Kabita Upadhyay / Rolpa, Dec 3: As the country marks the 16-day nation-wide campaign to end gender-based violence, women in Rolpa district are still struggling to come out of gender-based violence. The Women and Children Office, Rolpa, has been marking the 16-day activism to end gender-based violence by organizing various programmes on the occasion of […]
Kathmandu / Dec 3: President Bidya Devi Bhandari has said Nepal has internalized the policy of making the persons with disabilities (PWD) self-dependent by bringing them into the mainstream of development. Not only care and kindness but conferring rights is important for this, she added. Giving a message on the 25th International Day of Persons […]
govindaKathmandu / Dec 2: Dean of the Tribhuvan University, Institute of Medicine (IoM), Prof Dr Keshav Prasad Singh, resigned from the post on Friday. Organising a press conference at Teaching Hospital, Prof Dr Singh said he submitted his resignation letter to TU Vice-Chancellor Dr Tirth Khaniya to save the life of agitating Prof Dr Govinda […]
Kathmandu / Dec 2: The Ministry of Urban Development has stated that reconstruction of 15 thousand 861 houses damaged by the earthquake has been started after receiving the grant amount for the same. According to the Central Project Implementation Unit under the Ministry, reconstruction of 1, 623 houses in Sindhupalchok, two thousand 165 houses in […]
Kathmandu / Dec 2: The Asian Development Bank has agreed to provide US dollar 120 million loan equivalent to Rs 13,111 million for the implementation of School Sector Development Plan (SSDP). More, the ADB is to provide technical assistance worth Rs 54.5 million for the capacity development technical assistance project, supporting policies and implementation in […]
Kathmandu / Dec 1: Health of Prof Dr Govinda KC, who has been staging fast-unto-death for the past 19 days at TU Teaching Hospital at Maharajgun in the Capital, has been deteriorating. He has been staging the fast demanding reforms in the medical education and health sector. This is the tenth round of hunger strike […]
Kathmandu / Dec 1: Chief Election Commissioner Ayodhi Prasad Yadav has pressed for formulation of adequate new laws to hold all three levels of elections mandated by the new constitution within the stipulated time. At an interaction programme organized by the Reporters Club here on Thursday, Chief Election Commissioner Yadav stated that some election-related Acts […]
Kathmandu / Dec 1: The Education Sub-committee of the Women, Children, Senior Citizen and Social Welfare Committee under the Legislature-Parliament has underlined the need of promptly implementing the higher education policy. The 11-member sub-committee coordinated by lawmaker Prof Dr Ganesh Man Gurung stated this in its report that it submitted to the committee today. It […]
Lalitpur / Dec 1: The Ministry of Federal Affairs and Local Development (MoFALD) officials have said the Local Governance and Community Development Programme (LGCDP) has been effective in reaching out to the target beneficiaries. At a meeting of the national advisers’ committee of the LGCDP-second phase organized by the Ministry here on Wednesday, they claimed […]
Kathmandu / Nov 30: The main opposition party in parliament, CPN (UML), has decided to disrupt the meeting of the Legislature-Parliament on Thursday, in protest against the constitution amendment proposal brought by the government. The CPN (UML) parliamentary party meeting held at the Parliament House in Naya Baneshwar decided to resist the constitution amendment proposal […]