Comedy of errors
- by Republica
Help for earthquake victims
- by Hitesh Karki
More than issuing the cards, their use could be more problematic. We will have to have special card readers in almost all public places
- by Arjun Oli
NEPALGUNJ, June 30: Sikta Irrigation Project in Banke district has been receiving hundreds of millions of rupees from the government every year. Despite the allocation of such massive budget for the national pride project, locals accuse the government of not monitoring the project's progress.
- by Republica
Political analyst and Professor of Political Science Krishna Khanal argues that timely elections of local bodies, provincial assemblies and federal parliament is the only solution to the current political and constitutional logjam. He, however, maintains that agitating Madheshi forces must be taken into confidence first. He discussed some of these issues in an extensive interview with Republica’s Biswas Baral and Mahabir Paudyal.
- by Republica
KATHMANDU, June 30:Child Health Division (CHD) under the Department of Health Services (DoHS) said that it has immunized over 3.2 million children under the age of 15 with Japanese encephalitis vaccine.
- by Republica
Global defense trade reached a record breaking $65 billion in 2015. IHS forecasts that the market will increase further to $69 billion in 2016. The Middle East was the largest importing region, with $21.6 billion in deliveries of defense equipment.
- by Republica
KATHMANDU, June 29: Lalitpur District Boxing Association is set to hold the Fourth National and First Junior (Novic) Boxing Tournament from August 9 to 13 at the Satdobato Swimming Complex in Lalitpur.
- by Republica
KATHMANDU, June30: Dish Home has opened its 14th service center in Charikot of Baglung. The new service center was inaugurated by Dish Home's Deputy General Manager Kalyan Adhikari and Manager Sabin Maharjan.
- by Republica
KATHMANDU, June29 : Etihad Airways, the national airline of United Arab Emirates, has announced a special offer for students particularly those flying to th US for study.
- by Republica
KATHMANDU, June29: Him Electronics has announced trading of Norfrost deep freezers in the domestic market.
- by Republica
NUWAKOT, June 29: Two minors died after a house caved-in at Budtang VDC of Nuwakot district due to incessant rain since last night.
- by Republica
KATHMANDU, June 29: Leader of the major opposition Nepali Congress, Sher Bahadur Deuba, has demanded that the government immediately implement the agreement reached on Tuesday to provide Rs 150,000 as first installment to every earthquake-hit household.
- by Chuman Basnet
MORANG, June 29: Farmers planted paddy saplings in Baijanpur of Morang to mark the National Rice Day. Due to timely rainfall this year farmers have started cultivation on time.
SARLAHI, June 29: Sarlahi District Court has sentenced Chandra Bindnarayan Rajak, 31, to three years in jail for raping a 30-year-old woman.
- by Prabin Koirala
The Day is marked on the 15th of the Nepali month Asar every year. The 15th of Asar is the day when traditionally Nepali farmers finished planting paddy in their fields and enjoined in its celebration.
- by George Soros
Brexit will open the floodgates for other anti-European forces within the Union. Indeed, no sooner was the referendum’s outcome announced than France’s National Front issued a call for “Frexit,” while Dutch populist Geert Wilders promoted “Nexit.”
- by Republica
KATHMANDU, June 29: The Education Act (Eighth Amendment), 2016 came into effect after being certified by the President on Wednesday. With this, the Higher Secondary Education Board has been transformed into the National Exams Board (NEB).
- by Republica
KATHMANDU, June29: Federal Alliance’s coordinator Upendra Yadav has said that Alliance is in protest so the talks also should be done with them to solve the issues.
- by Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO, June 29: As Windows 10 approaches its first birthday, Microsoft is adding new features — giving its Cortana digital assistant more capabilities and offering people new ways to sign into websites and apps without passwords.
- by Associated Press
ISTANBUL, June 29: Suicide attackers armed with guns and bombs killed 41 people and wounded scores of others at Istanbul's busy Ataturk Airport in an attack the government blamed on Islamic State extremists.