Kathmandu / Sept 5: Minister for Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation, Barshaman Pun, has left here today, leading a Nepali delegation to the Energy Week in Bangladesh. Minister Pun is scheduled to address the Week and on the occasion, he will hold bilateral talks on the matter of energy exchange with Bangladeshi officials. During the […]
Kathmandu / Sept 4: Protesting doctors have withdrawn their protests for a week following an agreement between the Nepal Medical Association (NMA) and government. The medical association had announced a series of protests against government’s criminal code stating that it treated doctors as criminals. As a result, the NMA had decided to halt all of […]
Kathmandu / Sept 4: Nepal lost to Hong Kong by three wickets ending its hope of playing in the Asia Cup tournament. In a low scoring match in Malaysia, Hong Kong chased the paltry 96 runs target in the 33rd over losing seven wickets. Nepali bowlers had bowled well defending the low total but a […]
Kathmaneu / Sept 3: The 11th Asia Pacific Intelligence Chief Conference has kicked off in the capital on Monday. The Acting Chief of the Nepal Army Purna Chandra Thapa inaugurated the conference jointly organized by the Nepal Army and the US Indo-Pacific Command Directorate of Intelligence, according to the press statement issued by the Directorate […]
Kathmandu / Sept 1: Flood Forecasting Division (FFD) under the Department of Hydrology and Meteorology has warned of flash floods in some places including the Kathmandu Valley on Saturday night. “Massive clouds have been formed in the sky above Makwanpur, Chitwan, Rupandehi, Kapilvastu, Dang, Banke, Ilam, Sunsari, Morang, Dhankuta districts including the Valley and are […]
Kathmandu / Aug 30: The country will witness changes in weather pattern for the next three days with moderate rainfalls across the country, the Weather Forecast Division said. The Division predicts sporadic and moderate rainfall today and tonight in many parts of the central and western regions and some places of eastern Nepal. A partial […]
Kathmandu / Aug 29:Growing deforestation in line with the recent spur in development works and infrastructural expansion has raised concern among stakeholders. Forests stretching over an area of 570,000 hectares were strewn with slash over 21 years from 2020 BS to 2041 BS. Likewise, 263,000 hectares of forest area was flattened in Chure Zone alone […]
Kathmandu / Aug 26: As many as 107 hydropower projects with collective installed capacity of 2,356 MW electricity are under construction in Nepal. According to Nepal Electricity Authority, these projects are in different phases of construction. Most of these will be completed within a year. The Upper Tamakoshi, which is listed as a national pride […]
Kathmandu / Aug 26: Senior Journalist Mohan Mainali and Jhapa based journalist Maya Pakuwal have bagged KCC Professional Journalism Award established by Kantipur City College. The award, which carries a purse of NPR 25,000 rupees and felicitation letter conferred to the journalist duo amongst a function held in the Capital on Sunday. Commissioner of the […]
Kathmandu / Aug 23: Chairperson of Communist Party of Nepal (CPN), Pushpa Kamal Dahal has said that the state should encourage creation of employment in the country. Inaugurating the 8th annual general meeting of the Events and Venue Association of Nepal here today, Chair Dahal said that the state should not control the entrepreneurs unnecessarily […]