Pakistan’s Supreme Court has ordered the arrest of Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf over corruption allegations. Mr Ashraf is accused of accepting bribes when he approved power generation projects as minister for water and power in 2010. The court ordered the arrest of 15 other people over the allegations. Analysts say that the move is [...]

With the onset of tourist off- season, occupancy rate of Nepal’s five-star hotels has dropped by over 25 percent, forcing them to lower rates to about 40 U.S. dollars per room. “In December, our occupancy rate was 89 percent. In January, until today (Tuesday), it has sharply declined to 62 percent,” Rishi Poudel, reservations manager [...]

Japanese women in kimonos walk on a snow covered field to attend a ceremony celebrating Coming of Age Day in heavy snowfall at Toshimaen amusement park in Tokyo January 14, 2013. Youths across Japan are honoured with special coming-of-age ceremonies when they reach the age of 20. Tokyo saw its first snowfall this season on [...]

Photo taken on Jan. 14, 2013 shows the winter scenery of “Qiyi” Glacier, or “July 1st” Glacier, some 130 kilometers southwest of Jiayuguan City, China’s Gansu Province.

Lumbini Marathon is going to be held on January 15, 2013 to commemorate the concluding ceremony of Visit Lumbini Year 2012. Held by the organizer of Tenzing Hillary Everest Marathon and Annapurna Marathon, Lumbini Marathon expects to promote Lumbini as a best holiday destination in the world through sports tourism, Nepal Tourism Board (NTB) said [...]

Bahrain’s national carrier, Gulf Air has announced the termination of flights to Kathmandu, citing “commercial reasons” for the withdrawal. Effective 25 March 2013, the airline announced it would also reduce the number of flights heading to Kathmandu ahead of the termination, from 14 to five weekly, My Republica reported. The announcement comes as part of [...]

If you are building a new house within Kathmandu Metropolis, now you have to allocate some area and money for planting trees, state-owned news agency RSS reports. The Metropolis has implemented from today a new arrangement to plant at least two trees while getting approval of the map of the new house to be built [...]

A wild buffalo was found dead near Haripur Chowk of Sunsari district on Monday morning, said Koshi Tappu Wildlife Reserve. A she-wild buffalo that left the reserve during the nighttime for grazing was found dead in the morning. It is suspected that the wild- buffalo reached to the highway accidentally and was killed after being [...]

Although the district was declared the child labour-free  zone three  years back , over 3,000 are still involved in the child labour in Banke, the western district of Nepal. It may be noted that at the initiative of the District Child Welfare Committee, Banke and other organizations working in the sector of child rights, the [...]

At least 33 out of every 1000 newborn children die in Nepal, a data reveals here. The government has started establishing ‘birth centre’ in remote rural areas to make the newborn child care and safe motherhood programme effective in line with its objective to reduce the mortality to 16 out of 1000 by 2015. It [...]