Around eight million Pakistanis will get a total of $307 million from the Pakistan government under an income support program launched to assist the people most affected by the pandemic, reported Dawn

Almost a week after Nepal President Bidya Devi Bhandari dissolved parliament, Nepal’s Supreme Court Chief Justice Cholendra Shumsher Rana has assigned 19 writ petitions challenging the dissolution of parliament to his bench, reported The Himalayan Times

Around 177,000 people have been affected by the breakdown in power supply caused by the extreme weather conditions in Sri Lanka, an official of the power ministry informed

Emerging Issues in the fields of biotechnology and biomedicine were discussed at the fourth BRICS Working Group meeting attended by more than 60 participants, including researchers, academicians, and government officials, from all five BRICS countries - Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa - on May 25-26

A former World Bank adviser has prophesied that if Pakistan continues with its dismal economic performance, it may end up seeking aid from Bangladesh in a decade

A day after the Indian cabinet cleared the proposal to open a consulate in Addu, the southernmost city of the archipelago, Maldives President Mohammed Solih has said that they have not yet received any proposal, reported Sun news

The Taliban, the main Afghan insurgent group, has warned Afghan neighbors against hosting US troops, saying it would a “great historic mistake”. The group also threatened that they would “not remain silent”, reported TOLOnews

As daily COVID-19 infections remain unchecked in the Maldives, authorities have tightened restrictions, including closing down mosques and introducing a permit system, in capital city Male

Pakistani security forces have killed four insurgents belonging to the Tahreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), an insurgent group commonly known as the Pakistan Taliban, in Quetta, the capital of its restive Balochistan province, reported Dawn

Communist Party of Nepal-Unified Marxist and Leninist (CPN-UML),  headed by Nepal’s Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli, is on the verge of split as a party faction, headed by former prime minister Madhav Nepal, is parting its ways from Oli

Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has said his country would not provide its bases to the United States to keep a small contingent of troops for future counter-terrorism threats emanating from Afghanistan

The Pakistan government is making efforts to host a high-level peace meeting in Pakistan between the top Afghan leaders from both the Taliban and the government, reported TOLOnews

The Covid variant, B.1.617, which wreaked havoc in India, is now slowly making its way into bordering districts in Bangladesh, and experts are now warning that the country could witness 20,000 daily Covid cases by end of June this year

Indian refiners are likely to reduce crude imports in May amid the second wave of coronavirus infection in contrast to April when refiners met all their import commitments but the full impact of the crisis will get reflected only in May numbers, according to S&P Global Platts Analytics

Pakistan and the United States have agreed to advance practical cooperation in bilateral, regional and global issues during a meeting of the national security advisers of the two nations in Geneva