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KATHMANDU - Nepal has hastened the process to attract more and more tourists in order to attract one million tourists next year for the much awaited Nepal Tourism Year 2011.

LONDON - Judgment in the appeal case of a non-resident Indian, Raj Arjandas Bhojwani, who received a six-year jail term over multi-million dollar money-laundering charges, is expected any day in Britain's semi-autonomous island of Jersey.

LONDON - A British professor has been left feeling disgusted after he was ordered to pay 155 pounds as fine for getting off his train one station before the destination on his ticket.

LOS ANGELES - A new survey, which measured Americans' knowledge of religion, has found that atheists and agnostics knew more than followers of most major faiths.ccording to the survey by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, a majority of Protestants could not identify Martin Luther as the driving force behind the Protestant Reformation.

NEW DELHI - Peace in South Asia is under threat by longstanding disputes between India and Pakistan, escalating violence in Afghanistan and Kashmir and post-war displacement in Sri Lanka, South Asians for Human Rights (SAHR) has said in a statement.