Fact or fiction? UK govt says ‘The Crown’ should be clear

LONDON: Britain’s culture minister thinks the Netflix TV series “The Crown” should come with a disclaimer: It’s a work of fiction. Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden weighed in amid criticism of the historical liberties taken by...

Suspected extremists kill at least 40 farmers in Nigeria

MAIDGURI: Suspected members of the Islamic militant group Boko Haram killed at least 40 rice farmers and fishermen in Nigeria as they were harvesting crops in the country’s northern state of Borno, officials said....

Monolith mystery deepens as Utah desert object vanishes

No word as to whether Star Trek’s Scotty “beamed it up,” but the mysterious, shiny monolith that was spotted in a remote southeastern Utah desert two weeks ago is gone. A state crew that buzzed...

Siblings arrested for faking abduction

RAUTAHAT, NOVEMBER 29 Police arrested two persons for pretending they had been kidnapped from Gadhimai Municipality in Rautahat last night. The arrested have been identified as Sanjiv Paswan, 28, and his younger brother Rajiv Paswan, 23,...

Dave Prowse, actor who played Darth Vader, dies at 85

LONDON: Dave Prowse, the British weightlifter-turned-actor who was the body, though not the voice, of arch-villain Darth Vader in the original “Star Wars” trilogy, has died. He was 85. Prowse died Saturday after a short...

‘Change process of selecting projects’

BAGMATI, NOVEMBER 29 Chief Minister of Bagmati Province Dormani Poudel today said work on various projects could not move ahead smoothly due to serious flaws in the process of selecting projects. In the first quarterly review...

Guru Nanak Jayanti being marked today

KATHMANDU: The Guru Nanak Jayanti is being observed today by organising different programmes in Kathmandu. Guru Nanak, the propounder of Sikhism, was born in Panjab of Pakistan on the day of Kartik Shukla Purnima (the...

Minister Bhattarai pledges to bring tourism recovery package

CHITWAN, NOVEMBER 29 Minister of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation Yogesh Kumar Bhattarai has said that the government will bring programmes for the recovery of tourism sector. Talking to mediapersons here today, he said the government...