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UML forced out due to good performance : Nembang

ILAM, June 22: CPN-UML parliamentary party leader Subas Chandra Nembang has said that the UML was removed from the government because other parties could not stand its good performance in power.
Jun 22, 2017
POLITICS

99.33 pc households note more drought in last 25 years

KATHMANDU, June 22: It is no longer a hypothesis or myth. The impact of climate change is real as far as Nepal is concerned.
Jun 22, 2017
POLITICS

UNESCO mission wants Valley heritage in danger list

KATHMANDU, June 22: The Reactive Monitoring mission of UNESCO's World Heritage Committee has asked the committee to place the cultural heritage of Kathmandu Valley in the danger list in view of the government's failure at timely reconstruction of heritage sites  damaged by earthquake in 2015. Inclus...
Jun 22, 2017
POLITICS, ELECTION

Tikapur locals 'counting the days to the elections'

TIKAPUR, June 22: With the local elections less than a week away, the excitement among the public for the local elections has reached fever pitch in Tikapur. Locals said they are desperate to exercise their voting rights and elect local representatives of their choice.
Jun 22, 2017
POLITICS, ELECTION

Maoist victim banks on Maoists for polls

ROLPA, June 22: The beheaded body of Ramji Gharti was found in Mawang of Jaimakasla of Rolpa district late in the evening on February 1, 1997. Fifty-four-year-old Gharti, a local of Thawang Rural Municipality-5, was allegedly killed by the then insurgents. Later, police informed the family members a...
Jun 22, 2017
POLITICS, ELECTION

Men outnumber women candidates in Sunsari

DHARAN, June 22: Going against the gender-friendly election laws, political parties in Sunsari have given priority to male candidates by sidelining female candidates for the second round of local elections stipulated for June 28.
Jun 22, 2017
POLITICS

Security Council's meeting focuses on election

KATHMANDU, June 21: The National Security Council's (NSC) meeting on Wednesday was held with a focus on the preparation of the security strategy for the upcoming local level election on June 28.
Jun 21, 2017
POLITICS

RJP Nepal seeks withdrawal of 'false' cases against it cadre...

KATHMANDU, June 21: Two top leaders of the Rastriya Janata Party (RJP) Nepal today called on Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba, drawing the government attention towards what the party claimed ongoing physical assaults against party cadres and their arrests as well.
Jun 21, 2017
POLITICS

Home Minister assures of sound security for election

CHITWAN, June 21: Home Minister Janardan Sharma has assured of strengthened security arrangements for the upcoming second-round of local-level elections scheduled for June 28.
Jun 21, 2017
POLITICS

Yoga necessary at school level: PM

KATHMANDU, June 21: Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba today said the knowledge of yoga and its exercise must be taught to students at the school level.
Jun 21, 2017