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Nepal’s EV imports slump as trade routes with China remain shut Kathmandu, Sep 23 (IANS) Nepal’s import of electric four-wheelers has slumped in the past two months, largely due to the disruption of two key trade routes with China caused by massive landslides and floods. According to the Department of Customs, Nepal imported just 486 electric four-wheelers in the first two months of the current fiscal year 2025-26, which began mid-July. This marks a sharp decline from the 1,602 units imported during the same period in the last fiscal. China, Nepal’s largest supplier of EVs, recorded a drastic fall in…

Depending on how you think about it, there’s half a dozen or more approaches to the hardware. And I became excited that within the hardware approach, the neutral atom approach was high potential. So we backed [Thompson’s] company called Logiqal.What happens if you’re right?I’m a venture investor, and we believe in convexity—taking risks on things that most likely won’t work, but if they do work could be 500x in value.It’s a real earth-moving innovation if there’s a chance that quantum computers find the path toward success. You unlock these thinking engines, these computational engines that can run the future of…

In a momentous celebration of Indian cinema, the 71st National Film Awards ceremony saw Bollywood icons Shah Rukh Khan, Vikrant Massey, and Rani Mukherjee take home top honors for their exceptional performances. Held at Rashtrapati Bhavan in Delhi, the awards were presented by President Droupadi Murmu.Also read:Pushpa 2 beats Jawan to become second biggest Hindi film with ₹591.1 croreShah Rukh Khan, Vikrant Massey, and Rani Mukherjee take home top honorsShah Rukh Khan shared the prestigious Best Actor award for his stellar performances in Jawan. This marks his first National Award, a remarkable achievement in his illustrious three-decade-long career. His film Jawan…

In a move to streamline government operations and ensure accountability, the government has announced a temporary halt on all official foreign trips until the end of this year. The directive comes after numerous government officials failed to submit required reports from their previous foreign assignments.Also read: Siddaramaiah writes to Azim Premji, seeks Wipro’s help to cut ORR traffic by 30%Under the new rules, if any official foreign trip is undertaken, the concerned official must submit a study report, a learning report, and a list of recommendations within one week of returning. However, an alarming trend has been observed: many officials…

NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists have discovered a new dinosaur from Argentina with powerful claws, feasting on an ancient crocodile bone.The new find was possibly 23 feet (7 meters) long and hailed from a mysterious group of dinosaurs called megaraptorans. They prowled across what’s now South America, Australia and parts of Asia, splitting off into different species over millions of years.Megaraptorans were known for their stretched-out skulls and “huge and very powerful claws,” said Lucio Ibiricu with the Patagonian Institute of Geology and Paleontology, who was part of the discovery team.But it’s not yet clear how these creatures hunted and…

PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron likes to say that he can get President Donald Trump on the phone any time he wants. In New York for the U.N. General Assembly, he proved it.Blocked on Monday night by police officers when he sought to cross a New York street — they told the French president the road was closed to let a VIP motorcade pass — Macron fished out his phone and dialed his U.S. counterpart.“How are you?” Macron said. “Guess what? I’m waiting in the street because everything is frozen for you!”French media that filmed the scene said…

The Socio-Economic and Educational Survey, carried out by the Karnataka State Commission for Backward Classes, hit a roadblock on Tuesday as a section of teachers protested at Belagavi, urging to be relieved from enumeration duty.ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW VIDEO During the protest, the teachers maintained that though they were not against the survey, they objected to the inclusion of teachers with physical disabilities, health problems, and seniors unfit to carry out the door-to-door survey. In a petition submitted to the deputy commissioner of the district, they said that though the district administration had earlier agreed to drop them from the exercise,…

As Azam Khan stepped out of Sitapur jail a little after 12 pm on Tuesday, a loud cheer went up. Wearing an impassive look, the veteran Samajwadi Party (SP) leader walked quietly towards a waiting vehicle even as party leaders and workers shouted slogans hailing his release after almost two years in prison.Azam, who was welcomed by his son Abdullah and Moradabad MP Ruchi Veera, among others, briefly stopped to address the media on speculation about his political future. “In jail, there was no scope to meet anyone or even make phone calls, so I remained completely cut off. I…

India have been fined 10 percent of their match fee for maintaining a slow over-rate against Australia in the third and final Women’s One Day International in New Delhi on Saturday, September 20. India were found to be two overs short of the target after time allowances were taken into consideration. G.S. Lakshmi of the Emirates ICC International Panel of Match Referees imposed the sanction following this. “In accordance with Article 2.22 of the ICC Code of Conduct for Players and Player Support Personnel, which relates to minimum over-rate offences, players are fined five per cent of their match fee…

Bengaluru: The expulsion of a prominent seer in Karnataka for his leanings towards Hinduism has exposed the strain between the Lingayat community and the pro-Hindu organisations in the state and the complexities of prevailing caste dynamics.Jaya Mruthyunjaya Swami, the first head of Panchamasali Peetha, an outfit of the Lingayat community’s Panchamasali sub-sect in Kudalasangama, was expelled from his position after he asked members to register in the ‘Hindu’ religion category in the caste census that began Monday, triggering a controversy. The Akhila Bharata Lingayat Panchamasali Samaj Trust removed him after the seer held meetings urging people to identify as ‘Hindu’,…