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A flood alert has been issued by Department of Hydrology's Flood Forecasting Section along the Larcha Bridge and Dolalghat of Sindhupalchok district after landslides partially blocked Bhotekoshi River in the district on Sunday evening.Read Full Story »
Police on Sunday arrested two persons in possession of Rs 174,000 counterfeit Nepali currency and made public amid a press conference at the District Police Office, Morang, today itself.Read Full Story »
Police arrested two persons in possession of a huge cache of pharmaceutical drugs from Budhanilkantha Municipality-7 in Kathmandu on Sunday.Read Full Story »
CPN (Maoist Centre) Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal has said that the party will work towards garnering people’s support for the directly elected executive chief system.Read Full Story »
The unification process between Baburam Bhattrai-led Naya Shakti Nepal (NSN)and Upendra Yadav-led Sanghiya Samajwadi Forum Nepal (SSFN) has hit a roadblock following dispute in leadership and jurisdiction.Read Full Story »
Chief Justice Gopal Parajuli has administered oath of office and secrecy to Electoral Constituency Delineation Commission (CDC) Chairperson Kamal Narayan Das amidst a function held at the Supreme Court on Sunday.Read Full Story »
Tourism service fee charged to tourists visiting Bhaktapur district has increased by double in the fiscal year 2016/17 as compared to fiscal year 2015/16.Read Full Story »
The office of Kawasoti Municipality in Nawalparasi district that was padlocked since July 19 by elected representatives from Nepali Congress and CPN (Maoist Centre) has been opened on Sunday. Read Full Story »
The Central Working Committee (CWC) meeting of the Nepali Congress has been postponed for 2pm today.Read Full Story »
Nepali Congress has taken disciplinary action against six cadres in constituency no. 4 of Kaski district.Read Full Story »
Vehicular movement along Munglin Narayanghat road section resumed from Sunday morning after landslide debris was cleared.Read Full Story »
I’ve just finished reading Ten Million Aliens by Simon Barnes, a collection of articles that looks at animals in a new way. According to Barnes 80 percent of the living animals on earth are nematode worms.Read Full Story »
Nepal must be prepared to face a national security issue. Is the country prepared for a crisis that may be inevitable? Cheerful news stories in the media about a rise in Gross Domestic Product and the country securing the third position in the Sustainable Development Goals index among South Asian countries have brought smiles all around, but a close look at reality proves disturbing. Read Full Story »
Locals organised a six-hour vehicular strike at Pyuali Bazaar in Arun Rural Municipality on Saturday, demanding an investigation into the ‘mysterious death’ of three children in Arun Rural Municipality-3 of Bhojpur. Read Full Story »
The Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) of Nepal Police has initiated investigation into the deaths of four of a family in Banepa.Read Full Story »
Hundreds of students in Sindhupalchok are still studying under the temporary makeshift classes as the reconstruction of schools ravaged by April 2015 earthquake has failed to pick up pace even two years after the disaster.Read Full Story »
The flood-displaced families are living under temporary shelters at Girighat, Tikhakuna, Chhinchu and Birendranagar in Surkhet district for the last three years pinning hopes on government relief aid. Read Full Story »
Concluding that the 4,000-strong General Convention Organising Committee (GCOC) was unproductive and led to poor results during the local level elections, CPN (Maoist Centre) Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal has proposed limiting the number of members below 100 in the party’s central body.Read Full Story »
The Carter Center, which monitors elections globally, has approached the Election Commission Nepal for possible observation of the upcoming polls.Read Full Story »
Newly elected local councils stand to generate over the next two years revenues more than four times their collection in the fiscal year 2015-16 in the old structure, according to a government estimate.Read Full Story »
Indian Ambassador Manjeev Singh Puri on Friday inaugurated the school building for Shree Janata Higher Secondary School at Jogidaha and laid the foundation stone for the construction of campus building for Shree Narad Aadarsha Education Campus in Basaha, Udaypur. Read Full Story »
People living in Singati, the business centre of Bigu, Gaurishankar and Kalinchok Rural Municipalities in Dolakha, have been saddened after the National Reconstruction Authority (NRA) labelled their bazaar a risky area and stopped distributing the second tranche of the housing reconstruction aid.Read Full Story »
Around 150,000 earthquake affected households are expected to move in to newly-built homes before Dashain, the most widely celebrated festival in Nepal that falls in the month of September this year, the National Reconstruction Authority (NRA) said. Read Full Story »
Nine metric ton of solid waste was scooped up from the Bishnumati river on Saturday. The Bishnumati Clean-up Campaign entered its 150th week on Saturday. Read Full Story »
Nepali Congress leader Chakra Prasad Bastola has been shifted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and put on partial ventilator support at the National Institute of Neurological and Allied Sciences in Bansbari after his health condition suddenly deteriorated on Thursday night. Read Full Story »
With elected representatives already assuming office in over 80 percent of local units across the country, almost after more than a decade and a half, stakeholders have expedited discussions on natural resources, their use, the laws governing them and the roles the centre and local governments will have on the country’s forests, herbs, rivers and land. Read Full Story »
Traffic along Munglin-Narayanghat road section has been halted from Saturday afternoon after landslide in between Kalikhola and Chepang Danda of Chitwan.Read Full Story »
The massive fire at the godown of KL Dugad Group at Bhuai in Nepalgunj has been doused after three hours.Read Full Story »
Central Investigation Bureau has begun investigation after four persons of a same family were found dead in Banepa, Kavre.Read Full Story »
Vehicular movement along the Mahakali Highway has been obstructed following a landslide triggered by incessant rainfall at Bangabagar in Dilasaini-6, Baitadi, on Saturday.Read Full Story »
The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) has arrested four officials of the Land Revenue Office, Bhaktapur, on the charge of taking Rs 50,000 bribe from a service seeker.Read Full Story »
Four members of a single family committed suicide at Banepa in Kavre on Friday.Read Full Story »
An eleven-year-old pregnant girl, who was raped seven months ago in Arun Rural Municipality of Bhojpur, has been rescued by the Child Helpline of the Child Workers in Nepal Concerned Centre (CWIN).Read Full Story »
Leaders of the major coalition partner CPN (Maoist Centre) have questioned the performance of the party’s ministers, charging them with using their positions to extract personal benefits rather than working to improve the party’s image.Read Full Story »
Chief Election Commissioner Ayodhee Prasad Yadav has said the Madhesi people are excited about the upcoming local level elections in Province 2.Read Full Story »
Dates for provincial and federal elections would be announced soon, Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba said on Friday at a programme organised to mark the 35th memorial day of the late BP Koirala, the founding leader of the Nepali Congress and the country’s first people’s elected prime minister. Read Full Story »
Rupandehi police has booked four persons for attempted murder after a video of them violently beating a couple allegedly in an extramarital affair was shared on social media.Read Full Story »
The International Civil Aviation Organisation (Icao) has removed the “significant safety concerns” (SSC) tag it had put on Nepal four years ago.Read Full Story »
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Local Development Bijaya Kumar Gachhadar has said that the amendment to the constitution was not possible before the third phase of local level elections slated for September 18.Read Full Story »
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