Sri Lanka is planning to roll out optional English language education from primary to advance level in government-funded schools to help Sri Lankan students to become more globally competitive in higher education and jobs

India has reported 114,460 new cases in the last 24 hours, which is the lowest in the last two months

A driver was killed and 28 women were hurt as a factory bus, in which they were travelling in, plunged into a ditch after gunmen opened fire at them in Pakistan's Hassan Abdal city of the eastern Punjab province on Friday

A key Pakistani newspaper has said proper gender balance in the higher judiciary would further ensure women’s rights in the country as Pakistan was the only country in South Asia which had not appointed a woman as a judge of the Supreme Court

As the coronavirus cases decline in India, migrant workers in Nepal’s Sudurpaschim province, a far western state, have started returning back to their respective workplaces in India

Days after Pakistan cut off all official contacts with Afghan National Security Advisor Hamidullah Mohib over his alleged "abusive" remark, Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi advised the former to "reflect and correct" his behavior

Amid rising cases of coronavirus infections in Sri Lanka, UK authorities have added Sri Lanka in its red list, meaning the Sri Lankan nationals and others from Sri Lanka will not be allowed entry into the UK

Authorities in Sri Lanka banned arrivals from South Africa and South American countries with immediate effect due to the coronavirus situation in those countries

On the occasion of World Environment Day, the Bangladesh government has set an ambitious target of planting 72 million tree saplings by the end of the year and aiming to create 1800 kilometers on 9,400-acre land in the country’s coastal region

At least eleven civilians, mostly women and children, were killed in Afghanistan’s Badghis province when a roadside bomb hit the vehicle there were traveling in. No group, including the Taliban, claimed responsibility for the attack

Bangladesh has made a strong call for a temporary waiver from certain Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) obligations for the production of vaccines, medicines and other health technologies to effectively respond to the coronavirus pandemic

At Least seven Afghanistan soldiers and eight security force personnel were killed in two separate Taliban attacks since Thursday, media reports said on Saturday

Sri Lanka on Saturday formally urged the US House Foreign Affairs Committee (FAC) not to proceed with a resolution that called for a political solution in the island nation dismissing it as “inaccurate, biased and unsubstantiated”

An environmental rights group and fishermen’s activists have petitioned the Sri Lankan Supreme Court against the government and the operators of the MV X-Press Pearl, over the environmental damage caused by the ship’s fire

The Asia Pacific Group (APG) on Money Laundering has improved Pakistan’s rating on 21 of the 40 technical recommendations of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) against money laundering and terror financing, but retained it on ‘Enhanced Follow-up’ for sufficient outstanding requirements, according to a Dawn report