
UAE, Aug 1: The UAE’s much-publicised visa amnesty begins today with thousands of undocumented workers expected to attend specialist immigration centres set up to assist with their queries. The three-month scheme will allow anyone who has overstayed their work or residency visa the opportunity to either legalise their status in the country or return home. […]

Nepal, the newest one-day international team, will start their journey in the format in a two-ODI series against the Netherlands in Amstelveen. It’s about as historic as it gets. Close on the heels of Ireland and Afghanistan playing their maiden Test matches, we have Nepal starting out as an ODI nation. Nepal’s rise up the […]

A zoo in Cairo, Egypt, has denied charges that it painted donkeys to look like zebras – but the Internet thinks otherwise. A photo of the donkey-zebra (Zebronkey? Donkbra?) went viral on the Internet after it was posted to Facebook by Egyptian student Mahmoud Sarhan. According to BBC, the picture was taken at Cairo’s International […]

Kathmandu / July 29: The KCC exhibit 2018 organized by Center for Software Research and Development (CSDR) at Kantipur City College (KCC), a pioneering college in information technology affiliated to Purbanchal University (PU) since 2000 has officially concluded today with a theme of Innovate, Integrate and Sustain. A vision for ‘smart’ city was discussed in […]

Kathmandu, July 27: Skygazers in Nepal will be able to catch a glimpse of the longest total lunar eclipse of the 21st Century on July 28. The eclipse, that starts at 12:09 am will last till 4:04 am, according to a press release issued by Nepal Astronomical Society (NASO). A lunar eclipse takes places when […]

Kathmandu, July 26: An another wide body Airbus A330-200 of Nepal Airlines Corporation (NAC) has landed at the Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) on Thursday morning. The airbus landed at 9 am. The airbus, which has been given call sign 9N-ALZ, was brought to Kathmandu straight from France following nine hours’ flight. The corporation had brought […]

Kathmandu, July 25 : Minister for Labour Gokarna Raj Bista and UAE Ambassador to Nepal Saeed Hamdan Alnaqbi on Tuesday discussed about matters relating to amendment of the labour agreement with the UAE. On the occasion, Minister Bista said that formation of a joint committee would help make the selection of Nepali workers going to […]

Kathmandu / July 24: Minister for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Sher Bahadur Tamang has offered his resignation through a press meet organised at Singha Durbar today. Minister Tamang offered his resignation following widespread public dissatisfaction over his recent remark where he was heard as saying, “Female students in Bangladesh pursuing MBBS degree have to […]

Kathmandu / July 24:The government, in a bid to implement e-information system, digitalization and e-governance, is preparing to make sure all the government offices in the country compulsorily operate their own twitter handle. According to Pradhumna Prasad Upadhyay, Chief at the ‘Hello Sarkar Desk’, operating twitter accounts in public offices would make information dissemination easier […]

Kathmandu / July 23: It has been 24 days since medical activist Dr Govinda KC went on a fast-unto-death demanding reforms in medical education. This is the longest period that the Satyagrahi has gone on a hunger strike at a stretch. Prior to this, Dr KC had staged a fast-unto-death for 23 days during the […]