OPINION
Keep borders open
Keep borders open
NEW HAVEN – Until recently, we were regularly confronted with images of drowned migrants floating in the waters separating poorer countries from richer ones, from the Rio Grande to the Mediterranean. And although COVID-19 now dominates the news, the pandemic’s economic fallout is likely to exacerbat...
Jul 30, 2020
SOCIETY, Coronavirus
Nine more police personnel at police headquarters test positive for coronavirus
Nine more police personnel at police headquarters test posit...
KATHMANDU, July 30: Nine more police personnel at the Nepal Police Headquarters, Naxal, have been diagnosed with the coronavirus disease (COVID-19).
Jul 30, 2020
WORLD, Latest Updates
India reports another record coronavirus surge
India reports another record coronavirus surge
NEW DELHI, India, July 30: India has registered more than 50,000 new coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours for the first time.
Jul 30, 2020
POLITICS, Latest Updates
Health and home ministers should step down: Bibeksheel Nepal Party
Health and home ministers should step down: Bibeksheel Nepal...
KATHMANDU, July 30: Bibeksheel Nepali Party has demanded that the Minister for Home Affairs and Minister for Health and Population apologize with "Enough is Enough" campaigners, and step down from their ministerial posts.
Jul 30, 2020
SOCIETY, Latest Updates
Star Hospital staff members say the hospital is risking lives by ignoring COVID-19 guideli...
Star Hospital staff members say the hospital is risking live...
KATHMANDU, July 30: On Sunday, a staffer from a private company visited the Sanepa-based Star Hospital for COVID-19 test. The staffer tested positive. As the staffer tested positive, 16 more staffers of the company visited the hospital the next day for testing. Of them, five tested positive.
Jul 30, 2020
OPINION
Countering trafficking
Countering trafficking
This year is the twentieth anniversary since the adoption of the UN Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime, and its historic Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children. This Protocol established the first internationally recognized defini...
Jul 30, 2020
My City, Entertainment
'Baahubali' Director SS Rajamouli and his family test positive for COVID-19
'Baahubali' Director SS Rajamouli and his family test positi...
Baahubali director SS Rajamouli and his family tested positive for the coronavirus on Wednesday. The filmmaker shared his COVID-19 diagnosis in a tweet and revealed that he and his family are isolating at home, as prescribed by doctors
Jul 30, 2020
My City, Entertainment
Pajamas anyone? Emmy awards show to go virtual
Pajamas anyone? Emmy awards show to go virtual
The Emmy Awards show in September is the latest casualty of the coronavirus pandemic, and that may mean some celebrities appearing in pajamas or from their bedrooms.
Jul 30, 2020
My City, Entertainment
Writer David Hare turns his COVID-19 into a theater piece
Writer David Hare turns his COVID-19 into a theater piece
Oscar-nominated writer David Hare says he’s turned his COVID-19 illness into a stage monologue about enduring “this quite extraordinary disease.”
Jul 30, 2020
My City, Entertainment
Court says Judd can sue Weinstein for sexual harassment
Court says Judd can sue Weinstein for sexual harassment
A federal appeals court on Wednesday restored a major part of Ashley Judd’s lawsuit against Harvey Weinstein, finding that the producer had power over the actor which should make her able to sue under a California sexual harassment law.
Jul 30, 2020