NEW YORK: Former President Barack Obama’s “A Promised Land” sold nearly 890,000 copies in the US and Canada in its first 24 hours, putting it on track to be the best selling presidential memoir...

BIRGUNJ: People were seen busy buying various items at the local market, during Chhath festival amid coronavirus pandemic in Birgunj Metropolitan City, Parsa district, on Thursday. Although various District Administration Offices in the country have...

KATHMANDU: A total of 1,229 new cases of coronavirus infection were reported in the three districts of Kathmandu Valley on Thursday. Of the total infections, 513 are females and 716 are males. In the last 24...

NEW YORK: Charles Yu’s “Interior Chinatown,” a satirical, cinematic novel written in the form of a screenplay, has won the National Book Award for fiction. Tamara Payne and her father the late Les Payne’s Malcolm...

DHANGADHI: A 40-kilometre section of Sahajpur-Bogatan road has come to halt as the construction company has not received clearance to fell the trees along the road yet. The construction of 108-km road that links Kailali’s Sahajpur...

KATHMANDU: Seventeen more fatalities were reported in the last 24 hours with which Nepal’s Covid-19 death-tally has now advanced to 1,276. 2,103 fresh coronavirus cases as reported today took the nationwide coronavirus case count to...

KATHMANDU: Nepal on Thursday reported 2,103 new cases of coronavirus infection from across the country. With this, the nationwide infection count has advanced to 215,020. Likewise, 2,858 people who were earlier infected with the virus...

BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping is calling for closer international cooperation on making a vaccine for the coronavirus available. Xi spoke Thursday in an address delivered via video at an event at the Asia-Pacific Economic...