TOKYO: Tokyo Games organisers estimate the cost of COVID-19 countermeasures for next year’s rearranged Olympics will run to around 100 billion yen ($960 million), Kyodo News reported on Monday.
Japanese media had reported a day...
KATHMANDU: Minister for Communications and Information Technology Parbat Gurung has pledged to move ahead through coordination and cooperation for the development and expansion of the media sector to curb irregularities and anomalies in the...
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...
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....
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...
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,...
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...
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...
