The state power monopoly in Nepal has extended load-shedding hours from the earlier nine hours a day to 12 hours beginning Sunday. The Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA), that had increased power cuts to nine hours a day in mid-December, announced last Friday further extension to 12 hours a day for domestic consumers. It is not […]
Voters preferred to stay indoors amid violence that left five people dead in the Bangladesh parliamentary elections Sunday. Polling was suspended at 136 centres due to attacks by anti-poll protestors, the Daily Star reported. Thin attendance was recorded at polling centres in Dhaka, Chittagong, Sylhet, Rajshahi, Munsiganj, Kushtia and Jessore. An election official and four […]
Forget McDonald’s or your neighbourhood fast food joint. For best French fries, plan a trip for a drive-thru on the largest planet in our solar system! Sounds fancy but for future space travellers, scientists have answered where in the solar system can they find the best French fries – on Jupiter. Scientists reached a European […]
China has investigated as many as 36,907 officials suspected of corruption from January to November in 2013, a report said Sunday. The officials were allegedly involved in 27,236 cases, 21,848 of these being major and important, reported Xinhua citing a statement from the Supreme People’s Procuratorate. Major and important cases accounted for 80.2 percent of […]
A gun battle between security forces and Taliban in Afghanistan’s Ghazni province left 15 militants including a key commander dead Sunday, a local official said. “A group of armed Taliban rebels raided a police checkpoint in Jangul area of Abband district late Saturday night triggering a fierce gun battle which lasted until Sunday morning during […]
After Secretary of State John Kerry and Ambassador Nancy Powell, it was the turn of a celebrated school choir from the US to express regret at the ugly turn of events that led to the humiliation of an Indian diplomat, an incident that caused a major downturn in Indo-US ties at the end of last […]
Polling stations in Bangladesh opened Sunday morning for the parliament elections boycotted by the main opposition party which enforced non-stop countrywide strike and blockade. Voting will continue from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at about 18,000 polling stations set in schools and other public buildings, Xinhua reported. More than 43.9 million voters are expected to […]
The Supreme Court has said that courts must carefully examine the evidence of a rape victim to ascertain its trustworthiness as it alone was sufficient to convict a rape accused and sentence him to life imprisonment. Holding that the rape victim’s evidence is placed on such a high pedestal that it alone was sufficient to […]
Major buyers of LNG in Asia should come together to demand a fair pricing mechanism for gas being imported from outside the continent, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Saturday. He was speaking after dedicating the Rs.4,200 crore Petronet LNG’s Kochi terminal to the nation. “Asia has been the driver of the global LNG demand in […]
Excise and taxation employees, including two senior officers, were booked, police said Saturday. Umed Singh, an assistant excise and taxation officer and Inspector Bir Singh, with other employees, were booked for negligence. “The accused were booked on the complaint filed by deputy excise and taxation officer Aruna Singh,” police officer Arvind Kumar told IANS. The […]