Kathmandu / Jan 25: The Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) will construct transmission lines and substations with capacities ranging from 66 kV to 220 kV in the Kathmandu Valley. This aims to manage the electricity distribution system in the Kathmandu Valley by supplying high voltage electricity on a regular basis and reducing problems like electricity discontinuation […]
Kathmandu / Jan 25: Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister Rabi Lamichhane visited the family of Prem Prasad Acharya from Ilam, who set himself on fire in front of the Parliament House on Tuesday and passed away at the Cleft and Burn Center in Kirtipur on Wednesday morning. The minister expressed his condolences to the […]
Bajura / Jan 25: Fifty-eight houses have been damaged by the 5.9 magnitude earthquake that jolted the Sudurpaschim region on Tuesday. The epicentre of the earthquake is in Bichchhya of Himali rural municipality in Bajura district. According to the District Police Office, some of the houses have suffered partial damage while others have been completely […]
Kathmandu / Jan 24 : Speaking in the House of Representatives (HoR) meeting, Rastriya Swatantra Party Chair Rabi Lamichhane said that works could not be carried out as per the expectation as the state mechanism had been left in a weak state in the past. “The law enforcers were reduced to those enforcing orders. The […]
Kathmandu / Jan 24: The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) entered into a partnership on Monday with the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to support NHRC’s effort for promoting human rights, gender equality, sexual and reproductive health rights, and combating gender-based violence (GBV) and harmful practices. Won Young Hong, Country Representative of UNFPA, and Murari […]
Sher Bahadur Sarki/Shailendra Rokaya, Bajura, Jan 24: A woman has died in the Bajura earthquake. District Police Office Bajura informed that Jamunama Rokaya around 35 years, a woman of Gaumul Rural Municipality-2, was killed when a falling rock hit her while she was cutting grass in the nearby forest during the earthquake jolting the area. […]
Kathmandu / Jan 23: Reconstruction of 38 heritages around the Hanumandhoka Durbar area has been completed. These heritages, enlisted in the list of World Heritage Sites, were destroyed by the 2015 Gorkha Earthquake. Thirty-eight out of the 75 heritages damaged in the Earthquake have been rebuilt while reconstruction of 14 is in progress, said the […]
Kathmandu / Jan 23: Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Bishnu Prasad Poudel has said the startup work procedures and provision on project loans would be implemented soon. Addressing the Small and Medium Enterprises Conference organized by the Federation of Nepalese Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FNCCI) in Lalitpur on Monday, Finance Minister Poudel asserted […]
Bhaktapur / Jan 22: Former President Rambaran Yadav has said that the country was yet to see political stability despite many revolutions. At an award and scholarship distribution program organized by Meenkumari Rana Foundation, Balkot in Bhaktapur today, the first President of Nepal said the new constitution was drafted but the people have not been […]
Kathmandu / Jan 22: Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance Bishnu Prasad Poudel has said the government is ready for policy-level and legal reforms to further systematise the remittance inflow. In his virtual address to a programme entitled ‘Remittance and Investment in Nepal’ organised by the Overseas Nepali Forum, the United States of America […]