How Conan Doyle turned sleuth to save Uk-indian man

LONDON: Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, was drawn to investigate a real-life crime during his lifetime, to help a Britishindian man wrongly accused of a series of animal maiming incidents in an English village in early 20th century. The story of Indianorigin barrister George

Edalji has now been detailed in an upcoming book, The Mystery of the Parsee Lawyer: Arthur Conan

Doyle, George Edalji and the Case of the Foreigner in the English Village, by Londonbased historian-cum-author Shrabani Basu.

‘Remove me if you can’: Nepal PM Oli challenges Prachanda

KATHMANDU: Nepal’s Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli on Sunday challenged the ruling Nepal Communist Party’s faction led by Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ to remove him from the top post if he can. Addressing an event in his home district, Jhapa, PM Oli challenged the Prachanda-led faction to table a vote of no-confidence motion and endorse that. “K P Oli is still parliamentary party leader of the NCP. He is the party chairman as well as the prime minister,” 69year-old Oli said. “If you have restored parliament, remove KP Oli from the prime ministerial post.”