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.
Sri Lanka reiterated the call of the Group of 77 for adequate funding for development initiatives, enabling the developing countries to overcome the multifaceted challenges that hinder the achievement of the SDGs amidst the current global situation due to the pandemic
The number of COVID-19 infected inmates in Sri Lanka prisons has increased to 329, according to the Commissioner General of Prisons Thushara Upuldeniya
A distance education program for the 3rd school term will commence on November 16, the Government Information Department announced
Sri Lanka is gearing for a US entry into the country's power and energy sector after the US Embassy submitted an unsolicited proposal from two American companies for a liquefied natural gas venture to generate emergency power, according to papers submitted to the Cabinet
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi will hold a summit meeting virtually in the third week of December, possibly on December 16-17, a Bangladesh Foreign Ministry official told IANS on Saturday
Revealing a rift in the Hefazat-e-Islam, which terms itself as Bangladesh's largest "non-political" Islamist group, its Joint Secretary General, Mainuddin Ruhi, on Saturday said that an "illegal" council meeting has been convened to implement the agenda of the Jamaat-e-Islami and its students' wing Islami Chhatra Shibir
Twenty-six researchers from 17 Bangladeshi institutions were among the top two percent of the most cited researchers throughout their careers, found a research on metascience by Stanford University
Bangladesh has not shown any interest in joining the world's largest trade deal, Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) primarily to safeguard its revenue generation from duties on imports
Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Saturday reiterated that Bangladesh maintains friendship with all and does not believe in quarrels with neighbours
Serum Institute of India (SII) is ramping up production of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine, aiming to have 100 million doses ready by December for a vaccination drive that could begin across India that same month, Bloomberg reported
With the death of another Indian Army soldier who was injured in the ceasefire violation by Pakistan along the LoC on Friday, the toll of soldiers killed in action has risen to four, officials said
Environmentalists have hailed the Uttar Pradesh government's decision to declare Agra's Soor Sarovar (Keetham lake) as a Ramsar site
The Indo-Pacific region is in focus in the midst of successive summit-level meets of different groupings
The United States government, through the US Agency for International Development (USAID), donated 100 state-of-the-art ventilators to Nepal to assist its fight against COVID-19, on Friday
The ice may have finally been broken with the Secretariat meeting of the ruling Nepal Communist Party on Friday after a 40-day interval but the hatchet is yet to be buried
