Bangladesh is going to send notices to encroachers as it moves to free 138,613 acres of reserved forestland

India on Sunday hit out at the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), accusing it of making "factually incorrect and unwarranted" references to Jammu and Kashmir in resolutions adopted by the grouping at a meeting in Niger, and asserted that the "Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir....is an integral and inalienable part of India"

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday evening visited the Serum Institute of India (SII) here, which is currently in the process of developing the much-anticipated COVID-19 vaccine

The Serum Institute of India (SII), India's premier vaccine manufacturer, will seek emergency use authorisation for the AstraZeneca Covid 19 vaccine in about two weeks

A city-based 40-year-old business consultant, who was a volunteer for the Covishield vaccine that is under development at the Pune-based Serum Institute of India (SII), has sought Rs 5 crore compensation for the neurological complications he developed after being administered the test dose, said an advocate

For the second time this year, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Narendra Modi government and the saffron party is facing a barrage of criticism from opposition parties and certain sections of people on the formulation of contentious laws

Kathmandu has never been busier like now this past year

An unusually high number of Nepalis have been going abroad on visit visas in the past few months, and this has left officials worried

Amid conflicting reports whether the Kash­mir issue was on the agenda of an Organisation of Islamic Cooperation’s meeting in Niger, the foreign ministers of the OIC’s member states in a diplomatic victory for Pakistan unanimously reaffirmed support for the Kashmir cause

Claiming that there is “no pressure” on him from the military in running the government affairs, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Saturday forcefully defended all his appointments at the Centre as well as in Punjab, declaring them to be on merit

India’s National Security Adviser Ajith Doval, who is in Sri Lanka to attend the 4th National Security Adviser Tripartite Meeting on Maritime Security Cooperation between India, Maldives and Sri Lanka, called on Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa at the Presidential Secretariat on Saturday evening

Maldivian Minister of Defense Mariya Ahmed Didi and Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa met Friday and held a detailed discussion on deepening bilateral partnership between both nations and regional security issues

The Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment (SLBFE) says it has resumed sending migrant workers to Saudi Arabia for employment

Afghan Foreign Minister Mohammed Haneef Atmar and his Sri Lankan counterpart Foreign Minister Dinesh Gunawardena have recently exchanged warm congratulatory messages on the 62nd Anniversary of the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations between Afghanistan and Sri Lanka, the Afghanistan Embassy in Colombo said

With the slogan "Pakistan lovers go back to Pakistan, leave former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's Bangladesh! Bangladesh is not for you, the Radical and Communal people," the Movement for Bangladesh Liberation War 1971 - Muktijuddho Mancha - placed 7 demands before Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's government on Saturday