SEOUL : South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Friday named seven new ministers, including a top policymaker in charge of inter-Korean affairs, in a cabinet reshuffle for the third year of his five-year presidency, according to the presidential Blue House. Kim Yeon-chul, the current chief of the...
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NEW DELHI : A MiG-21 fighter jet belonging to the Indian Air Force (IAF) crashed in the state of Rajasthan on Friday while it was on its routine sortie. The pilot managed to successfully eject, confirmed defence ministry sources in New Delhi. According to the preliminary reports, the jet crash...
Lalitpur : The Megha Hospital based in Dhobighat-3, Sanepa of Lalitpur has given 50 percent discount in the treatment for senior citizens, persons with physical disabilities, single women, orphans, national players and the mentally challenged.
The patients falling under the above mentioned...
HELSINKI : FinEst Bay Area Development said on Friday it had signed a memorandum of understanding for 15 billion euros ($16.8 billion) in financing with China’s Touchstone Capital Partners for its undersea train tunnel project linking Helsinki with the Estonian capital Tallinn. One-third of the...
UXTLA GUTIÉRREZ, Mexico : A truck packed with Central American migrants swerved off a highway in southern Mexico Thursday, leaving at least 25 dead and 32 injured, officials said. The accident happened in Chiapas state, bordering Guatemala, the state attorney general’s office said in a...
BEIJING : China’s exports and imports plummeted much more than expected in February, official data showed Friday, adding to worries about slowing growth in the world’s number two economy as it fights a trade war with the US. Its politically sensitive trade surplus with the US narrowed...
Kathmandu : New proposed laws relating to social media use in Nepal are intended to stifle dissent and silence critical voices, say global and regional human rights groups. Global civil society alliance, CIVICUS and the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) say they are seriously concerned that new...
Kanchanpur : A case has been registered at Kanchanpur District Court against eight police officials for allegedly meting out torture and destroying evidences associated to the rape and subsequent murder of Nirmala Panta – a 13-year-old girl from Bhimdutta municipality-2 of...
Biratnagar : Nepali Congress President and former Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba said democracy without press freedom would have no significance. Democracy and press freedom are interdependent, he argued during a programme here Thursday. Criticizing the attempts of the government to control...
SRINAGAR, Indian-controlled Kashmir : At least 18 people were wounded Thursday in a blast that went off inside a busy bus station in Indian-controlled Kashmir, police said. The blast took place at the main bus station in Jammu city, the winter capital of Indian-controlled Kashmir. “A...
