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Special taskforce to monitor Chand outfit activities
Published On: March 17, 2019 06:30 AM NPT By: Biken K Dawadi
KATHMANDU, March 17: Nepal Police, in coordination with two other national security agencies, has formed a special task force for monitoring the leaders of the Netra Bikram Chand-led Communist Party of Nepal (CPN) and issuing orders for their arrest .
Police on high alert after ban on Chand party
Published On: March 14, 2019 06:30 AM NPT By: Biken K Dawadi
KATHMANDU, March 14: Following the government's decision to ban the Netra Bikram Chand-led Communist Party of Nepal (CPN), security agencies have gone on high alert against possible retaliatory moves from the Maoist splinter group.
Police seize 105 kg hashish from bus
Published On: March 11, 2019 09:30 AM NPT By: Biken K Dawadi
KATHMANDU, March 11: Police on Sunday morning arrested three persons on the charge of smuggling 105 kg of hashish using a wedding party bus. Police officials from the District Police Office (DPO), Dhading found the hashish hidden under the seats of the bus (Na 5 Kha 2812) en route to Birgunj from Kathmandu, at Gajuri, at around 2 am.
Motorists' civil disobedience against VIP motorcade
Published On: March 7, 2019 05:30 AM NPT By: Biken K Dawadi
KATHMANDU, March 7: In what has been described as the first case of civil disobedience by motorists in Nepal, dozens of motorists on Tuesday flouted traffic rules to drive on a road in the capital which was blocked to facilitate a VIP motorcade.
Reconstruction of Rani Pokhari by Bhaitika: NRA CEO Gyewali
Published On: March 5, 2019 06:22 AM NPT By: Biken K Dawadi
KATHMANDU, March 4: Reconstruction of the Bal Gopaleshwar Temple in the middle of Rani Pokhari, a pond holding historic significance in the heart of the city, will be completed by the upcoming festival of Tihar, claimed Sushil Gyewali, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the National Reconstruction Authority (NRA).
Police to enforce ban on cannabis use on Mahashivaratri
Published On: March 4, 2019 09:05 AM NPT By: Biken K Dawadi
KATHMANDU, March 4: The Metropolitan Police Range Office (MPRO), Kathmandu, has decided to enforce the blanket ban on the consumption of marijuana in the Pashupatinath temple area on the occasion of Mahashivaratri.
Police recover costly Melamchi cables stolen by security guards and locals
Published On: March 4, 2019 07:43 AM NPT By: Biken K Dawadi
KATHMANDU, March 4: With the work at the Melamchi Water Supply Project stalled since the past several weeks following the exit of the project’s Italian contractor, the security guards and locals have started stealing valuable construction materials from the project site.
Three slapped with 10 years jail in Godamchaur rape case
Published On: March 2, 2019 03:53 AM NPT By: Biken K Dawadi
KATHMANDU, March 1: Lalitpur District Court on Friday slapped 10-year jail sentences on all three accused in the Godamchaur rape case, 15 months after the crime. However, family members of the victim report that they are still been receiving threats from the families of those now convicted.
MPR to install 150 CCTV cameras with Rs 30m provided by KMC
Published On: February 28, 2019 09:07 AM NPT By: Biken K Dawadi
KATHMANDU, Feb 28: The Metropolitan Police Range (MPR), Kathmandu, has said that it has set the target of installing 150 Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) cameras in the Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) in the current fiscal year with the budget of Rs 30 million provided by the metropolis on Wednesday.
Leaders, parties express condolences
Published On: February 28, 2019 07:57 AM NPT By: Biken K Dawadi
KATHMANDU, Feb 28: Top politicians, major political parties as well as members of the public took to various platforms on Wednesday to express their condolences over the death of Minister for Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation Rabindra Adhikari and six others in a helicopter accident at Phungling of Taplejung while his entourage was returning from Pathibhara temple on Wednesday.
O! Where will I find such a flower?
Published On: February 27, 2019 07:26 AM NPT By: Biken K Dawadi
O! Where will I find such a flower? The gaze of heavens it would lower
KMC's lighting program in the dark
Published On: February 22, 2019 03:30 AM NPT By: Biken K Dawadi
KATHMANDU, Feb 22: When the Policies and Programs for fiscal year 2018/19 were launched by Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) at the very start of the current fiscal year, it included a very ambitious program titled the “Mayor Lighting Program.”
Exemplary waste management on Bagmati riverside
Published On: February 20, 2019 04:30 AM NPT By: Biken K Dawadi
KATHMANDU, Feb 20: When the passersby look at the Bagmati River from the Shantinagar Bridge, all that they can see is a huge pile of solid waste being swept away by a brown colored river.
Public uproar on social media after song removed from YouTube
Published On: February 18, 2019 08:45 AM NPT By: Biken K Dawadi
KATHMANDU, Feb 18: After receiving pressure from various forefronts of the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) on his new satirical song ‘Lutna sake lut’, popular folk singer Pashupati Sharma removed the song from YouTube on Saturday. Claiming that such ‘unethical’ action of the government is a serious act of undermining freedom of expression, the general public has taken to various platforms to vent their ire against the government move.
Nepal Police intensifies action against bribers, bribe-taking cops
Published On: February 16, 2019 10:05 AM NPT By: Biken K Dawadi
KATHMANDU, Feb 16: On Friday, Dilip Basnet, 34, from Lagan, ward 21 of Kathmandu Metropolitan City, in a drunken state pushed a parked motorcycle down in KMC-32, Bagbazar. A police constable who was watching rushed to the site and started questioning Basnet. Basnet, who was aware of his actions by then, offered the police personnel a bribe of Rs 1,000 for letting him go.
Footpaths to be made compulsory in new roads: Transport Minister
Published On: February 13, 2019 03:48 AM NPT By: Biken K Dawadi
KATHMANDU, Feb 12: Minister for Physical Infrastructure and Transport Raghubir Mahaseth, on Tuesday, said that the ministry has already directed the concerned authorities to compulsorily include footpaths while constructing roads across the nation from now on.
Digging through garbage to track down Bagmati polluters
Published On: February 11, 2019 05:00 AM NPT By: Biken K Dawadi
KATHMANDU, Feb 11: Have you been secretly dumping your domestic waste in the Bagmati River, thinking no one is watching? Beware! You might end up getting caught anyway.
How safe is Kalanki-Koteshwar road?
Published On: February 10, 2019 07:20 AM NPT By: Biken K Dawadi
KATHMANDU, Feb 9: The newly widened Koteshwar-Kalanki road section has been plagued by doubts ever since its inception, with stakeholders pointing out technical lapses . As a result of these lapses, accidents have proliferated on the road section at an alarming rate.
‘Top suspect’ in 33.5 kg gold case arrested in UAE
Published On: February 6, 2019 07:49 AM NPT By: Biken K Dawadi
KATHMANDU, Feb 6: Officials involved in the investigation into the 33.5 kg gold smuggling case have said that Hari Sharan Khadka, one of the main accused in the case who was arrested in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) a few days ago, was the kingpin of the smuggling racket.
NSU cadres torch four govt vehicles, take scores in control
Published On: February 3, 2019 08:15 AM NPT By: Biken K Dawadi
KATHMANDU, Feb 3: Cadres of Nepal Student Union (NSU), the student wing of the main opposition party Nepali Congress (NC) on Saturday torched four government vehicles and took scores of others in control in line with their program of taking government vehicles running on Saturday in control. NSU had run a nationwide campaign of taking such vehicles in control on Saturday till 5 pm in order to stop the misuse of the government vehicles on holidays.
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