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Home minister directs security agencies to coordinate for elections

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Dhangadi, Oct. 7: Home Minister Madhav Prasad Ghimire has directed all security agencies to work in coordination based on a security plan for the safety of the polling centres of the November 19 CA election. Speaking at a seminar on the integrated security plan...

Teams from australia,hong kong and sri lanka in safal cup

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Kathmandu, Oct. 7: A total of 12 teams including one each from Australia, Hong Kong and Bhutan are taking part in the Safal Pokhara Cup-2070. The tournament is taking place at Pokhara Stadium from October 22 to November 2, according to information shared at...

Domestic production needs more promotion: Finance Minister Koirala

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Kathmandu, Oct. 7: Finance Minister Shankar Prasad Koirala has said Nepal was in need of promoting the domestic production because only productive economy would boost the national development. Addressing a review meeting and strategic programme organized by the National Domestic Industry Development Committee in...

Indian sex workers learn to spot punters’ fake notes

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KOLKATA, Oct 07, 2013 (AFP) – Indian sex workers are being trained to identify counterfeit currency to prevent punters from conning them in the dimly-lit brothels of one of Asia’s biggest red light districts. Prostitution is illegal in India, meaning the country’s estimated three...

Television channel set on fire amid Maldives crisis

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COLOMBO, Oct 07, 2013 (AFP) – Unidentified attackers set fire to the main pro-opposition television network in the Maldives on Monday ahead of a crucial court ruling on whether suspended presidential elections should go ahead, officials said. At least six men stormed the offices...

Malala eyes politics to ‘change the future’ of Pakistan

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LONDON, Oct 07, 2013 (AFP) – Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl shot by the Taliban last year for campaigning for girls’ education, said Monday she hoped to become a politician to “change the future of my country”. The 16-year-old, whose continued fight for all...

Cellular breakthrough earns trio Nobel for medicine

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STOCKHOLM, Oct 07, 2013 (AFP) – James Rothman and Randy Schekman of the United States and Thomas Suedhof of Germany won the Nobel Prize for Medicine on Monday for groundbreaking work on how the cell organises its transport system. Their discoveries have unlocked insights...

US credits Syria’s Assad over chemical arms destruction

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DAMASCUS, Oct 07, 2013 (AFP) – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad can take “credit” for moving quickly to eliminate his regime’s chemical arms, the United States said Monday, as disarmament experts said Damascus was being “cooperative”. Speaking in Indonesia, US Secretary of State John Kerry...

Controversial Afghan candidates stir fears of election turmoil

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KABUL, Oct 07, 2013 (AFP) – A long list of controversial candidates for Afghanistan’s 2014 election raised concerns Monday of a repeat of the chaotic last presidential poll as the country seeks a stable end to the foreign military presence. President Hamid Karzai, constitutionally...

Over one million people have left Kathmandu valley for dashain

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Kathmandu, Oct. 7: Around one million people have left Kathmandu valley through land route in course of celebrating Dashain festival. According to Chief of the Metropolitan Traffic Police Division, Keshav Adhikari, around 1,017,000 people have left the capital from September 17 to October 6...

CA elections is not parliamentary elections-chairman prachanda

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 Kathmandu, Oct. 6: UPCN (Maoist) Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal has said that the complete victory of the change-making and progressive forces was inevitable in order to establish the rights of the people. Addressing a programme organized to welcome new entrants to the party at...

Election is Invitation to conflict: CPN-Maoist

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Kathmandu, Oct. 6: The poll-opposing 33 parties’ front led by the CPN-Maoist has said efforts were on in the country for tyranny and conflict in the camouflage of election. The meeting of the front held at Maoist party office, Buddhanagar, concluded that the government’s...

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