ECONOMY
Chinese company's license to build Budhi Gandaki Project scrapped, Nepal says it’ll build...
Chinese company's license to build Budhi Gandaki Project scr...
KATHMANDU, April 8: The government has decided to revoke the license issued to the Chinese state-owned China Gezhouba Group Corporation (CGGC) for the development of the Budhi Gandaki Hydropower Project.
Apr 08, 2022
WORLD
UN assembly suspends Russia from top human rights body
UN assembly suspends Russia from top human rights body
UNITED NATIONS, April 8: The U.N. General Assembly voted Thursday to suspend Russia from the world organization’s leading human rights body over allegations that Russian soldiers in Ukraine engaged in rights violations that the United States and Ukraine have called war crimes.
Apr 08, 2022
SOCIETY
Around 500 women and children rescued from Nepalgunj border point
Around 500 women and children rescued from Nepalgunj border...
RANJHA, April 8: Around 500 women and children at the risk of trafficking have been rescued from the Nepalgunj border transit point. Maiti Nepal, an organization actively working for the prevention and control of women’s trafficking said that many vulnerable women and children were rescued from the...
Apr 08, 2022
ECONOMY
Minister Bhusal urges private sector to help in building prosperous Nepal
Minister Bhusal urges private sector to help in building pro...
KATHMANDU, April 8: Minister for Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation, Pampha Bhusal has urged the private sector to help build a prosperous Nepal while remaining committed to socialism based on democratic values.
Apr 08, 2022
SOCIETY
UK university honors Nepali scientist Pun
UK university honors Nepali scientist Pun
KATHMANDU, April 8: Founder of the National Innovation Center and Nepali scientist, Dr Mahabir Pun Magar has been honored by the University of Central Lancashire of the UK.
Apr 08, 2022
POLITICS
Do not make unimplementable promises in NC’s election manifesto: Dr Koirala
Do not make unimplementable promises in NC’s election manife...
BIRATNAGAR, April 8: Nepali Congress (NC) leader Dr Shekhar Koirala has urged the leaders and cadres to forget the bitterness of the party’s General Convention and move ahead united.
Apr 08, 2022
My City, Lifestyle, Entertainment, Social
Darwin notebooks missing for 20 years returned to Cambridge
Darwin notebooks missing for 20 years returned to Cambridge
Two of naturalist Charles Darwin’s notebooks that were reported stolen from Cambridge University’s library have been returned, two decades after they disappeared. The university said Tuesday that the manuscripts were left in the library inside a pink gift bag, along with a note wishing the librarian...
Apr 08, 2022
POLITICS
Ruling alliance must be swept away in the upcoming elections: Oli
Ruling alliance must be swept away in the upcoming elections...
BANKE, April 8: CPN-UML Chairperson and former Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has said that the ruling five-party alliance should be swept away in the upcoming local elections.
Apr 08, 2022
SOCIETY
Three held with gun, cartridge in Birgunj
Three held with gun, cartridge in Birgunj
BIRGUNJ, April 8: A team of the Armed Police Force (APF), Nepal, on Thursday nabbed three persons for possessing a gun and its cartridge. APF Superintendent Tej Prasad Pokharel said the three were held along with a long-range gun and its cartridge from Nahar Chowk area of Bindabasini Rural Municipal...
Apr 08, 2022
ECONOMY
Labor Ministry makes a slew of recommendations to increase remittance inflow through forma...
Labor Ministry makes a slew of recommendations to increase r...
KATHMANDU, April 8: The Ministry of Labor, Employment and Social Security (MoLESS) has put forth a number of recommendations to encourage remittance inflow through formal banking channels.
Apr 08, 2022