One case of coronavirus infection was reported in Namche Bazar today following which flights to Nepal's Everest region have been suspended until further notice

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Defense Secretary Mike Esper will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi next week to discuss advancing the US-India Comprehensive Global Strategic Partnership that he and President Donald Trump committed to, according to the senior diplomat for the region

US President Donald Trump - who has in the past praised India as a "great country" and its leader, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, as a "true friend" - Thursday night described India and its air as "filthy" during the last presidential debate with his Democratic challenger Joe Biden while discussing the environment and the Paris climate change agreeement

In a major show of open defiance against Pakistan Army, police officers in Karachi have threatened to go on mass leave after the Sindh Police chief was allegedly kidnapped and coerced to act against PML(N) Vice President Marayam Nawaz Sharif

The coronavirus positivity rate in Pakistan spiked up to 2.58% on October 21, which is quite alarming as it’s the highest in over two months

"Pakistan has slipped into a debt trap due to the government's failure to bring reforms and weak fiscal management, which has also raised national security concerns" -- this startling claim has been made by a report by the Institute of Policy Reforms (IPR), a think-tank run by a senior leader of Pakistans ruling party, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)

A serious controversy has broken out in Pakistan after an Inspector General of Police (IGP) was allegedly forced into ordering the arrest of Captain (retd) Safdar Awan, the husband of Maryam Nawaz Sharif, for chanting slogans at the tomb of the country's founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah in Karachi

An accountability court here has ordered the Kot Lakhpat Jail's administration to provide Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly, Shahbaz Sharif, home-cooked food and a mattress, among other facilities in his prison cell

Pakistan's Foreign Office spokesperson Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri on Thursday rejected "false media reports" regarding Saudi Arabia's role in the assessment of Pakistan’s Financial Action Task Force (FATF) action plan

The annual Sri Lanka Navy - Indian Navy bilateral naval exercise is popularly known as ‘SLINEX’, held from 19th to 21st October 2020, came to a successful completion off the Eastern Coast of Sri Lanka today, the Navy said

Sri Lanka’s nationwide inflation in September 2020 determined under the National Consumer Price Index (NCPI) increased to 6.4 percent from 6.2 percent recorded in August 2020 on a year-on-year basis, the Department of Census and Statistics reported Wednesday

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today asked the authorities concerned to bring drivers under a dope testing system

The US has thanked the Bangladeshi government for its tremendous efforts to ramp up production of personal protective equipment and deliver those to the country during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic before they really could get their feet underneath

Bangladesh has reported 1,696 new COVID-19 cases, taking the tally to 394,827, health officials said on Thursday

At least 12 children were killed and several others wounded in an airstrike on a mosque in Afghanistan's northern Takhar Province, officials said on Thursday