Kathmandu / Feb 24: Province number 6 became the first province to get a name as a provincial assembly meeting renamed it Karnali on Saturday. The meeting also fixed Birendranagar in Surkhet as its Capital. The name Karnali was endorsed by 37 of the 40 provincial assembly members. UML Parliamentary Party leader Yamlal Kadel proposed […]
Kanchanpur / Feb 23: Wild elephants straying from the Shuklaphanta National Park are wrecking havoc in the adjacent villages, said the locals. Recently on Thursday night, a herd of the tuskers entered the settlement of Pipaladi in Shuklaphanta Municipality-3, and destroyed houses of the locals and ripen wheat crops on around 31 bighas of farmland, […]
Dhading / Feb 18: Minister for Internal Affairs and Law of Province 3, Shalikram Jammarkattel, has said that the deadline for the construction of Narayangadh-Muglin road section would not be extended again. The deadline that was extended for the third time would come to an end on February 20. Speaking at a programme organised by […]
Kathmandu / Feb 17: At least 31 metric tonnes of solid waste have been extracted today as part of Kathmandu valley clean-up campaigns. Nine metric tonnes of garbage were picked up from Ram Temple area in Pashupati as part of Bagmati Clean-up Mega Campaign that entered the 249th week on Saturday. The campaign saw the […]
Kathmandu / Feb 16 : Nepali Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba has shifted to his house in Budanilkantha from Prime Minister’s official residence in Baluwatar at 1 pm on Friday. Deuba resigned from the post of Prime Minister on Thursday. Deuba was appointed the 37th Prime Minister of the country on June 6, 2017. CPN-UML […]
Palpa / Feb 16: Boat riding services initiated at Taalpokhara in Palpa has been attracting the attention of domestic tourists in recent days. Taalpokhara — popularly known as Mini Phewa Lake — is an artificial lake created by lifting water from the Kaligandaki River. After the initiation of boat riding service, the number of tourists […]
Biratnagar / Feb 15: A joint team from Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA), Biratnagar and District Police Office (DPO), Morang arrested eight persons on charge of theft of electricity on Wednesday night. They were taken under custody from Katahari Rural Municipality-6 in Morang district. The arrestees have been identified as local residents — Jiten Sardar, Ananda […]
Palpa / Feb 14: The traditional resting platforms known as ‘chautari’ are being dislodged these days with the building of roads. The chautaris are raised platforms often constructed beneath big shady trees beside rural trails where the travellers can rest after a tedious uphill climb. A chautari also acts as traditional public space where people […]
Bhaktapur / Feb 13: Six-year-old Sirish Tamang of Gundu in Suryabinayak Municipality-7, Bhaktapur who had been missing since Monday evening was found killed by a tiger. According to police, the boy was caught by a wild cat and dragged into the nearby forest as he was on the way to home from a shop. His […]
Kathmandu / Feb 12: Senior citizens have demanded an increment in the old age allowance. Currently, State provides monthly allowance of Rs 2,000 to senior citizens above 70 under the Social Security Allowance Scheme. A group of senior citizens have continued their sit-in protest near the Constituent Assembly (CA) building for long, demanding a 50 […]
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