Fiji declares state of natural disaster as powerful cyclone approaches

SYDNEY: Fiji declared a state of natural disaster on Thursday, ordering its entire population to take shelter ahead of a nightly curfew as a potentially devastating cyclone approached the Pacific Island nation. Cyclone Yasa, a...

Nepali Chef Santhosh Enters ‘MasterChef: The Professionals 2020’ Finale!

Nepali Chef Santosh Shah has become an internet sensation after he made it to the Final Three of BBC MasterChef: The Professionals 2020, the popular competitive cooking show. The thirty-four-year-old chef now based in London...

EDITORIAL: Wrong practice

The ordinance has given the PM sweeping powers to appoint persons in the constitutional bodies without consulting others President Bidhya Devi Bhandari on Tuesday issued an ordinance to make the first amendment to the Constitutional...

Traits of a leader: Water stories from Cambodia, Nepal

It has been around four years that Nepalis have found relief from the decade-long daily power cuts of up to 14 hours a day. It was nothing short of a miracle when Kul Man...

Supply and demand

When the relation of supply and demand gets disturbed, it brings chaos in the price, according to the theory of economics. In order to rectify this, some major steps should be taken. It’s not...

Man freed from jail, dies mysteriously

DAMAULI, DECEMBER 16 The death of a man has left his family in the lurch in Tanahun. Balsingh Rana, 30, of Ghiring Rural Municipality, Tanahun, was working in India. Unfortunately, he died mysteriously on his way...

Cops interfere in peaceful demonstration

JHAPA, DECEMBER 16 Police interfered in a peaceful demonstration which demanded that the border be reopened in Kakarbhitta of Jhapa, today. Locals, along with hotel and tourism entrepreneurs of the district, had staged the peaceful demonstration...

Chinese capsule returns to Earth carrying moon rocks

BEIJING: A Chinese lunar capsule returned to Earth on Thursday with the first fresh samples of rock and debris from the moon in more than 40 years, offering the possibility of new insights into...