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India study says sex attacks scared off tourists

NEW DELHI: The rape and murder of a young woman in New Delhi in December followed by two attacks on foreign female travelers has altered

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Pakistani woman makes history with run in May vote

Pakistan: A 40-year-old Pakistani housewife has made history by becoming the first woman to run for parliament from the country’s deeply conservative tribal region bordering Afghanistan. Badam Zari is pushing

Afghan teenager fatally stabs US soldier

Afghanistan: An Afghan teenager fatally stabbed an American soldier in the neck as he played with children in eastern Afghanistan, officials said Monday, as the U.S. death toll rose sharply

Muslim headscarf in crosshairs of French govt

France: Because of her choice to wear a Muslim hijab headscarf, Samia Kaddour has all but abandoned trying to land a government job in France. Soon some private sector jobs

Death toll hits 34 in Tanzania building collapse

DAR ES SALAAM: The death toll from the collapse of a multi-storey building in Tanzania has risen to 34 after more bodies were pulled from the rubble, a senior government

Chinese envoy meets on UML leader Nepal

KATHMANDU: Chinese Ambassador to Nepal Wu Chuntai today met with former Prime Minister and CPN (UML) Madhav Kumar Nepal at the latter’s residence in Koteshwor. The two discussed Nepal’s latest

Government preparing for CA polls in full swing, Nepal’s Home Minister claims

BHAKTAPUR: Though it is almost sure that the CA elections are not likely in June, Nepal’s Home Minister, however, has said that the government was carrying out the preparations works

Nepali woman resists rape attempt in Kuwait

KUWAIT CITY: Two unidentified individuals kidnapped a Nepali woman in Farwaniya of Kuwait and attempted to rape her, reports Al-Watan Arabic daily. She informed security men that she was walking

Nepal’s hardliner CPN-Maoist Gen Secy says party was just against the CJ-led govt

LAHAN: Countering to his party chairman’s earlier statement, General Secretary of Nepal’s hardliner CPN-Maoist Ram Bahadur Thapa today said that the party has not taken any decision so far to

UCPN (Maoist)’s CC unlikely get full shape at least for now

KATHMANDU: Failing to sort out the thorniest issue of giving a full shape to the party’s central committee, the UCPN (Maoist) has formed a panel to receive people’s voices to