Kathmandu / Jan 26: With the rainfall taking place across the country this week, the hilly belts in different districts have witnessed snowfall. Five years after, snowfall has occurred today in Dahapani and the adjoining areas in Kathekhola Rural Municipality-4 in Baglung district. With the continuous rainfall from Friday afternoon, snowfall took place during the […]
Kathmandu / Jan 25: The government on Friday bulldozed the controversial National Medical Education Bill through House of Representatives (HoR) amid furore and obstructions by the opposition. The meeting scheduled for 1:00PM today started late following discussions between ruling and opposition leaders. Although both Nepal Communist Party (NCP) and Nepali Congress leaders had not budged […]
Kathmandu / Jan 24: Minister for Communication and Information Technology Gokul Prasad Baskota has claimed that the parliament will endorse the Medical Education Bill at any cost on Friday. Talking to journalists during a press briefing organized in Singha Durbar on Thursday, Minister Baskota asserted that the Medical Education Bill has addressed the demands of […]
Kathmandu / Jan 24: The Martyrs Week, during which the nation pays rich tributes to the known and unknown martyrs who sacrificed their life for the cause of the country and the people and their freedom, commenced from Thursday. On the first day of the Martyrs Week, Martyr Shukraraj Shastri was remembered. Shastri was hanged […]
Kathmandu / Jan 19 : Volunteers collected 36 metric tonnes of waste in course of cleaning the various rivers and the Ring Road area in the Kathmandu Valley today. The collected waste was managed with the help of local governments. The area on the bank of the Bagmati river below Gusinggal, Lalitpur was cleaned today […]
Kathmandu / Jan 17: The Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) has so far received 452 suggestions under the ‘Smart City Technology Competition’ that it has announced for the first time. On December 12, 2018, KMC had called for suggestions on the theme of ‘Smart City Technology’ from those willing to participate in the competition, giving a […]
Palpa / Jan 15: A successful test of paragliding has been undertaken at Rampur Municipality-7 of Palpa district on Monday. Some 16 test flights took off from Bahundanda and Losdi of Siluwa in Purbakhola Rural Municipality-1, with first test flight taking off from Bahundanda and landing at Kisanbari sports ground in the district. Test flights […]
Kathmandu / Jan 12: President of India Ram Nath Kovind on Saturday conferred the honorary rank of General of the Indian Army to General Purna Chandra Thapa, the Chief of Nepal Army. CoAS Thapa was conferred the rank insignia amidst a special function organized at the Rastrapati Bhawan in New Delhi, India in continual of […]
Kathmandu / Jan 11: The fifth Asian Rural Tourism Festival is to take place at Bahundangi of Jhapa from January 25. The five-day festival aims to internationalise the cultural, ethnic and linguistic identity and tourism market of the Province 1. According to festival organizing committee coordinator Arjun Karki, Nepal, India and Bhutan are taking part […]
Kathmandu / Jan 10: Visiting Japanese Foreign Minister Tara Kono met Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli and discussed bilateral issues. The visiting delegation reached PM’s official residence in Baluwater, Kathmandu this morning. During the meeting, Minister Kono assured to continue Japanese assistance in Nepal’s development in the future. PM Oli presented a bouquet to Kono […]