Kathmandu / Feb 12: Senior citizens have demanded an increment in the old age allowance. Currently, State provides monthly allowance of Rs 2,000 to senior citizens above 70 under the Social Security Allowance Scheme. A group of senior citizens have continued their sit-in protest near the Constituent Assembly (CA) building for long, demanding a 50 […]
Nuwakot / Feb 11: Belkotgadhi Municipality has distributed saplings of kiwi in subsidy aiming to attract farmers towards kiwi farming. The saplings of kiwi have been distributed to the farmers at 75 per cent in grants. Senior Horticulture Development Officer at the District, Chhabi Lal Sharma, said the fruit is very useful to diabetes and […]
Kapilvastu / Feb 11: Province-5 provincial assembly member Bishnu Panthi provided Rs 1.51 million to a local campus in Banganga Municipality-4 of Kapilvastu district. The locals have organised a week-long Mahayagya programme since February 6 with the aim to collect fund to run Animal and Crop Science programme at the Siddhartha Campus. The province lawmaker […]
Dharan / Feb 10: Three Star Club has won the title of 20th Red Bull Budha Subba Gold Club on Saturday. Three Star bagged the tile defeating Nepal Police Club 1-0 in the final match of the tournament held at Dharan Stadium today. Ajayi Martini’s score in the 50th minute helped Three Star win over […]
Ratnagar / Feb 10: A Rhino that had fallen into a septic tank was successfully rescued on Saturday morning. Nurendra Aryal, Information Officer at the Chitwan National Park said, “The rhino that had been trapped after falling into a septic tank of a private house in Sauraha district last night was successfully pulled out today.” […]
Darchula / Feb 09: Construction task of 30-MW Chameliya hydropower project has been completed. The 30-Megawatt-capacity project is constructed at a cost of Rs 16 billion with government investment. The hydropower project would generate power continuously from Saturday in a commercial manner. Constructed at Shailya Shikhar municipality-1, 15-MW power produced from the hydel project has […]
Kathmandu / Feb 09: The adoption of biogas plants has come a long way in significantly reducing the dependence on forest for firewood and Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG). Biogas plants have been installed in 400,000 households across the country since it was started in an organised way back in 1975. According to Nepal Biogas Promotion […]
Kathmandu / Feb 08: Minister for Information and Communications Mohan Bahadur Basnet has urged all to mark the coming Democracy Day as the day of the implementation of constitution and federal system. During a meeting of the publicity subcommittee of the Democracy Day main celebration committee in the Ministry on Thursday, Minister Basnet stated, “The […]
Kathmandu / Feb 08 : Residential and non-residential ambassadors of various countries to Nepal have presented their letters of credence to President Bidya Devi Bhandari at latter’s office in Sheetal Niwas on Thursday. Residential ambassador of Switzerland to Nepal Elisabeth von Capeller and non-residential ambassadors of Sudan, Panama and Zambia to Nepal Sirajuddin Hamid Yousuf, […]
Dharan / Feb 07: Nepal Police Club registered a 2-1 win over Sankata Club to advance to the semi-finals of 20th Budha Subba Gold Football Tournament on Wednesday. Buddha Lama scored the winning goal for NPC in extra time to help the defending champions reach the summit clash. The semi-final encounter between two A Division […]