Friday, December 30, 2011

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Posted: 30 Dec 2011 05:46 AM PST


Duo arrested with 18.5kg hashish
THT ONLINE KATHMANDU: Policemen have nabbed duo Raj Kumar Ghale (29) and Som Bahadur Tamang (32) of Balchhe VDC-8, Nuwakot on the charge of ferrying hashish at Banasthali in Kathmandu on Thursday ...

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 05:45 AM PST


Bomb kills 2 people in northwest Pakistan
ASSOCIATED PRESS KHAR: A government official says a bomb has exploded outside a market in a Taliban stronghold in northwestern Pakistan, killing two people. Tariq Khan, a local government ...

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 05:45 AM PST


Disqualified PLAs shut 15 districts of mid-west
RSS NEPALGUNJ: Demanding their rehabilitation, the former Maoist combatants, who were disqualified during the UNMIN verification, imposed a mid-west regional Bandh on Friday. According to ...

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 05:45 AM PST


North Korea vows no softening despite new leader
In this image made from KRT video, North Korea's next leader Kim Jong Un is seen during a memorial service for late North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, in Pyongyang, North Korea, Thursday, Dec. ...

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 05:45 AM PST


Man found dead in Bagmati banks in Kupondole
THT ONLINE KATHMANDU: Police said a man was found dead on the banks of Bagmati River in Kupandole of Lalitpur on Thursday. Police sent the dead body to the Patan Hospital for post mortem. The ...

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 05:45 AM PST


UML SC makes Oli the third man
"THT ONLINE KATHMANDU: The CPN-UML Standing Committee on Friday endorsed the 10-point political proposal on the party unity put forth by party Chairman Jhala Nath Khanal, and decided to ...

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 05:45 AM PST


Sitapaila woman burns self after a fight with hubby
THT ONLINE KATHMANDU: A 39-year-old woman has tried to commit suicide in Sitapaila of Kathmandu by burning herself on Thursday evening. Following a quarrel with her husband at around 9 pm last ...

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 05:45 AM PST


Industry Ministry "content" with progress in its projects
RSS KATHMANDU: The Ministry of Industry (MoI) has claimed that its physical progress in the first four months of the current fiscal year was 69.21 per cent while financial progress was 69.75 per ...

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 05:45 AM PST


Public Youth starts new bachelors course
RSS KATHMANDU: The Public Youth Campus in the capital has started the programme of Bachelors in Travel and Tourism Management (BTTM) from this year. Rector of the Tribhuvan University (TU) Prof. ...

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 05:45 AM PST


Israel warms up to New Year's‚ Soviet-style
ASSOCIATED PRESS RISHON LEZION: For years, many Israelis got a little jittery as New Year's Eve approached. Their neighbors, some of the nearly 1 million Soviet citizens who flocked to the ...

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 05:45 AM PST


Ukraine ex-PM Tymoshenko moved to jail-prison service
REUTERS KIEV: Former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko, sentenced to seven years in prison for abuse of office, has been moved to prison from a detention center where she has been held ...

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 05:45 AM PST


Some crew still aboard burning Russian nuclear sub
In this framegrab image from Ru-RTR Russian state channel, smoke rises from a dock where the Yekaterinburg nuclear submarine is for repairs at the Roslyakovo shipyard in the Murmansk region, Russia, ...

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 05:45 AM PST


Syrian opposition calls marches to main squares
ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIRUT: Syria's opposition is calling on its re-energized protest movement to march to main squares around the country after the Friday prayers. The call comes as the ...

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 05:45 AM PST


46 houses gutted in Saptari village fire
RSS SAPTARI: Property worth tens of million rupees was gutted after a fire spread to 46 houses at Mandal Tole of Pakari VDC in Saptari district, on Thursday night. The fire started from a cowshed ...

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 05:45 AM PST


Sharma stresses on reform of education sector
RSS GULMI: The education sector should be kept away from the politics for educational reform in the country, Minister for Education Dinanath Sharma said. According to him, the problems erupted in ...

