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...

French paedophile caught in act with three boys

KATHMANDU, DECEMBER 1 The Central Investigation Bureau of Nepal Police, with the help of Pokhara Police, has arrested French citizen Christia Serge Henri Nougaret on then charge of sexually abusing three young boys — all...

Board to provide grant to farmers to encourage tea farming

KATHMANDU, DECEMBER 1 The National Tea and Coffee Development Board (NTCDB) is preparing to provide 50 per cent grant to tea farmers with an aim to encourage tea farming in the country. In the first quarter...

152 new HIV patients found in Kailali

DHANGADI, DECEMBER 1 As many as 152 new HIV patients have been found in this running fiscal in Kailali. As many as 55 men, as many women, 38 transgender and four children were found to be...