“I am really afraid. I don’t want to fly again,” says 28-year-old Muhammad Shafaf, who was returning home from Dubai on board the Air India Express flight IX 1344 which skidded off the runway amid heavy rains, hurtling down a sharp slope and breaking in two, leaving 18 people dead and scores injured, at Calicut International Airport in the southern Indian city of Kozhikode.

Nepal’s health authorities have announced that their first plasma therapy treatment has been successful, according to Xinhua.

India has lodged a “strong protest” with Pakistan on reports that a famous Sikh shrine in Lahore was being turned into a mosque.

Another record single-day number of 49,310 cases of Covid-19 took India’s total tally of the contagion patients to 12,87,945, Indian Health Ministry data said today.

Nepal government has given its nod to Nepal Electricity Authority to trade electricity with India and Bangladesh.

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan today called his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina and discussed various issues related to Covid-19 and flood situation.

India is often like a "punching bag" for its South Asian neighbours, says the country’s External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar.

The state government in West Bengal today announced imposition of a complete lockdown in the entire state twice a week, beginning Thursday, in a bid to break the chain of the Covid-19 contagion.

International relations analysts have called for a move to strengthen South Asian integration for the sake of improving the lives of its huge population, and ensure human rights and protection of the environment.

Taiwan's Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) on June 15 announced two new imported cases of coronavirus from Bangladesh.

An Indian Army officer and two soldiers were killed during a “violent face-off” with the Chinese military in the Himalayan heights of eastern Ladakh's Galwan Valley last night, the Indian armed force said today.

India today reacted sharply to a bill passed in Nepal’s parliament redrawing the Himalayan nation’s map which reportedly includes parts of the Indian territory.

India’s private sector will be allowed to use Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) facilities and other relevant assets to improve their capacities, Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Atomic Energy and Space Jitendra Singh has said.

India is “very far away from the peak” as far as the spread of Covid-19 infection is concerned and preventive measures taken to check the spread have been very effective, the government said today.

Indian security forces have averted a major car bomb attack by detecting and defusing a vehicle fitted with improvised explosive devices (IED) in Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said.

India overtakes Iran to become one of the 10 worst-hit nations as it recorded the biggest single-day jump in the number of coronavirus positive cases for the fourth consecutive day with 6,977 new patients across the country in the last 24 hours, taking the total to nearly 1.38 lakh cases.

Thirty municipal areas spread over 12 states are accounting for almost 80 percent of India’s Covid-19 cases, according to the health ministry.

India has conveyed its strong protest to Pakistan’s efforts to bring “material change” in Pakistan-occupied territories and asked Islamabad to vacate them.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks on the phone to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, and discusses the regional situation in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has underlined that lockdown across the country “has yielded positive results” as it has managed to save thousands of lives in the past one and half months during the coronavirus outbreak.