Bangladesh ranks 8th in weekly increase in new coronavirus cases across the globe with 26,598 new cases during the period, the World Health Organisation (WHO) data says

Days after alleging that conspiracies were being hatched in New Delhi and Kathmandu to unseat him, Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has told his ministers that attempts are being made to oust him and impeach the President

Coronavirus has been detected in drainage water in two places of Kathmandu Valley. In samples collected from four places in the Valley, samples from two places came out positive for the virus

Locust swarms that entered Nepal from India last week have damaged over 1,100 hectares of crops in the Himalayan country

At a time when tens of thousands of Nepali migrant workers are bearing the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in various labour destination countries, it is the women workers who are having it worse, according to labour migration experts and human rights workers

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan visited the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) on the 100th day of its establishment, lauded its role in containing the spread of the novel coronavirus and directed it to take steps to prevent resurgence of the disease during Eidul Azha

The US government has donated 100 ventilators to support Pakistan in its fight against COVID-19

Pakistan's Aviation Minister Ghulam Sarwar Khan on Saturday said degrees of 30 more pilots out of the 262 suspected of obtaining dubious licenses have turned out to be fake and they have been terminated, reported The News

Sri Lanka says despite withdrawing from co-sponsorship of Resolution 30/1, it remains committed to achieve reconciliation, accountability and human rights, within the framework of the Sri Lankan Constitution, through a domestically designed and executed process in line with the Government’s policy framework

Sri Lanka has raised surveillance along its northern coast, following reports of some Sri Lankan refugees in India attempting to return by boats following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic

Disagreement over leadership of the Jamiat-i-Islmai Afghanistan, a political party, has got out of the hand and will hardly hit the nail on the head after top members of the party decided not to recognize Salahuddin Rabbani as chief of the party, replacing him with a provisional head, Inayatullah Shadab

The Afghan  government has called Taliban insurgents to cut relationships with all “foreign terrorist groups” as the militants had vowed to stop relations with the al-Qaeda group in a US peace deal signed late February

NATO's Senior Civilian Representative to Afghanistan, Stefano Pontecorvo, on Saturday updated NATO members in Brussels on the situation in Afghanistan and said that the Taliban needs to end the violence to help kick start the intra-Afghan talks

State-run Indira Gandhi Memorial Hospital (IGMH) has adopted stricter service policies after cases of COVID-19 were identified in patients receiving treatment at the hospital's Intensive Care Unit

The British High Commission in Maldives, on Saturday, revealed that Maldives was excluded from the list of 67 countries exempted from the United Kingdom (UK)'s Global Travel Advisory, which cautions British citizens against non-essential travel