Chitwan / May 19: Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal has said that Nepal as a nation and its people have won the local level elections, and urged all to celebrate the victory. Speaking at an inaugural ceremony of the Agriculture and Forestry University’s central office building in Rampur of the district on Friday, PM Dahal […]
Kathmandu / May 19: Election Commissioner Sudhir Kumar Shah has said that the first phase of local level elections has cemented the foundation of democracy and republicanism. EC Shah said that after completion of the provincial and federal elections, the constitution implementation process will complete its cycle. He added that the commission was satisfied and happy […]
Kathmandu / May 19: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has said its serious attention has been drawn towards the government decision regarding the August 2015 Tikapur incident and October 2015 Madhes protests. The government on Thursday decided to accept the Tharuhat and Madhes protests as political movements and withdraw all the cases filed against […]
Kathmandu / May 18: The government has brought the National Ophthalmic Health Policy, 2017 for enhancing the quality of and expanding ophthalmic health services in the country. Today’s meeting of the Council of Ministers passed the policy which was presented by the Ministry of Health. It is stated that ophthalmic health services would be accessible […]
Kathmandu / May 18: The Election Commission on Thursday informed that 4,888 representatives in 115 local bodies have been elected in 34 districts of Province number 3, 4 and 6. EC Spokesperson Surya Prasad Sharma informed that 115 candidates were elected as mayors, 115 candidates as deputy mayors, 1126 candidates as ward chiefs and 1792 […]
Kathmandu / May 18: A meeting of the Council of Ministers held at the Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers at Singha Durbar on Thursday acknowledged the Madhes movement as a political one. It made a decision that the Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs would present a proposal, at the […]
Kathmandu / May 17: Ministry of Federal Affairs and Local Development (MoFALD) is doubling the budget for local units in the coming fiscal year compared to previous years. The MoFALD has proposed to distribute about Rs 100 billion to 744 units in Fiscal Year 2017/18, up from Rs 50 billion allocated in the current fiscal […]
Kathmandu / May 17: Chief Election Commissioner Dr. Ayodhee Prasad Yadav has said that the results of the first-phase local level elections would be declared within a week. CEC Yadav said this while addressing the preliminary assessment of the first-phase local level election here today. The assessment was jointly organized by National Election Observation Committee […]
Kathmandu / May 17: Human rights activists have stressed the need to end discrimination of all kind against the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI). They underlined so at a programme organised by the Blue Diamond Society (BDS) and the UN’s office in Nepal to mark the International Day against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia […]
Kathmandu / May 16: President Bidya Devi Bhandari left Colombo for Kathmandu this afternoon upon the completion of her four-day official visit to Sri Lanka, according to the Embassy of Nepal, Colombo. She had a meeting with former President of Sri Lanka Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga in Colombo today itself. Views upon empowerment of women, women’s […]
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