Kathmandu / June 26: The Fourth Walkathon will be organized coming Saturday in Kathmandu, to symbolically draw the attention of concerned authorities to the plight facing rural school children who around bound to walk for hours to get to education. The move also aims to make Kathmandu youths aware of difficulties being faced by rural […]
Kanchanpur / June 26: Construction of trekking route has initiated at Batase Jharana – a tourist area based in Shuklaphanta municipality-8 under the Prime Minister Employment Programme. 24 job applicants got employment in the construction of the trekking route, which is considered one of the key tourism destinations for internal tourists. Construction of steps and […]
Baitadi / June 26: The dam of Dhauliganga Hydroelectric Project based in Dhauliganga River in Pithoragarh of Uttarakhand, India is to be opened Friday. According to a letter received from the NHPC Limited, Dhauliganga Power Station, Darchula in Pithoragarh, the works of shift flushing (cleaning) have been scheduled from 12:00 midnight of June 28 to […]
Kathmandu / June 25: Minister for Finance, Dr Yuba Raj Khatiwada, has said that the tourism sector is the crucial basis of country’ speedy economic growth, employment creation and foreign currency earning. Minister Khatiwada on the behalf of Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli responded the queries raised by lawmakers on topics related to the Ministry […]
Kathmandu / June 25: The government has officially withdrawn the controversial Guthi bill from the National Assembly on Tuesday. A proposal on annulment of Guthi bill tabled by Minister for Land Reforms Padma Aryal was endorsed unanimously at the National Assembly, the upper house of the Federal Parliament. The much-talked-about bill on the management of […]
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 […]