THE HAGUE, July 9: A preliminary report by the world’s chemical weapons watchdog said “various chlorinated chemicals” were found at the site of an attack in Douma, Syria, in April that killed dozens of civilians and prompted air strikes by Britain, France and the United States, it said on Friday.

KATHMANDU, July 2: Nepal and the US government have agreed to instal a mega electricity transmission line and carry out maintenance on 300 km of roads. Negotiations  with Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), a US government foreign  aid agency, on US $500 million in grants for the two projects  concluded on Friday, according to a tweet posted from Washington DC by Joint Secretary at the Ministry of Finance Baikuntha Aryal.

A global cyberattack leveraging hacking tools widely believed by researchers to have been developed by the U.S. National Security Agency hit international shipper FedEx, disrupted Britain's health system and infected computers in nearly 100 countries on Friday.

KATHMANDU, March 25: Properties worth Rs 1.8 million have been damaged in a blaze in a book store and a travel agency in Gongabu on Saturday evening.

JAKARTA, Indonesia, Feb 10: Twelve people including young children were killed in landslides on the tourist island of Bali that wiped out several homes, Indonesia's disaster mitigation agency said Friday.

WASHINGTON, Dec 13: The overseers of the U.S. intelligence community have not embraced a CIA assessment that Russian cyber attacks were aimed at helping Republican President-elect Donald Trump win the 2016 election, three American officials said on Monday.

KATHMANDU, Dec 12: Securities Board of Nepal (Sebon) has provided Letter of Intent (LoI) to Credit Analysis and Research Limited (CARL) to work as a credit rating agency in Nepal, paving the way for the Mumbai-based company to enter the Nepali capital market which has seen monopoly one rating company.