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Month: July 2013

Nepali languishing in Afghani jail recounts his story

Tilak Bahadur Thapa Magar Afghan Returned

KATHMANDU: Tilak Bahadur Thapa Magar, who was given a clemency by Afghan President Hamid Karzai last week, has said that the government should play crucial

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Save religious sites, Kamal Thapa urges

KATHMANDU: Rastriya Prajatantra Party Nepal Chairman Kamal Thapa has stressed for protection of religious sites for their historical and cultural importance. Speaking at the concluding ceremony of Gyan Srimadbhagawad Nabaha

Disputes between Morsi, military led to Egypt coup

CAIRO: The head of Egypt’s military, Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, sat with a polite smile in the front row listening to President Mohammed Morsi give a 2 1/2-hour speech defending his

Businessman murdered by slitting throat in Lahan

LAHAN:  An unidentified gang murdered a cloth trader Guru Sharan Sah, 45, at Mirchaiya-2 in Siraha last night. Police inspector Padam Thapaliya said Sah was murdered by slitting his throat. Police

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Yoga Diplomat

Diplomat cum poet Abhay Kumar, Secretary of B.P. Koirala India-Nepal Foundation and Head of Press, Information, Culture and Education at Embassy of India in Kathmandu demonstrating Yoga postures during Parampara

Mandela makes ‘dramatic progress’, says daughter

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Nelson Mandela has made “dramatic progress,” and may be going home “anytime soon,” said his daughter Zindzi on the eve of his 95th birthday. “I visited him

House Speaker rejects Olympic boycott over Snowden

WASHINGTON : House Speaker John Boehner on Wednesday soundly rejected suggestions that the United States boycott the Winter Olympics in Sochi if Russia grants asylum to National Security Agency leaker

Nepalis working in Dubai restaurant collect Rs 29,500 relief amount for Mahakali flood victims

DHANGADHI: Nepalis restaurant workers in Dubai of the United Arab Emirates have collected Rs 29,500 in aid of the flood-affected people of Darchula district. Thirty-six Nepalis migrant workers employed at

Subas Niroula appointed Acting CEO of Nepal Tourism Board

KATHMANDU: Director of the Nepal Tourism Board (NTB) Subas Niroula has been appointed the Acting Chief Executive Officer of the NTB. He was appointed by a meeting of the Executive Committee

NRNA donates five million to flood victims

KATHMANDU: The Non-Resident Nepalis Association (NRNA) has donated five million rupees for the support of the people affected by the recent floods and landslides in various parts of the country.