Kathmandu / Sept 4: Haritalika Teej, the biggest festival of Hindu women is being celebrated today with fanfare. Women are visiting temple of lord Shiva across the country and also seen singing and dancing to celebrate the day. Teej falls on the third day of Shukla Paksha (bright fortnight) in the month of Bhadra. Women […]
Pokhara / Sept 4: The Image Channel is set to scan the villages for hidden talents by announcing the Pokhara audition for the ‘Image Folk Artist’ contest. The audition will take place on Friday and Saturday this week in which contenders of all age groups from Gandaki and Dhaulagiri zones can take part, Contest’s Executive […]
Pritam Bhattarai / Kathmandu: The market is abuzz with recent reports of two incidents making headlines and becoming the talk of the town. They are Nepali Congress leader Gagan Thapa’s elevation in Nepali politics with the appointment as the Health Minister and the increasing trend of influential political leaders and VVIPs including former President Dr […]
Kathmandu / Sept 3: In a bid to foster reading culture, a library and information centre has been set up at Jorpati of Gokarneshwor municipality. It is the Chamunda Library and Information Centre. A total of 4,000 books of Sanskrit, Nepali and English languages have been put in the library set up by Chamunda Area […]
Kathmandu / Sept 3: The Bagmati Clean-up Campaign – now 173 weeks old – scooped up 11 metric tons of garbage from under the downtown Teku bridge today. Around 500 government employees under the leadership of Chief Secretary, Dr Somlal Subedi, took part to mark the occasion of Civil Servants’ Day. Former Chief Secretary Lilamani […]
Taplejung / Sept 3: Landslide has been taking place at Taplejung Municipality-2 and 8 following heavy rainfall from the last night. Dozens of houses have been damaged and transport service has been disrupted along Mechi highway due to landslides at many places. Houses belonging to Bhuwanishankar Nepal, Agni Prasad Bhandari, Teknath Dahal, Dilliram Adhikari, Raj […]
Biratnagar / Sept 3: Parliamentarian Amrit Aryal has distributed relief materials to flood victim families of Morang Constituency No 5. He also donated laptops and desktop computers to excellent students, schools and police post. At a programme organised at Sisabanijahada-3 on Friday, Smarika Gachchhadar towards nursing, Injanshree Yakkhya towards agriculture were provided with laptop. Similarly, […]
Kathmandu / Sept 2: The International Relations and Labour Committee under the Legislature- Parliament has directed the government to further strengthen diplomatic relations with neighbouring countries—India and China, on the basis of constitution of Nepal, principles of the Charter of the United Nations and Panchasheel. Today’s meeting of the Committee directed this after taking information […]
Kathmandu / Sept 2: The construction of Hetauda-Kathmandu fast track that was obstructed due to the recent Madhesh unrest and subsequent fuel crisis in the country caused by the border blockade has been expedited. The widening of the 90- km track is taking place on a full-swing, according to track construction project Chief Deepak KC. […]
Kathmandu / Sept 2: Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) has raised more than Rs 90 million in arrears since August 19. The Authority has so far disconnected the power supply lines to a total of 4,843 consumers in various parts of the country for not clearing their arrears within a stipulated time, according to the Authority’s […]