Representative Image (AI) KATHMANDU: An earthquake of magnitude 4.3 hit Nepal in the early hours of Friday, as reported by the National Center of Seismology (NCS). The NCS provided the details in a post on X. According to the NCS, the earthquake occurred at 01:33 hours at a depth of 10 kilometres in Nepal. It…
Bangladesh minority group slams govt over alow action against preparators of recent attacks (AP) DHAKA: The Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Unity Council, the largest minority group in the country, has expressed outrage over the lack of arrests in a recent attack on minority families in Dohor Moshiahati, Jashore.Despite a case being filed, no perpetrators have…
Rallies by UML and Royalists are expected to gather on Republic Day (Image credit: ANI) Kathmandu is bracing for two opposition rallies on Thursday, one led by the ruling CPN-UML and the other by the royalists as the nation marks Republic Day.The Communist Party of Nepal- Unified Marxist Leninist (CPN-UML) have called for a cultural…
People from the mountaineering community participate in a rally to mark the anniversary of the first ascent of Mount Everest in Kathmandu (Image credit: AP) Nepal’s mountaineering community celebrated the conquest of the world’s highest mountain with a rally of climbers, guides and others who gathered for International Everest Day. The event Thursday marked the…
Representative Image (AI-generated) At least 32 people have been killed and more than 150 injured in Pakistan in a week of storms that followed a heatwave, with officials reporting on Friday five more deaths.Five people including a child were killed on Thursday in different districts of northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa during heavy rains and strong winds,…
Representative Image (AI-generated) Myanmar authorities have arrested 16 people including a six-year-old girl over the assassination of a retired general shot dead in Yangon last month, state media said.Cho Tun Aung, a former ambassador to Cambodia, was gunned down outside his home on May 22 in an attack claimed by an anti-junta group calling itself…
Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore (File Photo) Bangladesh’s foreign ministry on Friday released a statement on the recent mob attack that vandalised the ancestral home of Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore in the Sirajganj district of Bangladesh.The ministry detailed the actions taken by the administration. “Following the incident, a criminal case had already been filed with the…
The festive lights of Tihar, Nepal’s festival of joy and renewal, burned dim in Mahendranagar, a quiet town in the far-western plains of Nepal. The air that would normally echo with songs and laughter was heavy with grief. Hundreds gathered as the body of Bipin Joshi, a 23-year-old student who died in Hamas captivity, returned…
A mysterious white airship floating silently over San Francisco has captivated global audiences, with viral videos and widespread speculation about its origin and purpose. Identified as Pathfinder 1, the massive craft is a groundbreaking creation by Lighter Than Air (LTA) Research, a company backed by Google co-founder Sergey Brin. Far from being a publicity stunt,…
