KATHMANDU, NOVEMBER 20 Authorities in Nepal are preventing police and prosecutors from pursuing conflict-era cases of human rights violations, undermining the rule of law and efforts for security sector reforms, Human Rights Watch and Advocacy...

WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump sought to leverage the power of the Oval Office on Friday in an extraordinary attempt to block President-elect Joe Biden’s victory, but his pleas to Michigan lawmakers to overturn the...

KATHMANDU, NOVEMBER 20 The Ministry of Finance has allocated a budget to establish at least 396 hospitals with basic health services across the country. According to the ministry, Finance Minister Bishnu Prasad Poudel has asked the...

KATHMANDU, NOVEMBER 20 The Department of Transport Management, which had stated that it would start issuing new driving licences after the festive season, has not even started preparations to do so and there is no...

LONDON: Scottish author Douglas Stuart won the Booker Prize for fiction on Thursday with his first novel “Shuggie Bain”, with judges saying his tale of love and alcoholism set in Glasgow in 1980s was...

KATHMANDU, NOVEMBER 20 General Secretary of the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) Bishnu Prasad Paudel, who is close to Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli, today met party Co-chair Pushpa Kamal Dahal and urged him to...

LONDON: Liverpool manager Juergen Klopp refused to blame Mohamed Salah after the forward contracted COVID–19having attended his brother’s wedding in Egypt, although the German said he would personally avoid social engagements. Videos emerged of Salah dancing...

BERLIN: Bayern Munich coach Hansi Flick has been the talk of the town this week, even though the German champions have not played a game in 10 days. Spain’s 6-0 demolition of Germany in the Nations League...