As part of the EU’s global coronavirus response, an EU Humanitarian Air Bridge flight will depart on 15 June from Maastricht, Netherlands to Kabul, Afghanistan

The World Bank has predicted that the Maldives economy will increase between 7.9 to 8.5 percent in the upcoming year

Bangladesh's stimulus packages aimed at mitigating the impact of the coronavirus pandemic are one of the highest among a selective group of countries in Asia, according to a government paper

Of the 176 million people expected to be pushed into poverty by the coronavirus crisis, two-thirds are in South Asia, warned a World Bank report released this week

Sri Lanka has cleared the way for 191 million dollars of India financed deals to go ahead while President Gotabaya Rajapaksa had also invited the neighboring country to invest in Colombo port, another long-delayed project

Government company, State Trading Organization (STO) has stated that the USD loan issued to the company by the International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC) will make the management of foreign currency in the Maldives amid the current economic downturn easier

Pakistan's latest Economic Survey has revealed that the country is bracing towards massive and widespread joblessness due to the lockdowns and restrictions, required to curb the spread of the deadly coronavirus

UNDP has granted USD 1.4 million as an aid to develop and expand the agricultural sector of the Maldives

Bangladesh has faced many a fire disaster where unplanned buildings have collapsed like in the case of the Nimtoli fire, Churihatta fire,  etc that caused huge loss of lives, writes  Dr. Mohammad Rezaul Karim for South Asia Monitor

India's foreign exchange reserves rose by over $8.223 billion during the week ended June 5 to cross the $500 billion mark

India has agreed to provide a US$ 100 million loan facility to implement Solar power projects in Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka's Minister of Health and Indigenous Medicine Pavithra Wanniarachchi yesterday said the statement made by the former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe to the television and newspapers that the World Health Organization (WHO)has given the Ministry of Health $ 230 million for COVID-19 operations is totally false

Three organizations including the World Bank have launched a 50 million US dollar project to assist South Asian nations in curbing marine plastic pollution

Wishing that face masks, sanitizers, hand wash or any other corona-related items were available under one roof! Head for Corona Mall in Varanasi, the parliamentary constituency of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in Uttar Pradesh state. This unique Corona Mall, in Sigra area of Varanasi, has all the items to guard against COVID-19

The desert locust situation in Pakistan is fast deteriorating and locusts have found a new corridor — they are ente­ring Pakistan from Afghan­istan — to attack agricultural fields in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa