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The Hindu community in a town in Pakistan's Sindh province staged a protest against alleged harassment by a local Muslim clan who have hindered performing their religious rituals, a media report said on Friday.

Ansi's death would suggest the covert US drone programme against the Yemen branch of the global militant group is continuing, despite the evacuation of American military advisers from the country amid a worsening civil war.

Pakistan has sent almost hundred death row convicts to gallows since it lifted the moratorium on capital punishment after a deadly terrorist attack on an army-run school in Peshawar on December 16, 2014.

Washington wants to be certain that any nuclear deal between Iran and major powers includes the possibility of restoring UN sanctions if Tehran breaks the agreement without risking Russian and Chinese vetoes, a senior US official said on Tuesday.

"143 aftershocks of magnitude greater than 4.0 on Richter Scale have occurred after the April 25 quake," Adhikari said.

The two parties fought a civil war that ended in 1949 with Taiwan splitting from the mainland.

Even as Nepal struggles to come to terms with its worst earthquake disaster in over eight decades, rescuers from around the world, including India, are scrambling to locate survivors and bring succour to the needy.

A 5-month-old baby boy was rescued from under the debris after the massive earthquake in Nepal on Saturday.

Koirala, after chairing a cabinet meeting, also asked the bussinessmen to open big departmental stores to ease food supplies shortage.

The laser is tunable in real time, meaning you can quickly and simply produce different colours, a unique and useful feature, researchers said.

It will be difficult to evacuate the climbers as the route back to base camp through the Khumbu icefalls is blocked, Ang Tshering Sherpa said.

The control rooms have been opened in Andhra Pradesh Bhavan in New Delhi and Andhra Pradesh secretariat.

The devastating quake of 8.3-magnitude on Richter scale that fateful day of January 15 had its epicentre at some 10 kms south of Mt Everest.

At least 200 bodies have been retrieved from the rubble so far, police said, adding that several people were still trapped under the debris.

The PMO later tweeted that Modi spoke to the chief ministers of Bihar and Sikkim.