Pakistan will host a virtual conference of ministers and senior officials from the eight-member South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) on Thursday to discuss a common strategy against the COVID-19 pandemic in the region

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan and US President Donald Trump held a telephonic conversation to discuss the challenges being faced by the international community due to the coronavirus pandemic, its implications on global economy, and ways to mitigate its impact, it was reported

Pakistan has received an emergency loan of $1.39 billion from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to cope with the coronavirus pandemic, pushing the countrys foreign currency reserves apparently to a one-month high above $12 billion, the media reported on Thursday

The US has airlifted 4,000 American from India and 6,000 are waiting for transportation home, according to the State Department's top consular official

US President Donald Trump has issued an executive order banning many categories of immigration to the US for 60 days but it does not apply to H1-B professional visa-holders

Indian Army is readying separate teams to be deployed to Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Afghanistan to help those countries boost capabilities to deal with rising cases of coronavirus, Press Trust of India reported on Tuesday quoting official sources

Adar Poonawalla, Chief Executive Officer, Serum Institute of India (SII), has said that SII has associated with US-based biotechnology firm Codagenix has developed a virus-vaccine candidate which is closest to the novel coronavirus. According to Poonawalla, human trials of the vaccine are expected to commence by September-October

The Indian Army is readying separate teams to be deployed in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Afghanistan to help those countries boost capabilities to deal with rising cases of coronavirus, official sources told PTI

Social media and tech giant Facebook is pouring in Rs 43,574 crore for a 9.99 percent stake in India's oil-retail-telecom conglomerate Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) led Jio Platforms -- the largest investment for a minority stake by a technology company anywhere in the world and the largest FDI in the Indian tech sector, according to an RIL statement on Wednesday

The World Health Organisation (WHO) will provide £2.67 million (approximately $3.29 million) fund to Pakistan to scale up the country’s efforts in its fight against the deadly coronavirus pandemic

Japan has provided a total sum of USD 1,212,500 (approx. Rs. 230 million) through the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the International Organization for Migration (IOM), and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) to tackle the COVID-19 in Sri Lanka

The Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT-K) and Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGIMS), in a joint project, have developed a working prototype of a Positive Pressure Respirator System (PPRS) to address the problem of acute global scarcity of N-95 respirator masks which are a critical component of Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) kits

Tablighi Jamaat (TJ), which started in 1926-27 as an Islamic missionary movement, has never interacted with the media and this is arguably the first-ever interview of a TJ chief to any media house in 92 years of its work as a religious movement which is spread over 150 countries

US President Donald Trump has said that his immigration ban will be for only 60 days and indicated that workers - from South Asia and other places -  on temporary visas like H1-B for professionals and H-2A for agricultural and menial workers could continue to come in

Pakistan has discreetly removed the names of around 4,000 terrorists from its watchlist, including that of one of the major planners of the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, an Artificial Intelligence (AI) startup has revealed