SOCIETY, Latest Updates
Visit Nepal Year 2020 launched with fanfare
Visit Nepal Year 2020 launched with fanfare
KATHMANDU, Jan 2: Visit Nepal Year (VNY) 2020, the year-long campaign for tourism promotion, was officially launched amidst fanfare at Dasharath Stadium, Wednesday.
Jan 02, 2020
POLITICS, Latest Updates
Oli ‘touches on border issue’ during Modi’s New Year call
Oli ‘touches on border issue’ during Modi’s New Year call
KATHMANDU, Jan 2: As Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi renewed his ‘neighborhood first’ policy on the first day of New Year 2020 by making telephone calls to his counterparts in the neighboring countries including Nepal, there are high hopes that the irritants that exist between Nepal and India in...
Jan 02, 2020
My City, Entertainment
America Ferrera expecting her second child
America Ferrera expecting her second child
Actor America Ferrera is set to welcome her second child with husband Ryan Piers Williams in the New Year. The ‘Ugly Betty’ star shared the news in a post on Instagram on Tuesday.
Jan 01, 2020
WORLD
Australian authorities scramble to reach victims of deadly fires as death toll rises
Australian authorities scramble to reach victims of deadly f...
SYDNEY, Jan 1: A third person was confirmed dead on Wednesday in devastating bushfires that engulfed Australia’s southeast coast this week and a fourth was missing and feared dead, as navy ships rushed to provide supplies and assist with evacuations.
Jan 01, 2020
WORLD, Latest Updates
India approves third moon mission, months after landing failure
India approves third moon mission, months after landing fail...
BENGALURU, Jan 1: India has approved its third lunar mission months after its last one failed to successfully land on the moon, its space agency said on Wednesday, the latest effort in its ambitions to become a low-cost space power.
Jan 01, 2020
SOCIETY, Latest Updates
Rohingya refugees land in Kushadevi in search of work
Rohingya refugees land in Kushadevi in search of work
BANEPA, Jan 1: Karan Happis, a Rohingya Muslim from Myanmar, works as a mason at a construction site at local Kushadevi. He said he has started working on a house construction site which is close to the place where 10 other Rohingya refugee families live. He gets Rs 600 to 700 per day as wage. They...
Jan 01, 2020
SOCIETY, Latest Updates
SC orders for a copy of Nepal's map used in Sugauli Treaty
SC orders for a copy of Nepal's map used in Sugauli Treaty
KATHMANDU, Jan 1: The Supreme Court (SC) has issued an order to the government to present the copy of the official map of Nepal used while signing the Sugauli Treaty and the copy of the Treaty itself.
Jan 01, 2020
ECONOMY, Latest Updates
Visit Nepal Year 2020 formally kicks off (with photos)
Visit Nepal Year 2020 formally kicks off (with photos)
KATHMANDU, Jan 1: The much-awaited and ambitious campaign in Nepal's tourism sector Visit Nepal Year (VNY) 2020 has been formally inaugurated by the President Bidya Devi Bhandari amidst a grand function organized at the Dasharath Stadium, Tripureshwor in the capital on Wednesday.
Jan 01, 2020
POLITICS, Latest Updates
NA receives annual reports of five constitutional bodies
NA receives annual reports of five constitutional bodies
KATHMANDU, Jan 1: In a session of the National Assembly (NA) today, annual reports (fiscal year 2018-19) of five constitutional bodies were presented.
Jan 01, 2020
WORLD
Sixteen inmates killed in fight in Mexican prison
Sixteen inmates killed in fight in Mexican prison
MEXICO CITY, Jan 1: Sixteen inmates were killed and five were wounded in a prison fight in the northern Mexican state of Zacatecas, authorities said, in one of the worst outbreaks of violence in the country’s troubled penal system since President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador took power.
Jan 01, 2020