Feb 20: Microsoft Corp on Wednesday said it will offer its cyber security service Account Guard to 12 new markets in Europe including Germany, France and Spain, to close security gaps and protect customers in political space from hacking.

Police arrest leaders, cadres of Bibeksheel Sajha Party

Published On: February 20, 2019 11:37 AM NPT By: Republica

KATHMANDU, Feb 20: Police arrested leaders and cadres of Bibeksheel Sajha Party including Central Committee Member Samikshya Banskota during their protest in front of the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) headquarters in the capital, on Wednesday morning.

KATHMANDU, Feb 20: Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) has chosen private banks instead of government-owned banks to pay about Rs 60 million monthly to the teachers and staffers of public schools in the metropolitan city.

KATHMANDU, Feb 20: India and Nepal are all set to sign an agreement to cooperate on biodiversity conservation, including the transboundary conservation of species like the Indian rhino (Rhinoceros unicornis), Bengal tiger (Panthera tigris) and Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), Indian media reported on Tuesday.

Rape cases up 79 pc in 2018: Insec

Published On: February 20, 2019 08:45 AM NPT By: Republica

KATHMANDU, Feb 20: A report prepared by the Informal Sector Service Center (Insec), a non-governmental human rights organization, has said that rape of women has increased by 79 percent in 2018 compared to the previous year.

ROLPA, Feb 20: After more children started falling ill, parents have deployed shamans at their school since the past two months.

350 dead, over 1,000 injured in seven months

Published On: February 20, 2019 07:00 AM NPT By: Rekha Bhusal

BUTWAL, Feb 20: Thakur Sapkota, a returnee migrant laborer of Gulmi district's Musikot, was quite excited to start his new life as a transport entrepreneur cum driver after purchasing a brand new Bolero jeep six months ago.

Exemplary waste management on Bagmati riverside

Published On: February 20, 2019 04:30 AM NPT By: Biken K Dawadi

KATHMANDU, Feb 20: When the passersby look at the Bagmati River from the Shantinagar Bridge, all that they can see is a huge pile of solid waste being swept away by a brown colored river.

KATHMANDU, Feb 20: Following the one-year term extension of transitional justice (TJ) bodies, victims of the decade-long Maoist insurgency have demanded the government to overhaul these two bodies in terms of capabilities and performance.

SINDHULI, Feb 20: On August 12, National Reconstruction Authority's Central Project Implementation Unit (Grant Management and Local Infrastructure), Kathmandu, publicized a notice. Quake victims were informed that they could transfer their names from the list of Retrofitting grant recipients to reconstruction beneficiaries.