
Kathmandu / October 22: The cultural and religious festival, Bijaya Dashami, is being celebrated across the country today, on the 10th day of the waxing moon in the Nepali month Ashwin as per the lunar calendar. During the Bijaya Dashami Festival, the biggest festival of the Nepalese, there is the tradition of receiving the ‘tika’ […]

Kathmandu / October 20: Hindu Nepalis has been celebrating Fulpati– the seventh day of the 15-day long Dashain festival today by offering prayers in the temples of goddess Durga across the country. Though Fulpati is marked on the seventh day of Dashain festival, it has fallen on the eight day this year according to the […]

Kathmandu: Second in command in the Maoist party Dr. Baburam Bhattarai left the party with the objective of forming a new force. The question is whether he is really forming a new force that can work as per the people’s aspiration or is he forming another party in an already crowded political spectrum. It was […]

Banke / October 18: Five royal Bengal tiger have been found in the Banke National Park (BNP), according to a data released by the park lately. The park was established, on 12 July, 2010, to conserve the Bengal tigers in particular. Besides, the park also has objectives of conserving endangered species of wild flora and […]

Kathmandu / October 17: Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs Kamal Thapa has left for a three-day official visit to India at an invitation from Indian Minister for External Affairs, Sushma Swaraj. Speaking to journalists at Tribhuvan International Airport, DPM Thapa expressed commitment to do his best in resolving the obstruction of essential […]

Pabitra Guragain: Kathmandu / October 17: When Junrey Balawing of the Philippines was in 2011 declared as the world’s shortest man, the government of Philippines announced a public holiday celebrating it as an achievement of the country and as a mark of honour to him. Nevertheless, the happiness of Philippines could not last longer than […]

Kathmandu / October 16: UCPN (Maoist) lawmaker and former Deputy Speaker of the Legislature-Parliament Onsari Gharti Magar has been elected unopposed the House Speaker. With this, she has become the first female Speaker in the parliamentary history of Nepal. She is the 8th Speaker elected in the parliament following the reinstatement of democratic system in […]

Kathmandu / October 15: Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs Kamal Thapa will be leading a high level delegation to Indian capital of New Delhi on Saturday to hold talks on ending the obstruction of essential supplies at the Nepal-India border. The delegation during a three-day visit will hold talks with Indian Secretary […]

Myagdi / October 15: A non-resident Nepali has instituted a revolving fund of Rs 2.5 million to run computer education at Mahadev Secondary School in Beg of Myagdi district. Yog Kumar Fagami, who is originally hailing from Beg and now residing in the United Kingdom, instituted the fund in memory of his father Sab Bahadur […]

Kathmandu / October 14: The Legislature-Parliament is to hold the election for the Speaker and Deputy Speaker on coming Friday after the consensus among political parties eluded. Chairing the Parliament meeting on Wednesday, senior most parliamentarian Laxman Rajbansi informed the parliament about it and directed the Legislature-Parliament Secretariat for necessary arrangement on the same. However, […]