Sri Lanka's Minister of Education Prof. GL Peiris said Monday that steps will be taken to start pre-schools, primary grades in schools and tuition classes in January next year

The Ministry of Tourism and Civil Aviation at a meeting held on Monday (Dec. 14) regarding the re-opening of the airport, reached a decision to allow only 500 tourists to arrive in Sri Lanka daily, Ministry of Tourism and Civil Aviation said

The Bangladesh High Court has suspended freedom fighter gallantry awards for absconding Bangabandhu killers Shariful Haque Dalim, Risaldar Moslemuddin, M Rashed Chowdhury and SHMB Noor Chowdhury

Bangladesh Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen today said Jordan's readymade garments (RMG) sector will recruit over 12,000 skilled workers from Bangladesh in one year

Tuesday in Afghanistan saw a deadly wave of targeted assassinations across the country which resulted in the deaths of two deputy leaders from Kabul and Ghor province, both in IED car bombings, TOLOnews reported

The Maldives’ former president Maumoom Abdul Gayoom voiced his opposition over the proposal to bury Sri Lankan Muslims, who died of the COVID-19 virus, in the islands, Sun news reported

Panicked over the alarming rate at which the mangrove forest are dying in the Maldives, the country’s environment ministry has decided to send some samples for testing to India, Sun news reported

Days after Afghan NSA Hamidullah Mohib suggested holding the next round of intra-Afghan dialogue in Afghanistan, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani now backed his idea at a cabinet meeting, TOLOnew reported

Demilitarization of villages, national reconciliation, media freedom, a ban of foreign fighters in Afghanistan are among the key agenda items the Afghan government has prepared for the next round of intra-Afghan talks

Maldives President Ibrahim Mohammad Solih said his government is focused on stopping and preventing acts of terrorism in the country, Sun news reported

Bhutan will celebrate its National Day, 17 December, virtually this year due to the restrictions placed by the authorities in wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, reported Kuensel

India is quickly moving towards the psychological one-crore-cases milestone, and continues to be the second worst-hit after the US

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday interacted with key industries, startups and academia from the space sector through video conferencing to encourage their participation in space activities

From vaccinating 100-200 people during each session per day, to monitoring them for 30 minutes for any adverse event, using Covid Vaccine Intelligence Network to track beneficiaries, the Indian government has released a set of detailed guidelines for the mass vaccination drive, which will commence once the vaccines get emergency use approval form the drug regulator

Indian Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar said on Monday that the coronavirus crisis is now "on its way out" and "soon" vaccines would be available in India too