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Lightning safety, a neglected issue
Published On: January 31, 2019 08:09 AM NPT By: Biken K Dawadi
KATHMANDU, Jan 31: While road and fire accidents have been drawing the attention of the general public for the large numbers of human casualties, lightning, an equally lethal cause of accident, has been a less talked about issue in Nepal.
Electrocutions killed 289 people in six months
Published On: January 30, 2019 10:48 AM NPT By: Biken K Dawadi
KATHMANDU, Jan 30: On Friday evening, six members of wedding party traveling from Dhanusha to Sindhuli were electrocuted when the bus they were traveling in touched a low-hanging high-voltage electric cable.
Missing 11-year-old girl found dead and naked
Published On: January 28, 2019 07:34 AM NPT By: Biken K Dawadi
KATHMANDU, Jan 28: An 11-year-old girl who had gone to watch television at a neighbor’s home on Saturday night was found dead near a river in Biratnagar the next day.
Police rescue kidnapped child within nine hours
Published On: January 26, 2019 09:31 AM NPT By: Biken K Dawadi
KATHMANDU, Jan 26: A team from the Metropolitan Police Range Office (MPRO), Kathmandu, on Friday rescued a kidnapped girl child from Tilganga around nine hours of the kidnap from her residence in Koteshwar.
IRD probes Tootle tax evasion
Published On: January 24, 2019 08:19 AM NPT By: Biken K Dawadi
KATHMANDU, Jan 24: The Inland Revenue Department has started investigation into the alleged Value Added Tax (VAT) fraud by ride-sharing service provider Tootle.
Tootle evaded VAT for 19 months: Sources
Published On: January 23, 2019 10:45 AM NPT By: Biken K Dawadi
KATHMANDU, Jan 23: Tootle, a ride-sharing service provider, is found to have collected 13 percent Value Added Tax (VAT) from riders for 19 months but without paying the tax to the government.
Valley roads claimed 132 lives in six months
Published On: January 21, 2019 08:51 AM NPT By: Biken K Dawadi
KATHMANDU, Jan 21: Road accidents in the Kathmandu Valley have claimed 132 lives in the first six months of the current fiscal year, indicating a sharp rise in the number of road fatalities.
Earthquake safety a largely neglected issue
Published On: January 17, 2019 10:02 AM NPT By: Biken K Dawadi
KATHMANDU, Jan 17: Although people seemed highly concerned about the safety issue and even started building earthquake-resilient building in the immediate aftermath of the major earthquakes that hit Nepal in April 2015, a large section of people across the country seem to have continued with business as usual barely three years after the major earthquakes that killed nearly 9,000 people and caused multi-billion dollars worth losses.
Netizens vent ire over action against ridesharing services
Published On: January 16, 2019 08:52 AM NPT By: Biken K Dawadi
KATHMANDU, Jan 16: After receiving a suggestion from the Department of Transport Management (DoTM), the Metropolitan Traffic Police Office (MTPO) from Saturday evening started taking action against the two-wheeler ridesharing services terming them ‘illegal’ and ‘unsafe’.
Commuters bear brunt of MTPO action against ridesharing
Published On: January 16, 2019 08:42 AM NPT By: Biken K Dawadi
KATHMANDU, Jan 16: Due to extra workload, Tilak Dhital, 20, of Kathmandu’s Samakhusi occasionally works up to 7:30 pm at his Baneshwar-based office. Since finding public vehicles at such hours is rare, Dhital made use of the service of two-wheeler ridesharing companies such as Tootle and Pathao.
Rupandehi police gun down on-the-run murder convict
Published On: January 14, 2019 09:43 AM NPT By: Biken K Dawadi
KATHMANDU, Jan 14: A police team from the District Police Office (DPO), Rupandehi, shot dead a murder convict during a crossfire with suspected smugglers at Siddharthanagar Municipality-10, Shankarpur, on Saturday night.
Losses from calamity up 74% in 2018
Published On: January 9, 2019 07:58 AM NPT By: Biken K Dawadi
KATHMANDU, Jan 9: The losses and casualties caused by calamity (both natural and man-made) have risen sharply in recent years. Data maintained by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MoHA) show that the total estimated losses inflicted by calamities across the country increased by 74 percent from 2017 to 2018.
FSU polls two months away, merger of NCP student wings still uncertain
Published On: January 8, 2019 05:30 AM NPT By: Biken K Dawadi
KATHMANDU, Jan 8: With less than two months left for the election of the Free Students Union (FSU) to take place, the merger of the student unions of the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) is still uncertain.
Allow us to meet them or give us dead bodies: Kin tell Bomjon
Published On: December 29, 2018 07:34 AM NPT By: Biken K Dawadi
KATHMANDU, Dec 29: The family members of three persons, who went missing from the Sindhupalchowk ashram of Ram Bahadur Bomjon aka ‘Buddha Boy’, on Friday asked the government and police to launch a serious investigation into Bomjon’s ashrams and demanded that Bomjon either let them meet their missing family members or hand over their bodies if they are dead.
Fires claimed 87 lives, gutted property worth Rs 4b in a year
Published On: December 24, 2018 07:52 AM NPT By: Biken K Dawadi
KATHMANDU, Dec 24: Figures maintained by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MoHA) show that 2,414 fire accidents took place across the country in the last one year (between December 23, 2017, and December 23, 2018) killing 87 people, damaging property worth over Rs 4 billion and affecting 3,460 families. Cases of fire incidents have increased in recent days.
Police unsure if gold seized in India is the same that went missing from Nepal
Published On: December 22, 2018 09:59 AM NPT By: Biken K Dawadi
KATHMANDU, Dec 22: Alarmed by the confiscation of 33 gold bars weighing one kilogram each from two Nepalis in India on December 7, Nepal Police has started trying to connect the dots between the confiscated gold and the ones which had mysteriously ‘disappeared’ from the Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) on January 21.
Killer roads claim 864 lives across Nepal in 4 months
Published On: December 18, 2018 07:34 AM NPT By: Biken K Dawadi
KATHMANDU, Dec 18: With an alarming increase in road fatalities across the nation in the past few months, stakeholders from various walks of life have voiced real concern .
Officials say 33kg gold seized from 2 Nepalis in Kolkata could be that 'lost' from TIA
Published On: December 16, 2018 01:05 AM NPT By: Biken K Dawadi
KATHMANDU, Dec 16: Eleven months after 33.5 kg gold 'disappeared' mysteriously from Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA), officials involved in the investigation of the scam have said that the gold bars confiscated in equal quantity in India last week could be the same one.
At least 17 die, others injured in Nuwakot mini-truck plunge
Published On: December 15, 2018 07:40 AM NPT By: Biken K Dawadi
KATHMANDU, Dec 15: At least 17 people died and 15 others are still missing after a mini-truck veered off the road and fell 300 meters at Dupcheshwar Rural Municipality-7 of Nuwakot district at about 5 pm on Friday. The cause of the accident is yet to be ascertained, according to police.
Police arrest two suspects in Godamchaur rape case
Published On: December 13, 2018 08:56 AM NPT By: Biken K Dawadi
KATHMANDU, Dec 13: More than a year after a woman was gang-raped and left for dead in Godavari-1, Godamchaur of Lalitpur, police on Wednesday finally arrested two of the three alleged perpetrators behind the incident.
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