SOCIETY
Toxic chemicals found in children’s stationery items across Asia including Nepal: Studies
Toxic chemicals found in children’s stationery items across...
KATHMANDU, April 1: The Center for Public Health and Environment Development (CEPHED) has called for an Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals (EDCs)-free Nepal. Stating that basic stationery items imported from outside the country were found to be highly contaminated, CEPHED has stressed the need for stron...
Apr 01, 2022
SOCIETY
Weather to remain cloudy for 3 more days
Weather to remain cloudy for 3 more days
KATHMANDU, April 1: The weather will remain cloudy for three more days due to the impact of the low-pressure systems around Bihar of India and local winds.
Apr 01, 2022
WORLD
Ukraine negotiations to resume, Europe faces Russia gas deadline
Ukraine negotiations to resume, Europe faces Russia gas dead...
TROSTYANETS/LVIV, Ukraine, April 1: European buyers of Russian gas faced a deadline to start paying in roubles on Friday, while negotiations aimed at ending the five-week war were set to resume even as Ukraine braced for further attacks in the south and east.
Apr 01, 2022
POLITICS
Ambassador Acharya presents letter of credence to Queen Elizabeth II
Ambassador Acharya presents letter of credence to Queen Eliz...
KATHMANDU, April 1: Ambassador of Nepal to the United Kingdom, Gyan Chandra Acharya, presented his Letter of Credence to Queen Elizabeth II on Thursday amidst a special ceremony held at Buckingham Palace in London.
Apr 01, 2022
SOCIETY
Ghodejatra festival being celebrated today
Ghodejatra festival being celebrated today
KATHMANDU, April 1: Ghodejatra festival, which is celebrated every year on the day of Chaitra Krishna Aunsi, is being celebrated today. According to popular belief, a monster called Gurumapa, who used to live in a tree on the east-south side of Tundikhel, used to eat the children of the city.
Apr 01, 2022
POLITICS
Prime Minister Deuba leaving for official visit to India today
Prime Minister Deuba leaving for official visit to India tod...
KATHMANDU, April 1: Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba is leaving for New Delhi on Friday afternoon on a three-day official visit to neighboring India, at the invitation of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. This is Prime Minister Deuba's first official visit since becoming Prime Minister for the f...
Apr 01, 2022
ECONOMY
Thapa is new NATTA president
Thapa is new NATTA president
KATHMANDU, April 1: The Nepal Association of Tour and Travel Agents (NATTA), the oldest umbrella organization of tourism entrepreneurs, has got Ramesh Thapa as its new President. NATTA's 55th annual general meeting was held on Thursday.
Apr 01, 2022
WORLD
Russians leave Chernobyl site as fighting rages elsewhere
Russians leave Chernobyl site as fighting rages elsewhere
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KYIV, Ukraine, April 1: Russian troops handed control of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant back to the Ukrainians and left the heavily contaminated site early Friday, more than a month after taking it over, Ukrainian authorities said, as fighting raged on the outskirts of Kyiv and other fronts.
Apr 01, 2022
ECONOMY
Raise your capital base or go for merger, IB tells insurers
Raise your capital base or go for merger, IB tells insurers
KATHMANDU, April 1: The Insurance Board (IB) has asked the insurers to either increase their capital base or go into a merger if they fail to do so.
Apr 01, 2022
ECONOMY
Govt decides to raise transport fares by up to 14 percent
Govt decides to raise transport fares by up to 14 percent
KATHMANDU, March 31: The government has decided to raise the fares of long distance travel by up to 14 percent citing soaring prices of petroleum products.
Mar 31, 2022