Kathmandu / Apr 15: Three women climbers from Nepal, India and China are going to scale Mt Everest this season as a team with an objective of empowering women in the region and spreading the message of universal peace and friendship. According to the expedition organisers, the expedition has been flagged off today amidst a […]
Kathmandu / Apr 15:Police have arrested a bus driver and two others after they attempted to bribe police officers while on duty at Chamati in Kathmandu. The trios offered a bribe of Rs 350,000 to police officers requesting not to take action against them for bringing smuggled clothing in a passenger bus (Ba 5 Kha […]
Kathmandu / Apr 14:As of Friday, a total of 75 expedition teams have been granted mountain climbing permits for this spring. The Department of Tourism has so far collected royalty over Rs 450 million through the permits, Department’s director general Danduraj Ghimire said. The teams acquiring the climbing permits for 20 mountain peaks comprise 667 […]
Kathmandu / Apr 13:The Ministry of Education, Science and Technology has directed all local levels for making the school enrollment campaign commencing from Monday successful. The secretary-level meeting of ministry gave the direction through the Ministry of Federal Affairs and General Administration. All the local levels have been instructed to include all school age children […]
Prakash Singh / Bajura: Within a few months, remote Humla district will be connected with the national road network as the construction of a Bailey bridge over Kawadi river along the Karnali corridor has gained momentum of late. Nepali Army, who is constructing the Karnali corridor, said the construction of the bridge is being carried […]
Kathmandu / Apr 8: Supreme Court has issued an interim order to suspend the decision of Ministry of Home Affairs (MoHA) to issue citizenship based on descent. A single bench of Justice Purushottam Bhandari ordered the government not to execute the decision until the final verdict. The apex court has summoned the plaintiff and the […]
Parbat / Apr 6: Construction of a new trekking route to the popular tourist destination of Ghodepani from Ambot of Parbat has begun. The trekking route from Ambota of Kusma municipality-3 passes through Durlung and Mahabhir. At present, the route to Ghodepani is from Birethanti and Myagdi. The construction of the new route would help […]
Kathmandu / Apr 3: Nepal Police has arrested 540 leaders and cadres of Netra Bikram Chand ‘Biplav’-led group. Such number of cadres and leaders has been arrested from different places of the country so far from Mid-April 2018 on the charge of their involvement in violent activities, according to Police Spokesperson Uttam Raj Subedi. Police […]
Kathmandu / Apr 2: The Department of Archeology (DoA) on Monday verified that the Vishnu-Laxmi statue found while reconstructing an earthquake-hit temple in Kirtipur is from the Lichchhavi era (400-750 AD). Locals of Kiritpur Municipality-6, were reconstructing the earthquake-hit Jalapadevi temple on Saturday when they found the statue of Hindu god of preservation Vishnu and […]
Kathmandu / Mar 30: Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defence Ishwar Pokhrel addressed the ‘UN Peacekeeping Ministerial Conference on Uniformed Capabilities, Performance and Protection’ as the leader of Nepali delegation at the UN Headquarters in New York on Saturday. Highlighting Nepal’s 61 years of partnership with the UN on peacekeeping operations, he reiterated Nepal’s […]