- by Ajay Phuyal/Ajit Tiwari
BIRATNAGAR, Dec 24: The seventh edition of National Games formally kicked off on Friday after President Bidyadevi Bhandari announced the opening of the games from Shahid Stadium of Biratnagar.
- by Rohit Rai
DHARAN, Dec 24: Departmental teams Armed Police Force (APF) and Tribhuvan Army Club recorded wins in their opening matches of men’s football played under Seventh National Games here on Friday.
- by Republica
CHITWAN, Dec 24: Naya Shakti Nepal coordinator Baburam Bhattarai has said that the constitution amendment bill should be revised arguing that the proposal tabled in parliament is incomplete.
- by Republica
KATHMANDU, Dec 24: Nepali Congress (NC) President Sher Bahadur Deuba has alleged that the main opposition party, CPN-UML, was trying to create division among the people living in the hills, mountains and tarai.
- by Nirmal Ghimire
BARDIYA, Dec 24: Although the number of tigers and other wildlife in Bardiya National Park (BNP) has reportedly increased, their conservation still remains the biggest challenge due to threats from man-made infrastructures.
- by Bishnu Prasad Aryal
KATHMANDU, Dec 24: Tightening up state largesse for the treatment of ailing VVIPs, VIPs, political leaders and high-ranking officials, the government has approved directives limiting the treatment support to Rs 1.5 million, and to once in a lifetime.
RUKUM, Dec 24: At least 30 roadside wooden stalls known as 'Gumti' shops were evicted on Friday for encroaching upon public land property here.
- by Gyan P Neupane
KATHMANDU, Dec 24: Archaeologists of Nepal and from Durham University in the UK have found a mandala structure used for building the foundations of Kasthamandap Temple hundreds of years ago.
- by Mukti Prasad Nyaupane
PALPA, Dec 24: HIV patients' failure to take medicine regularly and to follow doctor's prescription has taken its toll on their health and on their families across the district.
- by Republica
Thursday’s cabinet decision to build the 76-km Kathmandu-Nijgadh expressway with Nepal’s own resources could be a game-changer. This is because never before has a project of this scale—with an estimated cost of around Rs 100 billion—been undertaken by Nepalis alone.
- by Republica
KATHMANDU, Dec 24: The District Administration Office (DAO) Kathmandu on Friday has remanded the two persons arrested on the charge of assaulting suspended CIAA chief Lokman Singh Karki to seven days in police custody for investigations.
- by Trailokya Raj Aryal
The ex-king needs to spend some of his money to establish research centers and think-tanks. That will make people take him more seriously
- by Republica
KATHMANDU, Dec 24: Final hearings on the writ petition challenging the appointment of Lokman Singh Karki as chief of the Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) continued on Friday, with defense lawyers arguing that Karki was eligible to be appointed chief of the constitutional body.
- by Dinkar Nepal
Our aim should be that when our students write, even in Nepali, it is worth translating into many other languages
- by Arun Bam
DOTI, Dec 24: A recent study has found that 59 percent of women in the district are living with one or other kind of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). In its annual report for 2016, Doti branch of the Nepal Family Planning Association (NFPA) stated that the number of women to live with STDs have been increasing every year. Such alarming health condition of women in the rural district is attributed to the pervasive trend of labor migration to India among men. Husbands of the women are major transmitter of such diseases, the study suggests.
- by Republica
The UK's most wanted toys this Christmas
- by AVANI ADHIKARI
I started writing the moment I fell in love with my first book. I was studying at grade 4 when my mother had taken me to a book fair. Being surrounded by so many books, I understood the power of the written words. Writers string together letters into words and words into sentences which would make the readers gain knowledge by using their imaginations and experience something different.
- by SUSHAN DHAKAL
“You know you are getting old when you start losing stuff.”
- by Republica
SUNSARI, Dec 23: The final of the women's football in the Seventh National Games is set to be departmental competition as Nepal Police Club and Armed Police Club (APF) registered win in the semifinals on Friday.
- by Republica
KATHMANDU, Dec 23: Dhurba Thapa finished on top in the opening day of the Old Durbar Lions Centennial Open Golf Tournament at Royal Nepal Golf Club, Kathmandu on Friday.