Friday 10th September, 2010
Govt under pressure to lift Lebanon ban
Himalayan News Service KATHMANDU: Women rights activists and outsourcing agencies are putting pressure on the government to lift its embargo for new workers to go and work in Lebanon, where torture a...
Four hurt in tiger attacks
Himalayan News Service ACHHAM: At least four people have been injured and 32 cattle killed within a week in tiger attacks at Bidhebasini VDC, Achham. Khem Khatri of Bidhebasini identified the injured...
Colors triple sim mobile
Himalayan News Service KATHMANDU: Teletalk Pvt Ltd — the sole distributor of Colors Mobile — has introduced Triple Sim Phone Colors CG-500, a triple Sim phone, two GSM and one CDMA sim, i...
60 families displaced, millions lost
The Himalayan TimesHimalayan News Service TAPLEJUNG: Landslides that have struck this district in the past 15 days have displaced at least 60 families, killed three persons and caused a loss of properties worth Rs 30 m...
Nepal businessman abducted in Hazaribagh
General SourcesNepal , Dipendra Daruka, from a posh hotel here by an gang of five persons from Bihar's Gopalganj district. The kidnapping allegedly took place on August 18. Initially, police did not want to give det...
Nepal’s Maoists request extension of UN mission, but on their terms
General SourcesNepal’s Maoist party sent a letter to the UN yesterday, asking for the UN’s peace-monitoring mission in the Himalayan country to be extended under different terms than those requested by the prime...
Redknapp wouldn't reject England job offer
The Himalayan TimesTottenham Hotspur's coach Harry Redknapp, seen here in August 2010, admits he wouldn't be able to turn down the England job if he was offered the chance to succeed Fabio Capello.
UN Security Council nations urge political consensus in Nepal
General SourcesUnited Nations Security Council on Thursday urged Nepal's feuding political parties to seek consensus, reported the country's national news agency.In particular, the ambassadors urged the government a...
Nepal govt vs Maoists over UN
General SourcesThe caretaker government in Nepal and opposition Maoists are on a collision course over the role of United Nations Mission in Nepal (UNMIN), which is monitoring the country’s peace process. While t...
Katie Holmes' daughter is not spoilt
The Himalayan TimesAgencies LOS ANGELES: Katie Holmes has said that she keeps her four-year-old daughter Suri on a strict routine so that she can live a normal life. Katie Holmes insists her daughter is just like any ...
Colbert, VP Biden fete troops with hot dogs, beer
The Himalayan TimesAP NEW YORK: A hot dog vending cart was wheeled back and forth. Cocktail waitresses hurried past with trays full of beer. Vice President Joe Biden led New York Yankees great Yogi Berra by the arm. S...
CIAA decision to annul NEA appointment
The Himalayan TimesRSS KATHMANDU: The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) has decided to write to the Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA)'s Board of Directors to revoke all the process related t...
Excavation finds trace to justify human remains
The Himalayan TimesRSS JANAKPURDHAM: Traces of human remains have been found today to in course of exhumation of the graves of five youths believed to be buried during insurgency here. Chief of the Central Regional Of...
PM, UNSC-member country envoys hold talks
The Himalayan TimesRSS KATHMANDU: The Ambassadors of three permanent member countries of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) held talks with Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal on Thursday. In the joint meeting h...
Sotheby's to sell rare Audubon 'Birds of America'
The Himalayan TimesAssociated Press LONDON: A rare copy of John James Audubon's "Birds of America," billed as the world's most expensive book, is up for sale alongside a first edition of Shakespeare's plays a...
Quran burning plan stirs outrage in Muslim world
The Himalayan TimesPakistani lawyers burn a U.S. flag while rallying in reaction to a small American church's plan to burn copies of the Quran in Multan, Pakistan on Thursday, Sept. 9, 2010.
UK watchdog fines Goldman Sachs $27 million
The Himalayan TimesReuters NEW YORK/LONDON: Britain's financial watchdog fined Goldman Sachs Group Inc 17.5 million pounds ($27 million) for failing to tell the regulator that it was the subject of a U.S. probe, revivi...
Britney Spears denies bodyguard harassment claims
The Himalayan TimesAssociated Press LOS ANGELES: Britney Spears is denying a bodyguard's accusations that she sexually harassed him and abused her children. A statement posted to Spears' website Thursday morning says ...
Fidel latest to say Cuba's communism doesn't work
The Himalayan TimesAP HAVANA : Cuba's communist economic model has come in for criticism from an unlikely source: Fidel Castro. The revolutionary leader told a visiting American journalist and a U.S.-Cuba policy exper...
Prachanda holds talks with 3 envoys
The Himalayan TimesRSS KATHMANDU: Envoys of the three countries, who are the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council on Thursday met with Chairman of Unified CPN (Maoist) Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda. ...
Candidacy withdrwal illegal; Nembang
The Himalayan TimesRSS KATHMANDU: Constituent Assembly Chairman Subash Nembang said call to withdraw candidacies from the prime ministerial elections in the name of ending political deadlock is unlawful. He expressed ...
Nepal in 130th position in global competitiveness
The Himalayan TimesRSS KATHMANDU: Nepal stood in 130th position in Global Competitiveness Report 2010-2011. Switzerland is on the top of the list of the report prepared by analysing micro and macro economy of countrie...
Missing Engineer found in Chitwan
The Himalayan TimesRSS RATNANAGAR: Engineer Mahendra Prasad Chudal of Buddhanagar, Kathmandu, who was out of contact since September 3, has been found in Narayangarh of Chitwan, on Thursday. He was found in half consci...
Spurs striker Defoe out for at least six weeks
The Himalayan TimesAssociated Press LONDON :Tottenham striker Jermain Defoe has been ruled out for six weeks with an ankle injury, the club's manager Harry Redknapp revealed on Thursday. Defoe suffered the injury in t...
VP extends greetings for Teej, Eid ul Fitr
The Himalayan TimesTHT Online KATHMANDU: Vice President Paramananda Jha reached out to the people with greetings on the occasion of Teej and Eid on Thursday. Issuing separate press statements, Jha extended his best wi...
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