The Muslim community in Nepal celebrated Eid-ul-Fitr with joy. Spirits were high in Kathmandu. Muslims in South Asia, like those across the world, are celebrating Eid, marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan. They thronged mosques to offer prayers, relished delicacies, and visited fairs in their best fineries. In India, mass prayers were […]
It’s deadlier than AIDS. Virus-caused hepatitis has become a leading cause of death and disability in the world, killing more people in a year than AIDS, tuberculosis or malaria, a report said on Thursday (July 7). And the price of many of the treatments are extremely expensive! Deaths from infection, liver disease and cancer caused […]
NEW DELHI An Indian teenager was among 20 foreigners who were killed after being taken hostage by a group of attackers at an upmarket cafe in Bangladesh capital Dhaka, a government minister said Saturday Tarushi Jain, 19, was caught up in the horrific 11-hour siege at the Holey Artisan Bakery, a Western-style cafe popular with […]
Activists in Nepal have received many complaints from across the Gulf regionof maltreatment and exploitation of workers. Sujata Upreti, an official of the Pravasi Nepali Coordination Committee (PNCC), a Kathmandu-based labour rights group representing Nepalese migrant workers, has told an Asian news agency that many had been arrested and deported because they were found outside […]
Qatar is exploiting South Asian migrant labour (almost a million of them from India and Nepal) who are building the infrastructure for the 2022 soccer World Cup . Activists say that labour abuses are widespread throughout the Gulf, and that the workers’ home countries share the blame. Mr Narendra Modi, India’s prime minister, visited Doha […]
The United States has added Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS), a regional branch of the global extremist network, to its terror blacklist on Thursday. The State Department designated AQIS a “foreign terrorist organization” and its leader, Indian-born Asim Umar, a “specially designated global terrorist.” Al-Qaeda, the jihadist movement founded by the late Osama bin […]
People in the Indian subcontinent often like to sing of their ‘glorious past’. One of the legends one hears is about the legendary muslin cloth produced in India, so ‘thin that an entire muslin saree could pass through a finger-ring’. Really? Why isn’t this marvellous cotton cloth seen today? Muslin, once weighed against gold in the […]
[KATHMANDU] The Nepal Himalayas maybe facing a water crisis over the next decades. A new study forecasts decreasing stream flows and ice volume in the Nepal Himalayas. Dire consequences are in store for power production, irrigation and food security. And that’s bound to have a huge impact on neighbouring countries as well. A joint study […]
Patna: Villagers from Tikauli Panchayat in Sitamarhi District have elected a dead woman to the post of Panchayat Samiti member. The woman, Mithlesh Devi, has been dead nine long years. Bihar never fails to spring surprises! A woman in Bihar, who died several years ago, was elected as a panchayat samiti member in the recently […]
Transfer Chairman & Enforcement Director of NDMC Anti –Poor, habitual violators of Human Rights Selective use of Court orders to evict vendors of NDMC area Instead of implementing the Street Vendors Act, the Chairperson and the Director NDMC are under the false belief that they can chase away the vendors from NDMC by use of […]
It’s a question of दाल-भात (doll-rice in Anglo-Indianese). Indians are perhaps the world’s largest eaters of pulses, but alas! Shrinking land for crops and drought are making Indians think of leasing agricultural land in Africa and Burma (Myanmar) to meet growing demand of the domestic market. Two consecutive years of drought have led to a […]
New Delhi : Is the Kejriwal government in Delhi really for the common man, or not? The very flavour of Delhi is in the unorganised vending that takes place around Connaught Place, and what do we hear? Another attack on street vendors despite the protection of the Street Vending Act! The National Association of Street […]
