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Nepal: Sushila Karki made history as she became Nepal's first female Chief Justice, serving in the role from July 2016 to June 2017. Kathmandu: Former Chief Justice Sushila Karki, who has been proposed by the Gen-G youth to lead the interim government of Nepal, on Thursday said that she is ready to work in the national interest. She also said that she is overwhelmed by the trust that the Nepalese youth have shown in her. The 71-year-old Karki said, "Gen-G Group has trusted me to lead the government for a short period of time. I am ready to work…

Nepal has extended curfew orders across Kathmandu Valley even as calm begins to return following days of violent protests. While Tribhuvan International Airport has resumed operations, unrest in prisons and uncertainty over interim leadership continue to keep the nation on edge. Kathmandu: The Nepal Army on Thursday extended prohibitory orders across the three districts of Kathmandu Valley, even as the country began returning to normalcy following violent protests that led to the resignation of Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli. The curfew, which remains in place in Kathmandu, Lalitpur and Bhaktapur, allows limited movement windows for the public to carry out…

9/11 attacks: On September 11, 2001, suicide hijackers took control of US passenger planes and flew them into two skyscrapers in New York, resulting in the deaths of thousands in a series of events that changes the world histpry forever New Delhi: On September 11, 2001, the US and the world were shaken as Al-Qaeda orchestrated coordinated attacks in New York's Manhattan that forever altered the nation's trajectory. Four commercial airliners were hijacked, two were flown into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, one hit the Pentagon, and the fourth crashed in Pennsylvania after passengers resisted the hijackers.…