Kathmandu / Dec 22: A meeting of the Central Working Committee members of a faction of the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) led by Chairman and Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has decided to hold the party’s ‘unity’ convention in November 2021. Pradeep Gyawali, the new spokesperson, chosen by the same meeting of the faction, […]
Kathmandu / Dec 22 : The Government of Nepal and the World Bank signed a $80 million (around NPR 9.3 billion) project today to bolster Nepal’s agriculture sector by strengthening rural market linkages and promoting entrepreneurship while creating jobs to support post-COVID-19 recovery. The Rural Enterprise and Economic Development Project (REED) project was signed Monday […]
Kathmandu / Dec. 22: With 722 new cases of novel coronavirus confirmed on Tuesday, the national COVID-19 tally has surged to 255,236. “In 7,000 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests done in the last 24 hours, as many as 733 persons, 310 females and 412 males, were found to have been infected with SARS-CoV-2,” the […]
Kathmandu / Dec 21: Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has said although the dissolution of the House of Representatives appears unexpected and a sudden move on the surface, it is an incident resulting from the selfishness for power of some leaders within the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) since long. Prime Minister Oli, who is […]
Doti / Dec 21: The drive to demolish Chhaugoth – an outdoor shed where women or girls are kept during menstruation – has resumed to put an end to the deep-rooted social taboo in the Sudurpaschim Province. The campaign of demolishing Chhaugoth structures was put on hold for some months due to the fear of […]
Kathmandu / Dec. 21: With 742 new cases of novel coronavirus confirmed on Sunday, the national COVID-19 tally has surged to 254,514. “In 6,351 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests done in the last 24 hours, as many as 742 persons were found to have been infected with SARS-CoV-2,” the Ministry of Health and Population […]
Kathmandu / Dec 20: President Bidya Devi Bhandari has dissolved the House of Representatives and set new dates for the mid-term general election in May at the recommendation of Prime Minister K P Oli. President Bhandari has announced April 30 for the first phase and May 10 for the second phase of the mid-term election. […]
Kathmandu / Dec 20: The meeting of the Constitutional Commission (CC) has recommended various persons for the vacant posts in different constitutional bodies. According to the National Assembly Chairman and CC Member Ganesh Timilsina, the CC meeting held on December 15 and on Sunday recommended the names in different constitutional bodies. Prem Kumar Rai was […]
Kathmandu / Dec. 20: With 588 new cases of novel coronavirus confirmed on Sunday, the national COVID-19 tally has surged to 253,772. “In 4,620 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests done in the last 24 hours, as many as 588 persons were found to have been infected with SARS-CoV-2,” informed Dr. Jageshwor Gautam, spokesperson of […]
Biratnagar / Dec 19: The Province-1 government is all set to distribute land ownership certificates to landless squatters. The squatters living in Mai Municipality and Madsebung Rural Municipality will get the land ownership certificates in the first phase. A total of 6,515 households are getting the certificates soon. The Province-1 government is providing land ownership […]