Bhaktapur / January 31: The Bhaktapur Municipality has decided to waive off the fee in the approval of house design maps for the quake survivors building a new house. The cent percent waiver is being made to provide relief to the quake survivors. The quake survivors who lost their homes completely in the quake and […]
Kathmandu / January 30: Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has said that the government has high respects to the sacrifice of the martyrs for the wellbeing of the nation and people and is effortful to materialise their dreams for betterment of the country. He further expressed his commitment that the government is and will be […]
Kathmandu / January 26: The Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation has sent letters to different friendly countries via the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, seeking corrections in reading materials which have falsely mentioned the birthplace of Gautam Buddha as lying outside Nepal. In its letter sent on January 20, the Archaeology Division under the […]
Kathmandu / January 26: The 67th Republic Day of India was celebrated in a public ceremony held in the premises of the Embassy of India, Kathmandu today. On this occasion, the Ambassador of India to Nepal Ranjit Rae hoisted the national flag and read out the message of the President of India. The President’s message […]
Kathmandu / January 24: An electric crematorium building has formally come into operation from Sunday. The building was brought into operation by the Pashupati Area Development Trust (PADT). Minister for Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation Ananda Pokharel inaugurated the building at a programe organised by PADT here on Sunday. On the occasion, Minister Pokharel said […]
Krishna Sapkota / Kathmandu: Nepal’s largest and oldest political party, the Nepali Congress (NC) is presently standing at a crucial juncture of its history, in the lead up to its 13th General Convention. The conclave scheduled for the first week of March mainly has two-pronged responsibilities; first to review party policy/programme and second to elect […]
Kathmandu / January 23: The Nepali players winning the title of Bangabandhu Gold Cup Football Championship have been welcomed home grandly on Saturday. The football fans waving national flags and chanting national anthems welcomed the arrival of the team at Tribhuvan International Airport at 3:00 pm. “Whose victory is this? Nepal’s Nepal’s,” the fans greeted […]
Surya Chandra Basnet / Kathmandu: Nepal’s high altitude trekking routes are one of the most adventurous attractions for backpackers promising an encounter with the pristine natural beauty. The tourists from all over the world who visit Nepal have always made it a point of taking a tour through the trekking and hiking routes that wind […]
Kathmandu / January 22: Nepal has won an international football title for the first time in 23 years after a resounding defeat of Bahrain in the final match of the Bangabandhu Gold Cup in Bangladesh. The Nepali national team on Friday defeated Bahrain’s U-23 team 3-0 to win the much awaited Cup. Nepal’s striker Bimal […]
Surya Chandra Basnet /Kathmandu: Bob Gibbons, then a post-graduate Englishman, had innumerable accounts of the mystic land named Nepal through books and movies. He did not delay a second to hit the road towards Nepal in his 1949 Land Rover model car on a sweltering summer of 1974. It took him around 16-weeks to arrive […]