
Phulchoki: The United Nations declared Nepal free of land mine fields on Tuesday after the last of the anti-personnel weapons planted by the army while fighting communist insurgents was destroyed. Prime Minister Jhalnath Khanal flipped a switch to trigger the last land mine, which had been laid to protect the main civil aviation radio tower in mountains south of the capital, Katmandu. UN official Robert Piper declared that the mine...

09:51 PM, Jun 14, 2011

London: There's now scientific backing for the old adage that laughter is the best medicine, as a new study has claimed that a hearty chuckle promotes healing by speeding up blood flow. It is likely to put you on the road to recovery more quickly than any hi-tech treatment, simply by increasing your blood circulation, said the researchers. A team led by researchers at the University of Leeds that carried...

02:50 PM, Mar 10, 2011

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Colombo: Sri Lanka's cricket selectors on Tuesday expressed concern over the fitness of Angelo Mathews, who is currently playing in the Indian Premier League (IPL). Mathews failed a fitness test ahead of the first Test against England and played the second Test only as a batsman. During the Test, he said that over the last 12 months, he had been nursing knee, quadriceps and ankle injuries and needed to manage...

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