting normal life, officials said

Writer, columnist, filmmaker and activist Sadia Dehlvi, a prominent critic of radical interpretations of Islam who urged a holistic understanding of the religion and was also a vocal critic of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act on the ground that it discriminated against Muslims, died here late Wednesday after a prolonged battle with cancer. She had turned 63 on July 16

Mobile cellular subscriptions in Bhutan jumped by 24,558 in the second quarter of 2020, according to statistics published this week by the Ministry of Information and Communications

Keeping in mind the rising cases of COVID-19 within Kathmandu valley and many districts outside, the Ministry of Home Affairs has ordered restrictions in vehicular movement

Fifteen district administration offices have imposed prohibitory order to break the chain of COVID transmission across the country