BJP-supported independent councillor Junaid Azim Mattu has become the first mayor in the Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) after Jammu and Kashmir was created as a Union Territory in August 2019

Indian Army Vice Chief, Lieutenant General S.K. Saini, said on Wednesday that strategic security of most nations have been impacted due to reduction in funds for military capability, but some countries have used the opportunity to enhance their influence

Two women, one a relatively experienced hand at politics and the other a debutant, took centre stage at the Multan rally of the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) a few days back

As the highest number of deaths i.e. 75 due to coronavirus in a single day was reported on Wednesday, since July, the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) decided to observe COVID-19 week to raise public awareness about the disease

The Sindh government’s counsel Farooq H. Naek on Wednesday tried to convince the Supreme Court that the kidnapping and subsequent cold-blooded murder of US journalist Daniel Pearl was part of events related to international terrorism

Pakistan’s former spy chief Lt Gen (retd) Asad Durrani has said that “India is no longer a big threat to Pakistan", as it has got itself entangled in a mess created by the illegal annexation of the disputed Himalayan region of Jammu and Kashmir

In the Al-Azizia and Avenfield references, the Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Wednesday declared former prime minister Nawaz Sharif a proclaimed offender for his continuous absence from the court

Sri Lankan Defence Secretary Kamal Gunaratne has said the unrest in a prison in Mahara had been completely controlled and investigations were on, according to local media

The Meteorology Department of Sri Lanka says that there has been a slight change in the path of Cyclone "Burevi"

Following their last September’s fruitful meeting, Ambassador of Afghanistan to Colombo M. Ashraf Haidari called on Sri Lankan Minister of State for Regional Cooperation Tharaka Balasuriya to discuss the tangible progress, which the two sides have made in the overall growing Afghanistan-Sri Lanka bilateral relations over the past quarter

While the United Nations and other development partners still wait for an independent assessment of the Bhasan Char housing project, the Bangladesh government prepares for relocating some 2,500 Rohingyas to the isolated island within a couple of days

The automobile industry in Bangladesh is yet to reach the stage where producing cars locally could be considered a viable business due to the current market size, according to experts

Coast Guards of Mongla Sea Port have detained at least 17 fishermen for illegally intruding into Bangladesh through the Bay of Bengal

In a major breakthrough, the Taliban and the Afghan government on Wednesday evening jointly announced a three-page agreement on a procedural framework to start the intra-Afghan dialogue in Doha, Qatar, thus ending an almost three-month-long deadlock in the negotiations

Bangladesh's Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) will begin the much-awaited antigen testing in the country from Saturday, December 5