'Tarzan' TV actor among 7 people killed in plane crash

Seven people are presumed to have died in Saturday's crash of a small jet into a Tennessee lake, including Remnant Fellowship Church founder and Christian diet guru Gwen Shamblin Lara, officials said.

Fueling box office rebound, ‘Quiet Place’ opens with $58.5M

John Krasinski’s thriller sequel “A Quiet Place Part II” opened over the Memorial Day weekend to a pandemic-best $48.4 million, according to studio estimates Sunday. Including the Monday holiday, the studio forecasts the film will gross $58.5 million in North America. It added another $22 million in ticket sales overseas.

Patients paying high fee for dialysis in Jhapa

Kidney patients are paying a high sum for dialysis when the hospitals are reluctant to providing free dialysis services to them.

Smuggling of cannabis to India on rise

Recent cases have shown that smugglers have been active in trafficking cannabis from Nepal to India.

Budget targets self-sufficiency in rice in 5 yrs

The government has set a target to make the country self-sufficient in milk and vegetables within two years, wheat, maize, millet and buckwheat within three years and rice within five years.

Mountain University planned in Karnali

The Karnali Province government has begun the process of constructing Mountain University of Science and Technology. According to former Minister for Internal Affairs and Law Naresh Bhandari of Karnali Province, a bill for that purpose has been tabled in the provincial parliament. The university’s central office will be in Chandannath Municipality in Jumla district. The university is expected to significantly uplift the education sector of the province in a similar manner the Karnali Academy...

Govt offers tax concessions to businesses

The government has brought various tax concession schemes for the businessmen. While presenting budget for the fiscal year 2021/22 on Saturday, Finance Minister Bishnu Prasad Paudel said that the government had adopted the policy of giving 90 per cent discount to the taxpayers who have an annual turnover of up to Rs. 2 million in income in fiscal year 2020/21. The budget has made an arrangement to give 75 per cent income tax exemption to the taxpayers with an annual turnover of Rs. 2 million to...

Rescue centre comes to aid of wildlife

Red Muntjacs, also known as barking deer or rib-faced deer, can be seen in Raniban in Pokhara, Kaski district. Native to South and Southeast Asia, they are small deer of the genus Muntiacus. Gandaki Province Forest, Environment and Land Conservation Minister Bikas Lamsal had released a pair of Red Muntjacs at a rescue centre constructed by the Phewa Sub-Division Forest Office on the banks of the Fewa Lake.

Kenyan arrested in Qatar first targeted by phishing attack

A Kenyan security guard now facing charges in Qatar after writing compelling, anonymous accounts of being a low-paid worker there found himself targeted by a phishing attack that could have revealed his location just before his arrest, analysts say.

Security sector receives Rs. 217.94 bn

Kathmandu: About 13 per cent of the total budget has been allocated to the Ministry of Home Affairs and Defence Ministry and its agencies for the coming fiscal year 2021/22 by giving top priority to the internal security and defense. The government has allocated budget by giving priority to border security, disaster management, modernisation of immigration administration, peacekeeping and crime investigation and control, prison management, construction of physical infrastructure of security agencies. According...