Gorakha : Police have arrested two cadres of the Netra Bikram Chand ‘Biplav’ group from Gorakha. Those arrested are Bishnu Rijal and Ishwar Pandey. Rijal is the group’s Gorakha district people’s council chief while Pandey is the central member of All Nepal National Independent Students Union (ANNISU) close to the Biplav-led group. Rijal was arrested…
Kathmandu : Almost a year after the announcement of a merger between two leftist forces to form the country’s largest communist party, leaders on Monday announced official conclusion of the unification process. At a programme organised in the Capital to announce a closure of the unification process, Co-chairmen KP Sharma Oli and Pushpa Kamal Dahal…
Kathmandu : The reconstruction of 4,476 schools that were damaged by the April 25, 2015 Gorkha Earthquake and its subsequent aftershocks has been completed so far. The Central Project Implementation Unit (Education) stated that out of these reconstructed school structures, 3,583 were rebuilt through the school management committees, 135 were rebuilt through the construction entrepreneurs…
Luzon : A powerful earthquake has struck the main Philippines island of Luzon, killing at least 11 people. The magnitude 6.1 tremor hit at 17:11 local time (09:11 GMT) on Monday, the Philippines Institute of Volcanology and Seismology reports. An airport was seriously damaged and at least two buildings were destroyed. Authorities fear dozens of…
London : The government will resume Brexit talks with the Labour Party as MPs return to Westminster following the Easter break. Cabinet ministers, including the PM’s de facto deputy, David Lidington, will meet senior opposition figures in an attempt to solve the Brexit impasse. But the resumption of talks has provoked anger among a number…
Colambo : The first mass funeral has begun in Sri Lanka as the country marks a day of mourning for the victims of Sunday’s bomb blasts. The death toll of the attacks on churches and hotels has increased to 310, police said on Tuesday. The country has observed three minutes of silence and a state…
Rabat: Thousands of people have protested in Morocco’s capital Rabat, demanding the release of 42 activists who had rallied against corruption and unemployment. Sunday’s “march of the Moroccan people” was organised by political and civil rights groups, as well as the families of detainees. It comes weeks after a court upheld prison sentences for the…
Surkhet : The Karnali State government’s Ministry of Industry, Tourism, Forest and Environment has made public the achievements of ‘Rara-Karnali Tourism Year-2075 BS’. Organising a press conference on Sunday, the ministry came up with the achievements made so far between the start and end of the tourism year. Nanda Singh Budha, Minster for Tourism, shared…
Kathmandu : Nepali Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba has expressed profound grief over the incident of serial bomb explosions leaving hundreds of people dead and injured in Colombo of Sri Lanka. Issuing a press release, NC President and former Prime Minster Deuba has condemned the incident and note the incident has aggrieved and shocked the…
BEIJING : Six years into its development, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is more celebrated as a resounding call for advancing and rebalancing globalization, forging a new pathway toward inclusive globalization that delivers widely-shared benefits. Observers of the cross-continental common cause see the 2nd Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation (BRF), which is…
