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Sports Forum held

KATHMANDU: The Nepal Olympic Committee on Sunday organised the third National Sports Forum that focused on sports, athletes and associations and their responsibilities. Sri Lankan...

Ghimire re-elected

KATHMANDU: President of Cricket Association of Blind (CAB) Nepal Pawan Ghimire was elected as Treasurer of the World Blind Cricket Limited for the second...

Olympics-COVID-19 countermeasures to cost some $960 million: Kyodo

TOKYO: Tokyo Games organisers estimate the cost of COVID-19 countermeasures for next year’s rearranged Olympics will run to around 100 billion yen ($960 million),...

Parents mastermind daughter’s murder to ‘save family honour’

RAUTAHAT, NOVEMBER 29 Police investigation showed that parents were responsible for the murder of their 17-year-old daughter. Apparently, the murder was committed to keep intact...

Fact or fiction? UK govt says ‘The Crown’ should be clear

LONDON: Britain’s culture minister thinks the Netflix TV series “The Crown” should come with a disclaimer: It’s a work of fiction. Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden...

Communications Minister Gurung pledges coordination and cooperation with media fraternity

KATHMANDU: Minister for Communications and Information Technology Parbat Gurung has pledged to move ahead through coordination and cooperation for the development and expansion of...

Suspected extremists kill at least 40 farmers in Nigeria

MAIDGURI: Suspected members of the Islamic militant group Boko Haram killed at least 40 rice farmers and fishermen in Nigeria as they were harvesting...

Siblings arrested for faking abduction

RAUTAHAT, NOVEMBER 29 Police arrested two persons for pretending they had been kidnapped from Gadhimai Municipality in Rautahat last night. The arrested have been identified as...

Monolith mystery deepens as Utah desert object vanishes

No word as to whether Star Trek’s Scotty “beamed it up,” but the mysterious, shiny monolith that was spotted in a remote southeastern Utah...

Dave Prowse, actor who played Darth Vader, dies at 85

LONDON: Dave Prowse, the British weightlifter-turned-actor who was the body, though not the voice, of arch-villain Darth Vader in the original “Star Wars” trilogy,...

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