Associated Press WELLINGTON: A powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck much of New Zealand's South Island early Saturday. No tsunami alert was issued and there were no reports of injuries or...

Sonia Gandhi gives a speech after her re-election as Congress Party President at party headquarters in New Delhi. Gandhi was elected Friday for a record fourth term as president of India's ruling...

Kathmandu, Sep 3 : Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown joined the Board of Directors of the The World Wide Web Foundation (Web Foundation)...

Concerned at pressure on the country's forex reserves, Nepal government has put a ban on import of gold. The move came into effect from Friday in order to protect the foreign currency reserves under...

New York - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Friday he would prefer to draw down the UN mission in Nepal, which has been made a "scapegoat" for the failure by the government and Maoist forces to...

Associated Press DUBAI: A UPS cargo plane with two crew members on board crashed shortly after takeoff Friday outside Dubai, officials said. There was no immediate word on casualties. The plane...

Agence France Presse NEW YORK: Australian fifth seed Samantha Stosur, this year's French Open runner-up, advanced to the fourth round of the US Open on Friday by defeating Italy's 37th-ranked Sara...

Yadav Raj Joshi KATHMANDU: Minister for Commerce and Supply Rajendra Mahato and Department of Commerce, which falls under his jurisdiction, are apparently at loggerheads on DoC asking six cement...

RSS KATHMANDU:Friday's meeting of the publicity committee constituted by the Nepali Congress (NC) with a view to making its 12th general convention a success constituted different sub-committees. ...

RSS BHAKTAPUR: Unified CPN (Maoist) chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal and Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) chairman Pashupati Shumsher Rana held discussions on ending the present political deadlock in the...

RSS DOLAKHA: Minister for Information and Communications Shankar Pokharel has hinted the change in the CPN (UML)'s decision to stay neutral in the prime ministerial elections. But, the Samyukta...

THT ONLINE KATHMANDU: A bus hit UCPN-Maoist vice chairman Dr. Baburam Bhattarai's car near Darechowk of Chitwan district along the Prithvi Highway while he was returning to the Capital after taking...

Kathmandu, Sept 3 (PTI) Nepal Maoists' deputy leader Baburam Bhattarai had a narrow escape today after a bus rammed into his vehicle while he was returning to the capital, a news report...

[ISLAMABAD/KATHMANDU] A huge effort to collect and analyse data on the devastating floods wreaking havoc in northern Pakistan has been severely undermined by a lack of strategies for disaster...

Nepal Maoists' deputy leader Baburam Bhattarai on Friday warned that the repeated failure to elect a new Prime Minister will lead to the establishment of "dictatorship" in the country, amid a...

RSS BHAKTAPUR: CPN-UML president Jhalanath Khanal reiterated his consensus government mantra. Speaking at a party's programme in Bhaktapur on Friday, he said peace will not prevail and constitution...

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton(L) and Secretary of Treasury Timothy Geithner(R), seen here in May 2010, praised Japan Friday for imposing new sanctions on Iran that include an asset freeze and...

THT ONLINEdr KATHMANDU: A minibus hit UCPN-Maoist vice chairman Dr. Baburam Bhattarai's car near Darechowk of Chitwan district along the Prithvi Highway on Friday afternoon, while he was returning...

South African midfielder Steven Pienaar at a training session during the World Cup. Pienaar has warned his South Africa team-mates not to underestimate little Niger when they clash on September 3 in...

THT ONLINE KATHMANDU: Police arrested the proprietor of Sundhara-based X-Dance Bar, Stanlin Sherchan, on Friday evening. A special intelligence squad deployed from the Metropolitan Police Range,...

A policeman watches a horse painted as zebra at a crossing at a highway in downtown Moscow, Russia, Friday, Sept. 3, 2010 Moscow traffic policemen on Friday were teaching children cross the road...

THT ONLINE KATHMANDU: Former speaker and one of the prominent civil society leaders Daman Nath Dhungana critisised the political parties for failing to elect the new prime minister despite the five...

Agencies LOS ANGELES: Jessica Alba has become less ''business-driven'' since her daughter was born two years ago and now chooses her movies more carefully. Jessica Alba says motherhood has affected...

THT ONLINE KATHMANDU: Taekwondo ace Manita Shahi claimed the women’s under-63 kg gold in the sixth Korean International Taekwondo Championship in Gumi, Korea on Friday. Manita defeated an...

