After several breaches of rules and guidelines while climbing Mt Everest, Nepal has decided to adopt strict measures for aspirants from this spring. For providing better service to the climbers, porters, sherpas, sardars, high-altitude workers and cooks, the government decided to set up an integrated office at the Everest base camp. The measure followed after […]
In the face of objections from China, President Barack Obama met the Dalai Lama Friday, saying the US supports his “Middle Way” approach of neither assimilation nor independence for Tibetans in China. Obama’s meeting with the Tibetan spiritual leader and fellow Nobel laureate, who is in the US on a speaking tour, was closed to […]
An Indian-American man in Florida is facing first-degree murder charges for allegedly beating his sleeping father to death with a sledgehammer following an evening “playing puzzles”, according to a media report. Holly Hill (Florida) resident Vinayak Shanbhag, 33, was arrested last week on charges of murdering his 66-year-old father, Pandurang Shanbhag, according to the Daytona […]
The Ukrainian president and opposition leaders signed an agreement Friday to end the country’s nearly four month-long political crisis which has left 77 people dead and hundreds injured. The deal includes provisions for constitutional changes that would limit presidential power, and for holding early presidential elections in December 2014, Xinhua quoted parliamentary leader of the […]
People helping authorities in exposing terror plots in the Chinese capital city will be rewarded, police in Beijing have announced. According to Beijing municipal public security bureau, those providing extremely important information which contributes significantly to the prevention or investigation of violent terrorist activities, will be rewarded with at least 40,000 yuan (about $6,540), Xinhua […]
China and France discussed their bilateral relations as foreign ministers of the two countries held talks here Friday. The talks were held between Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and visiting French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius. During the talks, Wang said their bilateral relations were at an important stage as the two countries celebrate the 50th […]
China has prosecuted over 10,000 people in last three years since 2011 for production and sale of substandard and poisonous food, Chinese Supreme People’s Procuratorate (SPP) said here Friday. According to statistics from SPP, the highest agency at the national level responsible for both prosecution and investigation in the People’s Republic of China, prosecutors also […]
There wasn’t a colour that didn’t make an appearance at the ramp on the last day of the fashion week here. A pop of neon, a dash of gold, ash-white or saffron, with digital prints in company, brought down the curtains on the fashion extravaganza. Pakistan’s colour sentiments have always drawn towards subtle pastel tones. […]
At least 12 people, including permanent secretary of the Somalian prime minister and an ex-intelligence commander, were killed Friday in an attack by Al-Shabaab militant group on Somalia’s presidential palace here, a minister said. “Nine attackers including two suicide bombers were killed when they tried to force their way into the presidential palace,” Xinhua quoted […]
Ukraine’s opposition protesters have apparently taken over control of the government district in capital Kiev even as President Viktor Yanukovych’s whereabouts are unknown. Opposition leaders said that President Yanukovych must stand down immediately, BBC reported Saturday. According to the report, there was no sign of security forces inside the previously heavily guarded presidential complex in […]