RAJBIRAJ, May 24: The Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN) has confirmed that the test flight conducted in Rajbiraj Airport on Wednesday was successful. However the locals will have to wait for a few more weeks for regular flights. A CRJ200 jet engine of Shree Airlines with the capacity of carrying 50 passengers successfully completed […]
Kathmandu / May 21: The government has set a target of graduating the country to the status of middle income within 10 years. The policies and programmes presented during the joint meet of the federal parliament by President Bidya Devi Bhandari on Monday, mentioned that the government aims to achieve a double figure economic growth […]
Kathmandu / May 18: Three Nepali recently completed a bicycle tour of 20 countries in the world with the message ‘Nepal is safe after earthquake’. Anish Dhakal and Dilip Chhetri, of Kathmandu, both 22 and Nirmal Baral, 42, of Pokhara completed their bicycle tour of India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Brunei, Singapore, Malaysia, […]
Kathmandu / May 17: The formal announcement of unification between CPN-UML and CPN (Maoist Center) to form Nepal Communist Party (NCP) has been made amid a press conference in the capital on Thursday. The press conference was organised at City Hall in Kathmandu. Leaders of the party, including chairpersons KP Sharma Oli and Pushpa Kamal […]
Kathmandu / May 16: Ending long speculation about merger of two largest left parties, CPN-UML and CPN (Maoist center) have decided to finalize the merger deal on Thursday. As per the agreement, CPN-UML and CPN Maoist (Centre) will have 55 and 45 per cent representation respectively in the unified party’s central committee consisting of 441 […]
Kathmandu / May 16: 2018-Forty-eight-year-old Kami Rita Sherpa has become the most experienced man in the planet to climb Mount Everest. On Wednesday, he created a new record by climbing Everest for the 22nd time. According to mountaineering officials, Sherpa reached the summit at 8:30 am on Wednesday. Although, he was scheduled to climb the […]
Kathmandu / May 12: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi returned home completing his two-day state visit to Nepal. Modi boarded a special aircraft at the Tribhuvan International Airport on Saturday. Modi had arrived in Janakpur on Friday to begin his visit. He offered prayers at Janaki Temple and also attended civic reception hosted in his […]
Kathmandu / May 11: Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi are holding one-on-one talks at Dwarika’s Hotel in the capital. They are scheduled to officially inaugurate a long-over-due Arun III hydropower project by jointly switching a button on. Modi will also hold talks with the leaders of Nepal following a […]
Kathmandu / May 7: President Bidya Devi Bhandari has honoured five journalists with award and prizes at a function held to mark the ‘National Journalism Day, 2075’ today. At the function organised by the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology at the Office of the President in Sheetal Niwas, President Bhandari presented the ‘National Journalism […]
Kathmandu / May 06: Minister for Home Affairs Ram Bahadur Thapa has said that the government was planning to end the syndicate persisting in truck entrepreneurs, with the syndicates now ended in bus and microbus entrepreneurs. In a meeting with the delegates from Consumers Rights protection Forum in the Ministry today, Minister Thapa committed to […]