Giving momentum to its effort to eliminate long-running boondoggles, the government has further curtailed wasteful and stalled projects, particularly in the road construction sector, many of which had ...

It's true that the so-called long-count calendar—which spans roughly 5,125 years starting in 3114 B.C.—reaches the end of a cycle on December 21, 2012. That day brings to a close the 13th Bak'tun, an ...

There are nearly 4,900 registered print media outlets in Nepal. Around eighteen news outlets operate exclusively online through digital platforms such as Facebook and YouTube. By law, online media ...

People were seriously injured after a fairground ride plummeted 50 feet to the ground. The swing was spinning around in the air when it suddenly broke and crashed to the ground. Riders could be heard ...

Baptist missionaries William Carey, William Ward and Joshua Marshman set up a press for vernacular language books in the ‘Danish town’ and also founded Serampore College (L-R) William Carey, Joshua ...

The CPN (UML) has passed a proposal to end the provisions of 70 years of age bar and two-term cap in the party leadership. A secretariat meeting of the party held under the chair of party chairman and ...

I never kept a diary during the Emergency, though our editor Kuldip Nayar advised reporters to make daily notes for posterity, even if the censors would not permit us to write of the travesty of ...

The Tribune, now published from Chandigarh, started publication on February 2, 1881, in Lahore (now in Pakistan). It was started by Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia, a public-spirited philanthropist, and is ...

This week’s raids by the Income Tax Department and the Enforcement Directorate on the offices of Gujarat Samachar, a leading Gujarati daily, along with the arrest of co-owner Bahubali Shah, have once ...

Bahubali Shah, director of Gujarat Samachar Ltd, was granted interim bail until May 31 by a special PMLA court due to deteriorating health after his arrest by the Enforcement Directorate on money ...

Bahubali Shah, director of Gujarat Samachar Ltd, was granted interim bail until May 31 by a special PMLA court due to deteriorating health after his arrest by the Enforcement Directorate on money ...

A court in Ahmedabad on Friday granted bail to one of the owners of leading Gujarati daily 'Gujarat Samachar' Bahubali Shah till May 31 on health grounds a day after his arrest by the Enforcement ...