The Taliban captured a strategic district Maymay which lies along the Tajikistan border in northern Badakhshan province of Afghanistan, Tolonews reported

Tourism activities in the Maldives have witnessed a good recovery in recent months as around 249 tourism facilities are currently active, and the country reported a total of 5,91,056 tourist footfall since it reopened in July, Sun news reported

Cargo operations between India’s Tuticorin port and two atolls of the Maldives will commence in the next few weeks, Sun news reported quoting the Maldives’s President Mohamed Solih

The requests by the Indian government to seek access to Facebook users' data further increased in the first six months of this year, second only to the US government, the social networking giant has revealed

Global ratings agency Fitch expects the Indian government's reform agenda in response to the coronavirus pandemic shock has the potential to raise the country's medium-term growth rate

That Nepal Communist Party chair KP Sharma Oli is all set to offer a point-wise response to the political document presented by the other chair Pushpa Kamal Dahal and that he has declared all past agreements have been rendered null and void by Dahal’s document, the ruling party now seems to have been in stuck in a cul-de-sac

Nepal Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli, who is also a co-chairperson of the ruling Nepal Communist Party, has warned the rival faction of the party led by Co-chair Pushpa Kamal Dahal that he would not tolerate false allegations made against him

With the pre-winter resurgence of COVID-19 around the world and in Nepal, pressure is mounting on governments to procure vaccines to protect their populations

Twelve teachers from Pakistan made it to a list of the world’s top two per cent scientists compiled by Stanford University

A day after the government notified rules that define how social media will be governed in Pakistan, technology companies announced that the regulations would make it difficult for them to continue their operations in the country

Nearly four years after the tragic incident, the Aircraft Accident and Investigation Board (AAIB) has completed investigation into crash of Pakistan International Airlines’ flight PK-661 near Havelian, which has revealed that the aircraft had three “technical anomalies” for which the airline’s engineers were responsible

The Administration of the Jaffna University has decided to suspend the classes for 7 senior students who brutally assaulted a group of freshman students during ragging

Sri Lanka’s Foreign Minister Dinesh Gunawardena Wednesday received the Ambassadors of Italy, Germany, Netherlands, France, Romania and the EU Delegation based in Colombo, at the Foreign Ministry, to discuss recent developments, including those related to the COVID-19 pandemic

Sri Lanka is among several countries that have been added to the UK travel corridor, the list of countries, territories and regions from where the visitors can travel to England and may not have to self-isolate

The educational institutions are not reopening now amid the coronavirus outbreak, according to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina