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
VALLEY POLLUTION INDEX
Valley Pollution Index of October 7, 2018
Valley Pollution Index of October 7, 2018
Valley Pollution Index of October 7, 2018
Oct 08, 2018
WORLD
Japan's new language test designed to ease labor immigration
Japan's new language test designed to ease labor immigration
Business-oriented exam to be offered first in Southeast Asia
Oct 08, 2018
POLITICS
NCP secretariat meeting fails to make headway over party’s unification at local levels
NCP secretariat meeting fails to make headway over party’s u...
KATHMANDU, Oct 8 : A meeting of ruling Nepal Communist Party’s secretariat has ended inconclusively, on Monday afternoon.
Oct 08, 2018
Lifestyle
Thailand's cave boys enjoy kickabout at iconic River Plate stadium
Thailand's cave boys enjoy kickabout at iconic River Plate s...
BUENOS AIRES, Oct 8: Twelve Thai boys and their football coach, who were dramatically rescued from a flooded cave in July, enjoyed a high-profile kickabout on Sunday, playing a game at River Plate’s iconic Monumental stadium.
Oct 08, 2018
TECHNOLOGY
Rocket carrying Argentinian satellite takes off successfully
Rocket carrying Argentinian satellite takes off successfully
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Oct 8: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carried an Argentinian Earth-observation satellite into space Sunday and for the first time landed a first-stage booster back at its California launch site.
Oct 08, 2018