Kathmandu / July 13: The House of Representatives (HoR) has passed the country’s first Citizenship Amendment Bill, 2022. In the meeting of the HoR held on Wednesday, Home Minister Bal Krishna Khand presented Nepal’s first Citizenship Amendment Bill 2022 before the lawmakers. Home Minister Khand mentioned that Article 10 of the constitution guarantees that no […]
Kathmandu / July 13: The World Bank (WB) is providing US $ 80 million (around Rs 10 billion) in concessional loan to Nepal for a project to improve the delivery of water and sanitation services and promote integrated water resources management. On Wednesday, Finance Secretary Madhu Kumar Marasini and the WB Country Director for the […]
Kathmandu / July 13: With 206 new cases (RT-PCR and antigen combinedly) of COVID-19 confirmed on Wednesday, the nation’s novel coronavirus tally has reached 980,767. In 2,082 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests done in the past 24 hours, a total of 177 people were found infected with SARS-CoV-2, informed the Ministry of Health and […]
Kathmandu / July 12: Nepali citizens who have yet to get registered as voters can now get registered on the voters’ list by filling the form through the online system. Election Commission, Nepal, informed on Tuesday that the collection of the voters’ names with photos has been simplified and that the eligible Nepali citizens can […]
Kathmandu / July 11: Experts have suggested the government reconsider its decision to distribute senior citizen allowance at the age of 68. According to the latest data from the central bureau of statistics, experts have stressed that the government should reconsider this decision as the population of the elderly age group is increasing in Nepal. […]
Kathmandu / July 11: The National Youth Association of Nepal (NYAN) picketed the Transportation Management Office, Ekantakuna on Monday, claiming that driver’s licenses were not being distributed on time. The union cordoned off the office alleging widespread negligence and irregularities in the distribution of licenses. NYAN office-bearers and cadres surrounded the office saying that there […]
Kathmandu / July 11: Remittance inflow has been recorded to be Rs 904 in the first 11 months of the current fiscal year 2021-22. As published by the Nepal Rastra Bank on Monday, remittance inflow has increased by 3.8 percent according to the macroeconomic data for the first 11 months of the current fiscal year. […]
Kathmandu / July 11: Liu Jianchao, Head of the International Liaison Department of the Communist Party of China (CCP), has said that the ‘South-South Cooperation Assistance Fund’ announced by Chinese President Xi Jinping would provide support to Nepal’s development. Inaugurating the Nepal Smiling Children Project held in Basantapur, Kathmandu on Monday, Foreign Minister Liu said […]
Kathmandu / July 11: The House of Representatives (HoR) has endorsed the bill to amend some acts against sexual violence. Today’s second session of the House of Representatives passed the bill to amend some acts against sexual violence-2079 BS. The Speaker presented the bill before the session for a decision while the main opposition CPN […]
Kapil Gyawali / Rupandehi, July 8: The export of cement from Nepal to India has started for the first time. The official export of the cement from Nepal to India began on Friday with Palpa Cement Industries Limited exporting its Tansen brand of cement to India. The company located at Sunwal Municipality-7 in West Nawalparasi […]