SOCIETY
Banda affects normal life in Udayapur
Banda affects normal life in Udayapur
UDAYAPUR, Feb 20: A normal life has been affected in the district due to bandh called by Communist Party of Nepal led by Netra Bikram Chand alias Biplab.
Feb 20, 2018
Lifestyle
Talking to children often can boost their brain response to language
Talking to children often can boost their brain response to...
Scientists have found that a conversation between an adult and a child may change the child’s brain, and this back-and-forth conversation can be more critical to language development. The researchers found that children from higher-income families hear about 30 million more words during their first...
Feb 20, 2018
WORLD
Afghan officials say insurgent attacks killed 9 policemen
Afghan officials say insurgent attacks killed 9 policemen
AFGHANISTAN, Feb 20: Afghan officials say insurgents have killed nine policemen in separate attacks in the country's west and east.
Feb 20, 2018
WORLD
Syria war: More than 70 killed in rebel-held Ghouta as UN warns situation 'spiraling out o...
Syria war: More than 70 killed in rebel-held Ghouta as UN wa...
DAMASCUS, Feb 20: The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said air strikes, rocket fire and shelling on several parts of the besieged suburbs also wounded more than 300 people.
Feb 20, 2018
WORLD
Students head to Florida capital to press for gun law change
Students head to Florida capital to press for gun law change
FLORIDA, Feb 20: A hundred Stoneman Douglas High School students are busing 400 miles to Florida's capital Tuesday to urge lawmakers to act to prevent a repeat of the massacre that killed 17 students and faculty last week.
Feb 20, 2018
SPORTS
Barcelona and Chelsea prepare for another nerve-wracking encounter
Barcelona and Chelsea prepare for another nerve-wracking enc...
KATHMANDU, Feb 20: Barcelona travels to the Stamford Bridge on Tuesday for the first leg of their round of 16 clash with Chelsea, in a bid to put one foot on the quarterfinals with a win in London.
Feb 20, 2018
POLITICS
Want to deepen ties with China to gain greater leverage with India: Nepal's Oli
Want to deepen ties with China to gain greater leverage with...
KATHMANDU, Feb 20: Nepal's new Prime Minister KP Oli has said he wants to deepen ties with China to explore more options and get more leverage in his dealings with India "in keeping with the times".
Feb 20, 2018
POLITICS
Koirala elected Province 1 NC parliamentary party leader unopposed
Koirala elected Province 1 NC parliamentary party leader uno...
MORANG, Feb 20 : Rajib Koirala has been unanimously elected Nepali Congress parliamentary party leader of Province 1. A meeting of the province NC parliamentary party held on Monday in Biratnagar took a decision to this effect.
Feb 20, 2018
POLITICS
Oli overturns Deuba’s National Assembly picks, Khatiwada for MoF?
Oli overturns Deuba’s National Assembly picks, Khatiwada for...
KATHMANDU, Feb 20: Overturning former Prime Minister’s recommendations of National Assembly members, Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has proposed Yubaraj Khatiwada, Ramnarayan Bidari and Bimala Paudel Rai in today’s cabinet meeting, a source said.
Feb 20, 2018
My City
BLOGGING FOR SELF
BLOGGING FOR SELF
There are thousands of bloggers out there, blogging about different things, and for different reasons in various forms. But among the crowd are some who started blogging for personal satisfaction; to express and share their thoughts, and are continuing to do so using photographs.
Feb 20, 2018