Aug 2: Obesity increases a person's risk for severe complications from influenza, including hospitalization and even death. It may also play a role in how flu spreads, according to a new study published in The Journal of Infectious Diseases. The findings suggest that obese adults infected with flu shed the virus for a longer time than adults who are not obese, potentially increasing the opportunity for the infection to spread to others.

KATHMANDU, July 11: The government in its budget speech had targeted the channeling of more foreign aid funds into capital spending and less on recurrent expenditures for the ongoing fiscal year.

REYNOSA, July 9: Since 2012, Mexican authorities have put 138,000 migrant children in detention centers where they must await deportation, sometimes separated from their parents. 97 percent are from Central America, mainly Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala, and 65,000 were traveling alone.

Locals have claimed that the excavation began after formation of the local government

KATHMANDU, May 10: Ambassador of European Union to Bangladesh Rensje Terrink has recalled 'Blockade' imposed by India after the Mega earthquake and constitution of Nepal issued on 2015.

The Convention on Biological Diversity gives a formal definition of biodiversity as “the variability among living organisms from all sources including, inter alia, terrestrial, marine and other aquatic ecosystems and the ecological complexes of which they are part; this includes diversity within species, between species and of ecosystems”.

DANG, Jan 16: The people of the indigenous Tharu community have come a long way from a modest history of farm slaves. They wanted to be freed from the cruel slavery. “We could not even speak,” said Ram Prasad Chaudhary, a Tharu leader of Dang, referring to the condition of his people about two decades ago.

DANG, Jan 16: The people of the indigenous Tharu community have come a long way from a modest history of farm slaves. They wanted to be freed from the cruel slavery. “We could not even speak,” said Ram Prasad Chaudhary, a Tharu leader of Dang, referring to the condition of his people about two decades earlier.

KATHMANDU, Dec 14:  After Kathmandu University (KU) initiated the process last month to take action against the doctors who were found involved in plagiarism, Tribhuvan University's (TU) Institute of Medicine (IOM) is also preparing to grill the doctors over the matter.

KATHMANDU, Dec 13: In modern football, a player’s ability of playing in numerous positions is regarded as his biggest asset. Whenever a club searches for new players for its team, the coaching staff prefers a versatile player who can play in different positions.

KATHMANDU, Nov 10: Questions are being raised from various quarters over the prospects for effective security arrangements as the Ministry of Home Affairs (MoHA) -- the government body that has this responsibility -- remains without a full-time minister just ahead of the two crucial elections in the country.

KATHMANDU, Oct 11: Following the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has also lowered the economic growth forecast for Nepal for the current Fiscal Year 2017/18.

MUSTANG, Sept 27: Although Dashain is mainly a Hindu festival, even Buddhist people of Thini in Mustang district celebrate the festival with merrymaking for ten days.

NAWALPARASI, Aug 15: The Nawalparasi Daunne section of the East-West highway which has been inoperative time and again since Friday has been again blocked since last night.

The Pokhara Bus Entrepreneurs’ Committee has initiated night bus facility within the city from Friday. A total of two city buses are available for now from 7 pm to 9 pm.

WASHINGTON, July 19: Revelations that a Russian developer's representative was the eighth attendee at a Trump Tower campaign meeting arranged by President Donald Trump's eldest son prompted a new round of castigation on Tuesday from Democrats. It also brought word that the special counsel investigating possible Trump campaign ties to Russia wants more information about the sit-down.

July 14, 2017 -- The Arab quartet which cut diplomatic and trade links with Qatar on June 5 will find it difficult to significantly increase penalties against the world’s largest gas exporter without hurting their own economies.

July 14, 2017 -- The Arab quartet which cut diplomatic and trade links with Qatar on June 5 will find it difficult to significantly increase penalties against the world’s largest gas exporter without hurting their own economies.

SAN BERNARDINO, CALIFORNIA, April 11: A special education teacher and one of her students were fatally shot by her estranged husband when he opened fire with a high-caliber revolver before killing himself in her classroom at a San Bernardino, California, elementary school, police said.

KATHMANDU, April 6: The Election Commission (EC) is to start printing the ballot papers for Province 2 from Friday even as the government is still negotiating with the agitating Madhes-centric parties to bring them on board the election process.

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans' failure to repeal Barack Obama's health care law deals a serious blow to another big part of President Donald Trump's agenda: tax reform.

KATHMANDU, March 9: Locals of various districts in the tarai continued their demonstrations on Wednesday to condemn the police shootings in Maleth, Saptari that has so far claimed four lives.

KATHMANDU, Feb 6: The National Reconstruction Authority (NRA) has said that it will provide the total housing reconstruction grant of Rs 300,000 to earthquake victims whose houses were partially damaged by last year's earthquakes but are willing to go for full reconstruction rather than just repairs.

KATHMANDU, Nov 17: Mentors of entrepreneurs and authors talking on media and entrepreneurship at Growthways  convention held in Kathmandu Thursday highlighted the importance of the youth and the building of relationships with the media for building brand.

KATHMANDU, Aug 24: Just as the major political parties are sharply divided over the number of units at the local level under the new federal structure, experts are also at odds among themselves.

LAHAN, Aug 16: It has come to light that the revised list of Madhesi martyrs also includes the names of an individual who died in a road mishap and another who was accidentally electrocuted.

KATHMANDU, July 23: MPs were clearly divided in their views over the issue of no-confidence proposal against the Prime Minister in course of the discussions on it in the Legislature-Parliament session today.

KATHMANDU, July 9: Butwal Power Company (BPC) Ltd has removed minimum fee of Rs 89 for households consuming power generated by Andhikhola Hydropower Project (9 MW).

KATHMANDU, June 24:The government is all set to enforce letter grading system to evaluate the performance of grade 9, 11 and 12 students from the current academic year, after applying it in grade 10 from this year.

REPUBLICA, June 24: Human traffickers have been using the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the Bay of Bengal as a new route for trafficking Nepali women abroad.