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Pakistan's intelligence services are deploying secretive surveillance technology normally used to locate militants to instead track coronavirus patients and the people they come into contact with. In ... ( read original story ...)

Indonesia reported 686 new coronavirus cases, bringing the total number of infections in the Southeast Asian country to 23,851, a health ministry official said on Wednesday. Indonesia also confirmed ... ( read original story ...)

India sees no respite from the coronavirus caseload seeing another record single day jump of over 6,500 cases at a time when the two-month-old lockdown across the country is set to end on Sunday ... ( read original story ...)

Millions of locusts have descended upon multiple states in India, destroying crops and prompting some governments to deploy drones to disperse them. ( read original story ...)

Since the first case of coronavirus at the end of January, India has reported more than 150,000 Covid-19 infections. More than 4,000 people have died of the infection. To put this in some context, as ... ( read original story ...)

Blizzards of bugs are descending on India at an already tough time. Scientists say climate change is making the infestation worse. ( read original story ...)

Growth momentum in South Asia's largest economy was already slowing down in previous quarters, before the coronavirus pandemic. ( read original story ...)

Australia will host India at their Gabba stronghold in the four-Test series with Perth missing out on a match in the lucrative tour ... ( read original story ...)

The heatwave, which officials say is likely to last until the weekend, comes even as the region struggles with rising Covid-19 infections and swarms of locusts that are ravaging crops. - India's ... ( read original story ...)