Stressing the importance of ensuring the universal, equitable, timely and affordable access to quality vaccines, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said COVID-19 can never be controlled unless it is stopped everywhere

A sculpture of Madhusudan Dey, who was brutally killed by the Pakistan Army in March 1971, was partially damaged by some unknown miscreants in the Dhaka University (DU) campus premises

The Bangladesh government and the development partners plan to inject more money into the economy for its recovery amid the pandemic while the progress in implementing the stimulus packages for employment creation and revitalisation of the rural economy remains slow

Bangladesh has urged all to exercise utmost caution not to undermine or misinterpret the genuine efforts of the government of Bangladesh, noting that the voluntary relocation of Rohingyas to Bhashan Char has become imperative to decongest the overcrowded camps in Cox's Bazar

Commonwealth Secretary General Patricia Scotland has called Bangladesh's past one decade's of development "incredible achievements" saying Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina deserved its "full credit."

After facing much criticism from both national and international leaders, Dr. Abdullah Abdullah led Afghanistan’s High Council for National Reconciliation is all set to hold its first meet on Saturday, TOLOnews reported

In what seems like a good revival story for the tourism industry in the Maldives, the country is near to achieving its tourist arrival target for 2o20- a year that disrupted the tourism industry like never before

In what seems to be a big push to Bhutan’s bilateral and transit trade, India has decided to open new trade routes in Nagarkata (West Bengal), Agartala (Tripura) and Jogighopa and Pandu (riverine ports, both in Assam); all of them to benefit Bhutan’s exports in the region

The Maldives National Defense Forces (MNDF) on Friday morning came to the rescue of the two Sri Lankan fishing boats at sea near the Maldivian coasts, Sun news reported

At least three personnel of the National Directorate of Security (NDS) were killed and another 10 civilians wounded in a bomb blast that targeted a patrol party in Paktia province of Afghanistan, TOLOnews reported

Bhutan’s National Assembly (lower house of the Parliament) rejected the proposal to increase the retirement age of civil servants to 60 years, reported Kuensel

The Maldivian President Ibrahim Mohammad Solih announced that his government will provide free vaccines to all of nearly 545,000 people who live in the country, Sun news reported

In what seems to be a paradigm shift in Kashmir politics and grassroots governance, a large number of local independent candidates in the first District Development Council (DDC) elections are fiercely exploiting the dissatisfaction among the masses over the poor quality of administration delivered by the previous regimes to pose a strong challenge to all the traditional political parties

Police in Gopalganj in Bihar have been put on high alert after it came to light that some pornographic video contents were uploaded on a WhatsApp group of Class VII students of the Army School

As bilateral ties between Nepal and India have seen a thaw in recent days, the stalled high-level visits and exchanges have resumed