Tropical cyclone headed for southern India after causing little damage in Sri Lanka

COLOMBO: The Burevi tropical cyclone is headed towards southern India, authorities said on Thursday, after it slammed Sri Lanka’s east coast earlier this week but caused little damage. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) issued a...

Province 1 initiates free uterus test

BIRATNAGAR: District hospitals in Province 1 have initiated to provide free tests for cervical cancer screening starting Wednesday. The hospitals would conduct tests for cervical cancer through LBC technology.   According to Chief of Province Public Health...

Biden facing growing pressure over secretary of defense pick

WASHINGTON: President-elect Joe Biden is facing escalating pressure from competing factions within his own party as he finalizes his choice for secretary of defense. Black leaders have encouraged the incoming president to select an African...

Australian telescope maps deep space at record speed

MELBOURNE: A powerful new telescope in outback Australia has mapped vast areas of the universe in record-breaking time, revealing a million new galaxies and opening the way to new discoveries, the country’s national science...

Mystery object is 54-year-old rocket, not asteroid: NASA

CAPE CANAVERAL: A mysterious object temporarily orbiting Earth is a 54-year-old rocket, not an asteroid after all, astronomers confirmed Wednesday. Observations by a telescope in Hawaii clinched its identity, according to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory...

COVID-19 drives wages down, women and lower paid workers affected

KATHMANDU, DECEMBER 2 A new report by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) has found that monthly wages fell or grew more slowly in the first six months of 2020, as a result of the COVID-19...

Child mortality rate extremely high in migrating community of Bajura

Women from the migrating community become weak as they give birth to many babies and especially while they are on the move. They hardly get time to take rest as they are compelled to...

NMB bags award

KATHMANDU: NMB Bank has been awarded the prestigious ‘Bank of the Year-2020’ by The Banker, The Financial Times, London, for the third time in four years. The bank has had a remarkable growth trajectory evidently...