Kathmandu / February 19: Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli has said that the government was committed to maintaining peace, democracy, social justice, equality, national integrity, sovereignty, national unity and territorial integrity. While addressing the special ceremony organised at the Tundhikhel on the occasion of the National Democracy Day today, PM Oli opined that the […]
By Deepraj Sanyal / Kathmandu: Today is the 66th National Democracy Day. The nation has been marking the day every year in commemoration of that historic day on Fagun 7, 2007 BS when democracy was proclaimed in the country, ending the more than a century long Rana autocracy. Over the years, the country has experimented […]
Kathmandu, Feb 17: The Nepali team that clinched a gold medal in the South Asian Games (SAG) football tournament after a long gap of 23 years was warmly received at the Tribhuvan International Airport on Wednesday. The office-bearers of All Nepal Football Association, senior Nepal Police officials, humour artists, singers and sports lovers, among others, […]
Kathmandu / February 17: The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has decided to provide technical assistance for the implementation of Economic Census 2018 in Nepal. The assistance is for the capacity development. Issuing a press release on Wednesday, JICA Nepal Office informed that it signed a technical cooperation project relating to this with the Central […]
Kathmandu / February 15: Nepal repeated history to win the gold medal in the South Asian Games men’s football defeating India after 23 years. Prakash Budhathoki and Nawayug Shrestha netted in second half to stun India at its home. This is the first time Nepali football team won SAG after 1993. But they succeeded in coming […]
Kathmandu, Feb 14: With the compilation of the historical facts on the beginning of country’s longest and popular festival Rato Machhindranath chariot, a new book Shree Karunamaya (Bungdyoya) Bankha has been published in the Devanagari script. Professor Shantaharsha Bajracharya released the book amid an event here Saturday. The first of its kind in the Devanagari […]
Yubaraj Pandey / February 13: Nepal has added a bronze to the medal list, totalling 34 so far in the 12th South Asian Games underway in India after Roja KC won a bronze medal in triathlon today. KC completed the triathlon including 750 meters swimming, 20 kilometres cycling and five kilometres running in 1 hour […]
Kathmandu / February 13: Shree Panchasmi also known as Basanta Panchami or Saraswoti Puja, is being celebrated across today by worshipping Saraswoti, the Goddess of knowledge, wisdom, learning, art, music and culture. The festival is celebrated every year on the fifth day of the bright half of the Nepali month of Magh. People from the […]
Narayan Prasad Ghimire / Kathmandu: Civil society organization (CSO) is taken as one of the essential pillars of a functional democracy. With the advent of political freedom in Nepal, CSOs are gradually getting space and attracting attention on various issues of human rights. But, how the CSOs are functioning and what’s their sustainability was an […]