Madhesis snub Nepal PM, boycott all-party meet
Kathmandu: An alliance of agitating Madhesi and other minority groups seeking more rights and representation in Nepal’s new Constitution today snubbed Prime Minister KP Oli by boycotting an all-party meeting called by him to resolve the current political crisis. Chairman of Samajbadi Forum and Chairman of the Sanghiya Gatbandhan, Upendra Yadav said he was not aware about the meeting. “I came to know about the meeting convened by PM only after reading today’s Kantipur daily. It wouldn’t be appropriate to attend the meeting summoned through news report,” Yadav said. “The PM has to make it clear why the meeting was called,” Kathmandu Post quoted him as saying.
UK grants asylum to Maldivian ex-prez
london: Britain has granted political refugee status to former Maldivian President Mohamed Nasheed, who was handed down a 13-year jail term on controversial terrorism charges after a trial in the country that drew widespread international criticism.
‘Atheists outnumber Christians in England’
london: People in England and Wales who identify themselves as having no religion now outnumber Christians in the country, according to new analysis released on Tuesday. The proportion of the population who identify as having no religion — referred to as ‘nones’ — hit 48.5 per cent in 2014, almost double the figure of 25 per cent in the 2011 census.
New world record in radio transmission
Berlin: German scientists have achieved a new world record in wireless data transmission by sending the contents of a conventional DVD in under ten seconds using radio waves. With a data rate of 6 Gigabit per second, researchers from the University of Stuttgart and the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics IAF achieved the record data transmission on a stretch between Cologne and the 36.7 km distant town of Wachtberg in Germany.
Writings by Teresa to be published in August
New York: A collection of previously unreleased writings by Mother Teresa is coming out in August, weeks before the late Nobel Peace Prize winner is to be canonised. Image, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, told The Associated Press today that it has set an August 16 release date for “A Call to Mercy: Hearts to love, Hands to Serve.”