SOCIETY
Locals ‘find’ several vulnerable points along Sikta’s main canal
Locals ‘find’ several vulnerable points along Sikta’s main c...
NEPALGUNJ, Aug 2: Local leaders and commoners say that they have found several vulnerable points along the main canal of the Sikta Irrigation Project. After an inspection of the canal on Wednesday, they claimed that there are similar other weak points between 17.7 km to 35 km stretch of the canal in...
Aug 02, 2018
POLITICS
NCP leaders urging Shrestha to withdraw resignation
NCP leaders urging Shrestha to withdraw resignation
KATHMANDU, Aug 2: Senior leaders of ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) have requested the party’s spokesperson Narayan Kaji Shrestha to take back his decision to resign from the post.
Aug 02, 2018
ECONOMY
“Implement minimum wage in tea sector without delay”
“Implement minimum wage in tea sector without delay”
KATHMANDU, Aug 1: Members of a tripartite plus task force on quality tea have stressed the need to implement the recently announced minimum wage for workers.
Aug 02, 2018
POLITICS
Local units urge Kathmandu to okay their foreign trips
Local units urge Kathmandu to okay their foreign trips
KATHMANDU, Aug 2: Representatives of local units have expressed serious concerns over the federal government’s stalling scheduled foreign trips of the local representatives “in an arbitrary fashion”.
Aug 02, 2018
POLITICS
PHC member ‘receives death threat’
PHC member ‘receives death threat’
KATHMANDU, Aug 2: Parliamentary Hearings Committee (PHC) member Niru Pal has said that she received a death threat from unidentified persons on Tuesday if she stood for rejecting Deepak Raj Joshee’s nomination as chief justice.
Aug 02, 2018
SOCIETY
Wife demands probe into journo Thapaliya's death
Wife demands probe into journo Thapaliya's death
KATHMANDU, Aug 2: An application has been filed at the Kathmandu District Administration Office on Wednesday demanding probe into the reason behind the death of journalist Yadav Thapaliya, who was working with Kantipur national daily.
Aug 02, 2018
POLITICS
Hearings committee again puts off decision on Joshee
Hearings committee again puts off decision on Joshee
KATHMANDU, Aug 2: A week after concluding hearings for chief justice nominee Deepak Raj Joshee, the Parliamentary Hearings Committee (PHC) remains undecided as the ruling and opposition parties are divided whether to endorse or reject the nomination.
Aug 02, 2018
ECONOMY
Industrial firms asked to submit reports online
Industrial firms asked to submit reports online
KATHMANDU, August 2: All industries will have to submit their progress reports of the Fiscal Year 2017/18 to the government by mid-January 2019, according to a provision of Industrial Enterprise Act 2073 BS that came into force from the past fiscal year.
Aug 02, 2018
SOCIETY
New Zealand support for re-measuring Mt Everest
New Zealand support for re-measuring Mt Everest
KATHMANDU, Aug 2: New Zealand has provided technical assistance for the ongoing effort by Nepal government to re-measure the height of Mount Everest.
Aug 02, 2018
SOCIETY
Father accused of killing his son
Father accused of killing his son
BHAKTAPUR, Aug 2: A father has allegedly killed his 17-year-old son by chopping off his head in Bhaktapur on Tuesday night.
Aug 02, 2018