
Kathmandu / July 12: As soon as President Ramchandra Paudel summoned HoR members for staking a claim for prime ministerial post in accordance with Article 76 (2) of the constitution, the major political parties in the House of Representatives (HoR), the Nepali Congress and the CPN-UML, claimed the PM post for UML Chair KP Sharma […]

Kathmandu / July 12: Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ lost his position, after failing to secure a vote of confidence in the House of Representatives on Friday. 194 HoR members voted against his vote of confidence proposal whereas 63 members voted in favour. Similarly, a HoR member stood neutral. A total of 258 HoR […]

Kathmandu / July 11: Japan handed over medical equipment to eight advanced public hospital in Kathmandu valley. According to a press release of Embassy of Japan on July 11, the handover ceremony of the Project for the Improvement of Medical Equipment in Advanced Public Hospitals was held at Ministry of Health and Population, and KIKUTA […]

Jaleshwar / July 12: Save the Children, as part of the Global Fund Program, handed over a Health Desk building located at Malibara, Bhittamod, the point of entry (PoE) along the Nepal-India border in Mahottari, to Jaleshwor Municipality in Madhesh Province. The container-based health facility was built at the cost of NPR 21,54,000, with the […]

Kathmandu / July 11: The government has backtracked on its decision to make the National Identity Card compulsory for social security allowance. A Cabinet meeting on Thursday decided to direct the Ministry of Home Affairs not to implement the decision for now, according to Minister for Communications and Information Technology Rekha Sharma, who is also […]

Solukhumbu / July 11: A total of 55,979 tourists visited the Khumbu region in the last 11 months of the current fiscal year. The Sagarmatha National Park shared this information. Information officer at the Park, Manoj Kumar Mandal, said most of the tourists were foreign- 48,402, while the number of domestic tourists was 7,577. Most […]

Kathmandu / July 11: The percentage of people with disability in the total population of Nepal is calculated to be 2.2. The statistics of National Census 2078 BS showed that out of total disability, people with physical disability amount to 37.1%. Similarly, of the total percentage of the disable, 17.1% are with low sight, 5.4% […]

Kathmandu / July 10: The Gross foreign exchange reserve of the country has increased by 27.8 percent to Rs.1967.19 billion as of mid-June 2024 from Rs.1539.36 billion in mid-July 2023. In US dollar terms, the gross foreign exchange reserves increased 25.7 percent to 14.72 billion in mid-June 2024 from 11.71 billion in mid-July 2023. According […]

Kathmandu / July 10: Chairman of the CPN (UML) KP Sharma Oli said that there has not been any agreement between the Nepali Congress and UML to form a commission for the amendment of the constitution. Addressing the meeting of the party’s secretariat held at the central office of UML at Chyasal on Wednesday, Chair […]

Kathmandu / July 10: More than 50 per cent of the community schools in the country have less than 100 students, according to a report recently made public by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology. The report – Educational Information, 2080 BS – stated that the number of community schools with less than 100 […]