Every Indian will now get a digital health ID, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Monday as he launched the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission

Tensions between the Taliban and Tajikistan, which shares around 1400 km-long border with northern Afghanistan, have been growing ever since the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan

India's Vice Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General C P Mohanty,  has said that if India hadn't invested in its armed forces, then the country would have lost the battles against encroaching Chinese troops in Galwan and Doklam in the Ladakh region

The Nepal government had last month issued a notification announcing the recruitment of overseas job vacancies in Israel for trained caregivers and other jobs

International recognition of the Taliban government was not currently under consideration, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said, adding his country's approach is in line with those of Pakistan, US, and China to see if the group forms a truly inclusive government as it had promised earlier

Nepal's trade deficit increased by 70.6 percent, touching around $1.1 billion, in the first month of the current fiscal year as imports surged to  $1.278 billion and remittances fell around 18 percent to $466 million, putting pressure on the country’s foreign exchange reserves

Amid reports of millions of people in Bangladesh getting sucked into poverty since the Covid pandemic began, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved USD 250 million policy-based loans to support the country’s economic recovery following the deadly viral infection

Noting that neither Holy Quran nor any specific hadith of Prophet Muhammad expressly stipulates a minimum age for conversion to Islam, a court in Pakistan has dismissed a petition filed by a member of the Christian community seeking recovery of his daughter who married a Muslim man after embracing Islam on her “own free will” when she was a minor

Leaders of the Quad, comprising the United States, India, Australia and Japan, at their first in-person summit in Washington, denounced the use of terrorist proxies and demanded an end to support for terrorism, while introducing new areas of cooperation, especially in technology

Declaring that “we're launching a new chapter in the history of US-Indian ties and taking on some of the toughest challenges we face together,” US President Joe Biden and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi discussed at their first in-person summit a fast-changing world throwing up problems and new issues at dizzying speeds

Sri Lanka is in talks with India for a $500 million credit line to buy fuel and delay payments, said a senior Sri Lankan official as its already struggling economy worsened by the weeks-long lockdown and restrictions due to the Covid-19

The US sees a “unity in approach” and “purpose” on the Taliban, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said after his meeting with Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi and added that Taliban’s relations with the world community would depend on the actions it takes

The Pakistan government this week acknowledged the issue of overheating of the economy as trade deficit and import bills--which crossed $2 billion and $12 billion respectively in last two months--continue to grow dramatically over the last few months with an unsustainable pace and now decided to introduce measures to cool down the economy

The Indian Army will add to its armoury 118 new Arjun Mk-1A battle tanks, which have superior firepower, all-terrain mobility and multi-layered protection compared to older models. Arjun has been a mainstay of the Indian Army for the last 15 years

Signalling greater strategic cooperation between the two Asian and Indo-Pacific powers, Prime Ministers Narendra Modi and Yoshihide Suga have agreed to promote defence and security cooperation between India and Japan when they met in Washington on the eve of the Quad Summit that brings together the four major democracies of the Indo-Pacific region