
New Delhi — Sandeep Lamichhane spent 11 matches warming the Delhi Daredevils bench at the Indian Premier League and the Nepalese teenage spin bowler’s patience was finally rewarded when he made an impressive tournament debut on Saturday. The 17-year-old became the first player from Nepal to land an IPL deal in January, but it seemed like an endless wait […]

Kathmandu / May 14 : Xia Boyu, a double amputee Chinese climber, has scaled the Mt Everest on Monday morning, becoming the first person to climb the world highest peak without legs from Nepal side. According to Liaison Officer Gyanendra Sherstha, Xia stood atop the Mt Everest at 8:40 am today. Shrestha said that Xia […]

Kathmandu / Apr 12: Vice President Nanda Bahadur Pun has announced the completion of the much-awaited construction of the tunnel digging work under the Melamchi Water Supply Project (MWSP) on Thursday. The Minister for Water Supply and Sanitation, Bina Magar, other VIPs and media persons were presented in the program held at Sindhu Gyalthum, tunnel. […]

Chitwan / April 10: Chitwan National Park (CNP) completed one year of zero poaching. A male rhino was killed by poachers at Dhubaghat of Belhatta Hariyali Community Forest are of CNP on April 7, 2017. A plan to celebrate the third year of zero poaching became unsuccessful last year after the rhino was killed 26 […]

Surkhet / Mar 25: Koireli village in Hima Rural Municipality-2 in Jumla district has been declared a model village free of violence against women (VAW). The village was declared as a model village free of any kind of violence against women through the efforts of Hima Rural Municipality and facilitation of the local VAW-free model […]

Jhapa / Mar 21: The Nepal Academy of Science and Technology (NAST) has produced fuel from waste plastic on Tuesday in Surunga of Kankari Municipality in Jhapa district. NAST produced fuel from waste plastic using a maching called Pyrolysis. According to NAST Engineer Dr Rabindra Prasad Dhakal, around 600 to 700 mililitres of petroleum product […]

Parbat / Mar 19: An aircraft of the Tara Air landed at Balewa Airport for the first time in 16 years. The private airline conducted the test flight from Pokhara with a Twin Otter aircraft having the call sign 9NKL. The airline is preparing to operate regular flights from Pokhara to Balewa from coming March […]

Chitwan / Mar 12:The Bharatpur Hospital in Chitwan has started generating oxygen for its own use. The hospital has set up an oxygen gas plant at a cost of Rs 14.6 million in its bid to become self-sufficient on this life saving gas. As stated by hospital medical superintendent Dr Rudra Marasini, the installation cost […]

Kathmandu / Feb 25 : Karuna Foundation, a Nepal-based NGO, has bagged two international awards for its ongoing programme on disability implemented in a district of Nepal. The Inspire2Care model, formerly piloted in Sunsari and Rasuwa (2011-2015) and currently being run in Ilam for last three years was lauded as top 10 ‘Most Scalable Solutions’ […]

Kathmandu / Feb 08 : Nepal Bureau of Standards and Metrology (NBSM) has provided Nepal Standard (NS) certification to three gas industries. The gas industries acquiring the NS certification are Janaki Gas Industry-Nawalparasi, Metro Gas Industry-Dhading, and NL Gas Industry-Birgunj. The Bureau provided quality certificate to these gas industries after carrying out the monitoring of […]