KABUL, Sept. 13 (Xinhua) — A total of 100 militants have been killed in Afghanistan amid operations carried out by the Afghan National Army (ANA) throughout the country since early Saturday, the country’s Defense Ministry said on Sunday morning. “Some 100 terrorists were killed, 35 wounded and one terrorist was detained after ANA carried out […]
TBILISI, Aug 27, 2015 (AFP) – NATO on Thursday opened a training centre in Georgia as the ex-Soviet country eyes closer partnership with the Western military alliance amid tensions with Russia. The establishment of the NATO-Georgian Joint Training and Evaluation Center, to be based just outside the capital Tbilisi, is aimed at buttressing the small […]
Kathmandu, Aug. 26: Deliberations on the amended bill relating to the constitution of Nepal 2072 began at the Constituent Assembly this morning. This is the final draft of the new constitution including 37 parts, 302 articles and 9 annexes. The draft was tabled by the CA Constitution Drafting Committee before the CA plenary on August […]
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Aug 23, 2015 (AFP) – Pakistani intelligence agencies have rescued a Chinese tourist kidnapped last year in an area close to insurgency-prone regions, it was announced Sunday. The unidentified man was abducted in May last year from Daraban in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province near the border with Baluchistan province and the South Waziristan tribal […]
Islamabad, Aug 23 (PTI) Pakistani media today blamed India for the cancellation of first-ever NSA-level talks by setting “pre-conditions” ahead of National Security Advisor Sartaj Aziz’s visit to New Delhi, in a blow to the efforts to normalise their bilateral ties. Aziz was expected to discuss terrorism and other outstanding issues with his counterpart Ajit […]
DAMASCUS, Aug. 22 : (Xinhua) A Syrian journalist working for the Lebanese al-Manar TV died Saturday from wounds he sustained a day earlier as he was reporting on the clashes in a Syrian city near the Lebanese borders, the state news agency SANA reported. Abdo Ali Jawad was hit Thursday while covering the clashes between […]
Kathmandu, Aug 22 : The bank of Bagmati River near the Tribhuvan University Gate in Kirtipur has been cleaned-up today under the 119th series of the Bagmati Clean-up Campaign. On the occasion, a large number of Nepalese Army, Armed Police Force, Nepal Police personnel, students and representatives of different organisation were present. Likewise, the campaign […]
BEIJING, Aug. 21 (Xinhua) — China’s State Oceanic Administration (SOA) has predicated severe waves induced by Typhoon Goni in the East China Sea and South China Sea in the coming days. The Bashi Channel will see waves with a height of up to 11 meters by noon on Saturday, with waves as high as nine […]
SEOUL, Aug. 21 (Xinhua) — United Nations Command has offered to the Democratic People’ Republic of Korea (DPRK) having talks about the shelling at the South Korean side of the demilitarized zone (DMZ), Yonhap News Agency reported Friday citing a government official. The UN Command’s military armistice commission sent a telephone notice to the DPRK […]
