Kathmandu / Mar 14: President Bidya Devi Bhandari has been administered the oath of office and secrecy by Chief Justice Gopal Parajuli. The Judicial Council has sent a removal letter to Chief Justice Parajuli today, citing inconsistencies in the birth dates as mentioned in his citizenship and academic certificates. President Bhandari had emerged victorious with […]
Kathmandu / Mar 13: Bidya Devi Bhandari has been re-elected as the President of Nepal with 39, 275 votes in an election held at Federal Parliament buildingt in New Baneshwar on Tuesday. Her one and only closest rival from Nepali Congress Kumari Laxmi Rai got 11, 730 votes. Of the total 880 eligible voters, 862 […]
Katmandu / Mar 12: Forty-nine people lost their lives as a plane carrying 71 people crashed on landing at the Tribhuvan International Airport today at 2:18 pm. According to Spokesperson of the Nepal Police, Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Manoj Neupaney, 49 people were killed in the crash while 22 people are currently undergoing treatment at […]
Kathmandu / Mar 11: Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli secured 208 votes today to pass the floor test with more than two-thirds majority in the House of Representatives. Of the 275 lawmakers, 268 were present today. Only 60 lawmakers of the opposition party voted against the PM. Nepal Workers and Peasants Party lawmaker Prem Suwal […]
Kathmandu / Mar 9: Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli today said the incumbent government is focused on controlling corruption. “I will not indulge in such illegal activity nor will I endure it. I will make the country free of corruption in my tenure as PM,” he said while inaugurating a medical building for Bir Hospital. […]
Dang/ Mar 9: Born in an economically weak family, Shanta Chaudhary of Dang district was made to work as a housemaid for a landlord of the district at a tender age of 10. From that age, she spent the next ten years working as a kamlari (indentured laborer). Every year on the first day of […]
Kathmandu / Mar 8: Newly appointed Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has said that the next five years will be a remarkable time for the development of Nepal. He claimed that the next five years will be the time of success, changes and progress. Inaugurating the 7th International Trade Fair organised by Federation of Nepalese […]
Charikot / Mar 8: Minister of International Development of Norway, Nikolai Astrup, has said that Norway government wanted to partner with Nepal for its educational development. The Norwegian minister said so while inaugurating the Devitar Basic School at Loting, Chilankha of Bigu Rural Municipality on Wednesday. The school building was constructed with the support of […]
Kathmandu / Mar 5:Pakistani Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has arrived here in Kathmandu for a two-day official visit on Monday. He is leading a 32-member delegation. Minister for Finance Yuvaraj Khatiwada and Secretary at Finance Ministery Shankar Dai Bairagi welcomed PM Abbasi at the VVIP Lounge in Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA), Kathmandu. During his […]
Kathmandu / Mar 2: The government has begun restructuring those ministries as per their new work allocation. The spokesperson at the Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers (OPMCM), Dilliram Sharma said that they have been carrying out the restructuring works in consonance with the new work allocation pertaining to the newly-reconstituted ministries. […]