Iran on Wednesday announced the opening of a border crossing point with Pakistan for facilitating trade, as the two countries agreed to deepen their bilateral cooperation

Pakistan's National Command and Operations Centre (NCOC) on Wednesday issued fresh restrictions in a bid to control the rapidly increasing second wave of coronavirus infections across the country

Sri Lanka’s has barred travel out the Western Province till November 15 as daily Coronavirus cases hit 635 and COVID-19 deaths rose by another 5 to 46, amid fresh warnings from a doctor’s group that up to five percent of Colombo residents could be infected

Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa emphasized that special attention should be paid to protect those who are suffering from non-communicable diseases, from COVID-19 virus

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has requested construction industry pioneers to commence work on a large number of housing projects simultaneously for the benefit of low, middle and upper middle income earners covering different areas of the country

Four Indian fishermen whose distressed fishing vessel washed ashore off the northern coast of Sri Lanka were repatriated back to India today, according to Northern fisheries authorities

The government is thinking about reopening the educational institutions on a limited scale when the extended shutdown over the coronavirus outbreak ends on Nov 14

Indian Border Security Force has returned two Rab members to the BGB on Tuesday night, about nine hours after they were taken into custody from the house of an Indian national along the border in Dinajpur's Chirirbandar upazila

Indian vaccines offer a lot of hope, due to various factors including a good safety signal, display of immunogenicity and capability of using the current storage infrastructure, said AIIMS (All India  Institute of Medical Sciences) Director Randeep Guleria in an exclusive interview with IANS

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said that reforms in the taxation system had made the country move from tax terrorism to tax transparency

With 44,281 new coronavirus infections and 512 deaths in the past 24 hours, India's overall tally stood at 86,35,921 on Wednesday as the toll touched 1,27,571, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said

The winter season amid the COVID-19 pandemic will be very challenging, but a vaccine will be there sometime early next year, hopefully in February-March, and then, there have some degree of normalcy, said AIIMS Director Randeep Guleria in an interview to IANS

COVID-19 cases in Nepal surpassed 200,000 mark on Wednesday, country's Ministry of Health and Population said

Pakistan on Wednesday claimed it has been fighting the Coronavirus "resolutely and successfully" and is adopting all possible measures to "strengthen the existing health system"

The United States embassy in Islamabad on Wednesday apologised for retweeting an "unauthorised" post about the premier by PML-N leader Ahsan Iqbal after it sparked outrage on social media