India's contribution to the improved global growth outlook extends well beyond the immediate AI boom or the performance of energy-exporting economies. The IMF's assessment points instead to a combination of domestic demand, demographics, market expansion and structural reforms as important drivers of India's longer-term prospects.
In an important milestone for regional connectivity, the first train carrying goods from Iran arrived in the western Herat province of Afghanistan on Wednesday evening through the newly built transnational Heart-Khawaf railway link, reported Tolonews
Lawmakers and leaders from Nepali Congress resented the Nepal government’s order which banned protests across the country in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, reported The Himalayan Times
The regional carrier of Singapore Airlines, Silk Air, resumed its flight operations to the Maldives and are now operating two flights every week to the Maldives’s Velana International Airport, reported Edition news
Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli, who is also a co-chair of the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP), did not attend the party Secretariat meeting today, forcing the Secretariat to postpone its meeting till December 5
Nepali Congress senior leader Ram Chandra Poudel has been released following widespread protest against the government
Going by the Ministry of Health figures, Nepal’s COVID-19 pandemic has peaked, and the number of daily cases, the positivity rate and the number of active cases are all going down
Around 13 percent of the country’s population has been found to have been infected with the coronavirus until September, according to a seroprevalence survey carried out by the Ministry of Health and Population
Nepali Congress (NC) senior leader Ramchandra Poudel, who reached Tanahun district to inaugurate a motorable bridge in Byas Municipality, has been taken into police custody
Upendra Chaudhary, a seventh-grader from Saraswati Secondary School in Deukhuri, Dang, was completely cut off from his classes until the school started the in-person classes on November 22 after the festive season was over
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday said that the PTI government would grant provisional provincial status to Gilgit Baltistan on a priority basis as promised earlier
The Islamabad High Court bench, hearing two appeals by former premier Nawaz Sharif against his conviction in the Al Azizia and Avenfield corruption references, said on Wednesday that he would be declared a proclaimed offender
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday approved new rules for civil servants in the country in order to ensure transparent and effective internal accountability
Several trains en route to Karachi or leaving the port city were cancelled on Wednesday after former employees of the Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM) protested by blocking the tracks
Sri Lanka's Meteorology Department on Wednesday said cyclonic storm Burevi was likely to hit the country's eastern coast late in the evening, causing heavy rain and strong winds in the island country
Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa has said the country would have plunged into an economic crisis if the government had not implemented damage control measures
