Woman beaten on charges of witchcraft

October 29, 2021 12:01 pm

BIRATNAGAR, Oct 29: A woman of Biratnagar-8 has been severely beaten on the charge of being a witch. According to the victim, she was beaten by four men on the charge of witchcraft.

KATHMANDU, June 4: On late Friday evening, Raju Kushwaha was not feeling well. The 19-year-old from Bagmati Municipality-10 in Sarlahi district was having a conversation with his family members before going to bed. Suddenly, he got a call from his girlfriend at around 10:30PM.

CHITWAN, Sept 28: Anti-corruption activist Gyanendra Shahi was severely beaten in Chitwan on Saturday.

BIRATNAGAR, April 26: An elderly couple in Sundarharaicha Municipality-11 of Morang was beaten up mercilessly by a group of people on the charge of practicing witchcraft recently.

Little act with a big impact

December 14, 2018 10:27 am

The condition of stray dogs has always been pitiful in Nepal. They are kicked, beaten, and sometimes even run over by heavy vehicles. And, time and again, there have been cases where the community or the government has even put them to sleep. And on the exact opposite end of this spectrum are the dogs of “good breed” that most Nepali households buy for thousands of rupees. While a lot of organizations and initiations to help street dogs have started in the past few years, the condition of the stray dogs hasn’t really changed that much.

Nepali journalist assaulted in New York

November 11, 2018 09:09 am

NEW YORK, Nov 11: Umesh Rai, the brother-in-law of  Paruhang Rai assualted Lokmani Rai, a Nepali journalist based in New York, for writing news. Paruhang Rai is the chief assistant of Sherdhan Rai, the chief minister of Province 1.

BARDIYA, May 27: A woman has been lying unconscious at a hospital in Kohalpur since five days after being beaten black and blue by her husband.

BIRATNAGAR, April 2:  Sabiya Khatun, a six-month pregnant woman of Biratnagar-15 is brutally beaten by her husband almost every day. Her husband Mahaboob Ansari hardly spares her.

KATHMANDU, Mar 20: An investigation committee has formed to following an incident where the son of AIG was beaten by police.

Newzealand, Feb 13: England suffered a third Twenty20 defeat in a row as they were beaten by New Zealand in the tri-series which also involves Australia. The Black Caps made 196-5 after being put into bat, with Martin Guptill (65) and Kane Williamson (72) putting on 82.

Off the beaten path

December 15, 2017 10:06 am

Five travel destinations that you mustn’t miss out on.

Assistant  polling  officer  beaten up

November 23, 2017 14:44 pm

BAJURA,  Nov  23:  The assistant polling officer Bindeshwar Prasad Yadav was beaten black and blue on his way to Nandeshwari  Secondary School  polling center of  Kotila in Budhi Nanda Municipality-5 on Wednesday.

DOLPA, Nov 23: Around 30 CPN-UML cadres led by Sher Bahadur Buda and Angad Rana attacked two Nepali Congress agents and tied them to trees whole night at Chakartasog rural municipality of Dolpa.

ALBION, N.Y., Sept 1:  Police say a 10-year-old central New York girl was beaten repeatedly, served food doused in hot sauce and dragged behind a vehicle.

LONDON, July 12: Andy Murray's Wimbledon title defence ended in a 3-6 6-4 6-7(4) 6-1 6-1 quarter-final defeat to Sam Querrey on Wednesday as the hip injury that has dogged the world number one throughout the tournament finally got the better of him.

GORKHA, May 20: When the Maoist insurgency was at its peak, an incident of February 8, 2001, had shaken everyone who had seen the condition of Rajan Raj Panta, the newly-elected mayor of Gorkha Municipality.

AMSTERDAM (AP) — Hundreds of people walked hand-in-hand through Amsterdam on Wednesday to show solidarity with two gay men who were badly beaten over the weekend in the eastern city of Arnhem.

Far-right populist beaten in Dutch election

BOURNEMOUTH, Dec 4: Bournemouth's Nathan Ake grabbed a stoppage-time winner in a dramatic 4-3 victory over Liverpool, who twice surrendered a two-goal lead on Sunday.

LONDON, Oct 23: Jose Mourinho was humiliated on his return to Chelsea as his Manchester United defense was brutally exposed in a 4-0 loss Sunday by its ruthless hosts, who scored after only 30 seconds.

RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 13: Michael Phelps is used to being in a league of his own.

NICE, France, June 28: Iceland, whose population of 330,000 makes it the smallest nation ever to compete at the tournament, pulled off one of the biggest shocks in European Championship history by beating England 2-1 in the round of 16.