Giving credit to the government's timely decisions, Pakistan's Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Asad Umar said on Monday that cases and mortality rate in the second wave of Covid-19 had started to decline in the country

Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa said his objective is to further enhance bilateral relations with regional states in identified sectors

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said it has been possible for the Awami League government to establish Bangladesh as a role model of development in the world since it has been in power for a long time

A Supreme Court bench led by Chief Justice of India (CJI) S. A. Bobde on Monday took a tough stand on the contentious farm laws in India, that have led to over month-long protests by tens of thousands of farmers on the capital's borders and the deaths of at least 60 of them, and said the court will suspend their implementation, but the government requested the court not to do anything in a hurry

At least 18 people, including children and women, were killed in an airstrike by Afghan Air Force in Ghazni province of Afghanistan, TOLOnews reported

Addressing the upper house of parliament, Nepal Prime Minister on Sunday defended his decision to dissolve the lower house, terming it a “political issue,” not constitutional

Major General Abdullah Samal, the chief of Maldives National Defense Forces (MNDF), has tested positive for COVID-19, Rajje Tv reported

At least 15 members of the Sri Lankan parliament come in close contact with an MP who has tested positive for COVID-19

With 16,311 new coronavirus infections reported in the last 24 hours on Monday, India recorded the lowest one-day figure in over six months taking India's overall tally to 1,04,66,595

Dispelling popular fears about the bird flu virus, also known as avian influenza, and its spread via consumption of cooked poultry products, health experts said the disease usually does not infect humans as the virus is heat-labile (degraded and killed when subjected to heat)

The minimum temperature is very likely to fall gradually by three-four degree Celsius during the next three-four days, causing isolated cold wave conditions over Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh, Delhi and north Rajasthan on January 12 and 13, the Indian Meteorological Department said

Ahead of crucial Nepal-India foreign minister-level talks that are likely to focus on seeking long-term solution of the boundary dispute, Nepal's Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli has said they will retrieve the Nepali territories of Kalapani, Limpiyadhura and Lipulekh which have long been "occupied" by India

Ever since the Nepal Communist Party has split, as an impact of the dissolution of the House of Representatives, Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has emerged as something of a kvetch, constantly attacking those who oppose him

With the coronavirus vaccine becoming a “political commodity”, to use the words of a minister, the government is hoping that there will be a breakthrough in talks with India for Nepal to procure vaccines before Foreign Minister Pradeep Gyawali’s Delhi visit later this week

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Sunday said his government had reached the conclusion that India was backing the militant Islamic State (IS) group to cause turmoil in Pakistan