Baral felicitated with 'Prakash Human Rights Award

Published On: July 31, 2019 02:30 PM NPT By: RSS

KATHMANDU, July 31: The 25th Prakash Human Rights Award is to be conferred upon Guru Prasad Baral of Morang in recognition of his around fifty-decade long activism against exploitation, discrimination and social evils.

Truss bridge opens in Nangkhel

Published On: July 31, 2019 02:30 PM NPT By: RSS

BHAKTAPUR, July 31: A truss bridge has been brought into operation at Nangkhel of Surya Binayak municipality, ward number 9.

Two arrested on rape charge

Published On: July 31, 2019 10:51 AM NPT By: RSS

NAWALPARASI WEST, July 31: The Nawalparasi police have arrested two men on the charge of raping an 11-year-old girl from the district.

KATHMANDU, July 31: Unidentified groups have detonated a bomb in a ward office of Kakani rural municipality in Nuwakot and torched a ward office at Chandapur municipality in Rautahat on Wednesday morning.

Chand-led party torches two vehicles in Makawanpur

Published On: July 31, 2019 07:38 AM NPT By: RSS

HETAUDA, July 31: Cadres of Netra-Bikram Chand-led Communist Party of Nepal torched two vehicles in Makawanpur on Tuesday night as part of a nation-wide banda called by the group.

GORKHA, July 31: The blacktopping of a 30-kilometer stretch of a road in Bapark has come to a standstill as the road project office scrapped the agreement with the contractor, Nagarjun/Trishuli JV, citing extreme negligence in work. The stretch covers one-fourth of the Barhakilo–Barpak road.

10 houses in Sisneri at high landslide risk

Published On: July 31, 2019 07:02 AM NPT By: Sher Bahadur Jero

OKHALDHUNGA, July 31: Ten houses in ward 3, Sisneri, of Sunkoshi Rural Municipality are at the high risk of being swept away by a landslide.

DHADING, July 31: Scorching heat in a while and torrential rain the next moment. And amid this, there are eroded roads with huge potholes. Most of the roads in rural areas of Dhading become prone to accident as soon as the monsoon arrives.

SINDHUPALCHOWK, July 31: The National Reconstruction Authority (NRA) has finally released funds for the reconstruction of quake-destroyed Gumbas (Buddhist monasteries) in Sindhupalchowk, four years after the devastating earthquakes of 2015.

SC refuses to stay order in Sumargi's petition

Published On: July 31, 2019 05:00 AM NPT By: Republica

KATHMANDU, July 31: The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to issue a stay order sought by businessman Ajeyaraj Sumargi to avoid paying Rs 900 million sought by the Nepal Telecommunications Authority (NTA) for the renewal of smart telecom license of his firm Nepal Satellite Pvt Ltd.