Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], August 1 (ANI): The Mamata Banerjee government in West Bengal on Monday decided to carve out seven new districts out of the existing 23 districts by redrawing their boundaries for better administration and development.
Kabul [Afghanistan], August 1 (ANI): Amid the worsening economic and humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, the total number of students enrolled in the private universities in the Kunduz province has dropped by 65 per cent in recent months, as per the Union of Private Universities.
New Delhi [India], August 1 (ANI): India on Monday saw a slight dip in the number of COVID-19 cases as the country recorded 16,464 fresh cases in the last 24 hours, according to data by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
Sindh [Pakistan], July 31 (ANI): As many as 30 villages submerged in Sindh province in Pakistan after flash floods from Balochistan entered the province, taking the total number of drowned villages in the hilly region to 50, local media reported.
Patna (Bihar) [India], July 30 (ANI): Bihar Forest and Environment Minister Neeraj Kumar Bablu on Friday named four newborn tiger cubs under the Chief Minister's direction and said he was hopeful of tiger numbers to grow.
Lahore [Pakistan], July 29 (ANI): Voting to elect a new Punjab Assembly Speaker was briefly paused on Friday after Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) nominee Saiful Malook Khokhar raised questions on ballot serial numbers.
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], July 29 (ANI): All jumbo COVID -19 centres in Mumbai will be closed, said BMC officials on Friday after the number of cases dropped in the city.
Geneva [Switzerland], July 29 (ANI): As the cases of monkeypox surged among men who have sex with men, the World Health Organization on Wednesday called to limit exposure to the virus by reducing the number of sex partners and reconsidering sex with new partners.
Manila [Philippines], July 28 (ANI/Xinhua): The Philippines reported 3,858 new COVID-19 infections on Thursday, the highest daily tally since Feb. 10 this year, bringing the number of confirmed cases in the Southeast Asian country to 3,764,346.
Moscow [Russia], July 28 (ANI): The number of Islamic State terrorist organization members in Afghanistan increased three times to 6,000 since the Taliban came to power last year, Zamir Kabulov, the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry's Second Asian Department, said on Thursday.
Islamabad [Pakistan], July 28 (ANI): Pakistan reported the highest number of COVID-19 deaths in the last 20 days as eight people died in a single day, according to National Institute of Health, Islamabad (NIH) data.
Geneva [Switzerland], July 27 (ANI): The Monkeypox outbreak can be stopped, if the world takes the risks seriously, said World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Wednesday amid the rising number of cases.