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Govt working to achieve food security

Laxman Kafle / Kathmandu, May 13: Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development has been preparing policy, programmes and budget for the upcoming fiscal year 2022/23 focusing on import substitution and food security by increasing productivity and production of agricultural produces. “We, the ministry, is preparing programmes to minimise the import of major agricultural produce, including […]


Exercise your franchise fearlessly: President; CEC calls to make local poll a success

Kathmandu / May 12: President Bidya Devi Bhandari has urged all to exercise their franchise fearlessly. Terming the local level election the greatest ceremony of democracy, the President, in her video message today, said that it was the responsibility of all to ensure the conduction of the local poll slated for tomorrow, May 13, in […]


Indian PM Modi to participate in prayer at Mayadevi Temple, Lumbini

Kathmandu / May 12: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will participate in prayer at the Mayadevi Temple in Lumbini, the birthplace of Gautam Buddha in Nepal. During his official visit to Nepal, fifth as the Prime Minister of India, Modi will also attend the special ceremony on the auspicious occasion of Buddha Jayanti in Lumbini. […]


Sixty-four industries to face music

Kathmandu / May 12: Legal action is being taken against 64 industries on the charge of producing and selling various types of inedible foodstuff and contaminated water. This many industries are facing action in the first nine months of the current fiscal year. The Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development, Department of Food Technology and […]


Consumer price inflation surged more than double to 7.28 percent during mid-March and mid-April

Kathmandu / May 11: The consumer price inflation during the one-month period from mid-March to mid-April increased more than double this year compared to the same period of the last fiscal year, owing to a surge in the prices of overall food and non-food items and services. According to a nine-month report on ‘Current Macroeconomic […]


Two-day holiday in schools: winter, summer, festival holidays to be reduced

Kathmandu / May 11: The Ministry of Education, Science and Technology has decided to slash the winter, summer and festival leaves. Dipak Sharma, spokesperson of the Ministry, informed that the decision was taken to ensure that class days in schools and universities do not get reduced in view of the government’s decision to grant two-day, […]


Lumbini International Convention Center to be inaugurated

Bhairahawa / May 11: A convention center with an accommodating capacity of five thousand people is being inaugurated on the day of Buddha’s Birth Anniversary, May 16. Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba is scheduled to inaugurate the convention center on the World Heritage site. Equipped with advanced facilities, the convention cum meditation center has been […]


Election silence period: What cannot be done; EC to remove publicity materials

Kathmandu / May 10: The silence period for the local level election commences from midnight today. The country is going to the local election on May 13. The Election Commission (EC) said that during this special period, election campaigns are prohibited in all forms. The EC has already asked the political parties and candidates to […]


Four mountaineers die while climbing in a month

Chhetu Sherpa / Kathmandu, May 10: Four people have lost their lives while climbing mountains this month. According to the expedition companies, four climbers succumbed while climbing Dhaulagiri, Kangchenjunga, Everest/Sagarmatha and Lhotse mountains. “Khudam Bir Tamang, guide of the South Korean climbing team, went missing from the first camp while climbing Lhotse Mountain,” said Mingma […]


Election campaign drives up fuel consumption by 40%

Laxman Kafle/ Kathmandu, May 10: Consumption of petroleum products has increased significantly with the expansion in election activities across the country. According to Binitmani Upadhyay, spokesperson for Nepal Oil Corporation (NOC), consumption of diesel and petrol has gone up by about 40 per cent for the last one week due to the increasing election campaigns […]




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