Kathmandu / Nov 6: Nepal has strongly objected to a recently-unveiled political map by the Indian government that has placed Nepali territory Kalapani inside Indian borders. Four days after the Indian Home Ministry released the political map placing Nepali territory Kalapani inside Indian borders after creating Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh as its union territories, […]
Kathmandu / Nov 3: President Bidya Devi Bhandari has sacked the governors of all seven provinces upon the recommendation of the government. In a press statement, the President’s Office informed that the president relieved the governors from their posts in accordance with the constitutional provisions. A cabinet meeting held earlier today had recommended the president […]
Kathmandu / Oct 31: The Pokhara-Muglin road is going to be expanded into four-lane. Asian Development Bank (ADB) is going to provide Rs 195 million loan assistance for the same. The government is to invest Rs 5.90 billion to expand the two-lane Pokhara-Muglin road section into four-lane. As per the recently issued press statement by […]
Kathmandu / Oct 29: The most important day of Tihar, the festival of lights, was observed on Tuesday. Sisters throughout the country offered ‘tika’ to their brothers while wishing them happiness, long life and prosperity on the occasion of Bhaitika. Brothers seated at a specially anointed place around which a trail of mustard oil was […]
Kathmandu / Oct 27: Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli, who returned home today after attending the 18th NAM Summit in Baku of Azerbaijan, has said Nepal would gradually augment its role in Non-Aligned Movement (NAM). “NAM could settle the dispute within some of its members through dialogue and work more actively to reduce global in […]
Azerbaijan / Oct 25: Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli chaired the second session of the 18th Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) here on Friday. Prime Minister Oli led the General Debate on ‘Upholding the Bandung Principles to ensure concerte and adequate response to the challenges of contemporary world’ […]
Kathmandu / Oct 24: In the run-up to the by-elections, the Election Commission (EC) issued a code of conduct on Thursday. The code will be effective from tomorrow, according to a press release issued by the election body on Thursday. The EC issued the code of conduct in accordance with Clause 22 of the Election […]
Kathmandu / Oct 23: Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli on Wednesday directed the concerned government agencies to complete national pride projects in the stipulated timeframe. While taking stock of the progress being made on the national pride projects from the high-ranking officials of various government agencies during a meeting held at the Prime Minister’s Office […]
Kathmandu / Oct 22: Jumla alone has supplied 6,500 metric tons of apples amounting around Rs 342 million, the highest yield so far in the past two years. Chief of District Agriculture Development Office, Balakram Devkota was quoted in Rastriya Samachar Samiti as saying that the income generated from the sales of apples in this […]
Kathmandu / Oct 21: Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has laid the foundation stone for Nagdhunga-Sisnekhola tunnel way on Monday. This is the first-ever tunnel project being constructed in Nepal. Amid a program at Chandragiri-1, Totepakha, the prime minister also unveiled the stone inscription at the site which reads about the much-awaited project. The project […]