POLITICS
Promotional materials used by parties during elections becoming eyesore
Promotional materials used by parties during elections becom...
KHOTANG, Jan 11: A month after the successful completion of the parliamentary and provincial elections, the promotional tools and materials used in the election campaigns are yet to be removed from public places in Khotang.
Jan 11, 2018
POLITICS
Calendar for upper house poll out
Calendar for upper house poll out
KATHMANDU, Jan 11: The Election Commission (EC) has fixed January 24 as the date for filing candidacies for the National Assembly election.
Jan 11, 2018
SOCIETY
Taxi drivers obstruct vehicular movement in Pokhara
Taxi drivers obstruct vehicular movement in Pokhara
POKHARA, Jan 11: Taxi drivers in Pokhara obstructed vehicular movement for nearly two hours on Wednesday morning to protest police action against their colleagues who refused to go by meter.
Jan 11, 2018
SOCIETY
47 pc of booked vehicles do not meet set standards
47 pc of booked vehicles do not meet set standards
KATHMANDU, Jan 11: A total of 47 percent vehicles booked by the government authorities for failing to meet the air pollution standard were also found plying the roads of Kathmandu Valley without meeting the minimum required standards set by the Department of Transportation Management (DoTM).
Jan 11, 2018
SOCIETY
Families in risky settlements seek collective relocation
Families in risky settlements seek collective relocation
KATHMANDU, Jan 11: Families living in risky areas in the earthquake-hit districts have been increasingly seeking collective relocation, thanks to the National Reconstruction Authority's offer to help develop basic physical infrastructures like road, sewerage, electricity and drinking water facilitie...
Jan 11, 2018
SOCIETY
Jajarkot District Hospital reels under medicine shortage
Jajarkot District Hospital reels under medicine shortage
JAJARKOT, Jan 11: While the influx of patients has increased in Jajarkot District Hospital due to cold, the hospital is facing a severe crisis of medicines. Patients visiting the hospital hardly get any free medicines provided by the government.
Jan 11, 2018
SOCIETY
Fire displaces four families in Katari
Fire displaces four families in Katari
UDAYAPUR, Jan 11: A massive fire in Katari Municipality-8, Udayapur on Tuesday afternoon gutted two houses and displaced four families. The fire which broke out in late afternoon gutted the houses of Dilmaya Rana Magar and her son Purna Bahadur Rana Magar. Dilmaya and her other two sons Buddhibal an...
Jan 11, 2018
Editorial
Outcome matters
Outcome matters
Nepal and India will begin the sixth meeting of the Eminent Persons Group (EPG) in New Delhi today. The last five meetings in the last two years have discussed a number of issues, including amending the 1950 Nepal-India Peace and Friendship Treaty. The EPG members will submit a joint document to the...
Jan 11, 2018
OPINION
Paradise lost
Paradise lost
Nepal is now a democratic country, but not the enlightened one envisioned by Buddha and Prithivi Narayan Shah
Jan 11, 2018
OPINION
Three wasted years
Three wasted years
Transitional justice bodies became non-functional because they were more interested to appease political players than deliver justice to the victims
Jan 11, 2018