Osama bin Laden, the glowering mastermind behind the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks that killed thousands of Americans, was slain in his luxury hideout in Pakistan Sunday in a firefight with U.S. forces, ending a manhunt that spanned a frustrating decade. “Justice has been done,” President Barack Obama said in a dramatic late-night announcement at [...]

UCPN (Maoist) Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal said on Saturday that the new constitution cannot be promulgated within May 28. However, he added that a report of the new statute will be prepared prior to the expiry of the Constituent Assembly (CA)’s current term. Talking to the mediapersons at the Bharatpur Airport in Chitwan today, Dahal [...]

Taking advantage of loadshedding, a robbery case occured in a businessman’s house this Tuesday in Jhapa. Information mentioned that 15 lakhs were looted from Jayaprakash Agrawal’s house. According to Agrawal, Krishna Duwja Tamang, security guard, was attacked by more than a dozen of robbers possessing weapons at around 11 PM. For due course, Jaya Prakash [...]

The VDC secretaries in Kanchanpur district  seem reluctant to go and work in the VDC offices after they were threatened of action by an armed active armed outfit, the Samyukta Jatiya Morcha. The Morcha warned VDC secretary Ishwori Dutta Pandey to resign by placing bomb at the gate of Daiji VDC on Monday. Pandey has [...]

On Saturday at around 9 am in the morning, two persons sharing blood relation were killed and a man was injured when a bomb went off at the house of Akkal Bahadur in Dolpa. The dead bodies have been identified as 50-year-old Gauri Shahi, wife of Akkal and her daughter 30-years old Chandani Shahi, local [...]

Leena Chaulagain, a Nepali student doing her third semester of  Bachelors in  Business at Holmes College in Sydney, has committed suicide. Her roommates found her hanging in the bathroom and informed the police about the suicide on March 27. The preliminary investigation assumed it to be a suicide. Graduated from White House College in Kathmandu, [...]

31 year Bimala Rajbanshi was arrested by the Lalitpur Police on Monday evening for beating her husband and injuring him. Injured husband, Suman, was rushed to hospital for treatment.

Nepal Academy of Science and Technology (NAST) has reported that the drinking water supplied by the government and the ground water of Kathmandu Valley, are highly contaminated. NAST has said that 61.4 percent of 114 samples of drinking water supplied by the Kathmandu Upatyaka Khanepani Limited (KUKL) were contaminated with coliform bacteria. Similarly, 84 percent [...]

Kishore Nepal was declared the winner of the Krishna Prasad Bhattarai National Journalism Award which carried a purse of Rs. 100,000 by the Federation of Nepali Journalists (FNJ) on Monday. “Senior journalist Nepal will be honored with the award for his contribution to the development of professional journalism and fight for press freedom during his [...]

Improvised Explosive Device (IED) injured at least 18 passengers, five in critical condition, in a microbus on Sunday evening. The IED exploded in the bus with registration plate Lu 1 Kha 3665 at Milan Chowk bus stop. This is third such incident in last three days. On Saturday an IED exploded in a passenger bus [...]