Kathmandu / Dec 22: A meeting of five major political parties called by Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba at the PM’s official residence in Baluwatar has ended sans agreement after the parties remained firm on their respective contradictory stands. The leaders of Nepali Congress (NC), CPN-UML, CPN Maoist Centre (CPN MC), Rastriya Janata Party-Nepal (RJP-N) […]
Kathmandu / Dec 22: The Election Commission on Friday unveiled the number of seats parties got in the provincial proportional representation elections. A meeting of EC commissioners, presided over by Chief Election Commissioner Ayodhi Prasad Yadav, held today decided to disclose the number of provincial PR seats allocated to the parties in proportion to the […]
Kathmandu / Dec 21: Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) has clarified that there would be no load-shedding except the technical problem. The NEA made this clarification after news indicating that NEA starts load-shedding disseminated in different media and social networking sites for the past few days. NEA Chief Executive Officer, Kulman Ghising, said that there would […]
Kathmandu / Dec 20: The National Planning Commission on Wednesday released its first Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) report stating that around 28.5 percent of Nepali population is living in poverty. The poverty indicators including malnutrition, minimum education, electricity facility, drinking water and sufficient sanitation conditions and others are measured in three dimensions – health, education […]
Kathmandu / Dec 19: The Nepal Oil Corporation has once again hiked the price of petroleum products for the second time in 11 days. NOC has hiked one rupee in petrol, diesel and kerosene. Following the increment, the petrol will cost Rs 101 per liter whereas the price of diesel and kerosene will be Rs […]
Kavre / Dec 18 : The Asian Development Bank (ADB) along the government handed over the newly reconstructed Shree Kali Devi Primary School in Kavre District to the community amid a ceremony held on Monday. The April 2015 earthquake had badly damaged the school, destroying five classrooms and other facilities. The reconstructed quake-resistant school under […]
Pokhara / Dec 17: Construction of a well-equipped park has begun at Ramghat in Pokhara-Lekhnath Metropolitan City. The project that costs around Rs 4 million will be built on seven ropanis of land on the initiative of Antar Samaj Federation Nepal. The land was provided by the Western Regional Hospital. The park will have free […]
Bhaktapur / Dec 16: The CPN-UML chair and former Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has urged Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba to pave the way for formation of the new government. Speaking with media persons at his residence at Balkot Saturday, chair Oli said that the Prime Minister should respect the recent public verdict and […]
Kathmandu / Dec 15: The CPN-UML, which has topped the first-past-the-post (FTTP) vote to the House of Representatives, is still leading vote count in proportional representation (PR) system by a margin of 75,000 votes. As per the information received from Information System Management Section at the Election Commission, the CPN-UML has so far secured 3.058 […]
Kathmandu / Dec 15: The government is all set to measure the height of Sagarmatha Himal (Mt Everest), using own resources. The final preparations for measuring the height of the world’s highest peak have been completed, according to the Survey Department which is undertaking the task. oint spokesman of the Ministry of Land Reform and […]