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Followers of ‘ Buddha boy’ Ram Bahadur Bomjan have been accused of holding two women, one a Slovak, captive. It is learnt that members of the Bodhi Srawan Dharma Sangh, an association formed to oversee Bomjan’s security, have held the women for ‘practicing witchcraft’ and disturbing Bomjan’s meditation. Bomjan has been meditating in the Halkhoriya forest of Ratanpuri VDC in Bara district for the past seven years. Though the identities of the women have not been established officially, people claiming to know them said the woman from Slovakia is named Marichi while the second woman is Mata Aani, said to be from Sindhupalchowk. A person involved with the Sangh said the two women have been “detained” for practicing witchcraft and trying to disrupt the meditation. Marichi had arrived in Nepal 11 months ago, seeking audience with Bomjan. She stayed in a local hotel for some time before moving to a monastery in Simara. The other woman, meanwhile, had been living in the Halkhor...

The biggest solar storm in five years is battering our planet right now, and may cause disruptions to satellites, power grids and communications networks over the next 24 hours, space weather experts say. Two strong solar flares erupted from the surface of the sun late Tuesday (March 6), blasting a wave of plasma and charged particles toward Earth. After speeding through space at 4 million mph, this eruption of material — called a coronal mass ejection (CME) — should be hitting Earth now. The storm is expected to create strong disruptions due to an odd combination of intense magnetic, radio and radiation emissions, making it the strongest overall solar storm since December 2006, even though the flare that triggered it was not the largest, space weather officials said. The CME reached Earth this morning at about 5:45 a.m. EST (1045 GMT), according to officials at the Space Weather Prediction Center, which is jointly managed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adm...

Chaturman Gurung , a porter from Khewang VDC in the district, has never seen a break from his mundane job. Neither does he hope for such a chance in the future. Gurung, 64, started this profession in 1971 when he went to Ilam with some friends to carry goods of local traders. Since then, he is into this job. “One born into a poor family has to struggle for survival like me. I do not think that I would get rid of this profession in this life,” he said. “I would only have a chance to meet my family once a week while working in Ilam. Nowadays, I return home in the evening after work, and I am satisfied with it,” Gurung said. He said that he used to receive Rs 50 paisa per kg for carrying goods for a day's walking distance when he started the job, but now he gets Rs 20 per kg for the same distance. Gurung remembers how he would carry a load of up to 80 kg when he was young. “But with my growing age, I hardly carry load of 50 kg now,” he said, adding that sometime he carries up...

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A man left unable to walk by a tumour on his right leg that weighs more than the rest of his body went under the knife in Vietnam on Thursday to have the growth removed, hospital officials said. Nguyen Duy Hai 's massive 90 kilogramme (198 pounds) tumour is to be cut away by a team of doctors in a risky 10 hour procedure that has only a 50 percent chance of success, the France-Vietnam ( FV ) hospital in Ho Chi Minh City said. Hai, 31, who suffers from a rare genetic disorder, has been living with the tumour since he was four years old, FV hospital 's statement read. He had part of his leg amputated when he was 17, but the tumour, which is not cancerous, continued to expand, making it difficult for Hai to walk and sleep. The growth is thought to be the largest ever recorded in Vietnam, according to state media, who have followed Hai's condition for years. "This is a huge procedure with many risks, including the risk of death during surgery or post-ope...

After Chandra Bahadur Dangi made the world record as the world’s shortest man standing at just 55cm tall, another Nepali man is all set to do the country proud again by setting another world record in yoga. Nani Ram Dahal reportedly practiced yoga for a record 37 continuous hours from 8 am on Monday to 9 pm on Tuesday. He broke the previous world record for the longest yoga marathon set by an Austrian citizen, Michael Schwab, in September 2009. Schwab held the record at 29 hours and 4 minutes. An elated Dahal has said he will soon inform the the Guinness Book of World Records to claim the world title for longest yoga practice. He set the “new record” in the presence of a team of 18 yoga experts, including Dammar Sunuwar and Meera Barakoti, amid a programme organised at Balmiki Campus, Exhibition Road.

SLC examination begins tomorrow This year’s School Leaving Certificate exminition is beginning across the country on Tuesday