Nepal's handicraft exports are expected to plunge by 70 percent next year as only a few orders are trickling in with Covid-19 ravaging the world economy, handicraft entrepreneurs said

A day after Nepal's Ministry of Health and Population said that people themselves need to pay for Covid-19 tests and treatment costs if they are infected, Nepalis on Monday took to social media to chide the administration, wondering why citizens should pay tax to the government if it cannot ensure their fundamental right

With Pakistan and Turkey's meddling in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh, the second ceasefire between Azerbaijan and Armenia also collapsed within hours after coming into effect on Sunday

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has expressed fears over a second COVID-19 wave in the country in the coming months due to a resurgence of new cases in some parts of the country

The Islamabad High Court (IHC) has dismissed a petition filed by the federal government seeking the publication of proclamation against former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in two UK newspapers

PML-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz has claimed that the arrest of her husband and former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's son-in-law retired Captain Mohammad Safdar, was aimed at dividing the opposition's anti-government alliance

Stressing the importance of an inclusive, broad-based and comprehensive political settlement through an Afghan-led and Afghan-owned process, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Monday urged all parties to honour their respective commitments and work for reduction in violence leading to a ceasefire

Since August last year, food inflation in Pakistan has been in double digits. It has remained between 10.4% and 19.5% in urban areas and between 12.6% and 23.8% in rural areas, revealed the data released by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS)

The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) Monday said the foreign debt was $96 billion in 2018 and the incumbent government took $17 billion foreign loan, jacking up the debt liability of Pakistan to $113 billion on June 30, 2020, daily Jang reported

Sri Lanka's Minister of Education, Prof. GL Peiris, said that identifying the development needs and current challenges at the district level would be very effective in uplifting the education system in the country and the proposals made by the Ministry of Education in this regard will be given priority in the 2021 Budget, which is to be presented in November

Handing over letters of appointment to the trainees selected from families of the lowest income category in Sri Lankan society under the programme to recruit 100,000 individuals for employment commenced on Monday (19)

A tribunal in Bagerhat has delivered its verdict in a rape case in just seven work days, setting what experts said was a record for the fastest disposal of a criminal case

At least 191 people were arrested from different parts of Bangladesh for illegally netting ilish despite the government's ongoing 22-days ban to allow the fish to repopulate

Abdullah Abdullah, Chairman of the High Council for National Reconciliation, met Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, who pledged his countrys support for an enduring and acceptable peace for the people of Afghanistan, an official statement

NATO Allies and partners met at the plenary meeting of the Afghan National Army Trust Fund Board on Monday