Ahead of US President Donald Trump's visit to India, the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) headed Prime Minister Narendra Modi cleared the purchase of 24 American helicopters for the Indian Navy

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina asked the authorities concerned not to build high-rise establishments along the sea in Cox’s Bazar.
 

Nepal has proposed Bangladesh to use Saidpur Airport as part of strengthening connectivity between the two countries.

The first two-day India-Bangladesh tourism festival would be held in Agartala on Thursday.

In a bid to help Bangladesh improve its transport connectivity and promote multimodal transport The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved $42 million in project readiness financing (PRF), BSS reported.

India is set to host the UN biodiversity summit that will bring together more than 1,200 delegates from over 110 countries to deliberate on the alarming decline of migratory species in Gandhinagar in Gujarat from Monday. The agenda of the talks include new proposals to mitigate effects of infrastructure on migratory mammals and joining the Gobi bear, the only bear living in the desert, the Persian leopard and the urial, a wild sheep, in the Central Asian mammal species for their protection.

The World Bank has declared the $73 million Water Sector Capacity Building and Advisory Services project (WCAP) as “unsatisfactory” after losing its last hope to revive the scheme.

British and the Indian institutions are collaborating in the field of healthcare at an unprecedented pace and 2020 is expected to witness an "inflection point" in India-UK Healthcare Collaboration, participants in a conference in Birmingham agreed.

In a major concession, India is likely to give the US access to its dairy and poultry markets in exchange for renegotiated terms for its pharmaceutical, textile and industrial exports under a new bilateral trade deal to be signed during President Donald Trump's visit to New Delhi later this month. Top sources told IANS that India is willing to partially open up its traditionally protected sectors -- dairy and poultry -- on the condition that the US grants India better terms for its pharmaceutical, textile and agro-machinery products.

Bhutan's National Assembly passed the much touted Goods and Services Tax (GST) Bill 2020 despite legal questions surrounding the House’s decision to defer its implementation. Prime Minister Dr Lotay Tshering initially said that the government would implement the GST by July 1, 2022. He said that the two-year incubation period was required in view of the need to develop GST billing software and carry out sensitisation programmes, Kuensel reported.

In her marathon two hours and 46 minute-speech introducing India’s 2020 budget, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman painted an optimistic picture of the Indian economy

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says that the recent Indian budget's “accommodative fiscal stance” is appropriate in the weaker economic scenario, but wants New Delhi to focus in the medium term on fiscal consolidation because of the growing debt levels.

The Maldives Parliament has unanimously passed a resolution to declare a climate emergency in the country.

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said the government will light up every house across the country within the 'Mujib Barsha' (Mujib Year) by bringing all people under the electricity coverage.

Pakistan government set to encourage growth in IT sector and back the youth in entrepreneurial ventures said Prime Minister Imran Khan, Dawn reported.