Biplav-led CPN cadre arrested

Published On: December 2, 2017 04:13 PM NPT By: Republica

UDAYAPUR, Dec 2: Police on Saturday arrested a cadre linked to Biplav-led Communist Party Nepal (CPN) in a search and sweep operation launched after a Nepali Congress candidate was injured in a booby trap in the district.

Fake receipts for govt employees an ache in Khotang

Published On: December 2, 2017 02:14 PM NPT By: Daman Rai

KHOTANG, Dec 2:  Government employees riding state owned motorbikes in Khotang have been found to submit fake bike mentanance receipts from different motocycle workshops of Diktel, Halesi and Mahure.

Bomb blast in candidate's house

Published On: December 2, 2017 12:02 PM NPT By: Republica

KAPILVASTU, Dec 2: The house of Dinesh Jayaswal, candidate to the State Assembly (1) in constituency 1 of Kapilvastu was hit by a bomb blast last night. Jayaswal belongs to the Federal Democratic National Forum (Tharuhat) party.

Govt summons Udayapur's CDO over security negligence

Published On: December 2, 2017 11:35 AM NPT By: Republica

KATHMANDU, Dec 2: The government has called Chief District Officer of Udayapur, Chandraman Shrestha to the Ministry of Home Affairs after security negligence in the district. Pradip Raj Kandel succeeds Shrestha as the district's new CDO.

'Election used to be simple and cheaper in the past'

Published On: December 2, 2017 10:50 AM NPT By: Devendra Basnet

DANG, Dec 1: Octogenarian Tilak Bahadur Dangi had voted for the first time almost sixty years ago in 1959. The eighty-seven-year-old local of Tulasipur still has vivid memory of the general election of February 18 that year. Election those days used to be simple and cheaper, he reminisces. Nepali Congress had secured a two-thirds majority in the first parliamentary election of the country, which picked up late BP Koirala as the first elected prime minister of the country. Dangi fondly recalls the historic election even to this day.

Other major vegetable markets of the Valley including the ones at Balkhu, Baneshwar, Koteswar, Balaju, and Chabahil, let alone the many small markets, are yet to acquire such testing labs, according to observations made by Republica.

KATHMANDU, Dec 1: Some 2.5 percent of the HIV-infected people in Nepal are children of up to four years.

Lions Governor Thapa pledges support for health, education

Published On: December 1, 2017 09:26 PM NPT By: Republica

KATHMANDU, Dec 1: Visiting District Governor of District 4-C3 Lions Clubs of California, Berkely, Rajen Thapa, has announced to bring in a number of programs in health and education sector to address the needs of poor and needy people in Nepal.

Bomb goes off at Kupondole

Published On: December 1, 2017 08:11 PM NPT By: Republica

KATHMANDU, Dec 1: A bomb has gone off at Kupondole in Lalitpur district on Friday evening.

HIV/AIDS declining in Nepal

Published On: December 1, 2017 05:23 PM NPT By: Pratik Rimal

KATHMANDU, Dec 1 : It was in 2002 that my school invited two individuals with HIV positive to educate us on HIV/AIDS and the stigma it carried. We were told that AIDS wasn’t transmitted by hugs and handshakes; the mere presence of actually seeing people with HIV positive was ‘frightful’.