KATHMANDU : Traders have expressed their readiness to gradually reduce the market prices of edible oil as the prices of the raw materials used for this product has started falling down in the international market. According to the Department of Commerce, Supplies and Consumer Protection, the owners of the edible oil industries have agreed to […]
JHAPA : Flood in Jhapa district has been a perennial problem. Last monsoon, 4,020 people of 689 households in the district were affected by flooding in the Kankai, Ratuwa, Mawa and Biring rivers. Three hundred fifty bighas of arable lands have been eroded and 710 bighas submerged. Impacts of the rivers may double and more […]
KATHMANDU : Central Committee member of the Janata Samajbadi Party (JSP), Shivaji Yadav, has joined the faction of the ruling Nepal Communist Party led by KP Sharma Oli. Yadav, who is also a former member of parliament, joined the ruling party on Tuesday evening. Prime Minister Oli welcomed Yadav amid the presence of his party […]
KATHMANDU : Newly-appointed members of various constitutional bodies have taken the oath of office and secrecy this morning. A constitutional council meeting held on December 15 had recommended as many as 45 individuals in various constitutional bodies. Chief Justice Cholendra SJB Rana administered oath to newly appointed office bearers amid a ceremony this morning at […]
KATHMANDU : International community has remained largely silent over Nepal’s political crisis precipitated by Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli’s move of dissolving the House of Representatives on December 20 last year. While India, Nepal’s closest neighbour, has “noted” the incident calling it as an internal affair of Nepal, the United States of America, the European […]
KATHMANDU: Following the launch of a COVID-19 vaccination drive a week ago, Nepal has administered Covishield COVID-19 vaccine to more than 100,000 people as of Monday evening. Till the sixth day of COVID-19 vaccination campaign, as many as 113,175 people have been inoculated with the COVID-19 vaccine through 191 COVID-19 vaccine centers across the country, […]
KATHMANDU : Prime Minister (PM) KP Sharma Oli has called meeting of the Constitutional Council. Ashok Paudel, press coordinator of National Assembly Chairman Ganesh Prasad Timalsina, told PM Oli has called the meeting for five Wednesday evening. Main opposition leader in the dissolved House of Representatives (HoR) Sher Bahadur Deuba has not been invited to […]
KATHMANDU: A central committee meeting of the Dahal-Nepal faction of the Nepal Communist Party (NCP) is taking place this afternoon. Shreeram Dhakal, secretary at the party’s central office, said that the central committee meeting will begin at 1PM. The meeting which was supposed to begin at 11AM was deferred for 1PM owing to the busy […]
SIRAHA: More than 21,000 new voters have been added in Siraha. A total of 21,010 voters including 11,006 male and 10,004 female were added to the list of voters in the district, according to the District Election Office. The voter list was updated until a day before the elections were announced by the government for […]
KATHMANDU : Owing to the closure of the system for nine months due to the Covid-19 crisis, the Department of Transport Management says it has collected a massive pile of driving licence applications. Further, the department has recently removed the ceiling on the number of applications. Consequently, one needs to wait for as long as five months to […]