Bangladesh entered the final of the SAFF Women’s Championship after defeating Nepal 2-1 on Wednesday. This is the third consecutive time that Bangladesh women’s team has reached the final of the tournament. Many more to follow…
Nepal has issued an arrest warrant for former Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba for alleged corruption, officials said Thursday, making him the latest high-profile figure targeted under the new government. Deuba, 79, is abroad for treatment and said that ‘a money laundering investigation has been initiated against me and my family.’ He rejected the allegations […]
Nepal’s former Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli and former Home Minister Ramesh Lekhak were arrested on Saturday morning over their alleged involvement in the deadly crackdown on protesters in September, police said. The detention came a day after Prime Minister Balendra Shah and his Cabinet were sworn in following the first elections since the 2025 […]
Meaning, more people voted for them as a national party than their candidates got in different constituencies. Similarly, candidates from the opposition Nepali Congress received 19 percent of the votes cast as individual candidates and 16 percent as a national party. Meaning, 19 percent of voters preferred their constituency-based candidates, but fewer voters liked them […]
“I was 99.99 percent sure he would win, but the majority is shocking. It shows how upset people were with the previous government,” Rojan Bhattarai, a 22-year-old student from Jhapa, told AFP. “He’s an artist. He inspires us all.” By Saturday afternoon, almost two days after polls closed, 59 results were declared – the RSP […]
More than 3,400 candidates ran for 165 seats in the direct elections for the 275-member House of Representatives, the lower house of parliament, with another 110 selected through party lists. Voting was 59 percent. It may take several days for complete nationwide figures to arrive. Dixit raised the possibility that Shah’s RSP could achieve a […]
Despite high hopes of sealing their place in the Super Eight stage of the tournament and ending their group campaign with a fourth successive win, South Africa's top order failed to dominate the bowling although opener Reeza Hendricks provided some stability to the innings with a 49-ball 43 (five fours, a six). Nepal bowlers looked […]
Palestine experienced the fourth-largest drop in terms of peace in the latest Peace Index, falling nine places to 145th. Its overall score fell by 7.28 percent, with declines in all three areas over the past year. Although this was the largest year-on-year decline in peacefulness in Palestine, the security environment had been deteriorating further over […]
Explaining the process, Mahmudul Hussain said, “This power will be sent to Bangladesh through the Indian grid.” He said BPDB has launched a five-year project costing Tk 6.5 billion to facilitate this power import. Mahmudul Hossain said following the Agriculture Ministry's proposal, Bangladesh Agriculture Development Corporation (BADC) will purchase 25,000 metric tons of TSP fertilizer […]
Anwarul Azim went to Kolkata on May 12 and was murdered the next day in a flat in Sanjiva Garden in New Town, Kolkata. The Kolkata police informed the Bangladesh police about the case after checking the CCTV camera footage of the flat and other details. Later, the detective branch of the DMP arrested three […]
According to the police, the mastermind of the murder Akhtaruzzaman Shaheen also went to Kathmandu from Dhaka via Delhi on May 20. Later he went to Dubai. From there he went back to America. Sources privy to the investigation said the detained man is a resident of Borhanuddin in Siam Bhola. He is an assistant […]