Kathmandu / June 22: Minister for Culture, Tourism and Civil aviation, Rabindra Prasad Adhikari, has said that International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) has removed Nepal’s aviation sector from Significant Safety Concern (SSC) list. Responding to queries raised over contemporary issues of civil aviation in today’s meeting of the House of Representatives, Minister Adhikari informed the […]
Kathmandu / June 21: The Department of Immigration says a total of 68,825 international tourists visited Nepal in May 2018, with a healthy increment of 9.6 per cent as compared to the arrival figures of May 2017. With this, the arrival figures in the period of January to May reached 454,855, an increase of 12.5 […]
Priyanka Adhikari / Kathmandu: The practice of ‘Yoga’ which originated in the eastern part of the world, gradually spread to the west and across the globe, leading to declaration of International Day of Yoga on June 21. Recognising its universal appeal, on December 11, 2014, United Nations proclaimed June 21 as the International Day of […]
Kathmandu, June 19 (Xinhua) — China contributed to around 87 percent of foreign direct investment (FDI) commitments received by Nepal during the first 10 months of the current fiscal year that began in mid-July 2017, Nepal’s Department of Industry (DoI) said. According to DoI Statistics, Nepal received FDI pledge of 43.22 billion Nepali rupees (396 […]
Kathmandu, June 18: Senior Neurosurgeon Upendra Devkota has passed away while undergoing treatment at Neuro Hospital, Basbari on Monday. Bile duct cancer-ridden Devkota breathed his last at the hospital at 5:35 pm, deceased’s kin Kanshiraj Ghimire told Republica Online. He was 63. Devkota had returned home to spend the rest of his life after his […]
Moscow, June 17/ Defending champions Germany crashed to defeat in their first game at the World Cup on Sunday as an enterprising Mexico refused to be intimidated and came away 1-0 winners in a thrill-packed Group F opener. A shaky warm-up campaign had called into question the dominant form the Germans showed in qualifying, but […]
Kathmandu, June 17/ Fluorescent tents, discarded climbing equipment, empty gas canisters and even human excrement litter the well-trodden route to the summit of the 8,848-metre (29,029-foot) peak. “It is disgusting, an eyesore,” Pemba Dorje Sherpa, who has summited Everest 18 times, told AFP. “The mountain is carrying tonnes of waste.” As the number of climbers on […]
Beni, June13/ People of Baskuna in Beni Municipality-4 of Myagdi district have geared up to develop their village into a ‘Food and Milk (FM) Village’. People of the village, who spent many years in foreign employment, have returned home to pursue agriculture. They are collectively working to convert the village into ‘FM zone’ through the […]
Kathmandu, June 13/The monsoon has entered Nepal from the eastern parts of the country on Friday, two days ahead of schedule, brightening the prospects for a bumper summer crop output—the key trajectory for the higher economic growth path. This augurs well for the economy, as the KP Sharma Oli led administration has targeted achieving a […]
Kathmandu, June 13: Chief Whip of the main opposition party, Nepali Congress, Bal Krishna Khand, has urged the government to implement the constitutional provision of having speaker and deputy speakers representing from different political parties. Participating in the special hour of today’s meeting of the House of Representatives, Khand demanded implementation of the constitutional provision, […]
