WORLD
Stepmother had Kashmir girl raped, eyes gouged out, burnt with acid
Stepmother had Kashmir girl raped, eyes gouged out, burnt wi...
KASHMIR, Sept 5: Horrific details have emerged about the case of a nine-year-old girl, whose stepmother allegedly got her raped and killed in Kashmir’s Baramulla district last week. After being raped – by her step brother and three others – she was hit in the head with an axe, her eyes were gouged o...
Sep 05, 2018
SOCIETY
International Day of Charity 2018
International Day of Charity 2018
In recognition of the significant role that charities and individuals have undertaken to alleviate human suffering and humanitarian crises, the UN General Assembly, under resolution A/RES/67/105PDF, has designated the 5th of September as the International Day of Charity. This date was chosen as it...
Sep 05, 2018
SOCIETY
Lessons from Everest's Sherpas could aid intensive care treatment
Lessons from Everest's Sherpas could aid intensive care trea...
A research expedition to Mount Everest has shed light on the unique physiological basis of adaptations seen in the native Sherpa people, which make them better suited to life at high altitude.
Sep 05, 2018
POLITICS
Nabin Ghimire recommended as CIAA chief
Nabin Ghimire recommended as CIAA chief
KATHMANDU, Sept 5: The Constitutional Council has recommended Nabin Ghimire as chief commissioner at the Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority.
Sep 05, 2018
SOCIETY
Woman killed by lightning
Woman killed by lightning
ILAM, Sept 5: A woman was killed when lightning struck her here on Tuesday. The deceased is 36-year-old Kumari Yonghang of Mai Municipaity-1. She was struck by the thunder bolt while taking tea at her neighbour's house at local Palase. Yonghang had been living in a rented room at Palase.
Sep 05, 2018
SOCIETY
Dang's local levels becoming technology-friendly
Dang's local levels becoming technology-friendly
TULSIPUR, Sept 5: Local levels in Dang, the district in Province 5, have started taking the help of technology to render services. The Ghorahi and Tulsipur sub metropolises and the Lamahi municipality have already switched to an online system to collect integrated property tax and deliver other sort...
Sep 05, 2018
SPORTS
Nike shares take a knee, boycott mooted as Kaepernick protesters prove idiocy knows no bou...
Nike shares take a knee, boycott mooted as Kaepernick protes...
WASHINGTON DC, Sept 5: Nike's shares have dropped 2 percent after the company's decision to use Colin Kaepernick as the face of a new ad campaign, though the step has proved idiocy still knows no bounds as protesters 'boycott' and sabotage merchandise.
Sep 05, 2018
SOCIETY
Two hundred women and children rescued
Two hundred women and children rescued
BAITADI, Sept 5: As many as 210 women and children have been rescued in the last three years from Jhulaghat, the western border transit point between Nepal and India in Baitadi district.
Sep 05, 2018
WORLD
Researchers hope some objects survived Brazil museum fire
Researchers hope some objects survived Brazil museum fire
RIO DE JANEIRO, Sept 5: Researchers held out hope that a famed skull and other valuable objects might somehow be recovered from the ashes of a massive blaze that tore through Brazil's National Museum after firefighters found bone fragments from the collection.
Sep 05, 2018
WORLD
In Pictures: Devastation from Jebi, Japan's biggest typhoon in 25 years time
In Pictures: Devastation from Jebi, Japan's biggest typhoon...
TOKYO, Sept 5: A powerful typhoon killed 10 people in western Japan and an airport company started to transfer some 3,000 stranded passengers by boats from a flooded airport, the government said on Wednesday, as more than a million homes were without power.
Sep 05, 2018