Pakistan Navy will participate in the upcoming naval exercise Sea Breeze 2021, co-hosted by US Sixth Fleet and Ukrainian Navy, as an observer in the Black Sea region

Bangladesh has scrapped ten coal-fired power plants that were okayed earlier. as the construction work made no progress in years, according to a minister

Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has justified the harsh decisions taken by the government to manage the economic crisis, including a ban on fertilizer and other imports, saying those had become necessary to tackle the economic and social challenges due to the Covid-19 pandemic

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has declared that if the Taliban takes over Afghanistan by force, Pakistan would not intervene militarily

Indian security forces foiled a major infiltration bid by militants from "Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK)" in the Tangdhar sector of the frontier district known as Kupwara, a police spokesman said Friday afternoon

Opposition Congress leader Shashi Tharoor said his Twitter account too was briefly locked out after he posted an explainer on why Union Information Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad was blocked from posting from his handle

Bringing a major change in its vaccine policy, India's health ministry said that pregnant women "can and should" be vaccinated against Covid-19

Indian Navy and Indian Air Force deployed their arsenal of both Russian and Western-made aircraft during joint exercises centered around the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan in the Indian Ocean to “build on the high-calibre integration” between the two nations, according to the US Indo-Pacific Command (PACOM)

Five Pakistani soldiers were killed when unidentified terrorists ambushed a patrolling party in Sibi district under Balochistan province, the military's media affairs wing said on Friday

Bringing cheers to online shoppers, the Bangladesh government has decided to withhold payments of local e-commerce platforms until confirmation of safe delivery of items, adding a layer of consumer protection to the transaction

The economic disruptions caused by Covid-19 saw around 77 percent of Bangladesh households lose a proportion of their average monthly income between April and October last year, with 34 percent having at least one member who lost their job, according to a study

Pakistan has secured a USD 4.5 billion worth of three-year trade financing facility from Jeddah-based Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC) to cover the import cost of crude, petroleum products and liquefied natural gas (LNG)

Subsidized Indian rice is "damaging" Pakistan’s exports and Islamabad must take up the issue with the World Trade Organisation (WTO) against New Delhi for “jeopardizing international food security in violation of its rules,” the country’s rice exporters said on Thursday

India and Norway will jointly establish a Maritime Knowledge Cluster to promote bilateral cooperation in the blue economy, a memorandum of understanding for which has been signed between the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and India’s Director-General Shipping early this month

The Maldivian government will finance loans to local businesses affected by the pandemic at an “interest rate like never seen in the country’s history,” the country’s Finance Minister Ibrahim Ameer said, detailing the government stimulus plan to revive the country’s economy