Kathmandu: Nepali Sherpa guide Kami Rita scaled Mount Everest for the 31st time on Tuesday, breaking the record he set last year. The 55-year-old reached the 8,849-metre (29,032 foot) peak – the highest in the world – by the traditional southeast ridge route while guiding a 22-member Indian army team, officials said, adding that 27 other […]
Read MoreSouth Korea’s liberal frontrunner for president Lee Jae-myung was leading his main conservative rival Kim Moon-soo by more than 10 percentage points in an opinion poll issued on Tuesday, though the race had tightened a week ahead of the election. The deeply polarised country holds a snap election on June 3 to pick a successor […]
Read MoreGENEVA: Four UN special rapporteurs on Monday demanded the release of Azerbaijani rights defender and climate advocate Anar Mammadli, who has been in detention for more than a year. Mammadli was detained on April 29, 2024. His arrest was one of a series which critics said undermined Azerbaijan’s credibility as a host of the United […]
Read MoreNorth Korean authorities have detained four officials after the launch of a naval destroyer ended in failure last week, its state media reported, in a debacle that the country’s dictator Kim Jong-un said was caused by “criminal negligence”. Kim, who attended the event on Wednesday in the northeastern port of Chongjin, was said to be […]
Read MoreBy Shouvik Das New Delhi: The India-Myanmar-Thailand highway will give Assam the opportunity to export India-made semiconductor chips and attract investments from South-east Asia to open factories in the state, chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Monday. “The tri-nation highway will be ready for operations within the next three years, as certain points of […]
Read MoreSEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea’s second naval destroyer was damaged in a failed launch this week, state media reported Thursday, sparking fury from leader Kim Jong Un, who wants bigger warships to deal with what he calls escalating U.S.-led threats against his country. It’s not common for North Korea to acknowledge military-related setbacks, […]
Read MoreThe government will take necessary decisions with support of the people if their functioning is rendered impossible, the Advisory Council said today (24 May). “The interim government upholds the public expectations of the July uprising. But if the government’s autonomy, reform efforts, justice process, fair election plan, and normal operations are obstructed to the point […]
Read MoreWashington DC [US] May 23 (ANI): Chairman John Moolenaar of the House Select Committee on China, along with Senator Marsha Blackburn, addressed a letter to the leaders of Hilton, Marriott, and Hyatt Hotels expressing significant concerns over the companies’ use of the phrase “Taiwan, China” in their websites and marketing materials, as highlighted in a […]
Read MoreA Thai court on Thursday ordered exiled former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra to pay more than 10 billion baht ($304 million) to compensate for losses incurred by a money-losing rice farming subsidy program that her administration had implemented more than a decade ago. The Supreme Administrative Court partially reversed a 2021 court ruling that cleared […]
Read MoreDhaka: The council of advisers of the Interim Government today gave final approval of the “July Mass Uprising Martyrs’ Families and Injured Students-Citizens Welfare and Rehabilitation Ordinance, 2025”. The approval was given following vetting of the Legislative and Parliamentary Affairs Division in the 29th meeting of the Advisory Council, with Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus presiding […]
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