Pakistan has been included in the group of countries eligible for debt relief on all principal and interest payments to official bilateral creditors announced by the G20 countries in their Riyadh meeting on Wednesday

The International Monetary Fund supports India's “very wise” decision to impose a national lockdown to combat the coronavirus pandemic despite the resulting economic slowdown, according to Changyong Rhee, the organisation's director of the Asia and Pacific Department

Amidst renewed diplomatic efforts for the implementation of the US-Taliban agreement, Pakistan on Tuesday reiterated its backing for the American efforts for a negotiated settlement of the 19-year-old conflict in Afghanistan

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Tuesday projected economic recession for Pakistan following the coronavirus-related ‘The Great Lockdown’ that would sharply contract the global economy this year

The Bhutanese government had just about laid the foundation and set the tone for the rest of its term in office. Then the Covid-19 pandemic came. Now that the focus has been diverted to preventing the spread of the pandemic, the economic outlook for Bhutan has changed drastically

The detection of potentially pathogenic coronavirus in Indian bats stresses the need for enhancing screening for novel viruses in them, according to a study by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)

A 35-year-old-woman, supposed to be a Bangladeshi, is stranded between the India and Bangladesh border in Tripura for the past around two weeks. Despite the border guards of the two countries holding a series of meetings her status remains uncertain, officials said on Tuesday

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) projects India to be the fastest-growing major economy this year in a world plunged into a recession by the coronavirus pandemic, despite drastically slashing its growth rate to a paltry 1.9 percent

Afghanistan’s military has pushed back a Pakistani forces’ bid to fence a portion of the Durand Line in Kandahar city outskirts and remain on the defensive mode, according to local authorities

The coronavirus crisis has hit the weddings organisers and the related businesses hard with marriages scheduled for October-December, the peak season, are also getting cancelled

As the global economy goes through an unprecedented tough phase amid the coronavirus crisis, a World Bank report said that South Asia may witness its worst economic performance in the last 40 years

Bangladesh's tremendous growth momentum in recent years is set to come to a crashing halt for the coronavirus outbreak in the country, with the poor and informal sector bearing the most brunt, said the World Bank yesterday

While the world is busy battling coronavirus, the reports of a Malayan tiger being tested positive for COVID-19 in the United States has caught the attention of the Indian authorities

SAAPE -South Asia Alliance for Poverty Eradication - is concerned about the great danger that COVID-19 pandemic poses in South Asia. The pandemic has already made the lives of the people miserable and woeful. The world is entering in a new phase of history

The regional economic growth in eight South Asian countries, including Bangladesh, is likely to be between 1.8 and 2.8 percent in 2020, down from 6.3 percent projected six months ago, amid the fallout triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic, the World Bank has said