KATHMANDU : The government has spent 480 million rupees to decorate the main administrative building, the Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers (OPMCM) at Singha Durbar. The building was damaged by the 2015 earthquake and was rebuilt by the National Reconstruction Authority (NRA). The NRA spent 480 million rupees to decorate and […]
KATHMANDU : Chief of Army Staff (CoAS) Purna Chandra Thapa held a meeting with Chief Justice (CJ) Cholendra Shumsher Rana at the latter’s office on Monday afternoon. The meeting comes at a time when the apex court is supposed to deliver its verdict on the House dissolution case any time. It was immediately not known […]
SINDHUPALCHOWK : The long-awaited Melamchi Drinking Water Project is set to start supplying drinking water in Kathmandu Valley within the next few months. With the completion of tunnel construction, the Project is testing its 22-Kilometer long water tunnel on Monday filling water in it. The drinking water is expected to be available to people in […]
KATHMANDU : President Joe Biden will mark the U.S. crossing 500,000 lives lost from COVID-19 with a moment of silence and candle lighting ceremony at the White House. The nation is expected to pass the grim milestone on Monday, just over a year after the first confirmed U.S. fatality due to the novel coronavirus. The […]
MYANMAR : Opponents of Myanmar’s military coup called a general strike and more street protests on Monday as authorities threatened that confrontation could cost lives after two protesters were shot dead at the weekend. Despite deploying more forces and promising to hold a new election, the generals have failed to stop more than two weeks […]
JHAPA : Chairman of Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP), Kamal Thapa has said the election announced by the government is an appropriate means to find a way out of the existing crisis and it should be taken as an opportunity. Speaking at a press meet organised by Media Nepal in Damak today, Thapa was of the […]
SAPTARI : Saptari police has been successful in arresting 505 people who were on the run after being sentenced to jail and penalty on various offenses. During the first five months of the current fiscal year, 505 fugitives were arrested from various parts of the district, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Bhubaneswar Prasad Shah said. […]
KATHMANDU : Former Prime Minister and Chairman of the Federal Council of Janata Samajwadi Party Baburam Bhattarai is traveling to New Delhi, India for medical treatment. He is leaving for New Delhi today via a Nepal Airlines flight. He had been undergoing tests and treatment at Nidan Hospital in Kathmandu for a long time after […]
KATHMANDU: Nepal’s imports which had remained comparatively low for the past few months owing to the measures implemented to control the spread of COVID-19 in the country have now started to rise compared to the slow export growth. Records maintained by the Department of Customs (DoC) show that the country’s import grew by 0.01 percent […]
KATHMANDU: Minister for Urban Development Prabhu Sah has said the fresh election to House of Representatives (HoR) would be held at any cost. Minister Sah said it during a programme organized to inaugurate a roadway at Gujara Municipality here Thursday. He also laid a foundation stone to a bridge at the programme organized by Division […]