SHANGHAI, July 23: Viral photos and news reports in the United States allegedly showing a moldy ice cream maker at a U.S. outlet of McDonald's Corp have prompted swift action from the fast-food giant thousands of miles away: in China.

KATHMANDU, April 2: Though a signatory to the UN Convention against Torture (CaT), Nepal has long ignored the UN Human Rights Council (HRC)'s repeated calls to brief the UN body on hundreds of conflict-era cases where the state and the Maoist rebels allegedly resorted to extreme torture tactics.

KATHMANDU, March 2: The Project Implementation Directorate (PID) of Kathmandu Upatyaka Khanepani Limited (KUKL) has refused to respond to a Right to Information (RTI) petition seeking complete information on the environment and public health hazards caused by its pipe-laying works for the Melamchi Water Supply Project (MSWP).

KATHMANDU, Feb 13: Jerold Kayden, professor of urban planning and design at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (USA), has said that the trend of a huge number of youths going abroad for higher education and job is a big problem for Nepal.

TV show host Ellen DeGeneres, whose voice featured in "Finding Dory", has used the 2016 animated film to criticize US President Donald Trump's immigration ban.

BEIJING, Dec 5:  With Donald Trump's latest tweets touching on highly sensitive issues, China must decide how to handle an incoming American president who relishes confrontation and whose online statements appear to foreshadow shifts in foreign policy.

KATHMANDU, Nov 25: Main opposition CPN-UML has decided to “respond appropriately” if the government “forcibly” registered the constitution amendment bill ignoring the UML’s objection.

KATHMANDU, July 2: The Ministry of Home Affairs has said the government has kept all its apparatuses in a ready position to respond to disasters and it was alert regarding the possibility of occurrence of landslide and inundation with the monsoon becoming active across the country.