Society - Setopati English Edition

Friday, Jestha 6, 2079

File Photo: Indian yoga entrepreneur and businessman Baba Ramdev launched a swadeshi WhatsApp lookalike, Kimbho, in 2018. Photo Credit: Quartz India

India's rocky road to social media independence

Pradip Ninan Thomas Thursday, Jestha 5, 2079

In this photo provided by the North Korean government, a doctor visits a family during an activity to raise public awareness of the COVID-19 prevention measures, in Pyongyang, North Korea Tuesday, May 17, 2022.

North Korea’s suspected COVID-19 caseload nears 2 million

AP Thursday, Jestha 5, 2079

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Global pollution kills 9 million people a year: Study

AP Wednesday, Jestha 4, 2079

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US Congress dives into UFOs, but no signs of extraterrestrials

AP Wednesday, Jestha 4, 2079

China’s COVID plan is ‘unsustainable’ due to omicron: WHO

AP Wednesday, Jestha 4, 2079

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Doubt about spam accounts could scuttle Twitter deal: Musk

AP Tuesday, Jestha 3, 2079

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North Korea reports 8 deaths as Kim laments virus response

AP Monday, Jestha 2, 2079

Photo Courtesy: Adam Cohn, Flickr

Indigenous 6G: Can India pull it off?

Manoj Harjani Sunday, Jestha 1, 2079

People hug outside the scene after a shooting at a supermarket on Saturday, May 14, 2022, in Buffalo, New York.

10 dead in supermarket attack in New York

AP Sunday, Jestha 1, 2079

An employee of the Kyonghung Foodstuff General Store disinfects the showroom in Pyongyang, North Korea, Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2021.

What’s behind North Korea’s COVID-19 admission?

AP Friday, Baisakh 30, 2079

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Musk puts Twitter buy on hold, casting doubt on $44B deal

AP Friday, Baisakh 30, 2079

A man and a boy walk across the almost dried up bed of river Yamuna following hot weather in New Delhi, India, Monday, May 2, 2022.

Earth given 50-50 chance of hitting key warming mark by 2026

AP Tuesday, Baisakh 27, 2079

Rescuers search for survivors at the site of Friday's deadly explosion that destroyed the five-star Hotel Saratoga, in Havana, Cuba, Saturday, May 7, 2022.

27 killed in Cuba hotel blast

AP Sunday, Baisakh 25, 2079

FDA restricts J&J’s COVID-19 vaccine in US due to blood clot risk

AP Friday, Baisakh 23, 2079

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What we know of Musk’s big plans for Twitter so far

AP Monday, Baisakh 19, 2079

The team at World Mosquito Program breeds the Wolbachia-carrying mosquitoes and releases them to areas affected by mosquito-borne diseases. (World Mosquito Program)

New tools needed to control the spread of mosquito-borne disease

Katie Anders Sunday, Baisakh 18, 2079

A woman harvests wheat on the outskirts of Jammu, India, Thursday, April 28, 2022.

Heat wave scorches India’s wheat crop, snags export plans

AP Friday, Baisakh 16, 2079

Valley fever is commonly found in soil. (Nephron, Wikimedia Commons)

Fungi could be the source of our next pandemic

Oladele A. Ogunseitan Friday, Baisakh 16, 2079

This colorized electron microscope image made available by the U.S. National Institutes of Health shows a human T cell, indicated in blue, under attack by HIV, in yellow, the virus that causes AIDS.

Increased infectious disease risk likely from climate change

AP Friday, Baisakh 16, 2079

San Francisco, April 28.

What Musk’s past tweets reveal about Twitter’s next owner

AP Thursday, Baisakh 15, 2079

Residents line up for COVID test, Wednesday, April 27, 2022, in Beijing.

Beijing enforces lockdowns, expands COVID-19 mass testing

AP Wednesday, Baisakh 14, 2079

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Will Musk’s hands-off ideal for Twitter have broad appeal?

AP Wednesday, Baisakh 14, 2079

People wearing face masks line up for coronavirus tests in a neighborhood in the Dongcheng district of Beijing, Tuesday, April 26, 2022.

Beijing enforces mass COVID testing, closes neighborhoods

AP Tuesday, Baisakh 13, 2079

In this image from infrared video provided by SpaceX, the Dragon space capsule uses parachutes as it descends to the Atlantic Ocean off the Florida coast on Monday, April 25, 2022.

Rich trio back on Earth after charter trip to space station

AP Tuesday, Baisakh 13, 2079

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Elon Musk buys Twitter for $44B and will take it private

AP Tuesday, Baisakh 13, 2079

FILE - Smoke and steam rise from towers at the coal-fired Urumqi Thermal Power Plant as seen from a plane in Urumqi in western China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region on April 21, 2021.

