SOCIETY, Latest Updates
WEATHER ALERT: Increase in cold across the country, KTM records year's lowest temperature...
WEATHER ALERT: Increase in cold across the country, KTM reco...
KATHMANDU, Nov 19: The mercury continues to dip throughout the country including in the Kathmandu Valley. The minimum temperature in Kathmandu was 5.6 degrees Celsius, the lowest temperature so far this year. On Wednesday, the lowest temperature in the Valley was 6.0 degrees Celsius.
Nov 19, 2020
SOCIETY, Latest Updates
Journalist Gokarna Gautam no more
Journalist Gokarna Gautam no more
KATHMANDU, Nov 19: Journalist Gokarna Gautam passed away on Thursday.
Nov 19, 2020
POLITICS, Latest Updates
Dahal should quit if charges he has leveled against me are proved wrong: PM Oli
Dahal should quit if charges he has leveled against me are p...
KATHMANDU, Nov 19: Giving a new twist to the intraparty conflict, chairman of the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) KP Oli, who is also the prime minister, has said that Executive Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal should resign from his position if the allegations he has made against Oli in a political p...
Nov 19, 2020
WORLD
Pakistan's PM goes to Afghanistan as U.S. prepares drawdown, peace talks stall
Pakistan's PM goes to Afghanistan as U.S. prepares drawdown,...
KABUL, Nov 19: Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan arrived in Kabul on Thursday to meet with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, at a time when peace negotiations between the Afghan government and Taliban representatives have stalled and violence is rising.
Nov 19, 2020
SOCIETY, Latest Updates
Teenage girl ‘hanged to death after gang rape’ in Kapilvastu
Teenage girl ‘hanged to death after gang rape’ in Kapilvastu
KAPILVASTU, Nov 19: The family of a teenage girl in Mankhoriya village of Mayadevi Rural Municipality in Kapilvastu district has claimed that the girl was murdered after a gang rape on November 14.
Nov 19, 2020
WORLD
Australian special forces allegedly killed 39 unarmed Afghans - report
Australian special forces allegedly killed 39 unarmed Afghan...
SYDNEY, Nov 19: Australian special forces allegedly killed 39 unarmed prisoners and civilians in Afghanistan, with senior commandos reportedly forcing junior soldiers to kill defenceless captives in order to “blood” them for combat, a four year investigation found.
Nov 19, 2020
SOCIETY, Latest Updates
Three-year-old baby girl murdered in Makawanpur
Three-year-old baby girl murdered in Makawanpur
MAKAWANPUR, Nov 19: A three-year-old baby girl has been brutally murdered in Makawanpur.
Nov 19, 2020
SOCIETY, Latest Updates
'Hello student program' to be launched in Province 1 to teach students via telephone
'Hello student program' to be launched in Province 1 to teac...
KATHMANDU, Nov 19: 'Hello Student Program' is going to be launched in Province 1. The Provincial Ministry of Social Development has been making preparations to launch the program in order to teach the students by telephone as the situation is not conducive for in-person learning at schools.
Nov 19, 2020
WORLD, Coronavirus
Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine deliveries could start 'before Christmas'
Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine deliveries could start 'before Chris...
NEW YORK, Nov 19: Pfizer Inc and BioNTech could secure emergency U.S. and European authorization for their COVID-19 vaccine next month after final trial results showed it had a 95% success rate and no serious side effects, the drugmakers said on Wednesday.
Nov 19, 2020
SOCIETY, Coronavirus
South Asia reaches 10 million COVID-19 cases: Reuters tally
South Asia reaches 10 million COVID-19 cases: Reuters tally
NEW DELHI, Nov 19: The South Asia sub-region surpassed 10 million COVID-19 cases on Thursday, according to a Reuters tally, led by India where officials have been concerned Diwali celebrations could derail a recent fall in infections.
Nov 19, 2020