Mukti Prasad Nyaupane

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Not even a single house rebuilt in three years

Published On: April 28, 2018 03:28 AM NPT By: Mukti Prasad Nyaupane

PALPA, April 27: April 25, 2015 is recorded as one of the worst memories in the living history of Nepal. People living in various parts of the country saw their houses crumble down to rubble and their loved ones crying from underneath the debris. It has already been three years but sadly, not even a single quake-damaged house has been completely reconstructed in Palpa.

School bars menstruating girls from using toilet

Published On: March 12, 2018 07:00 AM NPT By: Mukti Prasad Nyaupane

PALPA, Mar 12: Pushpa Rana does not go to school during menstruation. The eighth grader stays at home the whole five days because she is not allowed to use toilet in her school during her periods.

Govt intensifies study on Kaligandaki-Tinau Diversion Project

Published On: March 8, 2018 02:40 AM NPT By: Mukti Prasad Nyaupane

DPR will be ready soon: Department of Irrigation

Two dead, five injured in Palpa jeep accident

Published On: March 3, 2018 06:40 PM NPT By: Mukti Prasad Nyaupane

PALPA, Mar 3: Two people including driver were killed and five others sustained injuries after a jeep met with an accident at Birpokhara of Tansen Municipality-12 in the district on Saturday afternoon.

1 killed in Palpa jeep mishap

Published On: January 25, 2018 08:57 AM NPT By: Mukti Prasad Nyaupane

PALPA, Jan 25: A man died in a jeep accident in the district on Wednesday.

Palpa exports Rs 70 million worth of bay leaf, cinnamon annually

Published On: January 19, 2018 07:42 AM NPT By: Mukti Prasad Nyaupane

PALPA, Jan 19: Palpa district has been exporting bay leaf and cinnamon worth more than Rs 70 million a year to India for the past few years.

Demanding quality education, students vandalize college

Published On: December 17, 2017 03:24 PM NPT By: Mukti Prasad Nyaupane

PALPA, Dec 17: Students of Palpa Engineering College burned tyres and vandalized the compound premise and infrastructure after the administration turned a deaf ear to their demands.

Left Alliance leads in Palpa

Published On: December 9, 2017 11:47 AM NPT By: Mukti Prasad Nyaupane

Left Alliance is leading in Palpa up to 30 percent votes has been counted. In Palpa-1, Dal Bahadur Rana secured 7740 votes where as his rival candidate from Nepali Congress, Bijayraj Ghimire obtained 3069 votes.

Polls fail to excite Palpa locals

Published On: November 14, 2017 05:15 AM NPT By: Mukti Prasad Nyaupane

PALPA, Nov 14: The entire Palpa district was heated up with the fever of local elections but unfortunately there is no such excitement in the locals for the upcoming parliamentary and provincial polls.

Landslides affect transportation along Prithvi Highway

Published On: October 7, 2017 07:46 AM NPT By: Mukti Prasad Nyaupane

PALPA, Oct 7: It is one of the busiest roads in the central region. Thousands of passengers travel through it every day. However, a road section along the Prithivi Highway has literally changed into a death trap since the last few days. Landslides have not stopped falling down the road while public and private vehicles are seen moving at snail pace. Police personals have been constantly monitoring the section while providing safety alerts to drivers.

Citing losses, Lumbini Medical College exits safe motherhood program

Published On: August 24, 2017 07:11 AM NPT By: Mukti Prasad Nyaupane

PALPA, August 24: The only medical college in Palpa that distributed the safe motherhood allowance to new mothers has stopped doing so. Lumbini Medical College has stopped providing the allowance to new mothers since a month stating that it pulled out of the agreement with the government because it was bearing loss.

20,000 new voters added in Palpa

Published On: August 23, 2017 02:30 AM NPT By: Mukti Prasad Nyaupane

PALPA, August 23: As many as 20,811 new voters have been registered with the Election Commission (EC) in Palpa district alone during the election body's nationwide biometric voter registration campaign from July 16 to August 19.

Students’ search for light in darkness

Published On: August 22, 2017 10:23 AM NPT By: Mukti Prasad Nyaupane

PALPA, August 22: There are around 500,000 differently-abled people in Nepal, as per the National Population Census 2067 BS. According to the Health Ministry’s data, an additional 4,440 faced different forms of disability after  the devastating 2015 Gorkha Earthquake.

Palpa local dies of swine flu

Published On: August 6, 2017 04:45 AM NPT By: Mukti Prasad Nyaupane

PALPA, August 5: Four patients of Palpa who were referred to Kathmandu for treatment have died. One of the patients is said to have died of swine flu while the reason behind the deaths of other three is not yet known.

Local level bodies still without staffers

Published On: August 2, 2017 08:04 AM NPT By: Mukti Prasad Nyaupane

PALPA, Aug 1: The local body offices are yet to get staff though it has already been a month since the local polls were held in Palpa. The District Treasury Controller Office had already sent the required budget to the local bodies including the salaries and allowance of the local body staff on July 2.

Over 5,000 patients benefited from free eye checkup

Published On: August 1, 2017 05:30 AM NPT By: Mukti Prasad Nyaupane

PALPA, JULY 31: Kali Gandaki Eye Care Center (KGECC), a community-based organization in Rampur of Palpa district, has provided free eye checkup and treatment to more than 5,000 people in fiscal year 2016/17.

Registration of 15 cooperatives scrapped

Published On: August 1, 2017 02:45 AM NPT By: Mukti Prasad Nyaupane

PALPA, July 31: Registration of 15 cooperatives in Palpa, Gulmi and Syangja was scrapped in Fiscal Year 2016/17.

Man dies after falling off a cliff

Published On: July 18, 2017 03:03 PM NPT By: Mukti Prasad Nyaupane

PALPA, July 18: A man died after falling off a cliff in Raina Devi  Chhahara Rural Municipality-3.

4 passengers swept away by river

Published On: July 10, 2017 09:11 AM NPT By: Mukti Prasad Nyaupane

PALPA, July 10: Four people on board a jeep have gone missing after the jeep with registration number Lu 1 Ja 1217 was swept away by flood at Tinau River on Sunday night.

Man buried to death in Palpa

Published On: July 4, 2017 08:22 PM NPT By: Mukti Prasad Nyaupane

PALPA, July 4: A man has been buried to death by a landslide triggered by the incessant rainfall on Tuesday.