Nepse at new high

KATHMANDU: The bull run at the country’s sole secondary market continued on Tuesday, with the Nepal Stock Exchange (Nepse) index inching up 0.17 per cent or 3.35 points to close at a fresh peak...

Buildings for police posts inaugurated

RAMECHHAP, DECEMBER 1 Minister of Internal Affairs and Law Shalik Ram Jamkattel of Bagmati Province today said the province police would not face any difficulty in delivering service. Inaugurating the newly-constructed buildings at Doramba Bazaar and...

Monolith toppled by group who said ‘leave no trace’: Visitor

SALT LAKE CITY: New clues have surfaced in the disappearance of a gleaming monolith in Utah that seemed to melt away as mysteriously as it appeared in the red-rock desert — though it’s no...

Vietnam says recent typhoons caused 192 deaths, $1.3 billion damages

HANOI: Natural disasters in the past two months caused Vietnam 30 trillion dong ($1.3 billion) in economic damage and killed 192 people, with 57 still missing, authorities said on Wednesday, with its central provinces...

Massive Puerto Rico telescope featured in James Bond movie collapses

A massive radio telescope at Puerto Rico’s Arecibo Observatory – one of the world’s largest – collapsed on Tuesday after sustaining severe damage since August, officials said, following 57 years of astronomical discoveries. The deteriorating...

Proton vehicles to ply Nepali roads

KATHMANDU: Jagdamba Motors under Shankar Group, which has been appointed the official distributor of Proton vehicles for Nepal, is gearing up to launch the auto brand in the country. In this regard, the company has...

‘All my love, Elliot’: Actor Page comes out as transgender

NEW YORK: Oscar-nominated actor Elliot Page, the star of “Juno,” “Inception” and “The Umbrella Academy,” came out as transgender Tuesday in an announcement greeted as a watershed moment for the trans community in Hollywood. “I...

EU eyes Dec 29 approval for 1st virus vaccine, later than US

BERLIN: The European Union drug agency said Tuesday it may need four more weeks to approve its first coronavirus vaccine, even as authorities in the United States and Britain continue to aim for a...