PARIS : After decades spent in the shadow of a death sentence pronounced by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Salman Rushdie is quietly defiant. “I don’t want to live hidden away,” he told AFP during a visit to Paris. The novelist’s life changed forever on February 14, 1989...
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Kathmandu : National team captain Paras Khadka, Sompal Kami and Basant Regmi have improved their position in the latest T20 ranking released by the International Cricket Council today. Riding on the success of the recent T20 series win against the United Arab Emirates recently, Paras Khadka has...
Kathmandu : Federation of Nepalese Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FNCCI)’s Employers Council chairman Chandra Prasad Dhakal has called on employers and investors of the SAARC region to invest in Nepal. In his address to the eighth meeting of the South Asian Forum of Employers kicked off from...
Kathmandu : Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has called for caution against the tendency of robbing of (the state coffers) and obstructing the nation’s development, which, according to him, still prevailed in various pretexts. Addressing the 69th Democracy Day Programme Main Committee meeting at...
Attariya : The forests in Kailali district, which are one of the huge natural heritages of the Province No 7, were rapidly depleting lately owing to various reasons. Encroachment on forest and its resources was the key factor for depletion of the forest which covers 205,939 hectare (62.68 per...
SINGAPORE : Rico has lived with HIV for almost a decade, confiding in only a small number of people in socially conservative Singapore, fearful of the reaction. Last month, he got a phone call saying information about his condition had been published online. Rico was one of 14,200 people whose HIV...
Humla : The snowstorm occurred in the district since Wednesday afternoon has brought the air flight to a complete halt. Chief District Officer Madhav Prasad Dhungana said the Simkot Airport’s runway is covered with snow, thereby disrupting the air flight.
However, works to clear the snow are...
LONDON : Queen Elizabeth II’s 97-year-old husband Prince Philip on Saturday surrendered his driving licence after causing a car crash that outraged the media and stirred a debate about old age and driving. Buckingham Palace said Philip — formally known as the Duke of Edinburgh —...
SEOUL : South Korean President Moon Jae-in will consult with U.S. President Donald Trump in the near future on the second summit between the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) and the United States, South Korea’s presidential Blue House said Sunday.
Kim Eui-keum, Blue House...
Galeswar : The Beni-Jomsom section of the Kaligandaki corridor, the shortest link to join India and China by road, is going to be blacktopped. The black topping work on the road will begin from coming March, according to chief of the Beni-Jomsom-Korala road Mukunda Adhikari. Work is now taking...
