Kathmandu / May 18: Former Urban Development Minister Narayan Khadka inaugurated Shree Narad Adarsha Education Campus at Chaudandigadhi Municipality in Udayapur District on Saturday. Deputy Chief of Mission at the Embassy of India, Dr. Ajay Kumar, attended the inauguration ceremony as a special guest. The campus was established in 1971 as a Secondary School and […]
Rupandehi / May 17: Eighty-two percent of the works have been completed under the Lumbini Master Plan. The master plan was prepared by Japanese architect Kenzo Tange starting from 1972. The UNESCO had asked Tange to prepare the master plan for the systematic development of Lumbini, the birthplace of Gautam Buddha. The Kenzo Tange Master […]
Kathmandu / May 17: The Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) has directed its talks committee to initiate a second round of talks with the government in view of the positive gestures for dialogue. During a special meeting of the party held at party office, Dhumrabarahi, under the chairmanship of RPP Chairman Kamal Thapa, senior leader Deepak […]
Bharatpur / May 17: The helicopter carrying Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has made an emergency landing at Nepal Army barrack of Bharatpur in Chitwan today. PM Oli was travelling to Kapilvastu in the chopper which made the emergency landing at 4:50 pm due to unfavourable weather. “PM Oli, however, waited for 40 minutes in […]
Kathmandu / May 16: The Upper Trishuli III ‘A’ has finally been connected to national grid on Thursday. With the production of 30 MW electricity from the first unit, the project got completion. The construction of project suffered numerous obstructions owing to earthquake and blockade. Executive Director of Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA), Kulman Ghising, switched […]
Kathmandu / May 16: Nepal has seen a ballooning trade deficit of billions of rupees annually as it failed to adopt the export-oriented economic policy. As per the preliminary statistics released by Trade and Export Promotion Centre, the trade deficit has now reached to Rs 887 billion increasing by around 24 per cent in the […]
Kathmandu / May 16: Finance Minister Dr Yuba Raj Khatiwada has urged the Indian industrialists and businesspersons to invest in Nepal without any hesitation. The Finance Minister made this call while inaugurating the ‘Nepal-India Franchise Investment Expo and Conclave’ here today. Stating that the present government has created an environment conducive for investment and also […]
Kathmandu / May 15: Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has returned home this evening after completing a weeklong official visit to Viet Nam and Cambodia. Prime Minister Oli had left home on May 9. He visited Viet Nam from May 9 to 13 at the invitation of Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc and Cambodia […]
Kathmandu / May 15: Civil society activists have urged the government to immediately take away the three bills registered in the Federal Parliament. They have expressed concerns over the Bill to amend the ‘National Human Rights Act- 2068 BS’; the ‘Media Council Bill- 2075 BS’ and the Bill relating to ‘Social Organisations Act- 2075 BS’ […]
Kathmandu / May 15: Soft-spoken and always smiling, Kami Rita Sherpa is an affable man. At 49, he is lean and wiry, with a forehead burnt brown from the sun. But his amiable manner belies his accomplishments. On Wednesday morning, Kami Rita Sherpa scaled Mount Everest for the 23rd time, breaking his own record. On […]