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New Delhi — A four-day state visit concluded Friday with the signing of a new regional trade pact aimed at cutting tariffs on more than 4,000 categories of goods between the two countries, marking the most significant…
Geneva — The World Health Organization declared an end to the Marburg virus outbreak in East Africa on Monday, 42 days after the last confirmed patient tested negative, marking the close of an emergency response that…
Baltimore — An international team of astronomers announced Thursday that new observations from a space-based telescope have confirmed the presence of water vapour in the atmosphere of K2-18b, a temperate exoplanet…
Seoul — Representatives from eighteen countries, including most of the world's largest AI-developing economies, signed a new AI Safety and Transparency Accord on Wednesday, establishing shared standards for…
London — Global equity markets rallied sharply this week after the US Federal Reserve, European Central Bank, and Bank of England each cut interest rates within a 48-hour span, the first time the three have moved in…
Geneva — Negotiators from more than 90 countries finalised a new international accord on Friday committing signatories to triple installed renewable energy capacity by 2035, building on a similar pledge made at COP28…
United Nations — Member states reached a preliminary agreement on a long-stalled Security Council reform package on Tuesday, endorsing a framework that would add six new non-permanent seats and create a review mechanism…
Kathmandu — Nepal's Department of Information Technology confirmed this week that NepaliSat-1, the country's first domestically built satellite, is on track for launch in mid-2027 aboard a commercial rideshare mission…
Rautahat — The government began disbursing the first instalment of reconstruction grants to flood-affected families across the eastern and central Terai on Wednesday, four months after monsoon floods destroyed or…
Kathmandu — Remittances sent home by Nepali migrant workers reached a record Rs 1.6 trillion in the fiscal year that ended in mid-July, according to Nepal Rastra Bank data released Tuesday, a 9.4 percent increase over…
Kathmandu — Nepal's two largest telecom operators, Ncell and Nepal Telecom, both switched on commercial 5G service across the Kathmandu Valley this week, marking the country's entry into next-generation mobile networks…
Kathmandu — Nepal's national football team won its first-ever SAFF Championship title on Saturday, beating India 2-1 in a tense final at Dasharath Rangasala Stadium in front of a sold-out, roaring home crowd. Substitute…
Kathmandu — More than a million people packed Kathmandu Durbar Square and the surrounding streets over the weekend for Indra Jatra, the eight-day festival honouring the god of rain, in what organisers say was the…
Kathmandu — The Council of Ministers approved a sweeping revision to Nepal's Foreign Direct Investment Policy on Monday, raising the automatic-approval threshold to $50 million and opening semiconductor assembly…
