Kathmandu / Feb 20: Minister for Foreign Affairs Pradeep Kumar Gyawali is leaving for Geneva on Friday leading a Nepali delegation to the High Level Segment of the 43rd session of the United Nations Human Rights Council to be held from February 24, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said today. Gyawali is scheduled to address […]
Kathmandu / Feb 19: Minister for Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation Yogesh Bhattarai has said that the world should be informed about the fact that Nepal is free from the dark shadow of coronavirus. The minister’s response comes a day after all the 175 Nepali nationals evacuated from China’s Hubei province who have been kept […]
Surkhet / Feb. 19: Chairperson of the Nepal Communist Party (NCP), Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ has said no discussion was held to merge Banke and Bardiya districts in Karnali State for the time being. Talking to media persons at Surkhet airport on Wednesday, Chairman Dahal said although geographical adjustment could be reconsidered in State territory, […]
Surkhet / Feb. 19: First Karnali organic agriculture conference, 2076 BS kicked off in Karnali. The two-day conference organised by the Karnali state government and the ministry of land management, agriculture and cooperatives is scheduled to go through in-depth discussions about the adoption of biological agricultural technology, its opportunities and challenges, related policies and future […]
Bhaktapur / Feb 18: The District Administration Office here has launched a public awareness campaign to minimize the psychological fear of people living in the vicinity of Kharipati, where the isolation centre is based for Wuhan returnee Nepalis. It may be noted that some media have reported they were afraid of the possible spread of […]
Lalitpur / Feb 18: The Mahalaxmi Municipality is to construct a faecal sludge management (FSM) plant at local Lamatar. This plant would be as per the ISO 24521 Guidelines on FSM and the first of its kind in the whole of South Asia. The plant is going to be constructed with the joint initiatives and […]
Kathmandu, Feb. 18: The wide body aircraft of the national flag carrier, Nepal airlines, A-330, which evacuated Nepalis from Wuhan, the epicenter of Covid-19, is all set to resume its regular flights. The aircraft, after rescuing 175 Nepali nationals from Wuhan, have completed the 48 hours quarantine period in accordance to international safety standards. After […]
Kathmandu / Feb 17: Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli today inaugurated the underground power cables installation project in Kathmandu valley. At the inauguration programme, Prime Minister Oli said, the installation of underground electricity, telephone and internet cables would make the city look neat, adding that stray wires would be removed. He further claimed that a […]
Kathmandu / Feb 17: Couple of hours after being acquitted of attempt to rape charge, former speaker of the House of Representatives Krishna Bahadur Mahara, has been released from Dillbazar jail on Monday afternoon. Issuing a final verdict earlier today, a single bench of judge at the Kathmandu District Court Ambar Raj Poudel gave clean […]
Kathmandu / Feb. 17: President Bidya Devi Bhandari today administered oath of office and secrecy to newly-appointed Minister for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Dr Shivamaya Tumbahangphe. Tumbahangphe took oath of office at a function organised in Office of the President, Sheetal Niwas. Tumbahangphe, who served as the deputy speaker of the House of Representatives, […]