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Rastriya Janata Party-Nepal (RJPN) Vice Chairman Ashok Kumar Yadav on Friday quit the party to form a new party under his leadership. Read Full Story »
Foreign Minister Pradeep Gyawali has stressed on people-to-people connectivity between Nepal and China for enhancing the friendship between the two neighbouring countries. Read Full Story »
The Central Working Committee (CWC) meeting of the Nepali Congress (NC) summoned for Friday has been postponed till April 22. Read Full Story »
Educational Consultancies Association of Nepal (ECAN), an umbrella body of over 300 education consultancies, has geared up for its general convention where two panels are vying for the leadership for next two years. Read Full Story »
The Players’ Association (PA) under the All Nepal Football Association on Thursday urged the football governing body to hold its election at the earliest to pave way for the long-stalled top-tier league to resume. Read Full Story »
All Nepal Football Association (Anfa) on Thursday furnished a written reply to the Patan High Court and also submitted an application to vacate the writ petition filed by Makawanpur and Bhaktapur District Football Associations (FAs) seeking election postponement of the football governing body of Nepal. Read Full Story »
Nepali cricket took a big stride towards retaining ICC membership as the constitution amendment draft proposed by the Advisory Group was unanimously approved on Thursday by the Special General Meeting (SGM) of the elected committee of the Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN). Read Full Story »
A senior citizen was killed and five homes were destroyed in a fire at Aatiodar village of Sarumarani Rural Municipality-6 in Pyuthan on Thursday. Police said 75-year-old Rewat Bahadur Thapa died in the incident. Police are investigating into the cause of the fire. Read Full Story »
Police have arrested a man on charge of raping his 14-year-old daughter at Krishnapur Municipality-2 in Kanchanpur district. Read Full Story »
A 14 km electric fence is being constructed towards the western side of the Gaduwa Line Range Post of Parsa National Park to prevent wildlife incursions into human habitats and farms. Read Full Story »
A municipal mayor in Sarlahi district says he is being threatened by the cadres of the Netra Bikram Chand-led Communist Party of Nepal (CPN) because he refused to give in to their extortion demand. Read Full Story »
Police seized three pistols, 11 rounds of bullets, some explosives and two sets of police uniforms from a Chitwan-bound microbus on Wednesday. Read Full Story »
The Supreme Court on Thursday annulled the writ petition on contempt of court order against former chief justice Gopal Parajuli.A joint bench of Acting Chief Justice Dipak Raj Joshi and Justice Tej Bahadur KC has endorsed the decision of the Supreme Court’s administration not to register the writ against Parajuli. Read Full Story »
Despite running multi-billion rupees programme aimed at improving the quality of eduction in schools, the performance of children is rather deteriorating, according to a government report, raising questions over the effectiveness of such initiatives. Read Full Story »
Human rights experts on Thursday urged the government to reconsider the age limit restriction it has imposed on Nepali women seeking foreign employment, especially the Gulf. Read Full Story »
The District Administration Office (DAO) of Rautahat has started deploying security personnel at gasoline stations in rural and border areas of the district to control smuggling of petroleum products to India, where petrol and diesel are expensive than in Nepal. Read Full Story »
World renowned mountaineer Reinhold Messner said Thursday that climbing Everest had become quite safe and economical as there were around thousand of hopeful Everesters every year, even as charges continue to be raised against lax attitudes to safety on the world’s tallest peak. Read Full Story »
A police team deployed by the Metropolitan Police Range, Kathmandu, arrested Rajib Gurung aka Deepak Manange on Thursday. Read Full Story »
Information and communication technology has been instrumental in tracking and solving health problems Read Full Story »
In the past, Nepal shunned the idea of developing a railway network and focused on roads instead Read Full Story »
A man has been arrested in possession of home-made pistols in Hetauda on Wednesday. Read Full Story »
A man raped her daughter at Banka in Krishnapur Municipality-2 of Kanchanpur district on Tuesday. Read Full Story »
A burnt body of an unidentified person has been found below the under-construction Buddha’s statute at Choti Morang-4 of Dharan sub-metropolitan city. Read Full Story »
Chief Political Advisor of the Prime Minister, Bishnu Rimal, has given guardianship to a four-year-old girl, Swastika Rai of Bidur municipality-12. Read Full Story »
Minister for Energy, Water Resource and Irrigation, Barshaman Pun, on Wednesday extended financial support to four poor students and launched the school admission campaign. Read Full Story »
Youth Association Nepal (YAN), aligned with the CPN-UML has nominated Ramesh Poudel as its chair. Read Full Story »
Metropolitan Traffic Police Division (MTPD) has broadened its action against taxis unwilling to operate on metre reading. Read Full Story »
Youth Association Nepal (YAN), aligned with the CPN (UML) has nominated Ramesh Poudel as its chair. Read Full Story »
Import bill of sugar that entered the country from the dry port in Sirsiya, Birgunj surged by about 81 percent in the first nine months of the current fiscal year following hike in supplies from Pakistan and Bangladesh, where production of the commodity has soared. Read Full Story »
Jute Research Programme in Itahari, Sunsari has produced eight different improved varieties of wheat seeds totalling 22 tonnes this year.The programme diversified its research to producing improved varieties of wheat, paddy and lentils seeds. It used to produce only jute seeds. Read Full Story »
The Supreme Court has issued a mandamus to the government, asking it to fix criteria on ambassadors’ appointment and follow the criteria in letter and spirit. It has also directed the government to maintain transparency while making such appointments, ensuring that only capable people are selected to the post. Read Full Story »
Journalist Dilip Paudel of Nagarik daily has been named the recipient of Barbara Adams Investigative Journalism Award 2017. Read Full Story »
Nearly 50 percent of the children of school-going age in Province 2 are still out of school. Education Minister Girirajmani Pokharel said 153, 819 children do not go to school in the province. Read Full Story »
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