Fire guts property worth 2 m in Saptari

Published On: December 12, 2017 10:13 AM NPT By: Republica

RAJBIRAJ, Dec 12: Property worth Rs. 2 million was gutted in two separate incidents of fire in Saptari.  Two houses belonging to Dinesh Yadav and Raghu Yadav caught fire in Mahadewa rural municipality and burned to ashes property worth Rs. 300,000, including cash and kind, the Area Police Office in Hanumannagar said.

District headquarters of Saptari yet to attain ODF status

Published On: December 12, 2017 05:12 AM NPT By: Jitendra Kumar Jha

RAJBIRAJ, Dec 12: Rajbiraj has earned the reputation of a city with well-managed settlements.

SIRAHA, Dec 11: There are ample of private and community schools in the district. However, many Nepali children go to Indian schools. Well off families have admitted their children in private Indian schools and families who can’t afford such schools go to schools run by the Indian government. Choosing Indian schoolst over Nepali is both a ‘fashion’ and ‘compulsion’, locals in Siraha say.

MBBS classes at IOM delayed by one month

Published On: December 11, 2017 01:07 AM NPT By: Republica

KATHMANDU, Dec 10:  Prospective MBBS students at medical colleges under the Institute of Medicine (IOM) have to wait for one more month for their academic classes to begin due to the delay by Tribhuvan University (TU) to decide on the allocation of MBBS seats at the medical colleges. MBBS classes at colleges under IOM were scheduled to begin from November 17.

NWC launches its ‘Khabar Garaun 1145’

Published On: December 10, 2017 05:52 PM NPT By: Republica

KATHMANDU, Dec 10: National Women Commission (NWC) launcehs its free helpline service,‘Khabar Garaun 1145' which is operated from today.  The service was inaugurated amidst a function coinciding with the closing of the 16 Days of Activism against Gender Based Violence (GBV) that falls on December 10.

5.2 quake hits Dolakha

Published On: December 8, 2017 09:13 AM NPT By: Republica

KATHMANDU, Dec 8: An earthquake  with 5.2 on the Richter scale was felt on 8:36 am today morning.

Elderly dies shortly after casting ballot

Published On: December 7, 2017 01:29 PM NPT By: Republica

PALPA, Dec 7:  An elderly man died shortly after casting his ballot at Daraithati polling center in Rampur Municipality-6 in Palpa this morning.

Leopard rampage terrorises Khotang locals

Published On: December 7, 2017 09:26 AM NPT By: Republica

KHOTANG, Dec 7: Leopard rampage has terrorised local people in the southern area of the district.  A pair of leopards strays into human settlements from nearby forests, and rampages through killing many cattle and goats so far, the locals said.

Female staffers to handle two polling centers in Jhapa

Published On: December 7, 2017 07:01 AM NPT By: Republica

JHAPA, Dec 7: With the aim of setting an example of women-friendly polling center, two such centers in Jhapa will be handled exclusively by female staffers only during the December 7 polls.

Quake-ravaged school of Khumjung reconstructed

Published On: December 7, 2017 06:52 AM NPT By: Himal Lamsal

KHUMJUNG, Dec 7: Vice President Nanda Bahadur Pun last Friday inaugurated a school building in Khumjung that was devastated by the devastating earthquakes of 2015.