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Nepal and India agree to evacuate no-man’s-land

The administrators of the border districts of Nepal and India have agreed to evacuate the no-man’s-land area and to repair the collapsed border pillars.The Nepal-India Border District Coordination Committee has agreed to remove the structures in the …

Cyclone Mocha: Inside the refugee camp that was nearly blown apart

The worst of Cyclone Mocha narrowly avoided the world’s largest refugee camp at Cox’s Bazar, in south-west BangladeshRohingya refugees at the camp still dealt with devastation after winds destroyed large numbers of shelters.Whilst the storm did not ma…

Cyclone Mocha inflicts heavy damage on Myanmar’s Rakhine state

Cyclone Mocha may have been less deadly than predicted, but it inflicted heavy damage on Myanmar’s Rakhine state, including the capital of Sittwe. On Monday, a day after the storm slammed into the coast, images from the city and surrounding area showed…

UML Secretary Top Bahadur Rayamajhi arrested

CPN (UML) Secretary and former Deputy Prime Minister Top Bahadur Rayamajhi, who was absconding after an arrest warrant by Nepal Police, has been arrested from Budhanilkantha of Kathmandu this evening, according to Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minist…

Fiction Charimai released

Charimai, a fiction written by Anjana Paudel, has been released in Kathmandu on Sunday.Prof Dr Binju Sharma released the fiction, which is written on the issues of trafficking of women and girls. Sharma said that this book is a powerful voice against …

Mocha crosses Cox’s Bazar-North Myanmar coast

The very severe cyclonic storm ‘Mocha’ over the East Central Bay is crossing Cox’s Bazar-North Myanmar Coast as it is likely to move north-northeasterly direction further and complete the crossing by this afternoon.”It has started crossing Cox’s Bazar-…

Cyclone Mocha makes landfall along Naf River coastlines

Cyclone Mocha slammed into southeastern Bangladesh coastlines shortly after midday today making its way through the Naf River that divided Bangladesh and Myanmar, uprooting trees and tearing the roofs off buildings and forcing half a million people to…