A firm resolve to prevent the coronavirus from entering his village in western India prompted a Nashik man and his two sons to develop an innovative tractor-mounted sanitization sprayer which has drawn huge attention

The newly accredited Indian High Commissioner to Sri Lanka Gopal Baglay paid a courtesy call on Minister of Foreign Relations Dinesh Gunawardena at the Republic Building today, the Ministry of Foreign Relations said. On his first working day as the High Commissioner after presenting credentials on 14 May 2020, High Commissioner Baglay exchanged views on a wide range of bilateral issues with the Foreign Relations Minister during his call

Apart from coronavirus pandemic, two more threats — locust attack and possible flooding — are looming over Pakis­tan and the authorities have been working on measures to cou­nter all of them, said Nat­ional Disaster Manage­ment Authority (NDMA) Cha­­irman Lt Gen Moham­mad Afzal on Tuesday

When Pankaj Shahi, owner of a mango orchard in Belghat area of Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state, saw a few bats lying dead in a nearby orchard on Tuesday, he informed the forest officials. By the time the forest team arrived, more bats dropped dead from the trees and the tally had gone up to 52

Tele consultations have been arranged with the Amrita Hospital in Kochi, India for people in the Maldives. The arrangements were made by the Hulhumale’ Hospital and Aasandha Company Pvt Ltd

Aima Construction Company has decided to repatriate a group of migrant workers employed at the company. The company decided to send the migrants back after they vandalized two properties under development as part of protests

The Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM) on Tuesday said its researchers have developed a high-performance magnesium alloy that can replace steel and aluminium in automobiles

The Republic of Korea has contributed COVID-19 prevention items worth USD 400,000, including test kits to Bhutan

The European Union (EU) has decided to provide 1.1 million euro to Bangladesh for helping recover damages triggered by cyclone Amphan last week

Cyclone Amphan that cut a punishing path through Bangladesh has caused the Sundarbans three times as much damage as Cyclone Bulbul did last year, authorities say. The monster storm felled more than 12,350 trees of the delicate forest, according to the summary of findings by four Forest Department committees formed to fathom enormity of the damage caused by Amphan

Bangladesh has joined a select group of countries that manufacture world-class, large-scale Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), as Beximco today sent a shipment of 6.5 million PPE gowns manufactured to the US brand Hanes for ultimate delivery to Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)

A Rohingya man’s protection visa has been reinstated with the assistance of research from a University of New South Wales (UNSW) Sydney PhD law student Ashraful Azad

A Bangladeshi barge carrying fly ash sank in a river in West Bengal's South 24 Parganas district today after hitting a submerged pontoon jetty damaged by cyclone Amphan

High-resolution satellite imagery of the Himalaya show details as small as livestock grazing in a field. But what they cannot tell you is how communities on the ground are changing because of natural disasters, political upheavals, or migration

It is for the first time that drones and planes will be used to fight the locust attack in Rajasthan, said B.R. Karwa, project director, Agricultural Technology Management Agency