Japan handed over 2,000 sets of high quality personal protective equipment to the health and family welfare ministry today as part of its support to Bangladesh in fighting against the COVID-19 pandemic

A study is on over the impact of the gas leak from South Korean company LG Polymers on the overall environment in the surrounding villages while authorities have sent samples from water bodies including a major water reservoir for analysis amid public apprehension that they were contaminated by chemical toxins

Despite these dark predictions, the main light in Bangladesh's economy is agriculture that is the largest employment sector. The government of Bangladesh has been highly successful in boosting the rural and agro-economy even during COVID-19, writes Swadesh Roy  for South Asia Monitor

The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has  partnered with Bharat Biotech International Limited (BBIL) to develop a fully indigenous vaccine for coronavirus

YouTube will give Pakistan $5 million in advertisement grants to spread awareness about the coronavirus

Bangladesh's leading pharmaceuticals company Eskayef has successfully produced remdesivir, the drug used for treating Covid-19 patients, and preparations began yesterday morning for distributing the drug

Even as litres of fresh milk produce is being dumped in the US and parts of Europe, the giant milk cooperative networks in India continues to feed the country as well as millions of dairy farmers during the lockdown

Taiwan, one of the success stories of the global pandemic which has had only 400 cases and six deaths despite being separated from China by just a 180 km-wide strait, has launched Taiwan’s first large-scale humanitarian assistance initiative in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak

Under the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak, international oil prices have seen a rare plunge

Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has express optimism that the economy adversely affected by the COVID–19 pandemic could be re-built on a solid basis, the President's Media Division (PMD) said

United States President Donald Trump has offered to provide much needed ventilators to Sri Lanka to support the island nation’s efforts to fight the coronavirus pandemic

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) today approved an additional $500 million loan to strengthen the Bangladesh government's efforts to manage the impact of coronavirus pandemic on the country's economy and public health

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has provided a guarantee for a $ 25 million trade loan to the State Pharmaceuticals Corporation of Sri Lanka (SPC) to purchase medical supplies as part of the country’s response to the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic

The numbers of the famed Royal Bengal Tiger in West Bengal's Sundarbans has risen to 96, up by eight, according to the latest census

Kerala describes its 400,000 migrant labourers from other parts of India as ‘guest workers’. On Labour Day on May 1, they were gifted with an opportunity to go back to their homes in the north and east of the country while the southern state is struggling to tame the Corona-19 pandemic