Bahrain has indefinitely suspended giving work permits to people in five South Asian nations severely hit by the coronavirus infection -  India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Nepal

Around 100 Non-Resident Nepalis (NRN) living in various countries in Africa have come together to form the NRN Africa Ventures Limited with an aim to invest in different sectors in their native country

The European Parliament has adopted a resolution on the human rights situation in Sri Lanka, calling for the repeal of the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA)

The South Korean government has asked Sri Lanka to immediately repatriate Sri Lankan workers who had been legally employed in South Korea but are overstaying their visas, an official said

Indian-origin journalist Megha Rajagopalan has won America's top journalism award, the Pulitzer Prize, for innovative investigative reports harnessing satellite technology that exposed China's mass detention of Muslims

India and Kuwait have signed a MoU providing Indian workers in the Gulf nation protection under law

Concerns have been raised in the European Parliament on Sri Lanka’s Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) with a commissioner alleging that the law did not conform to conventions that the island nation had committed to implementing under the Generalized Scheme of Preferences (GSP+) granted to it

George E. Gabriel, an educationist of Sri Lankan origin, has been appointed to the United States President’s Commission on White House Fellowships by US President Joe Biden. He studied at Sri Lanka’s University of Kelaniya before immigrating to the United States

Hindus in the US feel that associating luxury handbags made of cow leather with the 'Brahmin' brand was very inappropriate, and are urging the Fairhaven (Massachusetts)-headquartered  Brahmin Handbags company to consider changing the name of the bags

While the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is the most popular Indian political party among the Indian diaspora in the US, a majority is critical of the Modi government's policies despite showing overall strong support for the nation, according to a new study. Support for Prime Minister Narendra Modi personally however remains undimmed

Members of the World Sindhi Congress (WSC) on June 6 participated in a protest opposite Downing Street in London city against alleged large-scale land grabbing in Pakistan's Sindh province

The Pakistani government has condemned the “premeditated” murder of four members of a Pakistani-origin Canadian family in Canada and called the incident an act of terrorism

Mahatma Gandhi's great-granddaughter, Ashish Lata Ramgobin, has been sentenced to seven-year imprisonment by a court in South Africa in a 6 million rand fraud case, according to media reports

In recent months, Bangladesh, the country once called a ‘basket case’, has been in the news for its extraordinary transition from a least developed country to a developing country status

Malaysian authorities have detained 155 immigrants, including 62 Bangladeshis and one each from Pakistan and India, from an illegal settlement in the city of Cyberjaya in Selangor state, media reports said