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Islamabad car crash leaves four dead, FIR names son of Pakistan Federal Ombudsman India Blooms Islamabad, Feb. 5 -- At least four people died after a car crashed in Islamabad city of Pakistan on Monday. The mishap reportedly occurred after a four-wheel drive, allegedly driven by the son of federal ombudswoman Kashmala Tariq, crashed into another vehicle. According to a first information report lodged at the Ramna police station on Tuesday, five men, who came from Mansehra to Isl...

news You are using an older browser version. Please use a supported version for the best MSN experience. Police arrest scores of NCP cadres including Standing Committee member Shakya as they try to enforce general strike My Republica KATHMANDU, Feb. 4 -- Police have arrested scores of leaders and cadres belonging to the Dahal-Nepal-led faction of the Nepal Communist Party (NCP) as they took to the streets in Kathmandu Valley to enforce the general shutdown on Thursday morning. ...

news Nepal-India ties: Expectations and reality Kathmandu Post Nepal, Feb. 4 -- The much-hyped Sixth Joint Commission Meeting held recently in New Delhi has unravelled some indications in the present context of Nepal-India relations. First, the meeting was significant in normalising relations that had stalled since the map dispute came to the fore following the publication of their respective maps by both India and Nepal. Both countries maps claim Kalapani, Lipulekh and Limpiyad...

news Sherpas, Gurkhas and the ghosts of the Himalaya Kathmandu Post Nepal, Feb. 4 -- The climbing of mountains by Nepalis, usually Sherpas that is, has a feel akin to a dog biting a man-as in the old journalistic aphorism about news being made only when it is the other way round. Not when it is a commonplace. Yet the winter ascent of K2 on 16 January 2021 by a team of 10 Nepalis managed to catch the imagination of people the world over. After the initial rush of news stories was...

news Strike called by Dahal-Nepal faction affects life nationwide Kathmandu Post Chitwan, Feb. 5 -- The nationwide general strike called by the Pushpa Kamal Dahal-Madhav Kumar Nepal-led faction of the Nepal Communist Party affected daily life across the country on Thursday. Transport service and market places remained closed for most part of the day while clashes and vandalism were reported in various places. The strike was announced after the KP Sharma Oli government, which has...

news As citizens bear the brunt of strikes, they ask who politicians are serving Kathmandu Post Kathmandu, Feb. 5 -- When Kumbha Narayan Shresthas taxi was set on fire by two unidentified men in Gongabu on Thursday morning, his wife Gopi was watering her vegetables at a farm in Okharpauwa, Nuwakot. "He [Kumbha Narayan] called me and told me to turn on the TV. I told him I dont have time to watch TV. He cut off the line," said Gopi, 43, a mother of three children-a daughter and t...

KATHMANDU, Feb. 3 -- The government has already asked the Chinese company to submit the necessary documents including phase III trial data of the vaccineAlthough China has announced to provide COVID-19 vaccine to Nepal under grant assistance, the Chinese company producing the vaccine is yet to submit all necessary documents to the government of Nepal.On Sunday, China announced that it is providing 300,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine to Nepal....

Washington, Feb. 3 -- US Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday said he talked to President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken about the need for a response to the Myanmar coup, adding that he expects the United States to immediately impose sanctions against Myanmar's military leaders."I've had good conversations with @POTUS [Biden] and @SecBlinken about the need for a swift and decisive response from the US and allies...

news WHO to help national lab to set up whole-genome sequencing facility Kathmandu Post Kathmandu, Feb. 3 -- When the World Health Organizations collaborating centre in Hong Kong confirmed the first case of coronavirus infection in Nepal in January last year, the 31-year-old man, who had recently returned from Wuhan, had already been discharged from hospital. Similarly, when the new "more contagious" variant of coronavirus, believed to have come from the UK, was confirmed in thr...

news Attorney general flounders as he defends Olis House dissolution move Kathmandu Post Kathmandu, Feb. 3 -- After advocates pleading on behalf of the petitioners who have challenged Prime Minister KP Sharma Olis House dissolution move were done, starting Monday lawyers defending the government started their arguments before the Constitution Bench. Attorney General Agni Kharel, as the chief counsel to the government, is leading the team of defending lawyers. Kharel, however, fl...