An abandoned multi-storeyed Sports Tower, which was constructed for 2007 World Military Games in Hyderabad in southern India, has been transformed into a makeshift hospital for Covid-19 patients in less than a month and the Telangana government plans to later upgrade it into a top-class healthcare and research facility

The Indian Embassy in Kabul on Monday handed hundreds of thousands of tablets donated by New Delhi to the ministries of defense and public health

Islamabad and Kabul will soon hold the next session of Afghanistan-Pakistan Action Plan for Peace and Solidarity (APAPPS), a bilateral forum set up in May 2018 as part of efforts not only to remove mistrust but also improve ties between the two neighbours

Many of Sri Lanka’s apparel firms have run out of working capital and credit lines to pay salaries in April and mass unemployment looms as prospects of a quick recovery is also dim with clothes being a discretionary purchase in Coronavirus hit countries, industry officials said

Terming the Covid-19 crisis as a wake-up call, Ratan Tata, Chairman Emeritus of Tata Group and one of India's and the woirld's most respected businless leaders, slammed India's housing policies under which slums and shantytowns are forever shifted from one location to the another because "we have the image we want to project of ourselves and there's a part we want to hide"

The Max Hospital in Saket, New Delhi has administered plasma therapy on a critical coronavirus patient and it's showing positive results with the patient being taken off ventilator support, the hospital said

For doctors of Indian origin on the frontlines of the United States war on COVID-19, it is a “proud moment” serving their adopted land in a time of dire need, but also “a scary moment” because of the dangers, according to Suresh Reddy, who heads their organisation

The Pakistan government has given permitted the resumption of the Afghan Transit Trade (ATT) activities at Gwadar port amid the coronavirus pandemic

After relinquishing the post of Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India in July 2018, Arvind Subramanian has now come out with his book, 'Of Counsel' (Penguin, Viking)

Container transshipment business at Sri Lanka’s Colombo port has been hit by lockdowns in India and Bangladesh over coronavirus and vessel calls are expected to decline as lines try to balance demand, a logistics official said

More than 5,000 tons of wheat assisted by India is expected to arrive soon in Afghanistan. The wheat is transported via Iran’s port of Chabahar

Sri Lanka will fly back 113 students stranded in Pakistan on April 21 in the first stage of an attempt to bring back citizens from Coronavirus struck countries as the Indian Ocean island announced a relaxation of tight curfews slapped to contain Covid-19

The United States has announced USD 500,000 as health assistance for Bhutan to strengthen diagnostic laboratory capabilities and clinical case management, provide virtual training for health care providers and lab personnel, and support risk communications materials

The UK on Saturday announced the first in a series of measures to give wide-ranging support to help the poorest and most vulnerable people in Pakistan during the coronavirus outbreak

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Saturday said that if levels of poverty in Pakistan increased by the time it has defeated the coronavirus, the country will have lost the overall war