Chitwan, Dec 30: Nepali Congress (NC) leader Dr Shashanka Koirala has urged top three NC leaders (sitting President Sushil Koirala, Vice President Ram Chandra Poudel and senior leader Sher Bahadur Deuba) to strike consensus to pick the new party president in its upcoming 13th...
ISLAMABAD, Dec. 30 (Xinhua) — At least 696 militants and 95 security personnel were killed in encounters in Pakistan’s southern port city of Karachi in 2015, local media reported on Tuesday. The Karachi police said that paramilitary troops Rangers had 69 encounters with insurgents...
Kathmandu, Dec 30: The Constitution of Nepal on Monday completed 100 tumultuous days of its promulgation. Over this period since the constitution was issued by the first President of the Republic of Nepal, the country got a new Prime Minister, a new Head of...
Kathmandu, Dec 29: The Government of Nepal has formed a four-member committee to prepare a study report with recommendation in regard to Nepal’s perspective membership and participation in the Open Government Partnership (OGP) – a high-profile international initiative on governance reforms. The committee formed...
LAGOS, Dec. 28 (Xinhua) — More than 70 people have been killed and more than a hundred others injured in sporadic bombings and suicide attacks that struck northern Nigeria since Sunday, according to police and eyewitnesses. Nigerian police on Monday said scores of people...
Kathmandu, Dec 29: The Government of China has decided to provide fuel worth 10 million Yuan in grant to Nepal to meet the emergency needs. Talking to media persons at the Tribhuvan International Airport upon his arrival home on completion of a five-day visit...
Kathmandu, Dec 29: Minister for Population and Environment, Bishwendra Paswan, has today handed over a bicycle to Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli under the ‘Environment-Friendly National Campaign’ at the official residence of the Prime Minister at Baluwatar. The Ministry has been encouraging the use...
Bhimduttanagar, Dec 29: Jagat Bahadur Pokharel has been elected the National President of the Nepal Jaycees. The 42nd national convention of Jaycees concluded at Bhimduttanagar in Kanchanpur on Monday elected Pokharel from Butwal Jaycees as its President. Similarly, Aruneshwor Khanal, Bheshaja Kafle, Rajababu Shah...
Kathmandu, Dec 28: The government presemted various proposals in the meeting of the Legislature-Parliament today amidst the sloganeering by lawmakers of the Madhes-centric parties. As soon as the meeting started the lawmakers belonging to the parties in the United Democratic Madhesi Front picketed the...
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey, Dec 27, (AFP) – A three-month baby and her grandfather were killed in crossfire in clashes between Turkish security forces and Kurdish militants in the southeast, medics said on Sunday. The family’s house in the southeastern town of Cizre came under shelling...
Biratnagar, Dec 27: UCPN (Maoist) chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal has expressed confidence that the Tarai issues would be resolved soon as they were seriously holding discussions for the same. Talking to the mediapersons at Biratnagar Airport today, chair Dahal informed that the talks with...
Kanchanpur, Dec. 27: A total of 18 vultures, the natural environmental cleanser, were found dead during the last two days in Shuklaphanta Wildlife Reserve. Chief Conservation Officer Bed Kumar Dhakal said that 18 vultures were found dead on Thursday and Friday when the Piparaiya...