Sri Lanka has requested a 400 million dollar swap line from the Reserve Bank of India under an arrangement available for South Asia while another request for a billion US dollars may be made at head of state level, an official said as the country fought off a Coronavirus crisis

The Foreign Office said that Pakistan stayed away from the regional trade officials’ video conference on Covid-19 hosted by India because it had not been managed by the secretariat of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc)

For over 300 Pakistani students studying in Bangladesh under the SAARC quota scholarship programme, life these days seems to be a never-ending nightmare

Pakistan has decided to allow movement of cargo trucks and containers to cross-over into Afghanistan thrice a week starting from Friday onwards on the neighbouring countrys request amid the coronavirus pandemic, it was reported on Thursday

When the country is facing crisis of masks and sanitizers to contain the spread of coronavirus, women of Sakhi Mandal in Jharkhand, in eastern India, have shown the path to manufacturers by making sanitizers

With schools, hospitals and therapy centres closed during the 21-day nationwide lockdown in India, everyone is facing challenges but children with special and additional needs are the hardest hit

After taking the heat in Malaysia and India for accelerating the spread of the coronavirus, the Tableeghi Jamaat is in the limelight in Pakistan also for organising its annual mass assembly at Raiwind Markaz in March despite strong opposition by the Punjab government

Given that many parts of India are witnessing large number of cases of Covid-19, experts have expressed their views on community transmission, but speaking exclusively to IANS, Poonam Khetrapal Singh, Regional Director of the World Health Organization's South-East Asia region, said that currently cases in India have been traceable so there is no community transmission

As the 13th person reported Covid-19 positive in the past five days from Dharavi in central Mumbai on Wednesday, state and civic health authorities were worried over the implications in the most congested locality on the planet which is also Asia's biggest slum

The Indian High Commission in the Maldives has reiterated that no charter flights between Maldives and India have been scheduled

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has postponed approval of second review of the $6-billion bailout programme that was scheduled for coming Friday due to delay in implementing agreed actions by Pakistan

The World Bank has approved a fast-track US$ 29 million support to Nepal for COVID-19 Emergency Response and Health Systems Preparedness Project

India has gifted a 10-tonne consignment of medicines to Sri Lanka, in view of the COVID–19 crisis

About 40 crore (400 million) workers in India working in the informal economy are at risk of falling deeper into poverty during the COVID-19 pandemic crisis

The Bangladesh government is considering an extension of lockdown in the country as the number of COVID-19 cases continues to rise despite social distancing measures