Bhuwan Sharma

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Govt to withdraw two-day weekend decision ‘soon’

Published On: May 22, 2022 02:00 PM NPT By: Bhuwan Sharma

KATHMANDU, May 22: The government is preparing to review its decision to go for a two-day weekend after it received complaints that it was unworkable. The government has reached the stage of retreating due to the complexity in the implementation of the decision that was announced without proper study and homework.

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Two days holiday per week will not be effective immediately

Published On: April 17, 2022 11:00 AM NPT By: Bhuwan Sharma

KATHMANDU, April 17: The discussion was held about providing two days of holidays a week and running the office five days a week from 9AM to 5PM in the meeting of the Council of Ministers held on April 7.

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55 local govts defy federal govt directives

Published On: March 26, 2022 09:35 AM NPT By: Bhuwan Sharma

KATHMANDU, March 26: As many as fifty-five local governments have defied the federal government's directive to evaluate good governance. The Ministry of Federal Affairs and General Administration had directed all the local governments to evaluate the achievements and actions taken by them during the last five years as the next local level election is nearing.

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People queue up overnight for e-passport, national ID card

Published On: January 11, 2022 04:27 PM NPT By: Bhuwan Sharma

KATHMANDU, Jan 11: Ram Tamang of Gokarneshwor Municipality has been visiting the District Administration Office (DAO), Kathmandu for three days to get his national identity card number.

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Increasing trend of splitting provincial ministries takes the number to 69

Published On: December 21, 2021 10:25 AM NPT By: Bhuwan Sharma

KATHMANDU, Dec 21: Without studying and preparing for the distribution, the provincial governments have started splitting the ministries. At present, the number of provincial ministries across the country stands at 69.

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NC collects Rs 30 million in donations, over Rs 20 million yet to be collected

Published On: December 12, 2021 01:24 PM NPT By: Bhuwan Sharma

KATHMANDU, Dec 12: The Nepali Congress (NC) has managed to collect over RS 30 million in donations to conduct its 14th General Convention, currently underway in the capital. According to a member of NC’s finance committee formed by the party’s central committee, as much as Rs 20 million is yet to be collected.

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Prime Minister moving to new residence with bunkers

Published On: November 29, 2021 02:30 PM NPT By: Bhuwan Sharma

KATHMANDU, Nov 29: Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba is moving to a new sophisticated government building with bunkers for accommodation. The building is within the Prime Minister's official residence in Baluwatar. Two years ago, the then Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli had laid the foundation stone of the building for the Prime Minister's residence

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Govt in search of missing employees who went abroad for study

Published On: November 28, 2021 12:20 PM NPT By: Bhuwan Sharma

KATHMANDU, Nov 28: The government has started searching and keeping records of the government employees who have gone abroad to study on government scholarships but didn’t want to return home even after their leave is over. Most of these employees are from technical groups.

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Eight joint secretaries without work

Published On: October 2, 2021 11:29 AM NPT By: Bhuwan Sharma

KATHMANDU, Oct 2: Eight joint secretaries, who are working at the Ministry of Home Affairs, have been without any work responsibility for two weeks. The ministry has not assigned any job responsibility to the joint secretary who has been transferred from other ministries.

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30,000 PSC examinees under stress following SC’s interim order

Published On: September 21, 2021 11:44 AM NPT By: Bhuwan Sharma

KATHMANDU, Sept 21: Due to the Supreme Court’s interim order to suspend the recruitment process, some 30,000 candidates who have completed the examinations for various posts of the Public Service Commission (PSC) are under stress.

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NC’s Poudel faction faces difficulty to choose a common candidate for party’s president

Published On: September 16, 2021 10:24 AM NPT By: Bhuwan Sharma

KATHMANDU, Sept 16: The Ram Chandra Poudel faction, which has been dissenting against the activities of Nepali Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba, had announced to field a common candidate for the post of president during the 14th General Convention. Some two weeks have already passed by since the announcement, there has been no dialogue among the aspirants of the party’s presidential post from the Paudel-led faction to forge consensus on a common candidate. The Poudel-faction has been facing difficulty to declare a common candidate as there are many aspirants for the presidency within its own faction.

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Valley sees heavy inundation as the land could not absorb water

Published On: September 7, 2021 10:04 AM NPT By: Bhuwan Sharma

KATHMANDU, Sept 7: The Kathmandu Valley received record breaking 121.5 mm of rain between 1 am and 8:45 am on Monday. On average, Kathmandu receives 199.08 mm of rainfall in September. “This is historic rain as these types of rains are very rare,” said senior meteorologist Nirajan Sapkota. The Valley had received 84.03 mm of rain on September 12, 2008.

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DoLMA launches online land transaction service nationwide

Published On: July 9, 2021 01:05 PM NPT By: Bhuwan Sharma

KATHMANDU, July 9: Now people can buy and sell land online right from their homes in the same way as they carry out share transactions in the capital market. The Department of Land Management and Archive (DoLMA) has started the practice of buying, selling and trading land online just like buying and selling shares from home.

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Air pollution deadly in the morning and evening hours

Published On: March 29, 2021 10:55 AM NPT By: Bhuwan Sharma

The Department of Environment is planning to recommend the government to implement odd-even rule for vehicles, and close schools and colleges if the air pollution lasts for few  the next few days

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JSP unlikely to join joint agitation against HoR dissolution being led by Dahal-Nepal faction of NCP

Published On: February 11, 2021 12:03 PM NPT By: Bhuwan Sharma

KATHMANDU, Feb 11: Janta Samajbadi Party (JSP) is very much unlikely to join the joint agitation against the dissolution of House of Representatives (HoR) being organized by the Puspha Kamal Dahal and Madhav Kumar Nepal led faction of Nepal Communist Party (NCP).

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Sagarmatha’s new height might be 8,849 meters: Government sources

Published On: December 8, 2020 11:40 AM NPT By: Bhuwan Sharma

KATHMANDU, Dec 8: The height of Mount Sagarmatha, world’s highest peak has not decreased from its current height of 8,848 meters. Instead, a source in the Ministry of Land Management, Cooperatives and Poverty Alleviation has said that it has increased a little. According to sources at the ministry, the height might have increased by a meter from its current height 8,848 meters.

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Govt sending revised map to UNO, international community

Published On: August 1, 2020 04:30 PM NPT By: Bhuwan Sharma

KATHMANDU, August 1: The government is preparing to send the newly updated map of Nepal to the international community including the southern neighbour India.

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Residents of Nabhi, Gunji and Kuti used to pay land revenue to Nepal until 2035 BS

Published On: May 30, 2020 02:13 PM NPT By: Bhuwan Sharma

KATHMANDU, May 30: Nepal has recently unveiled its updated map incorporating the ‘encroached’ region of Kalapani, Limpiyadhura and Lipulekh. Gunji, Nabhi and Kuti villages are also retrieved in the newly released map of Nepal.

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TU officials monitoring medical colleges charge even taxi fares from them

Published On: November 19, 2019 08:10 AM NPT By: Bhuwan Sharma

KATHMANDU, Nov 19: It has been found that the officials of Tribuvan University charge medical colleges even for their taxi fares and food and lodging expense when they visit these colleges for inspection.

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RJPN applies to EC for registration to participate in phase III local polls

Published On: July 7, 2017 05:20 PM NPT By: Bhuwan Sharma

KATHMANDU, July 7: Rastriya Janata Party Nepal (RJPN), which boycotted the local level elections so far, approached the Election Commission (EC) on Friday, seeking to get registered with the election body to participate in the upcoming elections including the third round of local elections scheduled for September 18.

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