OlI: Most issues over Constitution settled
Kathmandu: Notwithstanding the protests by Madhesis seeking more rights and representation in Nepal’s new Constitution, Prime Minister KP Oli on Saturday said “most of the political issues” had been “settled” and the country must now move forward to change its economic landscape.
India pledges $1 mn for Afghan school
Kabul: India has pledged $1 million for modernisation and teachers’ training at a prestigious school in Afghanistan as part of its long-standing support to the war-torn country’s education sector.
Gun-wielding man outside WH shot at
Washington: The White House was on Friday placed on lockdown for more than an hour when a man brandished a gun nearby and was shot at by Secret Service agents after he refused orders to drop the weapon. The man has been admitted to a nearby hospital with critical injuries, officials said.
Afghan official: six dead in insider attack
Kabul: An Afghan police official says six police have been shot and killed by colleagues who turned their guns on them at a checkpoint in the volatile southern Uruzgan province. Mohammad Hasham, head of police in the Charchino district, says the shooting happened in on Friday morning.
Dutch climber dies on Everest
Kathmandu: A Dutch mountaineer has died after scaling Mount Everest following the death of an Indian climber who fell sick while descending Nepal’s Dhaulagiri peak. The climber from Netherlands died on Friday while descending the highest peak after he became sick due to altitude sickness.
Iraq: Border with Jordan to open soon
Amman (Jordan): A diplomat says Iraq’s border crossing with Jordan is expected to reopen in about two weeks, ending an 11-month closure and enabling the resumption of vital trade and a return of Iraqi refugees.
Sanders outraises Clinton for 4th month
Washington: Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders from Vermont has outraised his rival Hillary Clinton in the Democratic race to the White House for the fourth consecutive month.
Boko haram refugees feel ‘abandoned’
Assaga (Niger): “Take us away from this hell,” said Boussam, a mother of seven cradling skeletal goats in Niger’s Assaga camp, where thousands of desperate refugees fleeing Boko Haram Islamist insurgents are living in hunger.
China, Pak Prezs vow to cement all weather ties
Beijing: China and Pakistan on Saturday vowed to deepen their “all-weather” strategic partnership and underlined that bilateral ties had stood the test of the changing international and domestic situations in the past 65 years.