MAHOTTARI: The Chhath festival fervour has gripped the Mithila region including Mahottari with the festival formally commencing from today. People’s mobility has upped in and around the region ahead of the four-day grand festival where the ‘Sun God’ is worshipped with devotion. The devotees begin the festival from today onward by observing the ‘Nahay Khay’ rituals. They observed the ‘Araba Arabain’ in the morning today ahead of the festival which requires giving up impure food such as boiled rice, millet, lentil and meat on the third day of Kartik Shukla, the waxing moon in the month of Kattik as per…
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KATHMANDU: Police have arrested 18 ‘gamblers’ from a resort in Kathmandu. 18 people were arrested from Dahachowk City View Resort Pvt Ltd operated by Udayaraj Puri near Swissland Park, Nagarjun Municipality-7 last night. Dineshraj Mainali, SP of District Police Circle, Kathmandu, informed that they were arrested on the charge of gambling. Police also recovered 3 lakh 82 thousand 595 rupees from them. Police have initiated further investigation.
WASHINGTON: Elon Musk became Twitter Inc’s new owner on Thursday, firing top executives he had accused of misleading him and providing little clarity over how he will achieve the lofty ambitions he has outlined for the influential social media platform. The CEO of electric car maker Tesla Inc TSLA.O has said he wants to “defeat” spam bots on Twitter, make the algorithms that determine how content is presented to its users publicly available, and prevent the platform from becoming an echo chamber for hate and division, even as he limits censorship. Yet Musk has not offered details on how he…
KATHMANDU: Security has been beefed up in Kathmandu Valley, the federal capital, in view of the Deepawali, Nepal Sambat and Chhath festivals, said the District Administration Office, Kathmandu. Chief District Officer (CDO) of Kathmandu District, Ghanshyam Upadhyay said the security has been strengthened to prevent any untoward incidents during the festival period. According to him, all the three district administration offices within the Valley have fully implemented the security strategy focusing on the festivals. CDO Upadhyay said that the Deusi-Bhailo cultural programme can be organized until 10:00pm. Before this, the District Administration Office had stated through a public notice on…
Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina, on Tuesday called for enhanced connectivity between Bangladesh and Nepal including through the BBIN (Bhutan, Bangladesh, India and Nepal) sub-regional framework. The prime minister made the remarks when Nepal’s ambassador Ghanshyam Bhandari met her at the former’s residence at Ganabhaban in Dhaka on Tuesday. “She highlighted the potentials and possibilities available in the fields of trade, energy, tourism, and climate change and stressed the importance of enhanced connectivity including through the BBIN framework,” read a press release issued by Nepali Embassy in Dhaka. On the occasion, the two sides dwelt on consolidating Nepal-Bangladesh relations with…
KATHMANDU: Richa Thapa is a model with promising acting ability in Nepali films. She entered the career by playing a music video and established herself in this field after a long struggle. Initially, she acted in the videos of folk and dohori songs along with few modern songs; then she got into films. She has acted in films like ‘Aarop’, ‘Love You Always’ and has shed a distinct impression to the best of her ability.
Miss World Karolina Bielawska has expressed her desire to visit Nepal. Talking to media persons present at the CC Forum (Global Investment in Sustainable Development) held in London recently, Karolina said that she wanted to visit the beautiful Himalayas and the country of Gautam Buddha. She also remembered the famous video titled “Beauty with a Purpose” presented by former Miss Nepal Namrata Shrestha, who competed in the Miss World competition with Karolina. She also said that she was attracted by the intimacy, warm hospitality, and natural beauty of Nepali people who came to London at the invitation of Himalaya Jet, an airline company owned…
KATHMANDU: The Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) exported electricity to India even during the evening peak hour of Laxmi Puja on Monday. NEA said 380 megawatts of excess electricity was sold in the Indian market during the peak hour on Monday evening. The highest electricity demand in Nepal was at 6:10 PM during Laxmi Puja during which 1,305 MW of electricity was consumed. NEA’s system supplied 1,685 MW of electricity, including exported electricity, during that time. This is the first time in NEA’s history that it has exported excess electricity to the Indian market even on the evening of Laxmi Puja…
Mohamad Zreik – US. officials are well aware that China may be the only global force with the authority to lift sanctions against Russia. The current situation in the Ukrainian arena was the primary focus of the meeting held on March 18 between President Joe Biden of the United States and President Xi Jinping of China via video conference. Since then, press leaks have confirmed that Russia asked to buy weapons from China to compensate for its war losses, and the United States is very concerned, not only about the possibility of China agreeing to this request, but also about…