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 02:36 AM PST


Friday disappears in Samoa's great leap forward
Samoans go to bed Thursday and will wake up on Saturday in an historic timezone switch which the Pacific island state's prime minister says will take the country forward to a more prosperous ...

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 02:36 AM PST


Maoists extend Tamu Lhosar wishes
THT ONLINE KATHMANDU: The UCPN-Maoist has extended greetings to the Gurung community, and wished for peace, happiness and prosperous life of all Nepalis on the occasion of Tamu Lhosar festival. ...

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 02:36 AM PST


Jamaica's opposition wins elections in a landslide
Jamaica's former Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller shows her inked finger after casting her ballot in parliamentary elections in Kingston, Jamaica, Thursday Dec. 29, 2011. Jamaica is holding ...

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 02:35 AM PST


Economy gaining momentum‚ housing shows a pulse
REUTERS WASHINGTON: New U.S. claims for jobless benefits rose last week but the underlying trend pointed to an improving labor market, while regional factory data showed the economy gaining ...

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 02:35 AM PST


Israeli air strike kills leader of al Qaeda affiliate in Gaza
REUTERS GAZA: Israel killed the leader of an al Qaeda-inspired faction in an air strike on the Gaza Strip on Friday, accusing him of launching short-range rockets into the Jewish state. Militants ...

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 02:35 AM PST


Recriminations over India's stalled anti-graft law
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. India's government faced fierce criticism in the media and from the opposition on Friday after it failed to push through its flagship anti-corruption law ...

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 02:35 AM PST


At least 13 killed in Venezuela tanker truck fire
Bystanders watch at a burned bus at the site of an accident that killed at least 13 people in Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, Dec. 29, 2011. A tanker truck filled with gasoline crashed and burst into ...

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 02:35 AM PST


Karnali concludes its first science exhibition
RSS JUMLA: The first science exhibition of Karnali Zone so far has been concluded at Kanika Nisha Higher Secondary School in Jumla district. National bird Danfe, electronic cable car, ammonia gas, ...

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 01:03 AM PST


Thai flood death toll hits 780
ASSOCIATED PRESS BANGKOK: Thai authorities say the death toll from floods that devastated vast parts of north and central Thailand has reached 780 confirmed dead with three people still missing. ...

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 01:03 AM PST


Russia submerges nuclear submarine to douse blaze
REUTERS MURMANSK: Russia said it had won the battle with a raging blaze aboard a nuclear submarine on Friday by submerging the stricken vessel at a navy shipyard after hours of dousing the flames ...

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 01:03 AM PST


6 indicted in Internet-based car-selling scheme
ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES: A federal grand jury indicted six foreign nationals on charges that they defrauded hundreds of customers out of more than $4 million in bogus Internet car sales, ...

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 01:03 AM PST


Afghan-NATO raids kill‚ capture Taliban commanders
ASSOCIATED PRESS KABUL: NATO says joint raids with Afghan forces have killed at least three and captured 11 Taliban commanders and facilitators who provided logistical support and weapons to ...

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 01:03 AM PST


Security personnel involved in hunting and smuggling wildlife
RSS BANKE: Security personnel themselves have intensified wildlife hunting and smuggling in the forest of Baghauda area across Rapti district, complained locals. Animal hunting and smuggling ...

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 01:03 AM PST


Disqalified ex-combatants bandh cripples life in Mid-west
RSS PYUTHAN: Normal life in Pyuthan district has been adversely affected since early Friday morning due to shutdown enforced by excluded Maoist ex-fighters in mid-western region. The short-route ...

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 01:03 AM PST


Mexican candidate sees possible Pemex listing
Josefina Vazquez Mota, presidential candidate of Mexico's ruling conservatives, the National Action Party (PAN), talks to Reuters in Mexico City December 29, ...

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