SOCIETY
NC weak in main opposition role: Koirala
NC weak in main opposition role: Koirala
CHITWAN, Oct 8: Nepali Congress leader Dr Shekhar Koirala has said the party is weak in the role of main opposition.
Oct 08, 2018
SOCIETY
Muslim girl brutally thrashed for eloping with her Hindu lover
Muslim girl brutally thrashed for eloping with her Hindu lov...
NEW DELHI, Oct 8: A Muslim teenager who was found tied to a tree, having been beaten up by members of her own family in north-eastern India, had been punished for running away with her Hindu boyfriend.
Oct 08, 2018
WORLD
Americans Nordhaus, Romer win Nobel Economics Prize
Americans Nordhaus, Romer win Nobel Economics Prize
STOCKHOLM, Oct 8: Americans William Nordhaus and Paul Romer won the 2018 Nobel Economics Prize for work in integrating climate change and technological innovation into economic analysis, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said on Monday.
Oct 08, 2018
SPORTS, WORLD
Cristiano Ronaldo rape accuser's lawyers reportedly probing three more claims
Cristiano Ronaldo rape accuser's lawyers reportedly probing...
LONDON, Oct 8: The Juventus striker is facing claims from an LA-based model, who says he raped her nine years ago and talked her into a $375,000 non-disclosure agreement. Ronaldo denies the accusations, which have already sparked the concerns of his deep-pocketed sponsors, sportswear company Nike an...
Oct 08, 2018
WORLD
‘We bombed you to save you’ – NATO head Stoltenberg speaks about 1999 bombings on visit to...
‘We bombed you to save you’ – NATO head Stoltenberg speaks a...
MOSCOW, Oct 8: Although many people in Serbia hold “poor” memories of NATO’s 1999 bombing of their country, it was, in fact, done precisely to protect them from their own government, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has said in Belgrade.
Oct 08, 2018
SOCIETY
Tobacco kills 7 million people every year
Tobacco kills 7 million people every year
KATHMANDU, Oct 8: Over 7 million people die every year due to tobacco consumption. According to data posted by World Health Organization on its official Twitter over 12 percent of deaths of all people aged over 30 are due to tobacco which comes around 7 million people every year globally.
Oct 08, 2018
Lifestyle
Tanushree Dutta files complaint against Nana Patekar, Ganesh Acharya
Tanushree Dutta files complaint against Nana Patekar, Ganesh...
Tanushree Dutta had earlier in a TV interview accused Patekar and Acharya of sexual harassment on the sets of the 2008 movie Horn Ok Pleassss.
Oct 08, 2018
WORLD, Lifestyle
Jamal Khashoggi disappears, a mystery rattling the middle east
Jamal Khashoggi disappears, a mystery rattling the middle ea...
LONDON, Oct 8: Jamal Khashoggi, a prominent Saudi dissident, met two friends for lunch last Monday in London to discuss a newspaper column he had drafted lamenting the lack of free speech in the Arab world. “Everyone is fearful,” he wrote.
Oct 08, 2018
WORLD
UN report on global warming carries life-or-death warning
UN report on global warming carries life-or-death warning
WASHINGTON, Oct 8: Preventing an extra single degree of heat could make a life-or-death difference in the next few decades for multitudes of people and ecosystems on this fast-warming planet, an international panel of scientists reported Sunday. But they provide little hope the world will rise to th...
Oct 08, 2018
Lifestyle
Accused of sexual harassment, actor Rajat Kapoor apologises on Twitter
Accused of sexual harassment, actor Rajat Kapoor apologises...
Actor Rajat Kapoor tweeted that he was ‘sorry from the bottom of his heart’ as two accounts of harassment emerged against him.
Oct 08, 2018