The government is planning to reduce the number of higher secondary and equivalent examinations to quickly wrap up this year's academic session, which has been on hold due to the coronavirus epidemic

Maldives Foreign Minister Abdulla Shahid has reaffirmed the government's commitment to multilateralism. The minister made remarks in a statement delivered on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the signing of the United Nations Charter

Maldives Democratic Party’s President, Speaker of the Parliament Mohamed Nasheed has said MDP has succeeded in governing the country twice in the 15 years since its inception

Nobel laureate Amartya Sen and eminent US political economist Noam Chomsky have applauded the efforts of Kerala in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic

The United States has said that it is ready to provide technical assistance to Sri Lanka’s power projects

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) recently supported the National Police Commission (NPC) to provide protective equipment to Police Officers working on Sri Lanka’s COVID-19 Response

At least two people are testing positive for coronavirus every minute, and five are reported dead every three hours from the highly transmissible virus, according to government statistics released yesterday

More than 16 months ago, the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) sent a report to the health ministry identifying the sources of graft in the health sector in Bangladesh, setting off alarm bells

Afghanistan's attorney general's office says that it had registered more cases of family violence during the quarantine days imposed since late March to prevent the spread of coronavirus

Residents in the Afghan province of Maidan Wardak on Friday expressed deep concerns over a dramatic surge in the level of violence in their areas, saying Taliban groups have significantly increased their presence in the area and are frequently engaging in deadly battles with the Afghan security forces

Deborah Lyons, the Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Afghanistan, on Thursday briefed the UN Security Council on the situation in Afghanistan and described corruption as a major challenge for the country

Former Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari, has warned that Balochistan is on the brink of a rupture and will be uncontrollable if another Baloch leader is assassinated

In a sudden move, the government notified a record hike in the prices of petroleum products, including petrol and diesel, ranging from 27 percent to 66 percent depending on the product

Pakistan's Aviation Minister Ghulam Sarwar Khan announced on Friday that 262 airline pilots, whose credentials may have been falsified, will be immediately grounded, pending investigations

Karachi’s nightmare continues. The largest city in the country, dubbed the financial capital of Pakistan, continues to struggle with a longstanding and seemingly never-ending electricity crisis