Kathmandu: In a blunt statement, Nepal Prime Minister KP Oli has blamed India for being behind the CPN (Maoist Centre) pulling out support to his government. “India’s role was primarily behind” the pulling out of support by the Maoists, Oli said on Thursday in a conference on National Security in Kathmandu, adding that the process of government change was “not an automatic process but conducted by remote control”. A file... 

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses a gathering at council meeting. A meeting of the Inter-State Council, convened by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, will deliberate on issues of internal security, economic and social planning, and inter-state relations among other issues tomorrow. The meeting is expected to be attended by all chief ministers. Convened after a gap of 10 years, the Inter-State Council meeting will see Modi, along with 17 Union ministers,... 

Moto E3 Smartphone Launched. Motorola on Thursday unveiled the third-generation Moto E smartphone in the UK. Called the Moto E3, it will be available from early September in the country at GBP 99 (roughly Rs. 8,800) in Black and White colour variants. At this point, the company has not detailed availability in other regions, or disclosed all the specifications of the smartphone. The Moto E3 will be available in a dual-SIM variant in some regions,... 

Francois Hollande extended the state of emergency in France after the terror attack in Nice. PARIS: French President Francois Hollande said today that the state of emergency in the country has been extended by three months after an attacker killed 80 people and injured several others in the city of Nice, when he drove a truck into a crowded area. “French state of emergency has been extended for 3 months,” President Hollande said during... 

BEIJING, CHINA: China may build mobile nuclear power plants in the South China Sea, state media reported on Friday, days after an international tribunal dismissed Beijing’s vast claims in the strategically vital waters. “Marine nuclear power platform construction will be used to support China’s effective control in the South China Sea,” the website of the state-run Global Times cited the China National Nuclear Corporation... 

LG Stylus 2 Plus Smartphone Launched in India. LG has officially launched the Stylus 2 Plus in India. To recall, the smartphone was tipped to have already become available in India via offline retail stores earlier this week. The LG Stylus 2 Plus has been priced at Rs. 24,450 in the country. The LG Stylus 2 Plus was first announced in April for Taiwan, but got global availability in June. The Stylus 2 Plus retains the same form factor as the original... 

Lenovo Vibe K4 Note. Lenovo India on Thursday unveiled the Wooden Edition of the Vibe K4 Note smartphone. Priced at Rs. 11,499, the new Lenovo Vibe K4 Note Wooden Edition is now available to buy via Amazon India. The Chinese company in a press statement also announced that it has sold 750,000 units of the Vibe K4 Note in India so far. The number of Vibe K4 Note units sold is interesting considering that the company in April announced that it sold... 

Britain’s new Prime Minister Theresa May with Queen Elizabeth at Buckingham Palace. LONDON: Theresa May replaced David Cameron as Britain’s prime minister on Wednesday, assuming responsibility for the monumental task of negotiating a complex divorce from the European Union. Cameron stepped down after Britons rejected his entreaties and voted to leave the EU in a referendum last month, severely undermining European efforts to forge greater... 

Lenovo Vibe C2 with 5inch HD display. Lenovo has launched yet another Vibe series handset in the form of the Vibe C2. It has been currently listed on a Russian site with no pricing or availability details. The Lenovo Vibe C2 comes with a 5-inch HD display and runs on Android 6.0 Marshmallow out of the box with Lenovo’s VibeUI skin atop it. The Vibe C2 is powered by a 1GHz quad-core processor which is paired with 1GB of RAM. You get 8GB internal... 

Beijing: China warned its rivals Wednesday against turning the South China Sea into a “cradle of war” and threatened an air defence zone there, after its claims to the strategically vital waters were declared invalid. An aerial photo shows Thitu Island. The surprisingly strong and sweeping ruling by a UN-backed tribunal in The Hague provided powerful diplomatic ammunition to the Philippines, which filed the challenge, and other claimants...