Putrajaya, Malaysia : Malaysia’s prime minister said Monday he will seek to cancel multibillion-dollar Chinese-backed infrastructure projects that were signed by his predecessor as his government works to dig itself out of debt, and he blasted Myanmar’s treatment of Rohingya Muslims as...
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Kerala, India: As many as 39 people have lost their lives in flooding and landslides, following heavy and incessant rains in Kerala. Yesterday, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan had informed that as per the preliminary report, the total damage due to floods in the state is estimated to be...
Vientiane : Lao military personnel and a rescue team from Singapore are continuing the search for the 98 people still missing in the wake of the dam burst, with the number of dead confirmed at 36, local daily Vientiane Times reported Monday. The search for those still missing after the district...
Surkhet : Karnali Province reels under scarcity of food grains every year. The people of the province facing food shortage is in the news frequently, but little or no attention has been paid so far. There are seven districts within the province and all except for Rukum, Salyan and Surkhet face...
Baitadi : As many as 16 previous bonded labourers from Dasharathchand municipality-9, Gwallek of Baitadi jointly lodged a complaint at the district administration office Sunday for alleged irregularities on the money meant for freed Haliyas. In an outrage, the Haliyas made the complaint against...
Kathmandu : Ambassador of Russian Federation to Nepal Andrei S. Budnik has passed away. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that the Embassy of Russian Federation to Nepal informed about Andrei’s demise that occurred last Friday in Moscow. The Russian Ambassador was in Russia since July 7...
London : British author V.S. Naipaul, a famously outspoken Nobel laureate who wrote on the traumas of post-colonial change, has died at the age of 85. Naipaul, who was born in Trinidad and the son of an Indian civil servant, was best known for works including “A House for Mr Biswas”...
Aktau, Kazakhstan : The leaders of Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia and Turkmenistan are meeting in the Kazakh port city of Aktau on Sunday to sign a landmark deal on the Caspian Sea. Here are five facts about the inland sea whose legal status has been the subject of fraught negotiations for...
Lalitpur : The Koteshwor-Kalanki road widening project has neared the completion. The project that remains as the country’s first eight-lane road is likely to be completed by coming December. According to Engineer Niranjan Sharma Aryal, 97 percent progress has been tracked on the 10.4 km...
Bardibas : “Sir, you know, I’m split! I’m a dead man.” It is what a 59-year old-man from Khopi Bairiya of Aurahi Municipality-6 from Mahottari district is found repeating before the group of people and offices seeking justice. It sounds unbelievable. But, yes, he is the...
