Kathmandu / Oct 27: Ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) has hosted a tea reception on Saturday in the capital on the occasion of Vijaya Dashami, Deepawali, Nepal Sambat and Chhath festivals. The party had invited over 50,000 people for the event being held from 12:00 pm to 5:00 pm at Bhrikutimandap, according to NCP leaders. […]
Kathmandu / Oct 27: Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Ishwor Pokharel and his Chinese counterpart Wei Fenghe on Saturday signed a memorandum of understanding on military cooperation between Nepal and China, which states that Chinese government will provide over Rs 2.5 billion worth of humanitarian and disaster relief equipment to Nepal. The assistance will […]
Pokhara / Oct 27: Kathmandu Royals have won the match against Dhangadi Blues by 17 runs on the ongoing Pokhara Premier League (PPL-2018) at Pokhara Cricket Stadium on Saturday. After winning the toss, Kathmandu Royals elected to bat first and scored 180 runs in 20 overs losing three wickets. Gaurav Tomar scored 95(44) whille NB […]
Banke / Oct 27: Encroachment of forest under various pretexts is increasing in Banke district in recent years. The Division Forest Office, Banke has said that the forest land is encroached upon in the name of flood-displaced, landless squatters and displacement due to natural disaster in various places of the district. Although it appears that […]
Kathmandu / Oct 26: CPN Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal has said Nepal’s constitution is the citizens’ manifesto both in term of the process and content. Addressing the 5th India Ideas Conclave in New Delhi on Friday, Chairman Dahal said the constitution is a process because for the first time in Nepal’s history, the constitution was […]
Kathmandu / Oct 26: Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) has filed charge sheet against 25 former employees of Foreign Employment Department, Tahachal, Kathmandu, at the Special Court on Friday. The CIAA filed charge sheet against them after they were found providing work permit to 184 women bearing fake documents. The women were […]
Kathmandu / Oct 26: Official statistics revealed that Nepal has a trade deficit with 112 countries of the globe. According to recent data disclosed by the Department of Customs, out of 140 countries, Nepal has trade surplus with only 28 and a widening deficit with other 112. Nepal witnessed highest volume of trade deficit with […]
Kathmandu / Oct. 25:The Government of Japan has extended a grant assistance of Rs 1.085 billion to the Government of Nepal for the rehabilitation of the Sindhuli road affected by the 2015 earthquake. Masamichi Saigo, Ambassador of Japan to Nepal, and Dr. Rajan Khanal, Secretary of the Ministry of Finance signed notes to this effect […]
Kathmandu / Oct. 25:Newly appointed ambassadors of four countries have presented their ‘Letter of Credence’ to President Bidya Devi Bhandari today. At a special ceremony organised at Sheetal Niwas, US Ambassador to Nepal Randy W Berry, and non-resident ambassadors of Tanzania, Malta and Croatia — Baraka Haran Luvanda, Stephen Borg and Petar Jubicic respectively — […]
Kathmandu / Oct. 25:Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) has demanded that the federal government should construct landfill site for disposing the capital’s waste. Saying it was not the responsibility of KMC to construct the landfill site, Mayor Bidya Sundar Shakya argued that duty of local level was to take the garbage to landfill site after the […]