ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Britain’s Prince William and his wife Kate on Wednesday visited a melting glacier in the Hindu Kush mountain range not far from Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan, witnessing first hand the impact of climate change their trip is seeking to highlight. They flew by helicopter to the northern tip of the Chiatibo glacier, where a climate change expert… Read more »
China’s Xi also pledges financial aid as he becomes first Chinese leader to visit Nepal in more than 20 years. President Xi Jinping has wrapped up a landmark visit to Nepal, the first by a Chinese president in 23 years, with 20 deals signed and nearly $500m in financial aid pledged amid Beijing’s growing influence in the impoverished Himalayan nation. After talks in… Read more »
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An explosion at a university in southeast Afghanistan has wounded at least 19 students, according to officials, two of them critically. The blast on Tuesday took place inside a classroom at Ghazni University, located on the outskirts of the provincial capital, Ghazni, Arif Noori, spokesman for the provincial governor, said. The blast wounded 12 female students, Noori said. Officials in the provincial hospital… Read more »
A baby girl found buried alive in India was a suspected case of female infanticide, police said on Monday, the latest to highlight the preference for sons in a country where the number of girls has been declining. A couple, who went to bury their newborn at a grave after she died in hospital, discovered the youngster inside an earthen pot buried… Read more »
The Indian government revoked the special status accorded to Indian-administered Kashmir in its constitution, the most far-reaching political move on the disputed region in nearly 70 years. A presidential decree issued on August 5 revoked Article 370 of India’s constitution that guaranteed special rights to the Muslim-majority state, including the right to its own constitution and autonomy to make laws on all matters except… Read more »
Kathmandu, September 30 A Parliament Secretariat staffer told lawmaker Uma Regmi early morning today that she was raped by Speaker Krishna Bahadur Mahara last evening at her rented flat in Tinkune. Mahara, however, refuted the allegation. Nepali Congress lawmaker Regmi told THT over phone from Chitwan that the staffer told her about the incident at around 12:30am today. Regmi said… Read more »
The speaker of Nepal’s parliament has stepped down after a female employee of the parliament secretariat accused him of rape. Krishna Bahadur Mahara, a senior member of the ruling Nepal Communist Party, said on Tuesday he was stepping down to allow an “impartial and independent investigation into the allegations that have come forward in media reports … until the probe… Read more »
Kathmandu: Following a charge of sexual assault, Krishna Bahadur Mahara has resigned on Tuesday as speaker of Nepal’s House of Representatives (HoR). Issuing a press statement, Mahara said that he had resigned to facilitate an investigation into the charges against him. A woman, who works in the Parliament Secretariat, told the media that Mahara tried to assault her on Sunday… Read more »
UDAIPUR, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – South Asian pastoralists facing shrinking rangelands and a rise in conflicts over the right to roam must be allowed greater involvement in managing lands to help secure their survival, land experts said on Thursday. Herders around the world are coming under pressure from governments to settle down and stop their livestock roaming, as they… Read more »