KATHMANDU : The labours mobilized for construction of a health post building here have been deprived of wage for long. Rabina Construction Company failed to pay them though it has been long the building was over at Pandavkhani of Galkot Municipality-10. The building construction began in 2073 B.S. and was completed in 2076 B.S. But […]
KATHMANDU: Prime Minister KP Shamra Oli has directed the National Construction Authority (NRA) to complete the reconstruction of Dharahara by mid-March (Nepali month of Falgun). During his inspection visit to the under construction Dharahara, which collapsed during the massive earthquake in 2015, on Thursday, Prime Minister Oli directed the NRA to expedite its reconstruction tasks […]
KATHMANDU : People from the Tamang community are celebrating 2148th Sonam Lhosar with fanfare by extending greetings to one another and feasting on traditional cuisines on Friday. ‘Lho’ means year and ‘Sar’ means new or fresh if translated, and the word ‘Sonam’ refers to the Tamang people in Nepal, thus the festival ‘Sonam Lhosar’ is the […]
KATHMANDU : Nepal reported 81 COVID-19 cases on Thursday. The total number of cases in the country has now increased to 272,430. The total number of active cases is now 1,718. Similarly, 111 persons have recovered in the past 24 hours taking the total to 268,660. The government has conducted 3,023 PCR tests in the […]
KATHMANDU : Bagmati Province Government Chief Minister Dormani Poudel has said the province government would make every possible effort for boosting the morale of the security agencies. Inaugurating a two-storeied building of Nepal Police’s armed police battalion at Ratomate in Hetauda today, he said the province government was constructing 46 buildings for the police at […]
KATHMANDU; With the motto ‘If you are spending anyway, why not spend for a good cause’, Blood Cancer Society Nepal and Utpala Cafe are jointly organizing a fundraising event entitled ‘Valentine’s Special, Share Love to Save Lives’, for blood cancer patients on Sunday in Utpala Café, Bauddha. According to a press statement released by Aakar […]
BEIJING : Cui Tingting dyed her hair Mars red for the arrival of China’s spacecraft at the planet known in Chinese as the Fire Star. “This is a great era for space, and the future of mankind lies in the exploration of outer space,” said Cui, director of the China Mars Society, the local chapter […]
KATHMANDU : Police have reached the residence of Ram Kumari Jhakri to arrest her. Following her controversial comment on President Bidya Devi Bhandari a week ago, police have reached the residence of Jhakri, a leader of Dahal-Nepal faction of Nepal Communist Party, to arrest her. Talking over a phone call, Jharki confirmed that a team […]
KATHMANDU : Commercial banks that are facing allegations of charging service fees in an arbitrary manner from their clients have piled up pressure on Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) to provide them autonomy to determine the service charge amount to their clients. In a meeting conducted by the NRB with the executives of 27 commercial banks […]
KANCHANPUR : Former lawmaker Ganga Dutta Joshi died of heart attack this morning. He was 84. Former President of Nepali Congress Kanchanpur, Joshi died on the way to hospital for eye treatment. He had undergone eye surgery a few days ago. Party secretary of NC, Kanchanpur, Ishwori Prasad Joshi, said that he suffered from a […]