From just a hundred tourists on the day it reopened its border on 15 July, the Maldives’ tourism industry achieved a new milestone on Sunday by welcoming more than 6000 tourists

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday gave a clarion call to adopt "zero effect, zero defect" policy while manufacturing Made-in-India products and ensure that these products are "world-class"

The next time you want to buy 'sesar' (saffron), do try Kashmiri saffron, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Sunday in his monthly radio programme 'Mann Ki Baat', while stressing that "we want Kashmiri saffron to be a globally popular brand"

India's border guarding force BSF will soon be equipped with the latest technology to counter rogue drones being used to smuggle arms and drugs in the western sector of the country by Pakistan-based suspected group of smugglers and militants

Nepal health officials and experts have warned of a further spread of the novel coronavirus as protests have erupted across the Himalayan nation after the House of Representatives or the lower house of parliament was dissolved last week, leading to an ongoing political crisis

The Language Commission had identified eight more languages in Nepal

Pakistan's Sindh province will not release the four men accused of kidnapping and murdering American journalist Daniel Pearl 18 years ago, a media report said on Sunday citing informed sources

Two people were killed and eight others injured in an explosion near a football ground in Pakistan's Balochistan province, an official said on Sunday

A Pakistan Army helicopter crashed in the Gilgit Baltistan (GB) region, leaving four people dead, a military statement said on Sunday

Leaders of the 11-party opposition alliance Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) have gathered in Larkana on the occasion of former Pakistan prime minister Benazir Bhutto's 13th death anniversary, for another power show as part of its anti-government protests

A day after Aviation Minister Ghulam Sarwar Khan expressed hopes that the ban imposed on Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) to operate flights in Europe would be lifted soon, the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) informed the national flag carrier that the ban had been extended by three months and that it would not be reviewed until a safety audit of the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), it emerged on Saturday

Kabul has once again exposed Islamabad's double standards on playing a peacemaker in the Afghan conflict by severely condemning the presence of Taliban fighters on Pakistani soil

Sri Lanka's overall coronavirus caseload has surpassed the 40,000 mark after 500 more people tested positive for the virus in the last 24 hours, the Health Ministry said

Sri Lanka State Minister of Samurdhi, Household Economy, Micro Finance, Self-Employment and Business Development, Shehan Semasinghe says that steps have been taken to set up a rural trade network of 25,000 women entrepreneurs that will implement the government decisions as they are instead of a network of buyers that exploits the consumers, traders and farmers

Japan has provided a total sum of US$ 636,262 (approx. Rs. 115 million) to the Mines Advisory Group (MAG) for humanitarian demining activities in Northern Sri Lanka