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Sep 21 2017 | 12:04 pmRescue teams work to find survivors as Mexico quake toll reaches 230 Source: Xinh
Mexico City: Elements from the civil protection corps, Red Cross, army, police and voluntary civilians worked through the day on Wednesday to remove rubble from collapsed buildings in Mexico City, aft...
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Aug 13 2017 | 01:26 pmAmid calls for restraint, Trump again cites ‘military’ option on NKorea
Washington DC: US President Donald Trump and his French counterpart pledged Saturday to work to denuclearize North Korea, but Trump again invoked the grim possibility of “military measures”...
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Aug 03 2017 | 04:29 pmMishap doesn’t dampen enthusiasm for security robots
Washington DC: On his first day at work as a security guard, Steve was greeted warmly, drawing attention from passersby, including some taking selfies with him at the tony retail-residential complex h...
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Aug 01 2017 | 03:09 pm‘Disturbing’ sexual harassment at Australian universities
Sydney: More than half of university students in Australia were sexually harassed last year and seven percent sexually assaulted on at least one occasion, a “disturbing” new national study...
Recent News
- Rescue teams work to find survivors as Mexico quake toll reaches 230 Source: Xinh
- Amid calls for restraint, Trump again cites ‘military’ option on NKorea
- Mishap doesn’t dampen enthusiasm for security robots
- ‘Disturbing’ sexual harassment at Australian universities
- US withdrawal from Paris pact won’t dent fight against climate change: observers
- Britain raises terror threat level after concert carnage
- Macron triumphs in French Prez election
- Voting begins in French presidential election
- UN “deeply concerned” over mounting tension over Korean Peninsula
- China launches reform of Chinese “green cards”
Features
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Foreign pedophiles in Nepal exploit illiteracy, lower economic status to carry out heinous crimes
By Shristi Kafle Kathmandu: Based on special information a team from the Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) under the auspices of the Nepal Police raided a hotel in the capital city’s tourist hub of Thamel in the first week of September.
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Conclusion of local polls final phase important for constitution implementation in Nepal: parliament speaker
Kathmandu: The conclusion of the final phase of local polls, the first in nearly two decades, in Nepal has greatly helped to smooth implementation of the new constitution adopted by the Parliament in September 2015, Speaker of the Parliament Onsari G...
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Nepal’s local election creates more space for women, minorities
Kathmandu: Fourteen years ago when Aanik Rana Magar revealed her sexual orientation to be that of a female transgender, many raised their eyebrows in cynicism.
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Mt. Everest expedition brings respite to Nepal’s quake-battered tourism sector
Kathmandu: As the mountaineering season approaches, a large number of expeditionists are lured to Mount Everest bringing hopes of reviving Nepal’s quake-ravaged tourism.
Opinion
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Biodiversity and sustainable tourism in the Hindu Kush Himalaya
By Janita Gurung and Anu Kumari Lama Biodiversity and tourism linkages Biodiversity is the basis for many tourism activities in th...
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Brexit, a sign of anti-elite revolt: Analysts
PARIS: It was Britain’s poorer and less-educated citizens — angry at not having shared in the economic benefits of a n...
Recent News
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Sep 21 2017 | 12:04 pmRescue teams work to find survivors as Mexico quake toll reaches 230 Source: Xinh
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Sep 19 2017 | 04:36 pmForeign pedophiles in Nepal exploit illiteracy, lower economic status to carry out heinous crimes
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Sep 19 2017 | 04:33 pmConclusion of local polls final phase important for constitution implementation in Nepal: parliament speaker
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Sep 18 2017 | 09:05 pmNepal survey to remeasure Mount Everest begins