Kathmandu / Aug 31: The BP Koirala Literary Award instituted by BP Koirala Memorial Trust will be conferred on senior writer Bhuwan Dhungana Likewise, the annual Freedom Fighter Award will be presented to Shyam Lal Shrestha. A Committee led by Trust’s Treasurer Purushottam Basnet and consisting of members Baldev Sharma Majgainya, Dr Dhubra Chandra Gautam […]
Kathmandu / Aug. 30: Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) has disconnected power supply to a total of 3,411 consumers across the country, reasoning the owners failed to pay tariff for long. After the NEA emerged tough against the non-payers, Rs 62 million in arrears has been raised so far. The non-payer’s power supply was cut since […]
Kathmandu / Aug 30: Minister for Population and Environment Jayadev Joshi has highlighted the importance of bio-diversity for reducing the negative effects of climate change. At an interaction on bio-diversity, forest and environment organized by Rastriya Shahid Smarak Gokarna on Monday, Minister Joshi cautioned the people of dire consequences of climate change if attention was […]
Chitwan / Aug 29: Sauraha of Chitwan, Nepal’s third popular tourist destination, is set to get over Rs 13 million well-equipped tourism information centre. Tourists visiting Sauraha get troubled for want of necessary information about an array of things like location. The setting up of the information centre is believed to relieve tourists visiting the […]
Kathmandu / Aug 26: The Transparency International (TI) Nepal has shown serious concern over the efforts to register public land under the name of CPN (Maoist-Centre) in Parsa district. It has argued that this effort must not be materialized. The media had brought the news that a local recommendation committee recommended for the registration of […]
Kathmandu / Aug 25: The China Machinery Engineering Corporation (CMEC), a government-owned company of China has expressed interest in making investment in two important hydropower projects of Nepal. The Company has proposed to the Government of Nepal expressing its readiness to invest in the Tamakoshi III and Tamor hydropower projects. The Tamakoshi hydropower project of […]
Kathmandu / Aug 24: Japan Football Association (JFA) has kicked off a five-day ‘Goalkeeping Course’ for Nepali goalkeepers at the ANFA Complex in Satdobato from today. Twenty-two youth goalkeepers are attending the course. Coach at the National Training Centre at Hokkaido, Japan, Ogata Gyosuke, is providing the training. Gyosuke is an expert goalkeeping trainer to […]
Kathmandu / Aug 24: The Nepal Panchanga Nirnayak Samiti, a government entity to approve lunar and solar-based calendars, has conducted training on astrology and religious ceremonies in the Capital. The six-month training starting from the Nepali month of Asadh this year is attended by 39 people interested in pursuing astrology and performing various traditional and […]
Kathmandu / Aug 23: Data of 49,977 families, whose houses were damaged by Gorkha earthquake last year, have been collected in the Kathmandu valley. With this, 45 per cent task of collecting the details, out of 111,300 households, has been completed in the Valley till August 22. The National Reconstruction Authority has deputed technicians and […]
Kathmandu / Aug 23: The national league champion, Three Star Club tied 1-1 with Cambodia’s Nagaworld Club during the ongoing AFC Cup Football playoff selection in Mongolia. It was the second match Nepal played there. The Three Star netted in the 85th minute of the game played in Ulaanbaatar of Mongolia on Tuesday. It was […]