POLITICS, Latest Updates
Parties busy discussing whom to field for by-polls
Parties busy discussing whom to field for by-polls
KATHMANDU, Nov 2: With the by-elections slated for November 30 approaching fast, the major political parties are busy in closed-door discussions to finalizing their candidates for the 52 seats at stake at the central, provincial and local government levels.
Nov 02, 2019
WORLD
Downtown Hong Kong becomes battleground as night falls
Downtown Hong Kong becomes battleground as night falls
HONG KONG, Nov 2: Hong Kong police fired tear gas into a park to break up thousands of anti-government protesters who fled to the Central business district, setting fire to street barricades and metro stations in some of the worst violence in months of unrest.Central, its streets lined with banks a...
Nov 02, 2019
SOCIETY, Latest Updates
Mahara makes court statement, denies charges
Mahara makes court statement, denies charges
KATHMANDU, Nov 2: Ex-speaker of the lower house of parliament Krishna Bahadur Mahara, who resigned from the post following allegations of the attempted rape of a female employee at the parliament secretariat last month, rejected most of the allegations in the charge sheet while recording his statem...
Nov 02, 2019
ECONOMY, Latest Updates
Trade deficit shrinks by 12% in first quarter
Trade deficit shrinks by 12% in first quarter
KATHMANDU, Nov 2: Nepal’s trade deficit in the first three months of the current fiscal year declined by an impressive 12 percent, giving the country some respite from the ever-worsening balance of trade over the past several years.
Nov 02, 2019
OPINION, Latest Updates
Literature for common men
Literature for common men
Language of literature today is completely carnivalistic. Entire marketplace creeps into modern day writing. The erstwhile margin is becoming the new centre
Nov 02, 2019
OPINION, Latest Updates
Attaining Bairag
Attaining Bairag
If you start talking to rich persons, their clothes, their direction of talk, their houses, all smell of money. They are unknowingly showing off their richness. This is the Rag
Nov 02, 2019
OPINION, Latest Updates
A trek to Langtang
A trek to Langtang
Foreign trekkers would climb up on the branches or sprawl and crawl on the ground to capture
close-up of floras with a camera. When we watched this, we realized the importance of our flora
Nov 02, 2019
My City, Entertainment, Movies
Julia Garner, Anna Chlumsky, Laverne Cox board Shonda Rhimes' Anna Delvey series
Julia Garner, Anna Chlumsky, Laverne Cox board Shonda Rhimes...
Actors Julia Garner, Laverne Cox, Anna Chulmsky, Katie Lowes and Alexis Floyd have been cast in the upcoming Netflix series on Anna Delvey by Shonda Rhimes
Nov 01, 2019
WORLD
Brexit Party's Farage set to fight every seat in poll battle against PM Johnson
Brexit Party's Farage set to fight every seat in poll battle...
LONDON, Nov 1: Nigel Farage warned Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Friday that his Brexit Party would contest every seat in Britain in a Dec. 12 election unless he ditched his EU divorce deal and agreed to an electoral alliance of Brexit-supporting parties.
Nov 01, 2019
SOCIETY, Latest Updates
Three killed in tractor accident
Three killed in tractor accident
DANG, Nov 1: Three persons died in a road accident at Chisapani of Gadhawa Rural municipality-5 in Dang on Friday.
Nov 01, 2019