Syangja / Feb 12: Good news for orange growers! Syangja will be developed as orange zone. The move is as part of the implementation of the 10 years Prime Minister Agriculture Modernisation Project envisioned in the fiscal budget 2016-17 to improve agricultural productivity in the country. As part of the project, there will be work […]
Kathmandu / Feb 12: The government has appointed the chiefs of Nepal Police and Armed Police Force (APF). The Cabinet meeting held at Singha Durbar today took the decision on appointing Jaya Bahadur Chand as the Inspector General of Police (IGP) of Nepal Police and Singh Bahadur Shrestha as the Inspector General of Armed Police […]
Kathmandu / Feb 10: The Ministry of Energy has directed the office-bearers of the Nalsinghgad Hydropower Project to go visit the Upper Tamakoshi Project rather than to Australia for a study about the hydroelectricity projects. The Ministry’s this directive comes after the planned visit by the project office-bearers to Australia for a study of big […]
Kathmandu / Feb 10: Despite legalization of abortion in Nepal since 2002, more pregnant women in Nepal still opt for unsafe abortion that’s again by unapproved or untrained service providers, a study shows. A report containing the findings of the first-ever national study of the incident of abortion jointly conducted by Nepal’s Centre for Research […]
Kathmandu / Feb 10: The Ministry of Health has tightened the policy governing the issuance of grants to the community health institutions. This policy measure has been made with the aim of making the community health institutions to be in rural-centric. The Ministry amended the Community Hospital Grant Directive prioritizing the rural based community health […]
Kathmandu / Feb 9: Five major political parties have directed the taskforce formed to study Local Body Restructuring Commission’s report and suggest the government regarding the document to the government at the earliest. The task force is expected to look after complaints over the report and give suggestions about it to the government. During the […]
Kathmandu, Feb. 9: The trade deficit has gone up by 71.3 per cent in the first six month of the current fiscal year, thanks to heavy increase in goods import despite normal rise in the exports in the country. According to a statistics released by the Trade and Exports Promotion Centre in the capital today, […]
Kathmandu / Feb 9: A total of 36 players have been selected to play in the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Asian Cup-2019 to be held in Philippines on March this year. Nepal National Football Head Coach, Gyotoku Koji, shared that the squad comprises 23 players from the team who won the AFC Solidarity Cup held […]
Manoj Karki (Kathmandu) / Feb 8: Nepal at present is gearing up for three major elections that would change the face of leadership in the new federal set up of the country. Notwithstanding the ongoing tussle between amendment to the new constitution and elections, the latter is inevitable as it is a constitutional requirement that […]
Kathmandu / Feb 8: Tribute was paid to former party President of Nepali Congress Sushil Koirala who had a significant role in promulgating the constitution from the Constituent Assembly amidst a programme organised today at the NC central party office, Sanepa. At the programme organised to mark the first death anniversary of Koirala, party senior […]