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.
The White House has teamed up with a Sikh and an Asia Pacific community group to launch a public awareness campaign to address bullying in six languages including Hindi, Punjabi and Urdu.
In an email interview here, Key said closer economic and political ties between New Zealand and India would help both countries immensely.
Three transients appeared briefly in court Wednesday for the first time since they were charged with killing and robbing a Quebec backpacker and a yoga instructor days apart in California.
A Sikh leader, Amarjit Atwal, was quoted as saying that the numbers queueing up for the free food had been growing each week.
An engineer by qualification, won silver in the Women's Fitness Physique category and qualified for the World Championship
Nobel Prize winner Angus Deaton's current research focuses on the determinants of health in rich and poor countries as well as on the measurement of poverty in India and around the world.