Kathmandu / June 12: Foreign tourists visiting Nepal too have been found to be the reason for child sexual exploitation in Nepal. This was revealed in a report ‘world voyage and child sexual exploitation in tourism’ released here today jointly by CWIN Nepal, Shakti Samuha and Maiti Nepal. Speaking at the programme, Minister for Culture, […]
Kathmandu, June 12: Laxman Thapaliya has been elected as President of Nepal Bar Association (NBA) Kathmandu chapter. Thapaliya got 810 votes while his nearest rival Tej Bahadur Rawal secured 560 and Ramesh Raj Sharma Sigdel 64. Likewise, Madan Regmi was elected Vice President with 760 votes, while his rival Narayan Sharma secured 526. Similarly, Ram […]
Gorkha / June 11: The Netra Bikram Chand-led CPN-Maoist torched an Ncell tower installed at Arshang, Thamdanda in Gorkha district today morning. A group of three cadres of the party put the tower on fire by sprinkling petroleum product in the generator of the tower as a reprimand to the Ncell for not paying tax. […]
Kathmandu / June 11: A total of seven metric tonnes of waste has been collected from the Bagmati river near Buddhanagar area under the ongoing Bagmati Clean-Up Campaign. The campaign today entered its 161st episode. On the occasion, the campaigners, security personnel, local leaders and volunteers including campaign leader former chief secretary Leelamani Poudyal were […]
Damak / June 10: “Nepal, as a sovereign and independent country, will never dance in tune of any foreigners,” reaffirmed Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli on Friday. Addressing the 10th town assembly of CPN (UML), Damak Chapter in Damak, Jhapa on Friday, PM Oli who is also the Chairman of the CPN-UML reiterated that it […]
Kathmandu / June 10: The Fourth Nepal Human Rights International Film Festival kicked off in Lalitpur from today. The three-day event is being organised with the objective of developing the film as the campaign for social and cultural change for the protection of an individual’s right to life. The film festival organised by the Human […]
Kathmandu / June 9: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has expressed concern over the inconvenience caused to the people’s life by the Thursday’s nationwide shutdown held at the call of the UCPN (Maoist- Biplab faction). People’s daily life was affected due to impact of the shutdown. Vehicles remained off the road, schools and factories […]
Narayan Prasad Ghimire (Kathmandu) / June 8: The government has been suggested that it set up a coordinating committee to be in charge of the implementation of recommendations of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR), UN treaty bodies and other international human rights mechanisms, with representation of the National Human Rights Commission, government and other stakeholders. […]
Rajbiraj, June 8: A rise in tusker menace in the past few days in eastern localities of Saptari has sent locals running for their lives. A horde of wild elephants straying to the settlement in Kamalpur of Saptakoshi Municipality –9 from Koshi Tapu Wildlife Reserve vandalized at least six houses last night. The elephants were […]
Kathmandu, June 7: Senior musician Amber Gurung was cremated with National Honours at Pashupati Aryaghat this evening, following both Hindu and Buddhist traditions. His eldest son Kishore lit the funeral pyre and the last rites were performed amidst the chanting of mantras by Buddhist monks. Earlier, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defense Bhim Bahadur […]
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