Kathmandu / April 29: President of the Nepali Congress, the main opposition party in parliament, Sher Bahadur Deuba and Speaker Onsari Gharti have held discussions on forging consensus for the passage of the parliament regulation. Chief Whip of the Nepali Congress Chinkaji Shrestha told reporters that party president Deuba and Speaker Gharti held discussions at […]
Bara / April 29: Nepal Bar Association, Bara Chapter has lodged a case against 19 people, including parliamentarian Nejama Khatun, for mistreating District Court Judge Bhojraj Sharma. A group of people led by parliamentarian Khatun had misbehaved Judge Sharma and vandalized the court’s room where the courtroom proceeding was taking place on last Wednesday. The […]
Kathmandu / April 28: An ice collapse has closed the Lhotse Face, a steep ice slope on the way to the Camp III, on Thursday morning, affecting the acclimatisation schedule of the world climbers who are now making rotations above the higher camps on Mt Everest. “All teams retreat to the Camp II as an […]
Kathmandu / April 28: The main opposition Nepali Congress (NC) on Thursday directed its district leaders and cadres to cooperate with the engineers and technical staffers of the District Development Committee deputed by the government for reconstruction works. Recently, the government has deputed 1,346 engineers for the reconstruction works. The respective districts should mobilize all […]
Kathmandu: The minimum remuneration fixation committee has decided to raise the pay of working journalists by two fold but the decision has raised questions if it will really be implemented or if it is just a publicity stunt of the committee. Although development of the media sector is very encouraging following the political movement of […]
Kathmandu / April 27: President Bidhya Devi Bhandari today called the second session of Legislature Parliament for 11am on May 3 on the recommendation of Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli. According to her Press Adviser Madhav Sharma, the PM made the recommendation today following a Cabinet decision. “The previous session was the first session after […]
Kathmandu / April 26: Former President Ram Baran Yadav has visited journalist Kanak Mani Dixit, who was undergoing treatment at the Bir Hospital under the detention of the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority. Dixit was detained by the anti-corruption constitutional watchdog on last Friday reportedly to probe into corruption allegations filed against […]
Kathmandu / April 26: The government has appointed Acting Inspector General (IG) of Armed Police Force (APF), Durja Kumar Rai to the post of Inspector General on Tuesday. The Inspector General insignia was conferred to Rai after a meeting of the Council of Ministers held today. Rai had been appointed the acting IG of the […]
Yek Raj Pathak (China) / April 25: Four aircraft, manufactured especially for Nepal, are ready to take off, an official at the Chinese aircraft manufacturing company at Harbin said. Chief Engineer of the aircraft manufacturing company, AVIC, Song Zhan said the final preparations have been done for that purpose. Song is also the designer of […]
Kathmandu / April 25: The National Reconstruction Authority (NRA) and Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) today held a workshop to illustrate the overview of activities for reconstruction and rehabilitation works carried out by Nepal Government and Japan in the aftermath of the massive earthquake. The workshop dubbed ‘Build Back Better and Resilience Workshop on 1 […]