Maldives’ parliament speaker and former president Nasheed on Tuesday, renewed his call for deferment of state loans due for the next year

A magnetic IED bomb placed on a Toyota-Corolla model car exploded on Tuesday afternoon, killing three people in a downtown area of Police District 10 of Kabul in Afghanistan, as reported by Tolo news

Government officials from Khost province in Afghanistan confirmed on Tuesday morning that a car bomb targeted a compound of a special unit and some attackers tried to enter the building, Tolo News reported

A high court in Maldives on Monday sentenced a stepfather for raping his nine-year-old daughter, reported Sun news.  Earlier the man was acquitted by Kudahuvadhoo lower court for the same offense citing lack of evidence

Generations in the village have earned their livelihood and passed off their traditional skill of weaving cane baskets to the next generation, but for Tshering Legi, the one she is weaving right now could be the last such basket,  thus ending a thousand-year-old tradition in Banjar village of Tsamang Gewog block in Mongar district of Bhutan

Maldives Home Minister Abdullah Shahid has come down heavily on “IndiaOut” protesters, calling them ‘hatemongers.’

With a spike of 36,470 in new COVID-19 cases and 488 deaths in 24 hours, India's tally stood at 79,46,429, said the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Tuesday

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said that the world needs to move towards responsible pricing of crude oil

The Indian military is set to get access to the giant satellite network of the United States allowing it to target enemy positions with more precision

The India-US talks on military issues here on Monday were "fruitful" and aimed at further deepening defence cooperation between two largest democracies in the world, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said

Nepal on Monday reported 15 COVID-19-related fatalities taking the death toll to 862. The country also recorded 1,741 new cases, pushing the national infection tally to 159,830

The Orange Line Metro Train (OLMT), Pakistan's first intercity bullet train service, was inaugurated on Sunday in Lahore in two separate ceremonies done by the government and the opposition party as both parties laid claims on its ownership

Pakistan Prime Minis­ter Imran Khan has said that peace in Afghanistan will help promote trade and economic activities in the region, though Islamabad has concerns that India, in order to destabilise Pakistan, can use Afghan land

While abo­l­i­shing quota for foreign students for the first time in the country’s history, the Pakistan Medical Comm­ission (PMC) has made it mandatory for overseas Pakistanis and foreign students to clear Medical and Dental College Admission Test (MDCAT) to get admission in Pakistan

Pakistan has asked the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to relax the conditions for a mini-budget and increase in electricity prices at least till March next year after Prime Minister Khan again shot down both the proposals due to already high prices