The Maldives’s government confiscated the passport of Hassan Ali, Maldives’ former controller of immigration. Hassan has been facing an inquiry regarding a missing journalist Ahmed Rilwan

Lacking faith in the Uttar Pradesh Police, a distraught 22-year-old Nepali woman escaped the clutches of her alleged kidnapper-cum-rapist in Lucknow, cabbed down 900-km to Nagpur and lodged a police complaint against him, a senior official said here on Monday

India's Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said the government working on plans to procure 400-500 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine, which will be administered to up to 25 crore (250 million) people by July 2021 - that is about a fifth of India's population of 1.3 billion

With a spike of 74,442 coronavirus cases and 903 deaths in 24 hours, India's tally on Monday mounted to 66,23,816 cases

Over 10,000 women, feminist groups and rights activists from all over the world on Sunday got together to seek justice for the Hathras gang-rape victim as the case has rocked national and Uttar Pradesh state politics in the past one week

With COVID-19 currently occupying the front seat on priorities for personal and public health, women seem to pushing their breast health to the recesses, by neglecting their mammograms and increasing nervousness to visit their physicians because of the possibility of contracting COVID-19, a new survey has shown

Bhutan has a unique architecture and construction style. Architecture constitutes an important aspect of tangible culture

Authorities have restricted people from meeting Nepalese Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli after five of his aides and 70 security personnel deployed at Baluwatar tested positive for the virus yesterday

Nepali Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba, a former prime minister, has urged the Nepalese government to hold ‘honest and meaningful talks’ with senior orthopaedic surgeon Dr Govinda KC, who has been on his 19th fast-unto-death since September 14, and meet his demands

The families of Nepali security guards killed and injured in the 2016 Kabul blast have settled their lawsuit with the Canadian government

The Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM), an alliance comprising 11 of the country's opposition parties, will hold its first public rally on October 18, it was announced

At least 380 teaching and non-teaching staff members of private and government schools in Pakistan's Sindh province have tested positive for the novel coronavirus, according to an official report

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has urged citizens to wear face masks in public to avoid a spike in coronavirus cases, saying there were concerns that the "onset of winter" could result in a second wave

The Pakistan government has issued new standard operating procedures (SOPs) against the COVID-19 pandemic which will require travellers from affected countries to undergo a mandatory PCR test 94 hours before leaving for the country

Pakistan's Human Rights Ministry has engaged the Child Protection Committees of Islamabad to raise awareness about the rights of children and steps aimed at preventing them from abuse