Kathmandu / Feb 8: Meteorologists had expected that temperature across the country would rise following the first spell of winter rainfall on Friday and Saturday last week. Influenced by the westerly wind, Nepal received light to moderate rainfall after five months. Some higher regions also reported snowfall. The weather improved starting Sunday this week. According […]
Adarsha Subedi / Kathmandu: The year 2020 has not been something we envisioned or expected yet something we needed to adjust to. An infection known as COVID – 19 so threatening surfaced in our current circumstance closing the whole world down. As per the WHO, COVID – 19 has disturbed in excess of 100 million […]
Kathmandu / Feb 06: With the decreased caseload of Covid-19 pandemic and positive environment created due to availability of vaccine against Covid-19, although in a limited number, people are opting to return to normalcy and resuming their activities, which were hampered for almost a year. In this connection, Naulin Sports Villa is organizing Naulin Inhouse […]
Kathmandu, Feb 4: Minister for Communications and Information Technology Parbat Gurung has directed employees of Nepal Telecom (NTC) to make it professional and competitive while stressing the need for its review and transformation. “A strategy should be made to establish it as a sustainable and permanent company by reviewing whether commitments to develop it as […]
Kathmandu / Feb 2: Nepal welcomed 8,874 foreign tourists in January, the largest number of foreign visitors in a month since the government imposed a nationwide lockdown on March 24. According to the records of the Department of Immigration (DoI), visitors from 121 countries entered Nepal during the period. Of the total number, 4,028 were […]
Lahan / Jan 31: The people’s housing programme (PHP) in Siraha and Saptari districts has been affected after the local levels failed to manage lands needed for it. The programme is aimed at building houses for Dalit, landless and squatters. If the beneficiaries have not lands to construct houses, the respective local governments are obliged […]
Kathmandu / Jan 30: Three companies dumping waste on the bank of the Bagmati River have faced action, in the 403rd week of the Bagmati Cleanup Mega Campaign. The Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) slapped fine of Rs 2,000 on Garima Workshop Teenkune, of Rs 1,000 against Binod Pan Pasal Aloknagar and of Rs 500 on […]
Dev Bahadur Kunwar / Kathmandu, Jan. 27: The Ministry of Home Affairs has directed all the government-owned vehicles to promptly install the high security embossed vehicle number plate. Stating that the government-owned vehicles were misused by installing private (red) number plates, the MoHA issued the directive to the Armed Police Force, Department of Immigration, Department […]
Kathmandu / Jan 25: The Department of Roads is installing traffic lights in the Kathmandu Valley. Traffic lights would be fitted at five chowks and eight zebra crossings at Jadibuti, Thapathali, Durbar Marga and Kesharmahal. The project would be implemented within the current fiscal year, 2020/21, said Krishna Nath Ojha, chief of the road safety […]
Kathmandu / Jan 22: The National Information Commission (NIC) has appealed to all public agencies to ensure effective implementation of the Right to Information (RTI) Act. For the effective implementation of constitutionally-guaranteed citizens’ right to information, the NIC has decided to request federal level public agencies through the Chief Secretary of Nepal government. Likewise, Chief […]