
Kathmandu / April 2: Singer and musician Dipak Limbu and Bibi Anuragi are to be awarded with the ‘Narayan Gopal Youth Music’ prize 2016. The prize is founded by the National Youth Service Fund in memory of Swar Samrat Narayan Gopal. Likewise, the ‘Araniko Youth Art Prize’ is to be presented to artists Rajan Kumar […]

Kathmandu, April 2: Nepal Bar Association, an umbrella organisation of legal practitioners, Saturday concluded the election of a new leadership peacefully. According to election committee chief election officer Harishankar Niraula, the election was held across the country peacefully. A total of 71 candidates are in the race of a 25-member new NBA working committee. Out […]

Morang / April 1: The Regional Food Technology and Quality Control Office, Biratnagar has filed cases against 11 eastern region-based industries for producing substandard goods. Those industries facing the cases for violating manufacturing rules and regulations are BK Spice Industry, Dairy Fresh Industry Birgunj, Nepal Wellhope Agri-Tech Pvt Tankisinuwari, Star Feed Industries Jhapa, Milkfood Dairy […]

Kathmandu / March 31: Minister for Information and Communications Sherdhan Rai Thursday held consultations with the investors of big media house to solicit their views over the enforcement of proposed minimum wages for working journalists. Minimum Wages Fixation Committee recently recommended Rs 19,500 as monthly minimum wage for a working journalist. In the discussion arranged […]

Kathmandu, March 30: A friendly football match was held between journalists and politicians at the Dasharath Stadium in Tripureshwar on Wednesday. The team of journalists led by President of the Federation of Nepali Journalists (FNJ) Dr Mahendra Bista defeated the team of politicians 3-2 in the 60-minute match organised to mark the 61st establishment day […]

Kathmandu / March 29: The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) has filed a lawsuit against six people including the then District Education Officer of Rautahat at the Special Court on the charge of embezzlement in the Non-Formal Education and National Literacy programmes. They have been indicted of embezzling Rs 4.7 million […]

Kathmandu, March 29: The first South Asian Women’s Basketball tournament began at the National Sports Council covered hall in Tripureswar Tuesday. In the inaugural match, Sri Lanka defeated Maldives by 106-37 points. Likewise, in the second match, hosts Nepal defeated Bangladesh by 92-26 points. A total of five south Asian countries including Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, […]

Kathmandu / March 28: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) decided to present this year’s Daya Ram Pariyar Human Rights Memorial Award to rights activists Charimaya Tamang and journalist Shyam Sundar Shashi. This was announced amidst a programme organised by the NHRC commemorating Pariyar’s 10th memorial day. The award will be presented on coming May […]

Bhaktapur / March 27: A total of 615,553 students will sit for this year’s School Leaving Certificate or SLC examinations scheduled for March 31, said the Office of the Controller of Examinations at Sanothimi, Bhaktapur. Out of them, 4,52,881 are from under regular category, while 1,59,417 are from the exempted category. Likewise, 3,255 are appearing […]

Kathmandu / March 27: Reporter’s Club Nepal has decided to present this year’s ‘Krishnasen Ichhuk Memorial Journalism Award’ to Om Sharma, former General Secretary of Federation of Nepali Journalists (FNJ). A meeting of the Club today decided to present the award, carrying a purse of Rs 25,000 to journalist Sharma. Likewise, Ram Kumar Kamat, executive […]