Kathmandu / Jun 06: Nepali Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba has been elected as the 40th prime minister of Nepal. Lone candidate for the post of Prime Minister, Deuba secured 388 votes out of 593 votes in the parliament. A total of 170 lawmakers voted against him. Deuba’s own party Nepali Congress, CPN (Maoist Center), […]
Kathmandu / Jun 06: Amnesty International has today released a report ‘Turning People into Profits’ bringing the issue of abusive recruitment, trafficking and forced labour of Nepali migrant workers into light. The report was prepared by holding talks with 127 workers of eights districts who had returned from overseas employment, 22 foreign employment entrepreneurs, four […]
Kathmandu / Jun 06: Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Sushila Karki retired on Tuesday after she crossed the age limit of 65. With her retirement, Gopal Parajuli will take charge as acting CJ from tomorrow (Wednesday). The process to recommend Parajuli as CJ through a meeting of Judicial Council and push for a parliamentary […]
Kathmandu / Jun 5: Dhurmus-Suntali Foundation has unveiled its next project named ‘Namuna Nepal’ (Model Nepal) on Monday. The fourth project under the foundation will be built in around 500-1,000 Ropani land and is likely to cost Rs5 billion, according to the Foundation. Speaking during the project unveiling programme organised in the Capital today, Sitaram […]
Kathmandu / Jun 5: A meeting called by the Speaker Onsari Gharti Magar with the top three leaders of ruling CPN Maoist and Nepali Congress, and main-opposition CPN-UML have forged a consensus to continue the parliamentary business from tomorrow. The meeting was held at the Speaker’s Office in Singhadarbar today. The leaders would address the […]
Kathmandu / Jun 5: The Supreme Court has ordered the Election Commission (EC) to put on hold its decision on Bharatpur vote counting row until Sunday. A bench of Justice Cholendra Shumsher Rana issued the verdict on Monday directing the Election Commission to put on hold Saturday’s decision to conduct re-polling at Ward-19 of Bharatpur […]
Kathmandu / June 4: Ncell has paid Rs 13.6 billion to the government as Capital Gain Tax. The amount was paid to Large Taxpayers’ Office. Spokesperson of Inland Revenue Department, Chandra Kala Paudel, confirmed the tax payment. The Ncell earlier had paid Rs 10 billion as the CGT. Ncell has paid the amount when there […]
Kathmandu / June 4:The House meeting that was supposed to begin at 3:00 pm today has been postponed till Tuesday after the political parties failed to forge consensus on resuming the parliamentary proceedings. The Parliament-Secretariat had scheduled to hold the Prime Ministerial election at 11:00 am today. After the main-opposition CPN-UML warned of obstructing the […]
Kathmandu / June 4:Nepal’s National Football Team has left for India today to play an international friendly match with Team India. At a farewell programme organized at Satdobato-based All Nepal Football Association (ANFA) Complex, member-secretary of National Sports Council (NSC) Keshab Kumar Bista and ANFA Chairperson Narendra Shrestha bade farewell to the squad with best […]
Kathmandu / Jun 3: Only one candidacy – that of the Nepali Congress president Sher Bahadur Deuba – has been filed so far for the election of the 40th Prime Minister of the country. The Parliament Secretariat had fixed 11:00am to 4:00pm today as the time for registering candidacy for the post of the Prime […]
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