RAUTAHAT, DECEMBER 15 Three police personnel have been absconding after an arrest warrant was issued against them by Rautahat District Police Office. Three police personnel, including Inspector Nabin Kumar Singh, were suspended on the charge of...

BERLIN: Facing strong pressure from Germany and other European Union nations, the bloc’s medicines agency on Tuesday moved up a meeting to assess the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine to Dec. 21, likely bringing vaccinations a...

TOKYO: Samples of dust collected by a Japanese space probe from an asteroid some 300 million km (186 million miles) from Earth were better than hoped for, with one researcher saying he was lost...

TOKYO: Officials from Japan’s space agency said Tuesday they have found more than the anticipated amount of soil and gases inside a small capsule the country’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft brought back from a distant asteroid...

KATHMANDU, DECEMBER 15 A ministerial level meeting held at the home ministry today directed the authorities concerned to initiate action against sugar mills that have not yet cleared sugarcane farmers’ dues. Photo: Balkrishna Thapa/THT After sugarcane farmers...

New exciting research suggests that the build-up of oxygen in the atmosphere, 2.5 billion years ago, may have possibly determined the evolution of our circadian rhythms. What’s more, science has recently identified a protein,...

KATHMANDU, DECEMBER 15 The 58th session of the Programming Committee of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation commenced virtually today. Foreign Secretary Bharat Raj Paudyal, who is also chairman of the SAARC Standing Committee, addressed...

The 2015 Constitution guarantees the right to healthcare for all Nepali citizens, however public sector healthcare systems have been insufficiently resourced to provide for this right. In this context, the public-private partnership (PPP) model offers...