Kathmandu / Aug 7: The Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) is all set to construct eight new over-head bridges at assorted locations in Kathmandu valley. The construction of the modern and new types of overhead bridges is expected to ease traffic congestions and reduce the number of road accidents. According to KMC’s Physical Infrastructures Division Chief […]
Kathmandu, August 7: Nepal’s trade deficit crossed the $10 billion mark for the first time in the last fiscal year 2017-18, that concluded in mid-July, due to surging imports against sluggish exports, Nepal’s Department of Customs (DoC) said on Monday. According to the statistics released by the DoC, trade deficit of the Himalayan country reached […]
Kathmandu / Aug 6: The meeting of the Constitutional Council has been called for Wednesday. It has been reported that the meeting is summoned to recommend the name for the new chief justice of the country. The meeting has been called after the Parliamentary Hearing Special Committee refused the acting chief justice Deepak Raj Joshee […]
Kathmandu / Aug 6: Nepal Media Society (NMS), the umbrella organisation of private publications and Television Broadcasters Nepal (TBN), has elected its new working committee on Monday. The second general assembly of the NMS that ended today elected ABC News Chairman and incumbent General Secretary Subha Shanker Kandel as the Chairman while Sagarmatha TV Chairman […]
Kathmandu, Aug 6: An exercise of high-ranking military officials from 20 countries has started here aimed at how the information flow could be systematised maintaining contact with multi-national armies while deploying in humanitarian rescue at times of disaster. The exercise is organised by the Nepalese Army with cooperation of the US Army’s Pacific Command. Theoretical […]
Kathmandu, Aug 6: The body of 11-year-old Nishan Khadka was found in an under-construction building near Thimi. The child was kidnapped yesterday evening when he had gone to play with his friends. His family searched him only late in the evening assuming that he was at his friend’s house. They started searching him only at […]
Lalbazar, West Bangal: The two Romanians arrested on suspicion of masterminding the ATM fraud in Calcutta involving card data theft through skimming devices had entered the country separately on tourist visas and visited Nepal more than once during their two-month stay in the city, according to investigators. Ovidiu Simion, 31, and Dumitru Caling, 32, told […]
Dubai: More than 550 children are benefiting from two schools in Nepal and Senegal funded by Dubai Holding in partnership with Dubai Cares. Dubai Holding announced on Saturday that the schools have opened their gates for young seekers of knowledge. Located in the villages of Dhakka in Nepal and Kaffrine 2 Sud in Senegal, the […]
Kathmandu, Aug 5: Acting Chief Justice Deepak Raj Joshee has demanded an independent probe into his academic credentials. A day after the Parliamentary Hearings Committee rejected him as the Chief Justice (CJ), acting CJ Joshee expressed his serious concern over parliament’s refusal and demanded an independent probe into his academic certificates. Issuing a press statement […]
Kathmandu, Aug 4: A team of three students of the Pulchowk Engineering Campus; Abhish Khanal, Subhash Timalsina, and Sushan Paudel will be heading for Vietnam to participate in a robotics competition, which will see participation of students from over 22 countries. As part of a pre-event, they demonstrated their robots on the campus on Friday. […]