Kathmandu / Jan 13: National Reconstruction Authority (NRA) has pledge to address as many as 87 thousand grievances received from the quake-survivors across the country. According to the Authority’s Secretary Dr Sanjaya Sharma, the Authority which has received around 200,000 complaints from quake-hit persons will look into the 87,000 complaints to begin with. Secretary Sharma […]
Kathmandu / Jan 13: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has submitted its annual report of fiscal year 2016-17 to President Bidya Devi Bhandari on Friday. At a programme organized at the President’s Office in Shital Niwas, NHRC Chairperson Anup Raj Sharma submitted the report to the President, notes the statement issued by Spokesperson of […]
Kathmandu / Jan 13: Minister for Energy Janardan Sharma has urged the officials from Three Gorges Company of China to immediately begin West Seti Project. During a meeting with the Three Gorges representatives at the Ministry on Friday, Minister Sharma said holding the project without bringing any improvement did not give good message to the […]
Ashok Ghimire / Kathmandu, Jan 12: Long wait at bus stops? Packed bus ride? No place for disabled persons inside? Mobile battery downs during bus ride? The days of such troubles relating to public transportation are coming to an end in the Kathmandu Valley, as the government’s preparation for operation of deluxe metro buses suggests. […]
Bhaktapur / Jan 12: Bhaktapur has been declared ‘potato zone’ under the Prime Minister Agricultural Modernisation Project (PMAMP) under the Ministry of Agricultural Development. Chairman of Nepal Workers Peasants Party Narayan Man Bijukchhe made the declaration amid a programme in Bhaktapur today. For the project in Bhaktapur, Rs 29.5 million has been allotted in this […]
Kathmandu / Jan 12: Nepal has ascended to third in the South Asia by advancing six positions in the new ranking list made public by FIFA on Thursday. With the new ranking, Nepal advanced to 175th position while it was on 181st in the list last month. India securing 129th position in the FIFA ranking […]
Narayan Prasad Ghimire / Kathmandu: Recently, the Prime Minister directed the ministers and secretaries to increase the capital expenditure to 80 percent. Expressing dissatisfaction over the negligible capital expenditure in the recent quarter of the fiscal year, he issued such directive during a meeting of the development problems resolution committee of the National Planning Commission. […]
Kathmandu / Jan 11: The ministerial-level meeting of the countries home to the endangered snow leopard is taking place in Nepal on January 17-20 to share global efforts on preserving the snow beast and set its future actions. The second high-level steering committee meeting accompanied by a conference ‘Global Snow Leopard and Ecosystem Protection Programme […]
Kiran Bhattarai / Kathmandu, Jan 11: A total of 729,550 foreign tourists visited Nepal in 2016. The number of foreign tourists visiting Nepal in 2016 increased by 24 per cent as compared to 2015, according to the Department of Immigration. Out of 729,550 tourists, 23,452 Chinese tourists who visited Nepal through Rasuwa check point and […]
Kathmandu / Jan 10: President Bidya Devi Bhandari today said that Nepal wishes to play a proactive role to protect biodiversity and repel the negative impact of climate change. Inaugurating the International Conference on Biodiversity, Climate Change Assessment and Impacts on Livelihood here today, the Head of State said, “The whole world is concerned about […]
