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KATHMANDU, Sept 5: Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has announced that the government will award Palesha Goverdhan, who secured a historic bronze medal for Nepal in the Paralympics held in France, with a cash prize of Rs 6.5 million without any tax deductions.
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BAGMATI, Sept 5: The Kanti Lokpath connecting Hetauda and Kathmandu has been obstructed due to landslides after rain.
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KATHMANDU, Sept 5: The chief election commissioners from the SAARC member countries who were on a visit to Nepal, paid a courtesy call on President Ram Chandra Paudel, during the 12th Forum of the Election Management Bodies of South Asia (FEMBoSA).
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KATHMANDU, Sept 5: The third edition of the Kathmandu Kalinga Literary Festival (KLF) is set to take place on September 7 and 8, 2024, in Kathmandu.
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KATHMANDU, Sept 5: A mother and son have been killed in Sorung Chhabise, Katari Municipality-10, Udayapur district. Nirmala Thapa, 40, and her 6-year-old son Aarus Thapa, who were running a grocery shop near the ward office, were found dead in their own shop this morning.
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KATHMANDU, Sept 5: A writ petition filed by Additional Inspector General (AIG) Shyam Lal Gyawali and four other police officers has been scheduled for hearing by the bench of Supreme Court Justices Sapna Pradhan Malla and Kumar Chudal.
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KATHMANDU, Sept 5: The price of gold remained stagnant in the domestic market on Thursday, continuing the same price of the previous two days.
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KATHMANDU, Sept 5: Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) has started monitoring the sanitary landfill site in Banchare Danda, where the Kathmandu Valley's waste is managed, via Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) cameras from its Kamaladi-based People’s Plaza office.
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KATHMANDU, Sept 5: The Falgundanda Sukilumba Airport in Ilam, which had been closed for the past three months, is set to resume operations from today.
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KATHMANDU, Sept 5: A taskforce formed by the government to study the problems in the microfinance institutions (MFIs) has mandated that the projects to be funded by MFIs be insured while receiving loans from these financial institutions.
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KATHMANDU, Sept 5: Palesha Goverdhan, Nepal's first Paralympic medalist, attributed her historic win at the Paris Paralympics 2024 to unwavering self-belief. Speaking at a welcome ceremony held at the National Sports Council (NSC) on Wednesday, Palesha reflected on her journey to winning the bronze medal in the women's 57 kg K-44 category, an achievement she described as a proud moment for Nepal.
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KATHMANDU, Sept 5: A parliamentary committee meeting involving stakeholders of medical education held on Wednesday at Singha Durbar has directed the government to form a probe committee to promptly investigate the errors observed in the results of the Medical Education Common Entrance Examinations (MECEE) for MBBS and Public Health published by the Medical Education Commission (MEC).
- by Hari Prasad Shrestha
The Hindi movie ‘Baghban’ inspired me to write about senior citizens, who are abandoned by their children. The idea of the movie on abandoned seniors by their children came to director and producer B. R. Chopra in Copenhagen during a tour across Europe in the 1960s, when he stayed at a hotel next to a retirement home. From the hotel balcony, he saw elderly people sitting at the bungalows.
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LUCKNOW, Sept 5: Hundreds of Indian police have been deployed to search for a pack of wolves who are reported to have killed nine people, eight of them children, wildlife officials said Monday.
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Dhulikhel city in Kavrepalanchowk district has become the first 'healthy city' of Nepal. Not only is this city the first in Nepal, but it is also the second healthiest city in Asia.
- by Nagendra Upadhyaya
SURKHET, Sept 4: The Karnali Provincial Assembly has initiated a review process for the laws it has enacted. This process, known as the 'post-legislative examination,' aims to evaluate the implementation and effectiveness of the existing laws. It can also be seen as a form of 'legislative audit’.
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KATHMANDU, Sept 4: Thousands of people are infected with scrub typhus every year in Nepal, which is rarely seen in developed countries.
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KATHMANDU, Sept 4: Nepal is set to take on Bhutan in its opening match in the South Asian Football Federation (SAFF) Women’s Championship 2024.
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KATHMANDU, Sept 4: The schedule for the triangular One Day International (ODI) series between Nepal, Oman, and Canada under the ICC World Cup League-2 has been announced.
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KATHMANDU, Sept 4: Nepal Stock Exchange (NEPSE) on Wednesday plunged 90.73 points to close at 2,739.46 points.