JAKARTA, Nov 22: A 5.6 magnitude earthquake left more than 260 dead and hundreds injured as buildings crumbled and terrified residents ran for their lives on Indonesia’s main island of Java.

KATHMANDU, Nov 21: An earthquake measuring 5.6-magnitude in the Richter scale struck Indonesian island of Java on Monday killing at least 40 people and injuring hundreds, according to media reports.

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JAKARTA, May 22: Six people died in civil unrest that gripped parts of Jakarta on Tuesday night after the election commission confirmed that President Joko Widodo won last month’s election, the governor of the Indonesian capital said.

JAKARTA, April 17: Across 17,000 islands, from the jungles of Borneo to the slums of Jakarta, millions of Indonesians were going to the polls Wednesday in one of the world's biggest exercises in democracy.

KATHMANDU, April 8: Paragliding, an adventure sport, has been included in the 8th National Games for the first time in Nepal. The national sporting event is set to start from April 18 in Province 5.

JAKARTA, March 17: Around 35 foreign and domestic tourists are believed to be trapped and two others died after landslides hit a waterfall site on Indonesia’s tourist island of Lombok on Sunday, a disaster agency official said.

JAKARTA, Dec 27: Indonesia on Thursday raised the alert level for the erupting Anak Krakatau volcano to the second-highest, and ordered all flights to steer clear, days after it triggered a tsunami that killed at least 430 people.

KATHMANDU, Dec 10: Nepal national football team defender Rohit Chand has helped his team Persija Jakarta win the Go-Jek Liga 1 title in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Sunday.

TEHRAN, Sept 24: North Korea and South Korea have agreed to form unified teams for some sports at the upcoming Asian Para Games, in another sign of improving relations between the neighbors.

JAKARTA, Aug 30: Nepal’s Nabita Shrestha has presented a mixed result in women’s singles of table tennis as she lost in the second round at the 18th Asian Games played at the JI Expo Hall on Thursday.

KATHMANDU, Aug 29: Nepal won its very first silver medal in the 18th Asia Games in Jakarta, Indonesia.

JAKARTA, Aug 28: Two sets of twins stood on the podium with Asian Games medals around their necks after the final of women’s duet in synchronised swimming on Tuesday.

JAKARTA, Aug 28: Nepal became medal-less in taekwondo, boxing and karate as well, like in all other events, at the 18th Asian Games in Indonesia. These are the three sports where the country has ever won medals at the Asian Games.

KATHMANDU, Aug 27: Nepal’s Tara Devi Pun set a new national record in the women’s weightlifting in 75-kg weight category at the ongoing 18th Asian Games held at JI Expo in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Sunday.

KATHMANDU, Aug 26: Two Nepali athletics players reached Indonesia to participate in the ongoing 2018 Jakarta Palembang Asian Games have been deprived of joining the competition due to delayed registrations. Nepali sports office bearers failed to notice that whether the registrations of names of those players selected for the regional competition were made on time.

KATHMANDU, Aug 26: Nepal’s hope of winning its first medal at the 18th Asian Games were dashed as Rita Karki suffered a 3-1 defeat at the hands of Pakistan’s Nargis in the women's 68 kg weight category.  Karki lost the fight for bronze medal in karate played at the Jakarta Convention Center in Indonesia on Saturday.

JAKARTA, Aug 25: Nepal beaten in men’s badminton; Gaurika fails to better national record again.

JAKARTA, Aug 24: Nepal’s badminton team build on their success against Pakistan as they beat Mongolia in men’s doubles and Maldives in women’s singles to reach the Round of 16 in the 18th Asian Games on Thursday.

JAKARTA, Aug 20: Japan has sent home four players from their Asian Games basketball team for spending the night with women in a Jakarta hotel, the head of the delegation Yasuhiro Yamashita said on Monday.

JAKARTA, Aug 18: Indonesian police have fatally shot dozens of "petty criminals" in the lead up the 2018 Asian Games, rights group Amnesty International says.

KATHMANDU, July 22: The third edition of Global Entrepreneurship Bootcamp (GEB) has been organized in Jakarta targeting the youth entrepreneur across the globe.

JAKARTA, April 10: Nearly 50 people have died in a little more than a week after drinking bootleg liquor in western Indonesia, including Jakarta, the capital, officials said on Monday.

KATHMANDU, March 8: Former Prime Minister and Naya Shakti Party Nepal Coordinator Dr Baburam Bhattarai has said that the Nepali peace process had been led by the Nepali people themselves.

JAKARTA, Indonesia, Oct 8: Police say they arrested 58 men, including several foreigners, in a raid of a gay sauna in Indonesia's capital.

KATHMANDU, April 7: Nepali national team midfielder Rohit Chand has signed a contract with Indonesian club Persija Jakarta on Friday for the second time. The 26-year-old midfielder-cum-defender, who was with the same club from 2013 to 2015, has signed a new contract that will run out in January 2018.

KATHMANDU, April 7: Nepali national team midfielder Rohit Chand has signed a contract with Indonesian club Persija Jakarta on Friday for the second time. The 26-year-old midfielder-cum-defender, who was with the same club from 2013 to 2015, has signed a new contract that will run out in January 2018. However, the signing amount and the wages with the first-tier Indonesian club has not been disclosed.

KATHMANDU, April 7: Nepali footballer Rohit Chand has signed with Indonesian football club Persija Jakarta for next season.

Indonesian police over the weekend arrested two more members of a militant group that had planned to bomb government buildings and the Myanmar embassy in Jakarta, having arrested the bombmaker earlier in the week, a police spokesman said on Sunday.