Kathmandu / June 25: Home Minister Ram Bahadur Thapa has said that the government could not move the citizenship bill further for the endorsement from the house due to the lack of political consensus. Responding to the queries raised by lawmaker Nawaraj Silwal in the meeting of State Affairs and Good Governance Committee under federal […]
Kathmandu / June 24: Parliamentary State Affairs Committee (SAC) has instructed the Ministry of Home Affairs to launch probe into the killing of Kumar Poudel, the Sarlahi district in-charge of the Netra Bikram Chand-led Communist Party of Nepal (CPN). The SAC summoned Minister for Home Affairs Ram Bahadur Thapa and directed him to submit a […]
Kathmandu / June 24: Minister for Education, Science and Technology Giriraj Mani Pokharel on Monday admitted that there is anarchy in the country’s higher education. The minister said so while responding to lawmaker’s queries in the House of Representatives. “The ministry is preparing to bring new laws to control the prevailing anarchy in the higher […]
Surkhet / June 24: Twenty-one hectares of land is likely to be inundated due to Bheri-Babai multipurpose diversion project- a national pride project. The recent survey carried by the project shows that 13 hectares of area in the downstream and eight hectares of unregistered would be inundated. The survey carried out five years ago had […]
Kathmandu, June 23: Minister for Urban Development, Mohammad Istiyak Rai, has said the compensation to the lands left useless by the change in river course could not be ensured without government’s policy level decision. He made it clear that there were legal hurdles to provide compensation to 188 ropanis of land made useless from Gokarna […]
Parasi / June 23: Business community in West Nawalparasi has sought the arrangement of an industrial security force in the district which has been developing into an industrial zone. Stating that the security issue has posed a challenge to run industries, the business persons came with this call. Lately, the number of new industries and […]
Surkhet / June 23: The Karnali State in the past nine months reported 116 cases of rape which is nearly a double compared to the incidences occurred in the corresponding period last year. According to Karnali State Police Office, 59 cases of rape occurred in the State last year. State Police Chief and Deputy Inspector […]
Kathmandu / June 22: The 17th National Astro Conference jointly organized by the Astro-Council Nepal and South Asian Astro Federation, Central Committee Nepal kicked off in Kathmandu on Saturday. Inaugurating the conference, Nepal Calendar Fixation Committee’s chair Dr. Ramchandra Gautam said Nepal was the place of origin of Astrology and it had an important role […]
Kathmandu / June 22: A section of civil society staged a demonstration in Kathmandu on Saturday. During the demonstration, civil society members and human rights activists accused the government of curtailing democratic rights and press freedom. The demonstrators chanted slogans carrying placards reading “respect people’s freedom, withdraw Media Council Bill, ensure good governance, stop meddling […]
Kathmandu / June 22: Nepal and Bangladesh were agreed to jointly invest in the feasible hydropower project in Nepal. A meeting of the Energy secretaries from the two countries on Friday decided to make a joint investment in the projects as stated in the whitepaper issued after the last meeting. The Energy Ministry had included […]