POLITICS
NC's protest to protect Constitution, says Gachchhadar
NC's protest to protect Constitution, says Gachchhadar
BIRATNAGAR, July 31: Deputy-leader of the Nepali Congress Parliamentary Party, Bijay Kumar Gachchhadar, has said that the Nepali Congress has organised the protest programme today to protect the Constitution.
Jul 31, 2018
POLITICS
Bilateral mechanism active to implement Nepal-India cooperation commitments: Dahal
Bilateral mechanism active to implement Nepal-India cooperat...
KATHMANDU, July 31: CPN Chairperson Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda' has said that the bilateral mechanism was working actively to bring into effect the commitments and pacts between Nepal and India for mutual cooperation.
Jul 31, 2018
WORLD
With drones and satellites, India gets to know its slums
With drones and satellites, India gets to know its slums
BANGKOK, July 31: Satellites and drones are driving efforts by Indian states to map informal settlements in order to speed up the process of delivering services and land titles, officials said.
Jul 31, 2018
WORLD
Russia protests pension reform, Putin doesn't like them either
Russia protests pension reform, Putin doesn't like them eith...
KREMLIN, July 31: Thousands in Russia protested pending pension reforms over the weekend that would raise the retirement age to 63 for women, 65 for men. Tens of thousands of Russian protested across the country on Saturday to demonstrate against a controversial pension-eligible age hike in parliame...
Jul 31, 2018
SPORTS
APF, Tribhuvan Army locking horns for Vice President’s Cup title
APF, Tribhuvan Army locking horns for Vice President’s Cup t...
KATHMANDU, July 31: Departmental teams Armed Police Force (APF) and Tribhuvan Army Club of Nepal Army are locking horns for the title of Vice President Cup Women’s National League Football Tournament on Tuesday.
Jul 31, 2018
SOCIETY
3 killed, 1 critically, in Rasuwa road accident
3 killed, 1 critically, in Rasuwa road accident
RASUWA, July 31: Three people have died and another one sustained severe injuries after a container van, Na 6 Kha 4929, met with an accident in Gosainkunda rural municipality-5 of the district.
Jul 31, 2018
Lifestyle
Stem cells to be transplanted into brains of Parkinson's patients in world-first trials
Stem cells to be transplanted into brains of Parkinson's pat...
July 31: The deterioration of motor skills in Parkinson's patients is driven by the decline of dopamine production, but researchers in Japan are making exciting progress on a way to potentially arrest the slide. Following promising experiments on monkeys last year, scientists at Kyoto University are...
Jul 31, 2018
Lifestyle
A gene that causes hair loss may be recruited to help kill cancers
A gene that causes hair loss may be recruited to help kill c...
July 31: Modern immunotherapy techniques are revolutionizing how we treat cancers, but these treatments still fail in a large amount of patients. The trick to success is finding unique biomarkers that can help our body's natural immune cells home in on, and kill, these evasive tumors. An intriguing...
Jul 31, 2018
WORLD
Russia sees no conditions for new summit on Ukraine in Normandy format – Lavrov
Russia sees no conditions for new summit on Ukraine in Norma...
KREMLIN, July 31: There are no conditions yet for holding another top-level meeting in the Normandy format, since the previous agreements between the four leaders have not been implemented, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Monday. He made the statement addressing the participants at th...
Jul 31, 2018
SOCIETY
3 in 5 babies are not breastfed in the first hour of life
3 in 5 babies are not breastfed in the first hour of life
Breastfeeding within an hour after birth is critical for saving newborn lives
Jul 31, 2018