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At least 49 people were killed when the Bangladeshi plane crashed and burst into flames near Kathmandu airport in the worst aviation disaster to hit Nepal in nearly three decades. Officials said there were 71 people on board the US-Bangla Airlines turboprop plane from Dhaka when it crashed just east of the runway and skidded into a nearby football field. ...

China’s one-party political landscape yesterday changed as the country’s rubber-stamp parliament ratified a historic constitutional amendment abolishing the two-term limit for President Xi Jinping, paving the way for his continuation in power perhaps for life. Set for his second five-year term as President this month, 64-year-old Xi, the most powerful leader in recent decades heading the ruling Communist Party of ...

President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, who have been trading insults and threats of nuclear annihilation for months, have agreed to meet to negotiate an end to Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons program, South Korean and US officials said Thursday. No sitting American president has ever met with a North Korea leader. The meeting, to be held in ...

An emergency has been imposed for ten days after continuous violence between Buddhists and Muslims in Sri Lanka. It is being told that due to the tension between Buddhists and Muslim communities over the past, conditions of Sri Lanka has worsened. According to the news, an emergency note has been announced after the cabinet note. The Indian cricket is in ...

Stocks in Europe and Asia fell sharply Friday while gold and the yen jumped amid mounting investor anxiety over trade protectionism. U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday announced to impose tariffs on steel and aluminum imports, prompting threats of retaliation across Asia, Europe and North America. The Stoxx Europe 600 dropped 1.3% in morning trading with every sector in negative ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU A Pakistani parliamentarian has revealed that Chinese prisoners are working on development projects of the over USD 60 billion China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) in the country. Member of the National Assembly Nawab Mohammad Yousuf Talpur of the Pakistan Peoples’ Party (PPP) raised security concerns on this issue, and demanded better security arrangements. “I have learnt that ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU US President Donald Trump has said he would impose a 25 per cent import tariff on steel and 10 per cent on aluminium. An executive order in this regard would be signed next week, Trump said after a meeting with executives of steel and aluminium companies yesterday. “It’ll be for a long period of time…And you’ll have ...

Four Indians including three women have been arrested in Nepal from a Hong Kong-bound plane for illegally boarding the aircraft, officials said yesterday. An immigration official stopped the Nepal Airlines plane just before take-off following a tip-off that some passengers had illegally boarded the aircraft, according to officials. Janak Rai, Amrita Lama, Soni Rai and Anusha Tamang, all Nepalese-origin Indian ...

Maldives has declined India’s invitation to participate in the eight-day-long mega naval exercise — Milan —beginning 6 March, in an apparent snub to New Delhi which has been critical of the Yameen government in view of the emergency in the island nation. “Maldives was invited to join the Milan exercise but they have declined,” Navy Chief Admiral Sunil Lanba told ...

A prolonged 7.2 magnitude quake that rocked Mexico on Friday left nearly a million homes and businesses without power in the capital and four southwest states, the federal electricity commission said, but no deaths were reported. At least 50 homes suffered damage in the southern state of Oaxaca, which, along with Mexico City, is still reeling from earthquakes that caused ...