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Residents desperate for fuel unload cooking gas cylinders to a waiting crowd, who reimbursed the driver for the respective cylinders taken away, after stopping a distribution truck in Kathmandu recently. — AFP photo

Nepal running on empty as energy crisis deepens

Agence France-Presse . Kathmandu Deepesh Aryal and two of his restaurant staff set out in the dead of night and brave Kathmandu’s biting wintry chill to

Women entrepreneurs get only 35pc of loan disbursment target

Staff Correspondent Banks and non-bank financial institutions disbursed only 35.77 per cent of their targeted loan disbursement for the women entrepreneurs under the small and medium ...
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Muhith calls for cheaper internet services for all

BASIS SoftExpo-2012 begins Staff Correspondent Finance Minister AMA Muhith on Wednesday  urged the authorities concerned to give special emphasis on how to reach internet services to ...
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Businesses want friendly companies act

Staff Correspondent Business leaders on Wednesday said that the existing companies act should be reformed in a way so that the cost of doing business is ...
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19 fined for wrongly hoisting flags

Our Correspondent . Patuakhali A mobile court at Patharghata in Patuakhali on Tuesday fined a total of 19 persons for hoisting national flags wrongly on Ekushey
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Occupy loses legal fight over St Paul’s eviction

Reuters . London Anti-capitalism activists lost their legal fight against eviction from outside London’s landmark St Paul’s Cathedral on Wednesday after three judges turned down their
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North Korea calls Seoul N-summit a ‘childish farce’

Reuters . Seoul Isolationist North Korea lashed out at its neighbour on Wednesday for hosting an international nuclear security summit in Seoul next month, calling it
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Pointer to govt’s insincerity and police inefficiency

ALMOST two weeks have passed since Maasranga news editor Sagar Sarowar and his wife, senior ATN Bangla reporter Meherun Runi, were found stabbed to death
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State’s failure a major reason for increasing stress in society

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Professor Shaheen Islam of Dhaka University tells New Age by Shahidul Islam Chowdhury THE failure of the state to meet the basic needs of citizens is
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Shilpakala observes Int’l Mother Language Day

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Cultural Correspondent Artistes from different countries presented music in their respective languages on Tuesday at the National Theatre Hall of Bangladesh Shilpakala Acdemy at a programme
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Road repairs and corruption

THE Roads and Highways Department and the local government and rural development ministry have spent a huge amount of money in the past three years
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Bangla still ignored in Bangladesh

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by Nurul Kabir THE Bangla-speaking population in general, and the Bengalis of Bangladesh in particular, [The Bangla-speaking people, as a ‘truncated speech community’, live in different
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