Kathmandu / Sept 6: Secretary at the Commission of Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) Shanta Raj Subedi is to be honoured with the ‘best civil servant award’. Secretary Subedi has recently been transferred to the Finance Ministry. The prize carries a purse of Rs. 200,000. Subedi was chosen for the award by a panel […]
Kathmandu / Aug 20: Former Chairperson of Council of Ministers Khil Raj Regmi has been honoured with the ‘Asia’s Dignitary Man of the Year’ title by the US-based organizaiton, We Care for Humanity (WCH). He was awarded “Asia’s Dignitary Man of the Year” at the We Care for Humanity’s 3rd Global Officials of Dignity Awards, […]
Kathmandu / Aug 15: The ‘International Darnal Award for Social Justice’, instituted in memory of Dalit rights activist Subhash Darnal, has been awarded to Rakshyaram Chamar of Kapilvastu. The award carries a purse of Rs 500,000. Chamar, 28, who was born in the marginalized Madhesi Dalit family, has been honoured in recognition of his contribution […]
Kathmandu / July 16: The Grande International Hospital has started kidney transplant service. The Grande International Hospital has become the first private hospital in Kathmandu to begin the kidney transplant service. Organsing a press conference here on Friday, Hospital Director Dr Chakraraj Pandey, said that the Hospital carried out successful kidney transplant with Rabin Lama, […]
Bhaktapur / July 2: The US Department of State has awarded Chief at the metropolitan Police Range, Bhaktapur, Superintendent of Police, Kiran Bajracharya, with 2016 Hero Acting to End Modern Slavery Award. At a programme organised at the US Department of State on Friday, SP Bajracharya told that the certificate was presented declaring her as […]
Kathmandu / May 18: Prof. Dr Ashok Banskota has been honoured with ‘World of Children Alumni Award 2016’. The award carries a purse of Rs 3.9 million. The World of Children Inc, an American organisation, awarded Dr Banskota for his significant contribution for the treatment of disabled children with disabilities and their rehabilitation in the […]
Advocate Balaram Bhattarai : Haruwa Sarki, a former Haliya, bonded laborer, thought they will see good days when the government announced emancipation of the Haliyas in 2009, but he has not got anything from the state and his situation is still the same, seven years after his liberation. When advocate Bhattarai reached the house of Sarki, […]
Kathmandu / March 10: The Forbes magazine published from the US has included Nepali industrialist Binod Chaudhary in the world billionaires list of 2016. Chairman of the Chaudhary Group, owns the properties worth 1.1 billion US dollars (some Rs 110 billion). The list made public by the magazine on Wednesday said Chaudhary stands 577th among […]
Shattering all constraints of her developing country and a society in which science is a non-competitive zone, a Nepalese biologist has won the 2016 Elsevier Foundation Awards for her research activities that have strong potential for health and economic benefits. Dr Sushila Maharjan from Kathmandu was recognised for her work in the field of ‘biochemistry […]
Nicholas Kristof / Hetauda: WATCHING the doctor perform is like observing miracles. He has restored eyesight to more than 100,000 people, perhaps more than any doctor in history, and still his patients come. They stagger and grope their way to him along mountain trails from remote villages, hoping to go under his scalpel and see […]
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