India’s Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) today registered a case against UK-based political consulting company Cambridge Analytica for alleged "illegal harvesting of personal data of 5.62 lakh Facebook users in India."

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today thanked her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi for sending the Oxford vaccine produced in India as a gift for Bangladesh.

India today announced that Covid-19 vaccine supplies under grant assistance to six countries, including Bangladesh, will begin from tomorrow but made it clear that supply to other countries would be calibrated against domestic requirements and international demand and obligations, including under WHO’s global vaccine alliance facility.

The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) yesterday announced that the membership of 154 members of the Senate, national and provincial assemblies had been suspended for failing to submit statements of their assets and liabilities.

Firebrand Indian television anchor Arnab Goswami knew of the Modi government's plan to stage a strike in Pakistan days before the February 26, 2019, Balakot episode between the two countries, evidence submitted by Mumbai police as part of an ongoing investigation on manipulation of television ratings suggests, multiple Indian media outlets reported on Saturday.

Gunmen shot dead two Afghan women judges working for the Supreme Court in an ambush in the country’s capital yesterday, officials said, an attack the top US envoy in Kabul blamed on the Taliban.

India has vaccinated 224,301, in two days of its massive Covid-19 vaccination programme so far with the number being much higher than many other countries such as the USA, the UK and France, the Indian health ministry said tonight.

AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine has been approved for emergency use in Pakistan, the health minister said yesterday, making it the first coronavirus vaccine to get the green light for use in the South Asian country.

AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine has been approved for emergency use in Pakistan, the health minister said today, making it the first coronavirus vaccine to get the green light for use in the South Asian country.

Myanmar police scuffled on Saturday with dozens of followers of Buddhist nationalist monk Ashin Wirathu at a demonstration calling for him to be put on trial more than two months after he handed himself in to face sedition charges.

As India today began vaccinating its people against coronavirus, those receiving Bharat Biotech's Covaxin were asked to sign consent forms which held out the assurance of compensation and treatment if any adverse effect was noticed linked to the jab.

Pakistani authorities sacked a local police chief and 11 other policemen for failing to protect a Hindu temple that was set on fire and demolished last month by a mob led by hundreds of supporters of a radical Islamist party, police said Friday.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch the start of pan-India rollout of Covid-19 vaccination drive tomorrow (Saturday) via video conferencing in what his office termed as the world’s largest inoculation programme.

An estimated three lakh healthcare workers will be given the coronavirus vaccine at 2,934 sites across India on the first day of the massive nationwide vaccination drive on January 16, official sources said today.

India today approved the procurement of 73 indigenously-manufactured Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas Mk-1A fighter planes and ten LCA Tejas Mk-1 for training purposes at a cost of Rs 45,696 crores.

Bangladesh will import 60,000 metric tonnes of diesel from India in the current year 2021 under a government-to-government contract.

Almost a year to the day, Bangladesh, Myanmar and China will hold another tripartite secretary-level meeting on Rohingya repatriation in Dhaka on January 19.

A police officer was shot dead in northwestern Pakistan yesterday when a polio vaccination team he was escorting was attacked in a drive-by shooting.

The police chiefs of Bangladesh and India today decided to establish designated nodal points for enhancing joint work against terrorist entities, including global terrorist groups as well as other fugitives.

The Indian government today placed an order with Serum Institute of India (SII) to purchase the first tranche of 11 million doses of the Covishield vaccine at 210 rupees each, official sources said.