US-German investor Nicolas Berggruen attends a news conference at a Karstadt store in Berlin. The future of Karstadt, Europe's third-largest department store chain, appeared to be secured as a court...

THT Online KATHMANDU: A joint team of Narcotic Drugs Control Law Enforcement Unit at Tribhuwan International Airport (TIA) and TIA Security Guard Office arrested American national Calhoon Harris,...

Frank Cioppettini III of Mendham Township spent two months helping at a clinic in Nepal. He examines a boy at the clinic which was formed by Mendham resident, Maggie Doyne. ...

AFP ANKARA: The chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Mike Mullen was to hold talks with Turkish officials Friday after the US combat mission in neighbouring Iraq formally ended, officials said. ...

AP LISBON: A prosecution lawyer says a Portuguese court has found six men and one woman guilty of crimes relating to child sex abuse in a major trial that lasted nearly six years. Chief prosecutor...

REUTERS QUETTA: A suicide bomber struck a rally in the Pakistani city of Quetta on Friday, killing up to 43 people in the second major attack this week, piling pressure on a government struggling...

Reuters KARACHI: Pakistan have called up Asad Shafiq and Mohammad Irfan as replacements for the suspended Salman Butt, Mohammad Amir and Mohammad Asif for the one-day series in England. "Both...

RSS KATHMANDU: Discussion on the policy and programmes to be presented at the 12th General Convention of the Nepali Congress continued at the Central Working Committee (CWC) meeting at the party...

Agence France Presse LONDON:The four-year marriage of pop star Cheryl Cole and England footballer Ashley Cole is officially over after the High Court granted the singer a divorce on Friday. The...

RSS KATHMANDU: The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) is to investigate into the truth and authenticity of the news carried by different media that a member of the...

RSS KATHMANDU: Politicians should prioritise the economic agenda of the country since economic power powers political power. At a function organised in the capital on Friday on "Economic...

RSS KATHMANDU: Tourist arrivals in August have increased by 24.3 percent compared with the same month last year. According to the Immigration Office at Tribhuvan International Airport, 34,415...

Soldiers place a flag covered coffin containing the remains of Cuba's late Brig. Gen. Calixto Garcia on a military vehicle during his state funeral in Havana, Cuba, Thursday Sept. 2,...

Mohammad Aamer arrives for questioning at a police station in London on September 3. Aamer, one of three Pakistan cricketers embroiled in betting scam claims, reported to a British police...

In this Dec.10, 2006 picture masked Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood students perform a military show inside their al-Azhar university campus in Cairo, Egypt. Centered on a 2009 court case in which the...

THT ONLINE KATHMANDU: Federation of Nepali Journalists (FNJ) on Friday expressed its serious concerns over a threat issued by Federal Limbuwan Rajya Parishad (Krantikari) president Misekhang to a...

THT ONLINE KATHMANDU: The UCPN-Maoist rubbished CPN-ML general secretary's allegation that the Maoists are behind his party's split and there was horse trading in the prime ministerial election as...

Ananta Raj Luitel KATHMANDU: The Supreme Court on Friday upheld Energy Minister Dr Prakash Sharan Mahat’s decision to dismiss the newly appointed executive chairman of Upper Tamakoshi...

Conservationists riding on elephants spotted the greater one-horned rhino calf with its mother during a patrol of the park. Anti-poaching and monitoring patrols are carried out routinely to help...

Concerned at pressure on the country’s forex reserves, Nepal government has put a ban on import of gold. The move came into effect from Friday in order to protect the foreign currency reserves...

Ananta Raj Luitel KATHMANDU: The Supreme Court on Friday upheld Energy Minister Dr Prakash Sharan Mahat’s decision to dismiss the newly appointed executive chairman of Upper Tamakoshi...

RSS SAPTARI: Eight inmates of the Rajbiraj prison have tested positive for the swine flu virus. The sample health check of 11 prisoners out of 52 sick confirmed eight of them have caught the H1N1...

Former crown prince Paras Shah sipping a home-brewed liquor during a programme organised by Khadgi Samaj Sewa, in Kathmandu on Saturday, August 21,...

RSS KATHMANDU: A landslide triggered by incessant rainfall in Thulokhola on the border of Nuwakot district has affected disposal garbage produced in Kathmandu Valley. The Kathmandu Metropolitan...

THT ONLINE KATHMANDU: With the tenure of United Mission in Nepal (UNMIN)'s term coming to an end, caretaker Prime Minister Madhab Kumar Nepal separately held consultations on the mission's term...