Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has called on global leaders to step up efforts to meet the goals set under the Paris Agreement with a stark reminder of the threat of climate change

The garment sector is on way to receive a second round of stimulus, with government plans reasoning that it has been severely affected by the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic

COVID-19 situation in Bangladesh is under control as the government led by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is sincerely dealing with the pandemic, Health and Family Welfare Minister Zahid Maleque has said

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Saturday that agricultural reforms in India will usher in new investments into the sector

Tata Group Chairman N. Chandrasekaran said that the impact of Covid on innovation has been 'all-pervasive' and the models of working from home are making all companies rethink the future of work

The government of Nepal and development partners agreed on a joint statement of support today for Nepal’s relief, recovery and resilience plan to enable a green, resilient and sustainable recovery from the COVID-19

Nepal and India are close to finalizing the regulatory modality for allowing Nepali power producers access to the Indian power market, according to the statement of the 8th joint steering committee meeting on cooperation in power sector held on Friday

The Islamabad city administration has extended an ongoing ban on all social gatherings and carrying, displaying and exhibiting firearms for another two more months, the media reported on Saturday

At least 138 journalists have been killed in Pakistan since 1990, according to the International Federation of Journalists (ICJ)

Three senior doctors were among 23 people who died due to the coronavirus infection in Sindh province of Pakistan between Thursday and Friday, raising the COVID-19 death toll in the province to 3,132, said provincial health officials on Friday

Steps will be taken to release close to 5000 inmates before 31st December 2020, and a mechanism is in place to release inmates who are imprisoned for minor offences, Lohan Ratwatta, the State Minister of Prison Management and Prisoners’ Rehabilitation said on Saturday (Dec. 12)

The World Health Organisation has decided to provide COVID-19 vaccines to cover 10% of Sri Lanka’s population, under the WHO programme to provide 01 Billion COVID-19 Vaccine doses for Low and Middle-Income Countries, Sri Lanka’s Deputy Director-General of Health Services said

State Minister for Foreign Affairs M Shahriar Alam today said Bangladesh and India can give a tough race to global competitors in the textile sector, considering India is one of the top cotton exporting countries

The number of patients with severe COVID-19 infections is apparently on the rise, as record shows that the occupancy rate of ICU beds at the dedicated hospitals has gone up by 14 percentage points from 45 percent in the last two months

The Taliban and Daesh (ISIS) had threatened the Afghan government to turn Kabul into a Shia slaughterhouse if the government executed any of their prisoners, claimed the first vice president of Afghanistan Amrullah Saleh