Kathmandu / Apr. 4: Nepal’s work on tiger conservation has been discussed at the U.S. State Department. Secretary at the Ministry of Foreign and Environment Pem Narayan Kandel informed that during the Secretary-level visit from the Ministry of Forest and Environment, Nepal’s international commitments and work on broader conservation and climate change issues were discussed with […]
Pokhara / Mar. 31: The Pokhara Metropolitan City has fixed the benchmark of the nine lakes in the Pokhara Valley. This issue had been lingering on for a long and was disputed. The 55th meeting of the Pokhara Metropolitan City’s Executive on Wednesday fixed the standard for all the nine lakes including Phewa Lake. Accordingly, […]
Kathmandu / Mar 19: Nepal has become the Happiest country in South Asia and 84th Happiest Country as per the World Happiness Report (WHR) 2022. The evaluation has been done from the year 2017 to 2021. As per the report, Nepal has scored 5.377 becoming the happiest country in South Asia followed by Bangladesh in […]
Kathmandu / Mar. 6: Nepali products including Pashmina shawls, tea and handicraft items have been promoted in Bahrain. The Nepali Embassy in Manama has recently promoted the products by, for the first time, participating in the International Embassy Bazaar organised by the Children and Mother’s Welfare Society of the Kingdom of Bahrain, according to the […]
Balewa / Feb 28: Visually-impaired Amit KC of Baglung district is preparing to scale the highest peak of the world, Mount Everest, next month for a second time. KC, who had returned after reaching South Col due to unfavorable conditions last year, has stepped up his preparation to reach atop Mount Everest again. Organizing a […]
Chitwan / Feb 11: Bharatpur Metropolitan City has received technical and financial support from the Government of the Republic of Korea for waste management. Both the countries would sign a memorandum of understanding in a few days. For this purpose, a landfill site will be constructed at a cost of Rs 1.25 billion. The mayor […]
Kathmandu / Jan 26: Finance Minister Janardan Sharma launched the e-payment system for customs duty amidst an event organized today on the occasion of the 70th International Customs Day. With the inauguration of this system, traders can now pay customs duty online. Stating that a ‘new age’ has been started with this, the Finance Minister […]
Gandaki / Jan 25: A study carried out on the carpet and garment industries shows that child labor in these industries has been declining. The study recently done by Assistant Lecturer of Nepal Commerce Campus and researcher Dilaram Bhandari shows that the use of children below 18 years in carpet and garment industries has declined […]
Phidim / Jan.8: Most of the farmers have been growing tomatoes for only four to five months from a plant. After that, they destroyed the plant after it stops yielding fruit. But Tika Nembang of Chillingden in Phalgunanda Rural Municipality-4, Panchtahr, has been growing tomatoes from the same plants for 16 consecutive months. He achieved […]
Parbat / Jan 8: The world’s supposedly second longest and highest sky-cycling in the premises of the Cliff Resort in Kushma of Parbat district has come into operation. The sky-cycling operated by Cliff Pvt Ltd was launched four years ago but the service was shut down due to COVID-19 in 2020. The cycling is operated […]