Spurs seal top spot with 2-0 Europa League win over Antwerp

LONDON: Tottenham Hotspur secured first place in Europa League Group J with a 2-0 home win over Royal Antwerp thanks to second-half goals from Carlos Vinicius and Giovanni Lo Celso on Thursday. Brazilian striker Vinicius netted from...

Interpreting Hindu and Buddhist Deities

Sitting at the crossroads between Hindu and Buddhist traditions, Nepal is interspersed with temples in each neighborhood, village, and even high-altitude passes. Dedicated to the Buddha or a whole pantheon of Hindu deities, temples...

Sandeep Lamichanne climbs a notch up in ICC ranking

KATHMANDU: Nepal’s star leg-spinner Sandeep Lamichanne has moved one position up in the new T20I men’s rankings issued by the International Cricket Council (ICC), on Thursday. According to the ICC rankings, Sandeep Lamichanne has moved...

NC leader Koirala rules out possibility of general convention in Falgun

KATHMANDU: Nepali Congress General Secretary Dr Shashank Koirala has ruled out the possibility of holding the General Convention in the month of Falgun. He further said that the Convention won’t be held on stipulated time...

Govt preparing for anti COVID-19 vaccine for 72 per cent

KATHMANDU: The government has made a plan to inoculate 72 per cent of the country’s total population against COVID-19. Vaccine has not been tested on children so far and the plan is to vaccinate all...

Nepal Covid Update: 1217 new cases, 1064 recoveries, 12 deaths on Thurday

KATHMANDU: Nepal’s Health Ministry, in its press briefing, shared the latest updates on coronavirus contagion from across the country. Till date, 1,813,204 tests through Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) method have been carried out wherein 7,232 tests...

70 yo woman raped, strangled to death

JHAPA: An elderly woman was found raped and strangled to death at Mechinagar Municipality-13 in Jhapa district. According to the District Police Office (DPO), Bishal Birja,35, of Bhadrapur Municipality-4 has confessed his involvement in the...

US prolongs migration accord for disaster-hit countries, including Nepal

WASHINGTON/TEGUCIGALPA: Washington has agreed to prolong a set of temporary migration protections that allow immigrants from six countries to live in the United States, officials said on Monday. The so-called Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for...