3 held for abusing Nikisha Shrestha

KATHMANDU — The Metropolitan Police Complex in Bhaktapur has apprehended three individuals who hurled abuses on Nikisha Shrestha in Kathmandu. All three individuals are males below the age of twenty. Preliminary interrogation of all the three...

Stick to Burns over Pucovski as opener, Ponting tells Australia

MELBOURNE: Australia should stick with Joe Burns as David Warner’s opening partner for next month’s first test against India despite Will Pucovski’s strong claims for that role, former captain Ricky Ponting has said. Victoria’s Pucovski,...

Barack Obama memoir off to record-setting start in sales

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...

Chhath festival amid coronavirus pandemic in Parsa

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 valley reports 1,229 fresh Covid-19 cases on Thursday

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...

Charles Yu novel, Malcolm X bio win National Book Awards

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...

33 years on, Sahajpur-Bogtan road still incomplete

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...

17 more fatalities registered today, Covid-19 death-toll hits 1,276

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...