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
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
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
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.
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,
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
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
LONDON: George Lowe, the last surviving climber from the team that made the first successful ascent of Mount Everest, has died at age 89. Mary Lowe said Thursday her husband
BAGHDAD: Sewing machines buzz inside the Iraq Fashion House as dressmakers work late into the night behind concrete blast walls readying intricately embroidered costumes. Models rehearse for an upcoming show
JERUSALEM: Insisting “peace is possible,” President Barack Obama on Thursday prodded both Israelis and Palestinians to return to long-stalled negotiations with few, if any, pre-conditions, softening his earlier demands that