Kathmandu / May 06: The government has made some changes in its policy and programme approved yesterday. The meeting of the Council of Ministers on Friday made some changes in the policy and programme including some addition to it, said Deputy Prime Minister Bhim Rawal following the meeting. “Some issues left out in principle were […]
Kathmandu / May 5: Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has dismissed the rumours that the Legislature-Parliament is being dissolved. He reiterated his commitment to abide by the parliamentary practice. Addressing the Legislature-Parliament on Thursday, PM Oli made it clear that he has no intention to take any undemocratic step and would not stand against democratic […]
Kathmandu / May 5: Lawmakers have completed putting their views on the post-earthquake reconstruction in the Legislature-Parliament on Thursday. As per the parliament’s agenda, the lawmakers were allocated time to express their opinion on the topic on Wednesday and Thursday. Lawmakers, speaking on the topic in parliament, had suggested for expediting the reconstruction works, review […]
Kathmandu, May 5: The meeting between the Ministry of Education (MoE) and the 13 different student unions regarding consultations on monitoring of the fees charged by the private schools ended inconclusively. The meeting failed to reach a decision after the ministry could not fulfill the unions’ demands. Spokesman of the Nepal Students Union, one of […]
Kathmandu / May 4: The Nepali Congress (NC) has started a signature campaign without mentioning the purpose, said lawmaker Ram Hari Khatiwada. The name of party’s president Sher Bahadur Deuba is at the top of the list. The signature campaign by the largest political party follows soon after the announcement by the UCPN (Maoist) to […]
Kathmandu / May 04: The Supreme Court has issued an interim order staying the appointment of Deepak Pathak to the post of member of the Press Council Nepal. A single bench of Justice Cholendra Shumsher JB Rana on Wednesday issued the interim order in the name of the government, directing it not to implement the […]
Kathmandu / May 3: The Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) has predicted that the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) will expand by 0.77 percent in the current fiscal year. The prediction was made on the basis of economic data of the first nine months of the fiscal year 2015-16 and assumption that the situation will be […]
Banepa / May 3: The government awarded top performing farmers of Central Development Region amid a function organized in Dhulikhel on Tuesday. Minister for Agricultural Development Haribol Gajurel gave away President Excellence Awards to top performing farmers of the central region. Ghana Nath Mahato of Madi-2, Chitwan, received President Excellence Award in recognition of his […]
Kathmandu / May 2: Visiting United Nations (UN) Under-Secretary-General Jan Kenneth Eliasson has pledged the support of international community to Nepal for the reconstruction of quake-damaged infrastructure. In an on-site visit to Bungamati in Lalitpur on Monday, Under-Secretary-General Eliasson said that although the reconstruction of the quake-ravaged infrastructures is challenging, collaboration and cooperation among government, […]
Kathmandu / May 02: The Supreme Court of Nepal on Tuesday ordered the release of journalist and Sajha Yatayat Chairman Kanak Mani Dixit, who was detained by the anti-graft body CIAA on April 22. After conducting a hearing on the writ of habeas corpus filed by Dixit’s wife, a division bench of Acting Chief Justice […]