Kathmandu / June 30: President Bidya Devi Bhandari has said Nepal could be developed as a beautiful film city. Addressing a function organized to confer the film awards at the President House, Shitalniwas, on Thursday, President Bhandari said, “Our country is naturally a beautiful place- film city in itself. Now, with the use of new […]
Kathmandu / June 30: The meeting of the Legislature-Parliament today passed with majority the Nepal Open University Bill-2072 BS. With the approval of the bill, it will help ensuring higher education access to all as such modality was in discussion for a decade. In the meeting, lawmakers Ganesh Man Pun, Kamal Prasad Pangeni, Ram Hari […]
Kathmandu / June 30: The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) so far has received as many as 45,000 cases of human rights violation committed during the Maoist decade-long insurgency. The TRC is expected to receive over 50,000 conflict-era cases of human rights violation by July 17 the last extended date to file such war-era cases, […]
Kathmandu / June 30: The registration of complaints at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) has invariably gone up in pursuit of justice of war-era crimes after a long hiatus. There is complaint galore from war-era victims seeking justice to console their pains and plights they forbore during a decade-long civil unrest and armed struggle. […]
Kathmandu / June 30: A social networking site established in the United States on Nepali investment – sagoon.com – has opened Initial Primary Offer (IPO) for the interested and eligible investors. Headquartered in the US capital Washington DC, the social networking site has offered an opportunity to invest within the range of 5,000 to 18,000 […]
Myagdi / June 30: A conservationist was honoured in Myagdi on Wednesday in recognition of his contribution to the conservation of forest and environment. The District Forest Office has honoured Chandra Bahadur Karki of Beni municipality-4 with cash prize of Rs 12,000 on the occasion of the beginning of Forest Festival and Sapling Plantation Campaign. […]
Kathmandu / June 29: The 13th National Rice Day was marked throughout the country including the Kathmandu Valley today, organising various programmes. Rice planting programmes have also been organised in different places on the occasion. The theme of the National Rice Day today is ‘ Expansion of Community Nurseries- the Basis for Commercial Rice Farming’. […]
Prakash Silwal (Kathmandu) / June 29: President Bidya Devi Bhandari has today certified the most awaited Education Act (Eighth Amendment), 2073 BS. President Bhandari certified the Act, passed by the Legislature –Parliament on June 4, at the Rastrapati Bhawan, Sheetal Niwas. After the certification of the Act, it has paved the way for the organisational […]
Kathmandu / June 29: The Nepal-Japan Bilateral Consultation Meeting participated by the high officials of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of both countries has concluded here today. “In the consultation meeting Japan has expressed its readiness to continue extending cooperation to Nepal in her socio-economic developments by supporting development priorities and paths taken by the […]
Deepraj Sanyal / Kathmandu: Have you had your meal today? If yes, you most likely had the common Nepali dish, i.e. dal-bhat-tarkari-achar. Bhaat or rice is the staple food for most Nepalis, and for that matter most Asians. We have so great a penchant for rice that if for some reason we had not eaten […]