ECONOMY, Latest Updates
Nepse closes higher for third straight day
Nepse closes higher for third straight day
KATHMANDU: Stocks traded in green since the beginning of trading on Thursday. The benchmark Nepal Stock Exchange (Nepse) index saw modest gain in the initial trading and continued the momentum till midday. The benchmark index eventually closed the last trading day of the week 6.73 points higher at 1...
Oct 25, 2019
POLITICS, Latest Updates
Mahara remanded to 7 more days in police custody
Mahara remanded to 7 more days in police custody
KATHMANDU, Oct 25: The Kathmandu District Court on Thursday remanded disgraced former speaker Krishna Bahadur Mahara, who resigned after being accused of attempted rape, to seven more days in police custody for investigation. This is the third time the court extended his remand.
Oct 25, 2019
My City, Gen-Next, Slammed
Let your fiction flow
Let your fiction flow
You never know when you glow
Stiffen up that little shoulder
And rise from the low
You have been in the cave of your ‘self’
Oct 25, 2019
POLITICS, Latest Updates
Code of conduct for by-election effective from today
Code of conduct for by-election effective from today
KATHMANDU, Oct 25: In view of upcoming by-polls, the Election Commission (EC) has issued the election code for stakeholders concerned from Friday.
Oct 25, 2019
SOCIETY, Latest Updates
SC reverses appeal court acquittal in rape case
SC reverses appeal court acquittal in rape case
KATHMANDU, Oct 25: Revoking the verdict of the then Kanchanpur Appellate Court, the Supreme Court on Thursday convicted Sagar Bhatta and Amar Awasthi of Baitadi of raping a 14-year-old girl.
Oct 25, 2019
SOCIETY, Latest Updates
Police send victims’ clothes, kiln ash for lab test in Alam case
Police send victims’ clothes, kiln ash for lab test in Alam...
RAUTAHAT, Oct 25: Police have sent for laboratory tests clothing items of victims of a bomb blast in Rautahat in 2008 and ashes from the brick kiln into which they were allegedly thrown and killed. Former minister Mohammad Aftab Alam is alleged to be behind the killings.
Oct 25, 2019
My City, Lifestyle, Entertainment, Literature
Upcoming exhibit highlights Twain’s overseas adventures
Upcoming exhibit highlights Twain’s overseas adventures
Mark Twain’s adventures overseas, and the irreverent book which helped make him famous, will be featured in an upcoming exhibit at the New-York Historical Society.
Oct 24, 2019
WORLD
India, Pakistan sign pact on cross-border temple visits
India, Pakistan sign pact on cross-border temple visits
KARACHI, Oct 24: India and Pakistan signed an agreement on Thursday allowing Indian pilgrims to cross the border to a Sikh shrine in Pakistan, rare cooperation between the nuclear-armed rivals at a time of tension and clashes elsewhere on their frontier.
Oct 24, 2019
WORLD
Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters rally for Catalan independence
Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters rally for Catalan indepen...
HONG KONG, Oct 24: Hundreds of Hong Kong protesters, some waving Catalan flags and banners urging “a fight for freedom together”, rallied in support of a separate Catalonia on Thursday, broaching an issue that is anathema to Hong Kong’s Communist Party leaders in Beijing.
Oct 24, 2019
My City, Lifestyle, Social
Endangered sloth bear rescued from eastern Nepal
Endangered sloth bear rescued from eastern Nepal
A sloth bear named ‘Dhutru’ was rescued from Lahan Municipality-13, Siraha district on October 21. It was captivated for entertainment purpose.
Oct 24, 2019