WASHINGTON : The US Senate on Wednesday night approved an emergency short-term spending bill that averts a looming government shutdown, but excludes funds that President Donald Trump sought for a US-Mexico border wall.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said the measure will fund normal...
Kathmandu : A statistic unveiled by World Health Organization (WHO) has estimated that around 3,000 people in Nepal die due to stroke annually. The number could be higher in the rural areas than that of estimation as the rural population lack specialists and healthcare for their healthy heart...
Siraha : Life in the Tarai Madhes has been affected due to the adverse weather brought about by a cold wave. People’s movement and activities in the bazaars of the Madhesh including in Lahan is greatly decreased in the morning time due to the cold wave. People, especially from the economically...
Banke : Soil scientists from Britain and Australia have concluded that the dike on a section of the western main canal of the Sikta Irrigation Project had caved in due to the permeable earth used for constructing the same.
The foreign soil scientists were called for testing the earth after the dike...
By Aneela Shahzad, Since Modi’s inception in 2014, India’s proactive stance against Pakistan has inflated, with the US-India joint antagonism against Pakistan coming out openly.
Since long, there have been Joint US-India statements against Pakistan asking it to “dismantle safe havens for...
Kathmandu : Qatar’s national bank, Doha Bank, has established its representative office in Kathmandu. Governor of the Nepal Rastra Bank Dr Chiranjivi Nepal inaugurated the office of the Doha Bank on Wednesday.
On the occasion, Governor Dr Nepal viewed that establishment of the contact office...
WASHINGTON : The Latest on former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn and the Russia investigation (all times local):
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Judge Emmet Sullivan is throwing another wrench into former national security adviser Michael Flynn’s plans.
Just hours after delaying Flynn’s...
Bidur, Nuwakot : The local people on Wednesday clashed with the police at Mailung bordering Nuwakot and Rasuwa, injuring two including a head constable. The police had to fire seven rounds of warning shots in the air to control the situation that occurred after the locals went on a vandalism and...
MEXICO CITY : Mexico’s austerity-minded president, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, on Tuesday returned a third of his salary to the state treasury. Lopez took office on Dec. 1 and pledged to curb public spending, including by slashing his own wages. He gave back 29 percent of the amount paid to...
Kathmandu : The National Assembly’s National Stakeholder and Coordination Committee has issued instructions to the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation for the timely completion of the construction of Nijgadh International Airport. The Committee made this move after conducting a...
