Kathmandu / January 24: An electric crematorium building has formally come into operation from Sunday. The building was brought into operation by the Pashupati Area Development Trust (PADT). Minister for Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation Ananda Pokharel inaugurated the building at a programe organised by PADT here on Sunday. On the occasion, Minister Pokharel said […]
Krishna Sapkota / Kathmandu: Nepal’s largest and oldest political party, the Nepali Congress (NC) is presently standing at a crucial juncture of its history, in the lead up to its 13th General Convention. The conclave scheduled for the first week of March mainly has two-pronged responsibilities; first to review party policy/programme and second to elect […]
Kathmandu / January 23: The Nepali players winning the title of Bangabandhu Gold Cup Football Championship have been welcomed home grandly on Saturday. The football fans waving national flags and chanting national anthems welcomed the arrival of the team at Tribhuvan International Airport at 3:00 pm. “Whose victory is this? Nepal’s Nepal’s,” the fans greeted […]
Surya Chandra Basnet / Kathmandu: Nepal’s high altitude trekking routes are one of the most adventurous attractions for backpackers promising an encounter with the pristine natural beauty. The tourists from all over the world who visit Nepal have always made it a point of taking a tour through the trekking and hiking routes that wind […]
Helambu / January 21: Home Minister Shakti Bahadur Basnet Thursday visited disaster-hit Helambu in Sindhupalchowk and Gaun Kharkha in Nuwakot, with relief assistance materials for the affected. The districts lie in the list of among the 14 districts highly affected by the last year’s devastating earthquake. Massive snowfall had hit the villages recently. On the […]
Rautahat / January 21: The District Police here has arrested six racketeers involved in printing of counterfeit currency notes. They were held with a machine used for printing counterfeit notes of Rs 1000, and Rs 500 denomination. Counterfeit Nepali currency worth Rs 49,500 was confiscated from the racketeers, said Superintendent of Police, Dr Ganesh Regmi, […]
Surya Chandra Basnet /Kathmandu: Bob Gibbons, then a post-graduate Englishman, had innumerable accounts of the mystic land named Nepal through books and movies. He did not delay a second to hit the road towards Nepal in his 1949 Land Rover model car on a sweltering summer of 1974. It took him around 16-weeks to arrive […]
Kathmandu / January 17: The Seto Machindranath deity also known as Avalokiteśvara located at Janabahal (Machindra Bahal) of Kathmandu city was given a grand holy bath. The bathing ceremony is an annual event taking place on Poush Shukla Astami (the eighth brighter half moon day) as per the Nepali lunar calendar. The deity was taken […]
Pritam Bhattarai / Kathmandu: Until some years ago, people especially in Nepal would perceive yoga as a practice undertaken only by yogis or the elderly. However, of late people, be them children, youth and elderly, are getting attracted towards the ancient form of exercise for its multiple health benefits. With so-called modern people often going […]
Hari Lamichhane (Kathmandu) / January 16: The government has begun the nationwide reconstruction and rebuilding of the infrastructures damaged in the April 25 earthquake. Almost nine months after the disaster jolted central Nepal, President Bidya Devi Bhandari inaugurated the reconstruction and rebuilding work by laying the foundation stone for reconstruction of the famous Rani Pokhari […]
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