Sajhamanch Archive

KATHMANDU : Holi, the festival of color, is being celebrated with a huge fanfare in the hilly region of the country on Sunday. Holi, which is often considered the second biggest religious festival, indicates the beginning of spring season. A legend has it that fire-resistant Holika put herself along with her son Prahlad in fire […]

KATHMANDU : Kathmandu, the federal capital of Nepal, has witnessed the world’s most polluted air yet again. According to IQAir, Kathmandu topped the list of polluted cities followed by China’s Beijing, India’s Mumbai and Bangladesh’s Dhaka. Kathmandu’s air quality on Friday deteriorated further as the highest fine particulate matters (Pm 2.5) index was recorded at […]

KATHMANDU ;  Lawmakers of the rival faction of the ruling CPN-UML led by senior leader Madhav Kumar Nepal have reached Baluwatar to attend the parliamentary party meeting called by party Chairman KP Sharma Oli. According to Krishna Bhattarai, an aide to senior leader Jhalanath Khanal, the party’s lawmakers close to the faction including Khanal, Surendra […]

KATHMANDU : The government has claimed that Nepal has become self-reliant in a number of farm products including egg, milk powder, butter and meat. Amid a program organized by the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development (MoALD) on Thursday, Prime Minister KP Oli declared the country self-dependent in the aforementioned products. According to the ministry, […]

LAHAN : A couple who had gone missing some one month ago was found buried beneath the under-construction road some three kilometers away from their residence on Thursday afternoon. Mortal remains of Musaphir Jha, 65 and his wife Geeta Devi Jha, 60, from Pipara Rural Municipality-5, Sahodba of Mahottari district were found buried beneath the […]

KATHMANDU : Chairperson of the ruling Communist Party of Nepal-Unified Marxist Leninist, KP Sharma Oli, has called a meeting of the party’s parliamentary party for Friday afternoon. Chairperson Oli, who is also the prime minister, called the party’s parliamentary party meeting at 3PM on Friday, according to Bishal Bhattarai, a leader of the party who […]

KATHMANDU :  The Nepal Stock Exchange (Nepse) index saw another upbeat session with the market trending firmly in green throughout the trading hours on Wednesday. The index climbed around 30 points in the morning but retraced slightly around mid-session. However, another rise in the latter half of the trading hours pushed the index higher to […]

BIRGUNJ : High alertness has been adopted at the border transit points in eight districts of Province 2 with a surge again in the number of coronavirus infection cases in India. The Armed Police Force (APF) Chhinnamasta Brigade Headquarters, Mahottari, Province 2, has stated that high alertness along with stringent checking has been adopted at […]

KATHMANDU :  Prime Minister and Chairman of the ruling CPN-UML, KP Sharma Oli visited and inspected the party’s new central office at Thapathali in Kathmandu on Wednesday. PM Oli reached Umanga Road at Thapathali Height to examine the party’s new office building. CPN-UML has been preparing to move its party office from Dhumbarahi to Thapathali. […]

RAMPUR : Rampur Municipality in Palpa allocated a total of 21.5 million rupees for COVID-19 response activities in the last and current fiscal year. However, the municipality is yet to submit its report to the Ministry of Federal Affairs and General Administration (MoFAGA). Records of Rampur Municipality shows that a total of 1,223 people were […]