Kathmandu / March 23: Vice Chairman of National Planning Commission Dr Yubraj Khatiwada today said that the statistics system of the country should be managed in a proper way and made useful. Addressing a programme organised by the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) to mark the World Statistics Day in the Capital, Khatiwada said that […]
Kathmandu / March 23: A sub-regional office of the National Reconstruction Authority (NRA) – a body mandated to carry out post-earthquake reconstruction and recovery works – at Charikot of Dolakha on Wednesday. NRA’s senior division engineer Hari Sharma has been designated the in-charge of the sub-regional office set up for the first time. NRA Spokesperson […]
Kathmandu / March 21: Nepali Congress President, Sher Bahadur Deuba, today expressed the belief that all forms of discrimination would end with the implementation of the new constitution. Speaking at a programme held on the occasion of the 51st International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination organized jointly by the National Dalit Commission and […]
Kathmandu / March 21: Preparations have been initiated to extend the deadline for the construction of much-awaited Melamchi Drinking Water Project, as it was unlikely to be completed as per schedule. An agreement was signed with an Italian contractor, CMC, to complete the tunnel construction by mid-October 2016. Project’s Executive Director Ghanashyam Bhattarai shared that […]
Kathmandu, March 20: Nepali Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba has said there was no point in joining the government for power sharing. At a programme organised on the Sixth Memorial Day of former NC President late Girija Prasad Koirala, NC President Deuba said, “Collaboration and cooperation among us is imperative.” Inaugurating the seminar organised by […]
Kalpana Poudel / Kathmandu: Nepal has started lab test for Zika virus which has taken an epidemic turn in South America. The disease that is caused by the day-time active Aedes mosquitoes has largely affected the South American countries. The World Health Organisation (WHO) provided ‘polymerase chain reaction kits’ to Nepal to undergo lab test […]
Kathmandu / March 20: The Finance Committee of Legislature-Parliament has directed the government to construct Nijgadh International Airport and Kathmandu-Tarai Madhes fast track with its own investment. A committee meeting today directed the government to initiate the constructions at the earliest with the investment and skills of Nepal. The committee chairman Prakash Jwala said that […]
Itahari / March 20: After the adoption of the new constitution in September 20, 2015; a total of 138 Indian-born women have got naturalised citizenship from the District Administration Office (DAO), Sunsari. The DAO said that the Indian women married to Nepali men in Sunsari district have taken the naturalised citizenship after quitting the Indian […]
Kathmandu / March 18: Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) under the Oxford University is to extend technical support to Nepal in its efforts for poverty identification. The Department in 2007 developed an index revealing multi-dimensional reasons for pushing a country into poverty. At a press meet here Friday, the Department shared that it […]
Kathmandu / March 18: The government has been preparing to fix minimum salary of a working journalist at Rs 19,500 effective from coming April 13. Minister for Information and Communications, Sherdhan Rai, has said that proposal of the Minimum Wages Fixation Committee of making minimum salary of journalist as Rs 19,500 and Rs 1,000 as […]
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