OPINION, Latest Updates
Beirut must be saved
Beirut must be saved
BEIRUT – For millennia, Lebanon has been a meeting point for different cultures and peoples, and also a victim of regional power struggles that have stood in the way of lasting peace. Yet even through the country’s long civil war (1975-90), Lebanon’s capital, Beirut, managed to preserve its open cul...
Sep 14, 2020
WORLD, Latest Updates
Indian government to infuse $2.72 billion in state-run banks
Indian government to infuse $2.72 billion in state-run banks
NEW DELHI, Sept 14: India’s government sought parliamentary approval to inject 200 billion rupees ($2.72 billion) in state-run banks in the current fiscal year, to help lenders mitigate the expected surge in bad loans due to the pandemic.
Sep 14, 2020
SOCIETY, Latest Updates
UPDATE: Death toll in Gumthang landslide hits 14, 17 still missing
UPDATE: Death toll in Gumthang landslide hits 14, 17 still m...
SINDHUPALCHOWK, Sept 14: Three more dead bodies were recovered from the Gumthang landslide site on Monday afternoon, taking the landslide death toll to 14.
Sep 14, 2020
SOCIETY, Latest Updates
Okhaldhunga sees 18 new cases of COVID-19
Okhaldhunga sees 18 new cases of COVID-19
OKHALDHUNGA, Sept 14: Eighteen more persons have been found to be infected with novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in Okhaldhunga.
Sep 14, 2020
POLITICS, Latest Updates
Govt blacklists controversial Omni Business Corporate International for a year
Govt blacklists controversial Omni Business Corporate Intern...
KATHMANDU, Sept 14: The government blacklisted Omni Business Corporate International (OBCI), which was involved in a controversial procurement deal of medical supplies, for one year.
Sep 14, 2020
SOCIETY, Latest Updates, Coronavirus
Kapilvastu reports two new COVID-19 deaths
Kapilvastu reports two new COVID-19 deaths
BUTWAL, Sept 14: Kapilvastu district has reported two more cases of fatalities due to the coronavirus infection. Two patients from Chandrauta succumbed to this deadly disease recently.
Sep 14, 2020
OPINION, Latest Updates
India’s Chinese red herring in Nepal
India’s Chinese red herring in Nepal
In principle and official pronouncements, India-Nepal relations have always an exemplary brotherly bond. The reality, however, is markedly different. It has remained acrimonious at the core but was always enveloped in a veneer of unparalleled amity. After the current territorial row that plunged bil...
Sep 14, 2020
My City, Gen-Next, Slammed
Melodies of hopes
Melodies of hopes
It's all about love
It's all about trust
It's all about words
That matters the most
Sep 14, 2020
My City, Entertainment, Literature
Margaret Atwood honored with Dayton Literary Peace Prize
Margaret Atwood honored with Dayton Literary Peace Prize
Margaret Atwood, whose sweeping body of work includes “The Handmaid’s Tale,” a depiction of a nightmarish totalitarian future for the United States, is this year’s winner of a lifetime achievement award that celebrates literature’s power to foster peace, social justice and global understanding.
Sep 14, 2020
My City, Lifestyle
Singaporean taps captive market selling ant farms amid pandemic
Singaporean taps captive market selling ant farms amid pande...
For many they are simply a pest, but for Singaporean entrepreneur John Ye his personal interest in the humble ant prompted him to launch a business selling insects that he believes have a lot to offer us.
Sep 14, 2020