Kathmandu / Sept 7: The Cinema Circle Nepal conferred the LG Film Award on various cine-artists under 21 categories amidst a programme on Wednesday. During a programme organized Wednesday evening, ‘Pashupati Prasad’ was declared the best film of the year. Vice-President Nanda Bahadur Pun, Bollywood actor and Indian Loksabha member Shatrughan Sinha, Indian Ambassador to […]
Kiran Bhattarai / Kathmandu: With a steady rise in the number of drugs abusers every year in Nepal, the number of people arrested on the charge of its smuggling is noticeably increasing of late in the country. The statics of the past six years (2011-2015) made available by the Nepal Police show that a total […]
Kathmandu / Sept 7:Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ has said how to decentralise civil service which still remained in a centralised and integrated form and restructure its mechanism as per a federal system was the major question of the hour. Addressing a special ceremony organised today by the Ministry of General Administration at Nepal […]
Kathmandu / Sept 7: The fifth edition of ‘Nepal Africa Film Festival – 2016’ kicked off today at the Russian Centre of Science and Culture (RCSC) at Kamalpokhari of the capital city. Vice President Nanda Bahadur Pun inaugurated the festival and shared his belief that the event would work as a bridge in boosting the […]
Morang / Sept 7: The farmers in Morang district who are registered at the District Agriculture Development Office (DADO), Morang have been lately availing agricultural advisory services at a sms away. Altogether 350 farmers in the district were benefitted from the SMS agricultural advisory services initiated by the DADO, Morang this week. The undertaking aims […]
Kathmandu / Sept 5: The Madhya Paschimanchal University (MPU) has decorated litterateur Jhamak Ghimire with honorary doctorate degree. During a convocation ceremony the MPU held here Monday, President Bidya Devi Bhandari said, “Litterateur Ghimire is a literary person of unrivalled talent. Despite suffering physical weakness, she has contributed significantly to Nepali literary firmament. She is […]
Kathmandu / Sept 5: The National Reconstruction Authority (NRA) is to come up with a new policy to expedite it works. At an interaction programme on the ‘post-earthquake situation’ jointly organised by National Election Observation Committee and Justice for All here today, NRA Spokesperson Ram Prasad Thapaliya admitted that rebuilding task had got delayed. He […]
Kathmandu / Sept 4: Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal has expressed his gratefulness to the United States America for its cooperation to take ahead the national priority agendas including completion of Nepal’s peace process, implementation of the new constitution, post-earthquake reconstruction and local body election. In a meeting with US Assistant Secretary of State for […]
Kathmandu / Sept 4: Haritalika Teej, the biggest festival of Hindu women is being celebrated today with fanfare. Women are visiting temple of lord Shiva across the country and also seen singing and dancing to celebrate the day. Teej falls on the third day of Shukla Paksha (bright fortnight) in the month of Bhadra. Women […]
Kathmandu / Sept 3: In a bid to foster reading culture, a library and information centre has been set up at Jorpati of Gokarneshwor municipality. It is the Chamunda Library and Information Centre. A total of 4,000 books of Sanskrit, Nepali and English languages have been put in the library set up by Chamunda Area […]