SOCIETY
Narayanghat-Muglin road offers smooth ride once again
Narayanghat-Muglin road offers smooth ride once again
First phase of blacktopping completed
Jun 07, 2018
SOCIETY
Local units start purchasing medicines for monsoon
Local units start purchasing medicines for monsoon
PALPA, June 7: As monsoon is just around the corner, almost all local units of Palpa have started purchasing the required stock of medicines for rain-induced diseases to be distributed to the locals.In November 2017, Tansen Municipality had purchased medicines worth Rs 705,000 and distributed to var...
Jun 07, 2018
SOCIETY
Protest against 'murder' of Dalit ward member
Protest against 'murder' of Dalit ward member
KALIKOT, June 7: Terming it as a murder and nothing else, Dalit activists in Kalikot have demanded due action against the accused for killing Mana Sarki, ward member of Naraharinath Rural Municipality - 9. They have handed over a memorandum to the District Administration Office urging justice to the...
Jun 07, 2018
SOCIETY
Quake-injured languishing under govt neglect
Quake-injured languishing under govt neglect
DHADING, June 7: Khomaya Tamang’s home in Gangajamuna Rural Municipality of Dhading district was destroyed by the 2015 earthquake. Along with the damage to her house, she also had her right arm fractured. She lay injured in a field for four days until a rescue helicopter arrived and carried her to t...
Jun 07, 2018
SOCIETY
Khatiwada urges expediting post-quake recovery
Khatiwada urges expediting post-quake recovery
KATHMANDU, June 7: Finance Minister Yuba Raj Khatiwada has said the post-earthquake reconstruction and rehabilitation efforts of the National Reconstruction Authority (NRA) have not been able to make expected progress even though the government has been spending huge funds.
Jun 07, 2018
SOCIETY
Saptari DAO involved in fake citizenship racket: Police probe
Saptari DAO involved in fake citizenship racket: Police prob...
RAJBIRAJ, June 7: Police investigations have revealed that officials of the District Administrative Office (DAO) Saptari were involved in two notorious cases of fake citizenship that have surfaced since December.
Jun 07, 2018
POLITICS
Parliament Regulations likely to be endorsed on Friday
Parliament Regulations likely to be endorsed on Friday
KATHMANDU, June 7: As the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) has become flexible on its previous stance on the conditions under which a lawmaker can be suspended from parliament, a meeting of the House of Representatives is likely to endorse the House regulations on Friday.
Jun 07, 2018
SPORTS
Egypt, Nigeria continue to splutter in World Cup warm-ups
Egypt, Nigeria continue to splutter in World Cup warm-ups
CAPE TOWN, June 7: Egypt and Nigeria continued their recent poor form in World Cup warm-up games on Wednesday ahead of their bids to become the first African side to reach the semi-finals of the global showpiece event.
Jun 07, 2018
POLITICS
EC decides to register NCP, ignoring law
EC decides to register NCP, ignoring law
KATHMANDU, June 7: The Election Commission (EC) has decided to give official status to the newly-formed Nepal Communist Party (NCP), ignoring a law which requires a party to ensure 33 percent seats to women in its ranks.
Jun 07, 2018
ECONOMY
Govt relents on new tax formula for shares
Govt relents on new tax formula for shares
KATHMANDU, June 7: The government has decided not to immediately impose the new formula for calculating capital gains on the sale of rights and bonus shares.
Jun 07, 2018