
Parbat / Oct 8: Some 1,400 houses have been reconstructed in Parbat district during the three-and-a-half years since the 2015 earthquake devastations. The earthquake had completely damaged a total of 5,269 houses in the district. All 1,400 beneficiaries who completed construction of their houses have also received second tranche of relief amount provided by the […]

Kathmandu / Oct 7: The Ministry of Home Affairs on Sunday made public the investigation report on rape and murder of 13-year-old Nirmala Pant, of Bhimdutta Municipality-2, Kanchanpur district. The 37-page report prepared by a high-level probe committed under joint secretary Hari Prasad Mainali has blamed the police for the lackadaisical approach in handling the […]

Kathmandu / Oct 07: The Meteorological Forecasting Division on Sunday asserted that monsoon has made its exit and the temperature in Kathmandu can now be expected to plunge in the upcoming days. According to MFD, Kathmandu today’s maximum temperature was recorded as 26-degree celcius and lowest as 13-degree celsius. Meteorological Forecasting Division’s senior meteorologist Raju […]

Kathmandu / Oct 6: An autobiography of former Inspector General Achyut Krishna Kharel has been released amid a special ceremony organized at Nepal Police Club at the Exhibition Road in Kathmandu on Saturday. Nepal’s first President Ram Baran Yadav unveiled Kharel’s autobiography by handing the book to Binda Adhikari, the wife of a late police […]

Kathmandu / Oct 6: Chief of the National Reconstruction Authority (NRA) Sushil Gyawali said on Saturday that the NRA would provide additional amount of Rs 50,000 each for the reconstruction of earthquake-hit houses in the ancient cities like Bungmati of Lalitpur. Addressing a program at Bungmati in Lalitpur, Gyawali said the NRA made such a […]

Kathmandu / Oct 5: Randy William Berry has been appointed as the new American ambassador to Nepal on Friday. “We are eagerly waiting to welcome Randy William Berry as the new American ambassador to Nepal here in Kathmandu,” US Embassy in Kathmandu tweeted. Earlier, Berry had served as the first Special Envoy for the Human […]

Bishnu Devkota / Oct 5: District Administration Office (DA)), Dolpa has decided to beef up security condition in all the eight local units of the district during the upcoming Dashain and Tihar festivals. A meeting among the stakeholders including local entrepreneurs and civil society held on Friday took a decision to this effect. “Sale of […]

Kathmandu / Oct 4:The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the House of Representatives has directed the Government of Nepal to determine the price of sugar at Rs 63 per kilogramme. At the meeting of the PAC held today, lawmakers urged the government to interfere in the market, saying price of daily essentials including sugar, lentils, […]

Rolpa / Oct 3: Students with physical disability at Bal Kalyan Model Secondary School at Libang in Rolpa district have grieved that their learning experience in the school has been difficult in lack of adequate disability-friendly State support, services and facilities. One such student, Chitra Bahadur Dangi, a 10th grader at the School, shared that […]

Kathmandu / Oct 3: The Non-Resident Nepali Association (NRNA) has been making preparations to hold the first ever NRNA World Experts Conference in Kathmandu on October 12-14. NRNA Coordinator Hem Raj Sharma said the decision to hold the conference was made, realising the need to utilise knowledge, skills and experience gained by Nepali diaspora for […]