
Kathmandu / May 8:The Poverty Alleviation Fund and the National Reconstruction Authority on Monday reached an agreement to support and uplift the life standard of people who were affected by the 2015 earthquake in 14 districts. As per the agreement, training and facilitating programme on livelihood improvement and micro enterprise development model would be conducted […]

Kathmandu / May 8:The Governor of Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) Dr Chiranjivi Nepal has claimed that the budget for the fiscal year 2017/018 would be historic. At a pre-budget discussion programme organized here by the central bank Monday, the Governor said that the new budget would be brought in a new paradigm with the implementation […]

Kathmandu / May 5: The Supreme Court order to stay the ruling parties’ move to impeach Chief Justice Sushila Karki has drawn mixed reaction from the ruling and opposition parties. Deputy parliamentary party leader of the main opposition CPN-UML, Subas Nembang hailed the decision for preventing political parties from misusing the constitutional provision. However ruling […]

Kathmandu / May 6:The Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) has started management of the wires and cables set up along the electric poles. The untidy wires dangling and hanging down from the poles have been taken care of at Tripureshwor, Kamaladi and Kamal Pokhari, informed KMC’s Environment Management Department Chief Rabinman Shrestha. The KMC collected 15 […]

Jhapa / Apr. 29: A total of 706 new industries were registered and came into operation in the last nine months of the current fiscal year. The industries with an investment of Rs 1.38 billion fetched Rs 7.4 million in revenue from their registration, according to Chandra Prasad Mishra, Industry Officer at the Office of […]

Chitwan / Apr. 29: A woman lost her life and an elderly man was injured in separate incidents of rhino attack in Chitwan district on Saturday. Sukmaya Kumal (55) of Bharatpur Sub-Metropolitan City-28 was collecting fodder in a nearby forest when she was fatally attacked by a rhinoceros. Critically injured in the attack, she was […]

Kathmandu / Apr. 28: A Taiwan hiker rescued 47 days after disappearing in the foothills of the Himalayas and just days after his girlfriend died is recovering well in hospital in the Nepali capital of Kathmandu, his doctor said on Friday. Liang Sheng-yueh, who turned 21 on Friday, went missing with girlfriend Liu Chen-chun, 19, […]

Kathmandu / Apr. 28: Minister for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs, Ajay Shankar Nayak, has said constitution would be amended with the participation of the major opposition CPN-UML. During an interaction organized by Reporters’ Club Nepal here Friday, Minister Nayak said major opposition has also a significant role to resolve problems. Therefore, the UML would […]

Kathmandu / Apr. 27: The board meeting of the International Cricket Council has decided to pay the outstanding salaries of the Nepali national cricket players. The Board and Committee meeting of the international cricket governing body held in Dubai for five days had made the decision, ICC said in a press release issued today. “The […]

Kathmandu / Apr. 27:Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal has called an all-party meeting for Friday to discuss the pressing issues as local level election and constitution amendment. PM Dahal has invited all political parties represented in the Legislature-Parliament to attend the meeting to zero in on the contemporary political issues, said PM’s press advisor, Govind […]