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...

2,103 new cases recorded on Thursday; Nepal’s Covid-19 tally advances to 215,020

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...

China’s Xi calls for cooperation on vaccine

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...

Upadhyaya tests positive in Dhaka

KATHMANDU: Nepal national football team manager Madhu Sudan Upadhyaya has tested positive for coronavirus infection in Dhaka. The Nepali team played a goalless draw in the second match on Tuesday after facing a 2-0 defeat...

Survival of Khokana and its mustard fields

Riot police using teargas against a community protesting the expropriation of their traditional agricultural fields is hardly worthy of a democratically-elected government. This is particularly questionable when the area falls under an officially demarcated...

‘Impact of pandemic will push millions of workers below the poverty line worldwide, including in Nepal’

The coronavirus pandemic has had a severe impact on Nepalis in terms of unemployment rates, hours worked and labour force participation. While uncertainty still looms large regarding how long the crisis will last, it...