China promotes coal in setback for efforts to cut emissions

AP Sunday, Baisakh 11, 2079

This photo shows a fishing port where a tour boat which went missing, left for tour in Shari, in the northern island of Hokkaido Saturday, April 23, 2022.

Tour boat with 26 aboard missing in frigid Japan waters

AP Sunday, Baisakh 11, 2079

Oil from a leaking pipeline burns in Goi-Bodo, a swamp area of the Niger Delta.

Explosion at illegal oil refinery in Nigeria kills over 100

AP Sunday, Baisakh 11, 2079

Four children killed in fire in Jumla

Setopati Saturday, Baisakh 10, 2079

UK patient had COVID-19 for 505 days straight, study shows

AP Saturday, Baisakh 10, 2079

Commuters wearing face masks to help protect from the coronavirus look out from a crowded traveling bus during the morning rush hour, Monday, April 18, 2022, in Beijing.

Shanghai reports first deaths in current COVID-19 outbreak

AP Tuesday, Baisakh 6, 2079

Judge who jailed girl for lodging false rape complaint transferred to SC on deputation

Shova Sharma Monday, Baisakh 5, 2079

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Minor now says actor Paul Shah didn't rape her

Yuvaraj Shrestha Sunday, Baisakh 4, 2079

Chinese astronaut Ye Guangfu sits outside return capsule of the Shenzhou-13 manned space mission after landing at the Dongfeng landing site in northern China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Saturday, April 16, 2022.

Chinese astronauts land after 6 months on space station

AP Sunday, Baisakh 4, 2079

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What is Musk really doing as he guns for Twitter?

AP Friday, Baisakh 2, 2079

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Public transportation fare hiked from today

Setopati Thursday, Baisakh 1, 2079

New York City Police and law enforcement officials lead subway shooting suspect Frank R. James, 62, center, away from a police station, in New York, Wednesday, April 13, 2022.

Brooklyn subway shooting suspect tipped off police to his location

AP Thursday, Baisakh 1, 2079

The Marathon Petroleum Refinery is seen in Reserve, Louisiana, Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021.

Battle over carbon capture as tool to fight climate change

AP Thursday, Baisakh 1, 2079

A woman receives her third dose of vaccine for COVID-19 at a private vaccination center in Gauhati, India, Sunday, April 10, 2022.

COVID plunged 77 million into poverty before Ukraine war: UN

AP Wednesday, Chaitra 30, 2078

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Elon Musk won’t join Twitter’s board

AP Tuesday, Chaitra 29, 2078

People take refuge under a shade as a heat wave continues to lash the capital in New Delhi, India, Monday, April 11, 2022.

India’s northwest reels under unusual early heat wave

AP Tuesday, Chaitra 29, 2078

Joyce Ares sits for a portrait in the dinning room of her home on Friday, March 18, 2022, in Canby, Ore.

Can cancer blood tests live up to promise of saving lives?

AP Tuesday, Chaitra 29, 2078

What’s known about BA.2 variant?

AP Saturday, Chaitra 26, 2078

In this photo released by the family of Shen Peiming, Shen Peiming, 71, eats a banana as a family member attends to her at her bed side at the Shanghai Donghai Elderly Care hospital on Sept. 24, 2019.

Shanghai hospital pays the price for China’s COVID response

AP Saturday, Chaitra 26, 2078

India gives permission to import additional 325 MW electricity from Nepal

Setopati Wednesday, Chaitra 23, 2078

NA peacekeeper killed in Congo

Setopati Wednesday, Chaitra 23, 2078

FILE - Elon Musk, Tesla CEO, attends the opening of the Tesla factory Berlin Brandenburg in Gruenheide, Germany, March 22, 2022.

Twitter says it’s testing an ‘edit’ button

AP Wednesday, Chaitra 23, 2078

Herry Wirawan, center, the principal of a girls Islamic boarding school accused of raping his students, is escorted by security officers upon arrival for his sentencing hearing at a district court in Bandung, West java, Indonesia, on Feb. 15, 2022.

Indonesian principal sentenced to death for raping 13 girls

AP Tuesday, Chaitra 22, 2078

Wind turbines stand in front of the rising sun in Frankfurt, Germany, Friday, March 11, 2022.

World hurtling to climate danger zone: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

AP Monday, Chaitra 21, 2078

Residents stand along a street during a mass testing day in a lockdown area in the Jingan district of western Shanghai, Monday, April 4, 2022.

China sends in military to help with Shanghai COVID outbreak

AP Monday, Chaitra 21, 2078

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