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Year: 2013

Bus overturns in Pakistan, killing 32

Pakistan: A police official says a bus has overturned on a highway in eastern Pakistan after hitting a roadside electricity pole, killing at least 32

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42 die in fire at refugee camp in Thailand: official

Thailand: The toll from a blaze that swept through a camp in northern Thailand has risen to 42, a Thai official said Saturday, after hundreds of temporary homes for refugees

Obama warns of ‘enclave for extremism’ in Syria

Jordan: President Barack Obama warned Friday that an “enclave for extremism” could fill a leadership void in war-torn Syria, a chilling scenario for an already tumultuous region, especially for Jordan,

Journalism for democracy, Nepal’s acting CJ says

POKHARA: Acting Chief Justice Damodar Prasad Sharma has said that independent journalism is the foundation of democracy. Inaugurating the Central General Assembly of the Federation of Nepali Journalists (FNJ) here

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In election spree, Prachanda says he will contest from Madhesh in CA poll

JANAKPUR: Nepal’s former Prime Minister and chief of country’s largest party UCPN (Maoist) Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda on Friday announced that he would contest the coming elections from the

Nepal’s Prez asks CC to rethink reappointment of former election commissioners

KATHMANDU: Despite political parties’ approval and constitutional council’s recommendation to President Dr Ram Baran Yadav to make appointment in the Election Council, the President has asked the CC to clarify

Kuwait Fund for Budhi Gandaki hydel project

KATHMANDU: The Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development has agreed to provide a loan assistance of Rs 1.55 billion to Nepal for the implementation of the Budhi Ganga Hydropower Project.

Pakistan roadside bomb kills at least 9

PESHAWAR, Pakistan: A bomb hidden in a rickshaw exploded outside a bus terminal near a busy bazar in southwestern Pakistan on Friday, killing at least nine people and wounding 40,

Grandfather of African literature, Chinua Achebe, dies aged 82

LAGOS: Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe, widely seen as the grandfather of modern African literature, has died at the age of 82. From the publication of his first novel, “Things Fall

This year’s SLC examinations concludes

KATHMANDU: This year’s School Leaving Certificate (SLC) examination has concluded from today peacefully as expected earlier. A total of 547,165 examinees had sit for exams from across the country. Of