WORLD
Death toll from Hokkaido earthquake reaches 21
Death toll from Hokkaido earthquake reaches 21
TOKYO, Sept 8: Death toll from a major earthquake on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido has increased to 21 people, while 13 people have been missing after the earthquake, Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said on Saturday.
Sep 08, 2018
ECONOMY
Pakistan on verge of bailout, but revokes appointment of key economist amid Islamist backl...
Pakistan on verge of bailout, but revokes appointment of key...
MOSCOW, Sept 8: Despite being on the verge of an economic crisis, Pakistan’s government has caved to pressure by hardline Islamists to cancel the appointment of a Princeton economist to the Economic Advisory Council.
Sep 08, 2018
SOCIETY
No medical specialist in Dang
No medical specialist in Dang
DANG, Sept 8: Most of the posts for specialist doctors and medical officers at Rapti sub regional hospital of Dang are lying vacant. Out of 20 quotas for the specialist doctors, 11 are vacant, said officiating medical superintendent Dr Janardan Panthi.
Sep 08, 2018
SOCIETY
People's representatives attack journalist
People's representatives attack journalist
CHITWAN, Sept 8: People's representatives in Gaidakot municipality beat up subeditor of a local Janaarpan weekly, Ajay Gorkhali, for reporting about the executive meeting of the municipality on Friday.
Sep 08, 2018
SOCIETY
6 missing, 3 rescued as two boats capsize in Begnas Lake
6 missing, 3 rescued as two boats capsize in Begnas Lake
POKHARA, Sept 8: Three people were rescued and six others went missing as two boats capsized in Begnas Lake in Kaski district on Saturday.
Sep 08, 2018
WORLD
Germany Returns Stolen Peruvian Pre-Incan Mask 21 Years Later
Germany Returns Stolen Peruvian Pre-Incan Mask 21 Years Late...
CARACAS, Sept 8: The Peruvian culture minister, Patricia Balbuena Thursday received a mask made by the pre-Incan civilization of Sican from a representative of the Free State of Bavaria, Germany Rolf-Dieter Jungk. The piece has been turned over, after 19 years of litigation, to the Peruvian governme...
Sep 08, 2018
WORLD
Mythical city of Atlantis allegedly discovered in Sahara desert
Mythical city of Atlantis allegedly discovered in Sahara des...
MOSCOW, Sept 8: An overzealous truth seeker, who runs YouTube channel Bright Insight, claims to have found the mystical city of Atlantis and insists that its true location has been hiding in plain sight for thousands of years.
Sep 08, 2018
ECONOMY
US govt blocks info release on thousands of kittens experimented & killed at Maryland lab
US govt blocks info release on thousands of kittens experime...
WASHINGTON DC, Sept 8: An animal rights group has sued the US Department of Agriculture, claiming it blocked the release of information on a Maryland medical lab that experimented on and euthanized thousands of kittens in past decades.
Sep 08, 2018
TECHNOLOGY
NASA technology to be launched from New Mexico spaceport
NASA technology to be launched from New Mexico spaceport
NEW MEXICO, Sept 8: NASA technology designed to protect spacecraft from heat and pressure when entering a planet's atmosphere will be launched from Spaceport America in New Mexico as part of testing.
Sep 08, 2018
SOCIETY
Absconding culprit jailed after 26 years
Absconding culprit jailed after 26 years
KHOTANG, Sept 8: Absconding culprit, Deviraj Rai of Diktel, Madhuwagadhi municipality-12 has been sentenced to jail for a murder he committed 26 years ago in July, 1990.
Sep 08, 2018