The Nepal Government on Wednesday offered a state salute to the Late Former Prime Minister Sushil Koirala, who suddenly passed away at 24:50 on Tuesday. Late Koirala’s personal physician Dr. Karabir Nath Yogi informed media of the cause of Koirala’s death as pneumonia. The Nepali media outlets have been highlighting available biographical notes to remember […]
Op-Ed: Gun Control Is Deadly
Gun control does nothing to prevent criminals from killing innocent people. It merely inhibits law abiding citizens from defending themselves against the deviant lunatics who randomly and sometimes not so randomly choose their targets. Every state (& city) that imposes strict firearm regulations on its civilian population has insane numbers of murders committed by gun […]
Nepali students protest against Indian interference
About two hundred thousand Nepali students on Friday came out to the Ring Road streets in the Kathmandu Valley demanding their right to life and education in the light of the three-month long Madhesh protests that have been violent and anarchic. The major demand of the Madheshi protesters is that their territories bordering India must […]
An interpretation of The Face of an Angel by Michael Winterbottom
The movie inspired by the Kercher case and directed by the talented, if sometimes controversial, British director has not been much appreciated, both by general audiences and by critics. Rotten Tomatoes gives it a 37% rating and quotes the critics consensus as: “The Face of an Angel finds director Michael Winterbottom in pursuit of ideas […]
Mystery DNA: The Strange Case of Bossetti and Unsub1
The murder of Yara Gambirasio Yara Gambirasio was a 13 years old girl of Brembate, a small town in the province of Bergamo, in Northern Italy, who disappeared on November 26, 2010, and whose corpse was found in an open field in the nearby Chignolo three months later, on February 26, 2011. The murder triggered […]
Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito: Final Words
This article aims to be a short commentary on the final ruling concerning the Kercher murder case, the so-called Marasca Report, the one definitively closing the case by acquitting Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito after almost eight years. But it is also intended to be a final thought about the case before leaving this chapter […]