Kathmandu: Newly-elected President Bidhya Devi Bhandari was sworn in on Thursday as the first female president of Nepal.
Bhandari was administered the oaths of office and secrecy by Chief Justice Kalyan Shrestha at the presidential palace, Xinhua news agency reported.
Bhandari was elected to the post on Wednesday after she clinched an over-whelming victory in the presidential poll defeating Nepali Congress candidate Kul Bahadur Gurung.
Kulwinder El Assad, 40, attempted to to import the heroin from Islamabad with the help of Arbab Akhtar, 29, from Blackburn and Mohammed Aslam Khan, 61, from Ashton-Under-Lyne.
The gunman identified as 26-year-old Chris Harper Mercer, opened fire at the Community College campus in Oregon before having an exchange of fire with police
A 21-year-old Indian origin woman has been selected to represent Malaysia at the ninth UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) Youth Forum to be held in France from October 26 to 28.
Turban-wearing Sikhs will now have the right to choose not to wear head protection and will be exempt from legal requirements to wear a safety helmet in the majority of workplaces
India gave a rebuttal to Sharif's proposal to de-militarise Kashmir, asking that Pakistan needs to first "de-terrorise" the state.
Kartik Chandran, an Indian-American associate professor of earth and environmental engineering at Columbia Engineering, has been named a 2015 MacArthur Fellow with a "genius grant" of $625,000 with no strings attached.