• Russian strike killed 300 in Mariupol theater, Ukraine says

    About 300 people were killed by the Russian airstrike last week that blasted open a Mariupol theater that was being used as a shelter, Ukrainian authorities said, marking what could be the war’s deadliest known attack on civilians yet, Associated Press reported.   The death toll announced Fri...

  • Civil servants should be impartial in elections: Oli

    CPN-UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli has suggested that civil servants should be impartial and independent for the local level elections scheduled for May 13.   The former Prime Minister made this statement at the 11th national convention of the Nepal Civil Service Employees Association here today.   ...

  • PM Deuba For Linking Education With Development

    Prime Minister and Chancellor of Lumbini Buddhist University Sher Bahadur Deuba has said outcome of the state's investment in education sector could be ensured only if education was linked to development.   Addressing the 13th Assembly of Lumbini Buddhist University on Monday, PM Deuba said the achieveme...

  • PM Deuba says govt. ready to facilitate private sector

    Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba has said that the government would facilitate private sector's investment promotion in the country.   During a meeting with the Confederation of Nepalese Industries delegation on Monday, PM Deuba said that the private sector increase their investment for the country's in...

  • Train named after Gurkha hero Tulbahadur Pun

    former Gurkha soldier who won a Victoria Cross has had a train named in his honour by Great Western Railway.   Tulbahadur Pun received the medal for saving the lives of dozens of comrades in Burma during World War Two.   In 2009 he campaigned for Gurkhas' rights to settle in the UK alongside actress Joa...

  • Polluted Kathmandu

      In this era of industrialization a developing country like Nepal is facing a lot of problems. Rapid progress in industrialization and mechanization has resulted over exploitation of natural resources. Though development is slowly or rapidly taking place in our country but due to lack of management and ove...

  • Review petition likely against SC verdict

    The Nepal Communist Party (NCP) led by Pushpa Kamal Dahal and Madhav Kumar Nepal is likely to file a review petition against the Supreme Court's verdict that nullified the unification of the CPN-UML and CPN-Maoist Centre to form NCP (NCP), claiming that the SC had erred while passing the verdict.   NCP S...

  • Nasa Mars Perseverance rover: Secret codes and other hidden gems on spacecraft

    A secret message hidden on the parachute used to drop Nasa's Perseverance rover down on Mars has been revealed. Clever online detectives claim to have "cracked a code" hidden in images from the rover's landing last week. Special red and white patterns in the parachute appear to represent the secret coded phrase: "D...