The Afghan Independent Journalists’ Association said the same mob tried to also attack two other nearby radio stations but were prevented from entering by policemen who arrived at the scene.
Nepalese mountaineers created history by scaling K2, the second highest peak of the world, for the first time during the winter season. A total of 48 mountaineers including five women reached the mountain’s base camp to kick off the expedition on December 29, 2020, out of which five were injured and many others returned due …
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Nepal has confirmed three cases of a new coronavirus strain, which was detected in the UK late last year, the country’s health ministry said on Monday. The spokesperson for the Nepali health ministry spoke to ANI said that a 28-year-old woman and two men aged 67 and 32, were found to have been infected with …
Speaking to a select audience at the Indian Council for World Affairs, Gyawali said he and foreign minister S Jaishankar took up the boundary issue. “However, there are issues that need to be sorted first, away from the public,” he added.
The Taliban welcomed the latest withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan with the insurgents’ spokesman Saturday calling the continued reduction of American forces a “good advancement” even as fighting raged across the war-weary country. The Taliban’s statement came just hours after the Pentagon announced it had cut troop levels in Afghanistan to 2,500, their lowest …
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An outspoken Sri Lankan opposition politician was jailed Tuesday for four years over his remarks alleging the majority of judges in the South Asian nation were corrupt.
Even as Pakistan removed all visa restrictions for Bangladeshi citizens to visit Pakistan, Dhaka has sought an apology for the 1971 genocide for both countries to be able to move forward. This is important in a year when Bangladesh will be celebrating 50 years of its liberation.
Indonesian divers on Sunday located parts of the wreckage of a Boeing 737-500 at a depth of 23 meters (75 feet) in the Java Sea, a day after the aircraft with 62 people onboard crashed shortly after takeoff from Jakarta. Earlier, rescuers pulled out body parts, pieces of clothing and scraps of metal from the …
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Authorities have pinpointed the location of two black boxes from a crashed Indonesian jet and the divers will start looking for them now, they said Sunday, referring to cockpit voice and flight data recorders that could help explain why the aircraft went down with 62 people aboard. The announcement came as divers pulled body parts, …
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“It is in Sri Lanka’s own interest that the expectations of the Tamil people for equality, justice, peace and dignity within a united Sri Lanka are fulfilled. That applies equally to the commitments made by the Sri Lankan government on meaningful devolution, including the 13th Amendment to the Constitution,” Jaishankar added.
The charge comes as the Afghan government and Taliban are due Tuesday to resume peace talks in Qatar, as both sides seek an end to the long-running conflict.
Prachanda’s wife has been suffering from progressive supranuclear palsy, a rare brain disorder which has similar symptoms as Parkinson’s disease. She is expected to undergo treatment at NeuroGen Brain and Spine Institute in Mumbai, according to party sources.
A Constitutional bench headed by Chief Justice Cholendra Shumsher Rana will hear on Friday all petitions challenging Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli’s move to abruptly dissolve Parliament, amid an intensified struggle between the two warring factions of the ruling Nepal Communist Party to wrest control of the party. The five-member bench, formed under Chief …
The Supreme Court on Wednesday had sent to the Constitutional Bench writ petitions against President Bidhya Devi Bhandari’s decision to dissolve the Parliament. This comes after the bench of Chief Justice Cholendra Shumsher JB Rana heard writ petitions filed in the Supreme Court against the dissolution of the House of Representatives.
China is sending a four-member team led by a vice minister of the Chinese Communist Party to Kathmandu in what is believed to be its effort to prevent a split in the ruling the Nepal Communist Party (NCP), a media report said. Sources confirmed that Guo Yezhou, vice-minister of the International Department of the Communist …
A high-level Chinese delegation led by a vice minister of the Chinese Communist Party arrived in Kathmandu on Sunday to “take stock” of Nepal’s political situation after the dissolution of Parliament and subsequent split in the ruling Nepal Communist Party.