Kathmandu : The Federation of Nepali Journalists (FNJ) has evaluated the year 2018 as a challenging period for the Nepali press. According to the FNJ media monitoring unit, a total of 58 cases of violation of press freedom were reported in 2018 in the country and this number was 73 in the previous...
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JAKARTA : A total of 41 villagers were missing after fatal landslides struck Suka Bumi district in Indonesia’s West Java province on Monday, a disaster agency official said here on Tuesday. Personnel from the search and rescue office and disaster agency along with villagers tried to find...
BANGKOK : A Thai man who felt slighted by his in-laws shot dead six family members including his two young children at a New Year’s Eve party before turning the gun on himself, police said Tuesday. The mass shooting took place 10 minutes after midnight as Sucheep Sornsung joined his...
BEIJING : The presidents of China and the US have exchanged messages vowing to boost cooperation despite a bruising trade war on the 40th anniversary of the countries’ diplomatic relations, Chinese state media reported. Tensions between Beijing and Washington soared in 2018 over trade...
WASHINGTON : Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren – an outspoken critic of Wall Street and nemesis of Donald Trump — entered the 2020 race for the White House on Monday. The 69-year-old progressive announced she was launching an exploratory committee for president, becoming the first...
RIO DE JANEIRO : Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that Arab countries viewed Israel as an “indispensable ally” fighting Iran and the Islamic State group. That evaluation, he told Brazil’s Globo TV during a visit to Rio, has caused “a revolution in relations...
Kathmandu : Minister for Education and Science and Technology Girirajmani Pokhrel has urged the parliament to forward the Bill on National Medical Education as per the main spirit of the agreement reached between the government and Dr Govinda KC.
He was speaking in the meeting of the Education and...
WASHINGTON : A week and a half into a partial government shutdown, House Democrats released their plan to re-open the government without approving money for President Donald Trump’s border wall. At the same time, the president struggled to find leverage to break the stalemate before the...
Kathmandu : The number of recipients of ‘smart’ driving licenses from the Ekantakuna-based Department of Transport Management has surpassed 350 thousand. According to the Department, in a period of the past four years, issued smart licenses to 354,000 and 203,000 are in queue to obtain...
Kathmandu : The Sixth Nepali Topi Diwas or the Nepali Cap Day has been celebrated in a grand manner today. Jagaruk Youth Abhiyan celebrated the Nepali Topi Day under the slogan, “Nepali Topi: Our Pride, Our Identity”.
Youths gathered at Maitighar Mandala today, the first day of the...
