Just two days after Pakistan approved the Astra-Zeneca COVID-19 vaccine on 16 January, the country’s regulators now gave approval for emergency use to another COVID-19 vaccine developed by a Chinese State-owned Sinopharm, Dawn reported

Maldivian authorities informed on Monday that they had released a suspected Maldivian insurgent who had returned from Syria in October last year, Rajje TV reported

The Global Firepower Index 2021 released its ranking of the world army and ranked Pakistan Army the 10th most powerful army out of total 133 countries, as per a report by The Express Tribune

For Jammu & Kashmir's most renowned neurologist Dr Sushil Razdan leaving his home and clinic in the Jawahar Nagar area of Srinagar city was out of the question despite the fact that almost all other prominent Kashmiri Pandits had abandoned their homes to escape the wrath of militants

For the first time French and Indian and Rafale jets would be flying and exercising together during the Desert Knight-21 war games scheduled between January 20-24 in Jodhpur, a government source said

The rival faction of the ruling Nepal Communist Party, led by the Dahal- Madhav Nepal,  have issued a show-cause to notice to Nepal’s Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli asking him to explain why should he not be expelled from the NCP

Fearing the further spread of new Covid variant, Nepal has restricted all arrivals from the United Kingdom until further notice

When the District Health Office in Humla directed local health offices to send a list of health workers and female community health volunteers working under them for COVID-19 vaccination programme, Hansa Mahatara, a health coordinator at the Adanchuli Rural Municipality in the district followed the order

As global pressure mounts on Pakistan to dismantle terror networks on its soil, India's most wanted fugitive Dawood Ibrahim, operating from Karachi, has reportedly relocated key family members, including his son and the children of two younger brothers

Foreign direct investment (FDI) in Pakistan fell by 30 per cent in the first half of the current fiscal year, reflecting the impact of Covid-19 that is still affecting the country as well as global economies.
 

Colombo Chief Magistrate Mohamed Mihar Monday ordered the Superintendent of Prisons to immediately hand over the businessman, Fazal Mohamed Nisar, who was remanded on suspicion of making hate speech in a manner that could cause unrest among the community through Facebook, to the Criminal Investigations Department (CID)

Sri Lanka stocks have risen the most in the world in 2021 after Venezuela in local currency and is just behind Vietnam and Bermuda in US dollar terms among stock markets tracked by Bloomberg, a financial news and data provider

Bangladesh Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen is set to visit India on January 27 to finalize Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Dhaka trip in March

As many as 2 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine will arrive in Bangladesh from India as a gift on Wednesday, the health secretary says

All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Director Randeep Guleria on Monday allayed apprehensions about the coronavirus vaccines and assured that the side-effects will not result in death of the beneficiary