NEW DELHI: Charles Sobhraj is a notorious serial killer, with over a dozen cases of murders against him in Southeast Asian countries. He was serving life term in Nepal. On Wednesday, Nepal’s Supreme Court ordered that Sobhraj (78) should be freed on health grounds.Here’s a look at Charles Sobhraj’s life and his journey in the […]
GHAZNI: Kneeling in front of a turbanned judge in a tiny room at the Ghazni Court of Appeal in eastern Afghanistan, an old man sentenced to death for murder pleads for his life.The 75-year-old admits to having shot dead a relative — out of revenge, he says, because of rumours he had sexual relations with […]
MANILA: China’s embassy in Manila accused the United States on Tuesday of driving a wedge between the Philippines and Beijing, deploring Washington‘s “unfounded accusations” that it said sought to stir up trouble in the South China Sea. The South China Sea has become one of many flashpoints in the testy relationship between China and the […]
BARMAL-Labourer Rasool Badshah has moved into a new home six months after a deadly earthquake rocked eastern Afghanistan, but without his mother, who was killed by collapsing walls. More than 1,000 people were killed and tens of thousands made homeless after the 5.9-magnitude quake – the deadliest in Afghanistan in nearly a quarter of a […]
BANGKOK: Thai navy ships and helicopters searched on Monday for more than 30 sailors still missing more than 17 hours after their warship sank in rough seas in the Gulf of Thailand. As of Monday afternoon, 75 sailors from the HTMS Sukhothai corvette had been rescued and 31 were still missing, the navy said. The […]
KATHMANDU: President Bidya Devi Bhandari on Sunday called on all the political parties of Nepal to form a new government within seven days, as PM Sher Bahadur Deuba discussed power sharing deal with the coalition partner Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’. The president’s call came after the Election Commission submitted the final results of the elections […]
KATHMANDU: Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda‘, the chairman of the CPN-Maoist Centre, has met Nepal Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba and reportedly expressed his desire to become the country’s new premier, as the two leaders discussed how to take the ruling coalition forward and form the next government. The meeting on Saturday assumes significance as President […]
NEW DELHI: Japan looks all set to shed it’s “pacifist” tag. In its postwar, American-authored constitution, Japan gave up the right to wage war and means to do so. But contemporary geo-political developments are forcing Tokyo to rethink this policy. The primary factors- an aggressive China almost next door, and the “precedent” Russia has set […]
KATHMANDU: India and Nepal on Friday began the 16th edition of the joint military training exercise to share theoretical and practical experiences in jungle warfare related to counter-terrorism military skills as well as disaster management. A team from the Indian Army arrived in Nepal on Wednesday to participate in the “Surya Kiran” military training exercises […]
KABUL: An Islamic State offshoot took credit for an attack at a Kabul hotel popular with Chinese diplomats and businessmen, the first attack targeting citizens from one of the few countries with good ties with the Taliban since it came to power last year. Two armed members of the Islamic State-Khorasan, a local affiliate of […]
