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Month: July 2013

Shakti Samuha to be honoured with Magasaysay award

MANILA: Nepal’s Shakti Samuha, or Power Group, the world’s first NGO created and run by human trafficking victims is being honoured by the prestigious Magsaysay

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Hit-and-run case: Salman Khan charged with culpable homicide

MUMBAI: A Mumbai court on Wednesday framed charges against actor Salman Khan for culpable homicide not amounting to murder in the hit-and-run case for which he may face a jail

Afghan, Myanmar women win Magsaysay awards for work amid conflict

MANILA: Afghanistan’s first woman governor and a Myanmar civil society organizer, who both helped families displaced by conflict in their home nations, are among five winners of Asia’s equivalent of

U.N. chemical arms investigator arrives in Syria to seek access

DAMASCUS; The head of a U.N. chemical weapons investigation team arrived in Syria on Wednesday to discuss his inquiry into allegations that chemical arms have been used in Syria’s civil

Russia’s Putin to visit Tehran for nuclear talks: media reports

MOSCOW: Russian leader Vladimir Putin will meet Iran’s newly elected president in Tehran next month to discuss restarting talks on the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program, Russian and Iranian media reports

RPP Chairman Kamal Thapa at Reporters Club Nepal (File Photo)
Kamal Thapa says collaboration with CPN-Maoist and pro-monarchists in the cards

KATHMANDU: Chairman of Rastriya Prajatantra Party Nepal Kamal Thapa has announced that collaboration with the royalists and CPN-Maoist is likely if the upcoming CA election was postponed. Speaking at an

Two persons killed, over 18 injured in Jhapa road mishap

DAMAK: Two persons died and over 18 people were injured in a road accident at Surunga in Jhapa district this morning.  The deceased are Ganga Sapkota, 35, of Damak-10 and

10 Nepalis arrested in Mexico while illegally entering into USA

KATHMANDU: Mexico detained 10 illegal immigrants packed into a truck bound for the U.S. border on Tuesday, international news agencies reported. They were found near the southern city of Tuxtla

The only surviving founder member of Nepal Communist Party dies

KATHMANDU: The founder member of Nepal’s Communist Party Nar Bahadur Karmacharya passed away at 5:00 this morning. Karmacharya was admitted to the Kathmandu Model Hospital after suffering from jaundice some

Pro-monarchist party claims of winning at 163 seats in upcoming CA poll

KATHMANDU: The Rastriya Prajatantra Party-Nepal has claimed of winning at least one-third seats in the upcoming elections to the Constituent Assembly. As per the election ordinance, the new CA would