Young women enjoy holidays in Porto Belo, in Santa Catarina State, south Brazil, on Monday. Photo: Xinhua

Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai has asked journalists to withdraw their ongoing protest programme as the government decision on limiting media’s access to certain type of information. According to Federation of Nepalese Journalist (FNJ), PM Bhattarai made a telephone call to its president Shiva Gaule Tuesday to request the later to withdraw the protest programmes announced [...]

Police have arrested four persons in connection with an alleged rape of a 22-year-old woman at Thamel-based lodge on Sunday night.  Dipesh Achaju (20) of Marbu-4, Dolakha and three others apparently forced the woman, who hails from Lalitpur district and was staying at the Universal Guest House, to have sex with them. It has been [...]

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), a global union federation of journalists’ trade unions, on Tuesday said that it extends its support to the effort by Nepali colleagues to secure their rights through legal action. The Federation of Nepali Journalists (FNJ), an IFJ affiliate, on January 26 filed a writ petition in the Supreme Court [...]

A septuagenarian of Purandhara VDC of Dang district has made public himself in Jhapa district on Monday claiming the world’s shortest man. Measuring just 22 inches and 12 kilograms, Chandra Bahadur Dangi, 72, stood at a news conference in Birtamod, Jhapa, state-owned RSS reports. Chandra Bahadur is the fourth son, among six, of Belaram and [...]

The Tibetan government-in-exile has colluded with Western governments to distort a recent string of police shootings in Tibetan areas of China in a bid to discredit the government, an official Chinese newspaper said Monday. Protests by ethnic Tibetans, who accuse Chinese authorities of stifling their traditions and religious freedoms, have gathered pace in the mountainous [...]

  CPN-UML powerful leader and third in rank of the party KP Sharma Oli at a programme in Dhangadi.

Nepali girls are working under vulnerable condition in different cities of neighboring country,China, a study reveals. Nepali girls have been trafficked to Chinaby luring them of dignified and decent jobs and are forced to work in cabins, restaurants, lodges and dance bars. However, the girls have been barred to return home though they wish so. [...]

Norwegian Minister for Environment and International Development, Erik Solheim arrived in Nepal in his two-day official visit, this afternoon. Norwegian Ambassador to Nepal Alf Arne Ramslien and top officials at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs welcomed Minister Solheim at the Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA). After landing at the TIA, Minister Solheim went to meet senior [...]

Bhadrapur, Jan. 30: An investment worth billion rupees has gone meaningless when efforts made to prevent elephant rampage in Jhapa district were not materialized. The wild tuskers reside in Kerabari forest in western Bengal of bordering India during daytime and rein in the villages of Jhapa through eastern VDC Bahundangi in the evening. A 17-kilometre [...]