WASHINGTON : US President Donald Trump said Thursday he did not expect to meet his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping before a March 1 deadline in trade war negotiations between the two economic superpowers. “Not yet,” Trump told reporters at the White House when asked if a meeting had...
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BANGKOK : A Thai princess will run for prime minister in March elections, in an unprecedented entry by a royal into frontline politics which pits her against the chief of the ruling junta, throwing into disarray his bid to stay in power. Princess Ubolratana, 67, the older sister of Thai King...
TAIPEI : A pilot strike has forced Taiwan-based China Airlines to cancel 22 flights departing from the island on Friday and Saturday, affecting about 4,000 passengers, the airline said. The canceled flights include those for destinations such as Beijing, Shanghai, Wuxi, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Hong...
Surkhet : Karnali province, among the seven provinces in the country, is most vulnerable to natural disasters.
Speaking at a seminar on ‘disaster preparedness and response plan’ organised by the Ministry of Health and Population, Health Emergency and Disaster Management Unit, Chudamani...
CÚCUTA, Colombia : Trucks carrying desperately-needed humanitarian aid for crisis-wracked Venezuela arrived at its border with Colombia on Thursday as ministers from more than a dozen European and Latin American countries called on socialist leader Nicolas Maduro to hold “free”...
MANILA : The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Agence Francaise de Developpement (AFD) agreed on Friday to increase their co-financing commitment from 3 billion U.S. dollars in the past three years to 5 billion dollars in the next three years, allowing them to scale up their joint development...
Kathmandu : A meeting of the House of Representatives, the Lower House in the bicameral Federal Parliament, today endorsed the ‘Employees Adjustment Bill-2075 BS’. The meeting unanimously passed the proposal presented by Minister for Tourism, Culture and Civil Aviation, Rabindra Adhikari, on...
Bejhad : In the past six months of the current fiscal year, the District Court Palpa registered 122 divorce cases. Among those seeking the legal procedure to end the conjugal life, 87 were women and the remaining 35 were men.
The present scenario is somehow different than of the past. Though the...
Amargadhi : Some eight airports based in different districts of the Sudurpaschim Province have not come into operation since long. In lack of government efforts, the airports which have shut their services during the armed conflict period are not coming into the operation. Khem Raj Paneru...
Kathmandu : The rainfall taking place across the country from Thursday and the snowfall in the mountainous region is likely to continue even today, according to the Weather Forecasting Division.
Senior Meteorologist at the Division Shanti Kandel said that effects of the westerly winds that entered...
