Kathmandu / Jan 21: The government and the World Bank on Sunday signed three financing agreements worth $440 million to invest in the country’s post-earthquake housing reconstruction, livestock innovation, and technical education and vocational training. Finance Secretary Shankar Prasad Adhikari and World Bank Country Director for Bangladesh, Nepal and Bhutan, Qimiao Fan, signed the agreements […]
Kathmandu / Jan 20: Left forces CPN-UML and CPN (Maoist Center) are holding a meeting of Unification Coordination Committee on Monday. The meeting will discuss formation of unification draft between the two parties, said Maoist Center Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal’s press aide Manhari Timilsena. Dahal and UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli had discussed the agendas […]
Kathmandu / Jan 20: Orange worth Rs. 330 million was produced in Salyan this year. Thanks to favourable weather, production of the citric fruit increased by 10 per cent compared to the previous year, according to District Agriculture Development Office Salyan. The district earned Rs. 330.48 million in the sale of orange. Orange had been […]
Bhaktapur / Jan 20: The National Tuberculosis Centre (NTC) Bhaktapur has revealed that around 35,000 new patients of tuberculosis have been detected every year. At a two-day-long workshop on TB organized in Nagarkot, Director of NTC Dr Kedarnarsingh KC said around 10,000 to 12,000 patients are still out of contact. He said that a total […]
Kathmandu / Jan 19: President Bidya Devi Bhandari has administered oath of office and secrecy to seven newly-appointed province governors on Friday. President Bhandari administered the oath of office to the provincial chiefs amidst a special ceremony organized at the President’s Office, Sheetal Niwas. Vice President Nanda Bahadur Pun, Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba, Chief […]
Kathmandu / Jan 19: The Election Commission (EC) has allocated election symbols to the 21 political parties that have registered with the EC for the National Assembly (NA) elected slated for February 7. Accordingly, CPN-UML has been allocated ‘the Sun’, Nepali Congress ‘Tree’, CPN (Maoist Centre) ‘Hammer and Sickle inside a Circle’, Sanghiya Samajbadi Forum […]
Kathmandu / Jan 19: President Bidya Devi Bhandari inaugurated the first cricket festival organised by the Madan Bhandari Sports Academy, Department of Cricket amidst a ceremony here today. The Head-of-the-State handed a cricket bat and a ball to Nepali national cricket team captain Paras Khadka to as a symbol of the opening of the festival. […]
Dhankuta / Jan 18: The District Administration Office clamped an indefinite curfew in Dhankuta following a backlash after the government declared Biratnagar instead of Dhankuta as temporary provincial workstation of Province 1. At least seven protestors were injured in a clash with the police on Thursday. Likewise, a dozen government offices were vandalised and torched, […]
Kathmandu / Jan 18 : CPN-UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli has hinted that the provincial chiefs appointed by the Sher Bahadur Deuba-led government will be replaced by the new government. Speaking to mediapersons upon his arrival at the Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) from Bangkok on Thursday, the UML chairman said that the new government would […]
Ilam / Jan 18: Foreign tourists have been facing problems due to lack of immigration office at Pashupatinagar check point in Ilam, the main border transit point with India. The foreign tourists visiting Nepal via the border check point have been compelled to go to Kakadvitta of Jhapa district to get travel permit. Although Indian […]
