The Indian government on Friday said the recovery rate of COVID-19 positive cases has increased to 49.47 percent and a total of 1,47,194 individuals have recovered from the deadly disease

After Chennai, Mumbai on Friday got India's second state-of-the-art Integrated Flood Warning System (IFWS) which will make it possible to predict floods at least three days in advance, enabling more lives to be saved

The US-Taliban deal is unsustainable unless Pakistan shuts down its sanctuaries to Taliban and all the states with stakes in the regional stability are signatories to the peace agreement in Afghanistan, one of the most influential think tanks of Australia has warned

Four people were killed and several others injured when a blast ripped through a mosque in Kabul, Afghan Interior Ministry spokesman Tareq Arian said

 After Taliban signed a peace agreement with the United States on February 29th in Doha, it was expected the group will reduce armed violence in Afghanistan and would stop their spring offensives during which the group usually send their fighters back to Afghanistan, after spending winter on other side of the Durand Line, where the group leaders and fighters have their safe sanctuaries now for nearly two decades

Controversial American adventurist and blogger Cynthia Dawn Ritchie has upped the ante in her battle against the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and its standard-bearers

Pakistan has regretted "negative" remarks by the Indian Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson on a goodwill suggestion by Prime Minister Imran Khan offering to share Pakistans successful experience in mitigating the impact of COVID-19 on the poorest sections of the society

Pakistan's exports, which are an important indicator to measure the current account deficit, were on a downward trajectory, an economic survey has revealed

Three organizations including the World Bank have launched a 50 million US dollar project to assist South Asian nations in curbing marine plastic pollution

Wishing that face masks, sanitizers, hand wash or any other corona-related items were available under one roof! Head for Corona Mall in Varanasi, the parliamentary constituency of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in Uttar Pradesh state. This unique Corona Mall, in Sigra area of Varanasi, has all the items to guard against COVID-19

Nepal's Ministry of Health and Population has reported 448 new cases of the coronavirus infection on Friday. With this, the nationwide tally of COVID-19 stands at 5,062

Amid an ongoing dispute between India and Nepal, an Indian farmer from Bihar's Sitamarhi district was killed while two others were injured in indiscriminate firing by the Nepal police at the India-Nepal border on Friday

The Nepal government has reported a substantially high number of COVID-19 cases among people aged between 21 and 30 years, according to official data

As expected, the Bhutanese government has kept the COVID-19 response programmes at the heart of the annual budget 2020-21 with a primary goal – to stimulate economic activities and achieve a minimum GDP growth of 2 percent

Sri Lanka's Minister of Health and Indigenous Medicine Pavithra Wanniarachchi yesterday said the statement made by the former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe to the television and newspapers that the World Health Organization (WHO)has given the Ministry of Health $ 230 million for COVID-19 operations is totally false