WORLD
Palestinian stabs Israeli in Jerusalem; anti-Trump protest flares in Beirut
Palestinian stabs Israeli in Jerusalem; anti-Trump protest f...
JERUSALEM, Dec 11: A Palestinian stabbed an Israeli security guard at Jerusalem’s main bus station on Sunday, police said, and violence flared near the U.S. Embassy in Beirut over U.S. President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
Dec 11, 2017
SOCIETY
MBBS classes at IOM delayed by a month
MBBS classes at IOM delayed by a month
KATHMANDU, Dec 11: Prospective MBBS students at medical colleges under the Institute of Medicine (IOM) have to wait for one more month for their academic classes to begin due to the delay by Tribhuvan University (TU) to decide on the allocation of MBBS seats at the medical colleges. MBBS classes at...
Dec 11, 2017
SOCIETY
In lack of good schools in Siraha, children go to Indian schools
In lack of good schools in Siraha, children go to Indian sch...
SIRAHA, Dec 11: There are ample of private and community schools in the district. However, many Nepali children go to Indian schools. Well off families have admitted their children in private Indian schools and families who can’t afford such schools go to schools run by the Indian government. Choosi...
Dec 11, 2017
ELECTION
Key architects of left alliance lose polls
Key architects of left alliance lose polls
KATHMANDU, Dec 11: Although the electoral alliance between the CPN-UML and CPN (Maoist Center) in the parliamentary and provincial assembly polls has landed a landslide victory for the left alliance across the country, two senior leaders who took lead role to make it possible have lost the elections
Dec 11, 2017
ELECTION
Left alliance seizes Chitwan provinces
Left alliance seizes Chitwan provinces
Left alliance has made a victory in all six provinces of Chitwan. In Chitwan- 3 ‘A’, Krishna Bhurtel has won with 24,785 votes while his rival from Nepali Congress Dinesh Koirala got 23045 votes.
Dec 11, 2017
Editorial
Time to go
Time to go
Following its worst electoral defeat in its nearly seven-decade-long history there must be reckoning in Nepali Congress. When all the results come out, Party President Sher Bahadur Deuba must take personal responsibility and resign. The new low that Congress has descended to, we believe, is the perf...
Dec 11, 2017
ELECTION
NP Saud loses with more than 8,000 votes
NP Saud loses with more than 8,000 votes
KANCHANPUR, Dec 10: Nepali Congress youth leader Narayan Prakash Saud (NP) has lost with more than 8,000 votes for the House of Representatives in Kanchanpur.
Dec 11, 2017
ELECTION
A win for honesty: How Pandit won polls without spending
A win for honesty: How Pandit won polls without spending
BIRATNAGAR, Dec 11: Proving wrong the notion that elections cannot be won without money, Lal Babu Pandit of CPN-UML emerged victorious from Morang-6 in the recently concluded parliamentary elections. He defeated Nepali Congress (NC) heavyweight Shekhar Koirala in the polls, and that too, without spe...
Dec 11, 2017
ELECTION
Left to form govts in six provinces
Left to form govts in six provinces
KATHMANDU, Dec 10: Even as the left alliance inches closer to securing majority in the federal parliament and provincial assemblies in the country, CPN-UML and CPN (Maoist Center) are trailing in third and fourth position in Province 2, the only province in the plain which saw a triangular battle be...
Dec 11, 2017
SPECIAL, ELECTION
Red wave sweeps the nation
Red wave sweeps the nation
KATHMANDU, Dec 10: Early vote counting results show the CPN-UML, which has bagged the most seats under the first-past-the-post electoral system, is leading the vote count under the Proportional Representation (PR) category as well.
Dec 11, 2017