Southampton edge Brighton in south coast derby

BRIGHTON: Southampton came from behind to beat traditional south coast rivals Brighton & Hove Albion 2-1 in the Premier League on Monday as Jannik Vestergaard and Danny Ings cancelled out a Pascal Gross opener...

Paucity of fertiliser hits farmers hard

NEPALGUNJ, DECEMBER 7 Local farmers could not get chemical fertilisers to prepare their land for sowing seasonal crops in Bardiya. The shortage of fertiliser has hit local farmers hard in Banke and Bardiya districts. Farmers of these...

Is democracy losing steam globally?

There is no room for adopting any self-styled democracy by replacing the theory of Abraham Lincoln’s democracy. In today’s world, we hear from some rulers that development is more important than democracy. As if the...

Prime minister calls all-party meeting

KATHMANDU, DECEMBER 7 Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli today called an all-party meeting to ‘discuss contemporary political issues’, a day after the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) Standing Committee floated the idea of an all-party...

Accomplice in Rajpur bomb blast nabbed

RAUTAHAT, DECEMBER 7 Police arrested Mohammad Mahatab Alam, who had been absconding for the past 14 months in connection with the bomb explosion at Rautahat’s Rajpur Farhadawa on the eve of the first Constituent Assembly. A...

PM Oli calls an all-party meet on Tuesday

KATHMANDU: At a time when Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli is facing criticism within his party for averting the standing committee meeting, he has called an all-party meeting to discuss current affairs. PM Oli’s press...

Sunsari District Court acquits rape-accused Krishna Bahadur Giri ‘Siddhababa’

KATHMANDU: Rape-accused Krishna Bahadur Giri, popularly known as Siddhababa, has been cleared of all charges by Sunsari District Court, on Monday. A single bench of Justice Arjun Prasad Koirala of the district court took a...

EU likely to remove Nepal airlines from its blacklist

KATHMANDU: The European Union (EU) has showed an indication to remove Nepal Airlines from being restricted to fly within the EU, given the progress in Nepal’s air safety status. Praising air safety status of Nepal,...