Nepali has confirmed the presence of a new fast-spreading variant, B.1.617.2, in the Himalayan country, thus taking the number of variants prevailing there to three

Authorities in Nepal have been approaching the headquarters of all international relief organizations operating in the country to enhance support for the country’s Covid response

The Bangladesh government has requested Canada to send two million doses of Covid-19 vaccines to Bangladesh which is required immediately

Authorities in the Maldives have beefed up security at the archipelago’s parliament building after security agencies in the country sounded alert over a possible attack

Despite a high number of Covid cases across India, less than 2 per cent of the country's population of 1.36 million has been affected so far, the Indian government has said

Jammu and Kashmir has received seven new imported oxygen plants from Germany with a cumulative generation capacity of 7,100 litres per minute (LPM)

Indian vaccine maker Bharat Biotech will launch the phase II and III clinical trials for Covaxin in children between the ages of 2 to 18 years in the next 10-12 days,  Dr VK Paul, member (health) of Niti Aayog, said

SETU Sverige Foundation, a Sweden-based charity, has lent support to India’s fight against COVID-19 pandemic, with procurement of oxygen concentrators and oxygen cylinders among other things

India's Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri has said the government is taking all precautions and keeping a close eye on the situation in Singapore, responding to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's tweet asking for suspension of all flights to and from that country

White House Chief Medical Adviser Dr Anthony Fauci on Tuesday said that the vaccines currently being administered in the United States would be “at least partially and probably quite protective” against the variants of coronavirus first found in India

The declining rate of COVID-19 cases in Delhi have resulted in an increase in vacant beds and Intensive Care Units (ICUs) in the national capital

Indian astronomers have developed a new method based on Machine Learning that can identify cluster stars -- an assembly of stars physically related through common origin with much greater certainty

A newly developed multiplex RT-PCR kit developed by Indian scientists has a higher accuracy of detecting Covid19 across the various mutant strains of the virus responsible for the global pandemic

The Taliban is ready to resume talks with the Afghan government in Doha, Qatar, the group’s spokesperson Mohammad Naeem said, without giving any timeline regarding when the negotiation will start

Moeed Yusuf, the man believed to have played a key in brokering the LOC truce between India and Pakistan early this year, has been formally appointed Pakistan’s national security advisor (NSA)