The fire on the MV-X Press Pearl ship off the Sri Lankan coast, which raged for days, has affected scores of daily fishermen on Sri Lanka’s Uswetakeiyawa coast

A group of Chinese investors has met Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, expressing their interest to establish a coal-powered power plant in Afghanistan, a statement from the Afghan Presidential Office confirmed the possibility of setting up a power plant with $400 million costs

The ban on the border crossing with India has been extended to till 14 June, says an order by the Bangladesh government, amid increasing COVID-19 cases in border districts in Bangladesh

The Future Policy Award 2021 organized by the World Future Council has nominated two Sri Lankan policies this year for the award: the control of pesticides and prevention of suicides

Nepal’s Everest mountaineering season usually ends in May end but this year, in a rare move, authorities have extended the season till 3 June as many climbers are still waiting for their turn

Amid the raging third Covid wave, Pakistan, breaking all previous records, has recorded a historic tax collection of over $26 billion in the first 11 months of the current fiscal year, indicating that the country’s economy is well on the recovery path

Days after facing heat over its possible role in an attack on a digital journalist in Islamabad, Pakistan's intelligence agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), has “disassociated” itself from the incident, reported Dawn

At least 10 people were killed and 15 others were injured when a passenger bus, traveling on a dilapidated stretch of road, fell hundreds of feet down onto the bank of River Jhelum in Pakistan during the early hours of Saturday

A key leader of banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) was killed in Kunar province of Afghanistan, reports in local media said on Saturday

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said her country has to maintain friendship with all as it wants to develop into a prosperous nation

Bhutan Prime Minister Lyonchhen Dr Lotay Tshering has said his government hoped to begin administering the second shot of Covid 19 vaccine to the kingdom’s eligible population in four weeks

The lockdown imposed in Karachi, Pakistan's largest city, due to rising COVID-19 cases has now turned the situation into an opportunity for the police to earn money, local media reported

Nepal Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has promised vaccines against COVID-19 to all eligible citizens and called for global collaboration to address the issue of lack of proportional distribution of vaccines, The Himalayan Times reported

In a bid to justify the dissolution of the House of Representatives (HoR) and seeking a fresh mandate, Nepal Prime Minister K. P. Sharma Oli has said events in the past three months after an earlier reinstatement of the House did not ensure political stability

Pakistan has reported its first confirmed case of a new strain of the Covid 19 virus that was first detected in India