NIAMEY/NEW YORK: An attack blamed on Boko Haram killed 28 people and burned 800 homes in an attack in Niger’s Diffa region on Saturday, Nigerien authorities and the United Nations said.
The Islamist militant group...
A record number of journalists were imprisoned during 2020, as governments cracked down on coverage of the coronavirus pandemic or tried to suppress reporting of civil unrest, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said...
DHANGADI, DECEMBER 14
Seti Provincial Hospital in Sudurpaschim Province has started providing treatment for neurological diseases for the first time in the province.
Chief of Seti Provincial Hospital Dr Hem Raj Pandey said neuro patients had...
KATHMANDU, DECEMBER 14
Stakeholders have stated that the 24-hour operation of Real Time Gross Settlement System (RTGS) in India is going to benefit the Nepali market.
India has started 24-hour service of RTGS starting from today....
SYDNEY: New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern defended her country’s climate change policies, saying that comments by activist Greta Thunberg suggesting the country lacked ambition referred only to part of New Zealand’s goals on...
KATHMANDU, DECEMBER 14
Dalit rights activists have urged private and public media outlets to play their roles in eradicating untouchability and empowering Dalit communities.
Chairperson of Dalit Welfare Association Motilal Nepali presented a paper at a...
CHITWAN, DECEMBER 14
Rapti edged past Narayani by one wicket in the last league round match of the Gautam Buddha Cup here at the under-construction Gautam Buddha International Stadium today.
Kushal Bhurtel of Rapti plays a...
MOSCOW: A fire that broke out early on Tuesday in a retirement home in the Russian region of Bashkortostan in the Urals mountains has killed 11 people, Russia’s emergencies ministry said on Tuesday.
The fire...
