PM Dahal expands cabinet for 5th time
- by Republica
KATHMANDU, Dec 1: Ten nominees from the Nepali Congress have been sworn in as state ministers on Wednesday.
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Quake victims yet to recieve house construction grants
- by Madhusudhan Guragain
KAVRE, Nov 30: Something interesting is happening in Rayale village of Kavre district these days.
4th day talks with Dr KC futile, likely to be conclusive today
- by Republica
KATHMANDU, Nov 30: The fourth day of talks on Wednesday between the government and the team representing Dr Govinda KC also turned futile.
UDMF refuses to own amendment bill
- by Republica
KATHMANDU, Dec 1: The constitution amendment bill registered by the government on Tuesday evening is likely to fall in trouble, with the agitating United Democratic Madhesi Front (UDMF) refusing to own the bill.
Prime minister has no time for IBN meetings
- by Rudra Pangeni
KATHMANDU, Dec 1: Investment Board Nepal (IBN) has not been able to hold even a single board meeting in the past four months. Reason: Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal, the chair of the IBN board, has no time to attend the meeting.
Bibeksheel asks PM Dahal, Gagan Thapa and Dhaniram Paudel to submit property details
- by Republica
KATHMANDU, Dec1: Bibeksheel Nepali has registered an application at the Office of the Prime Minister asking the prime minister, education minister and health minister to make public the details of their property.
Embrace all
- by Republica
Our worst fears are being realized. Over the past one month we have in this space repeatedly emphasized the importance of political consensus—among at least the four major political actors who own up post-2006 changes, namely Nepali Congress, CPN-UML, CPN (Maoist Center) and Madheshi Morcha—in order to amend the constitution.
UML to obstruct House, protest in streets against amendment bill
- by Kosh Raj Koirala
KATHMANDU, Dec 1: The main opposition party, CPN-UML, has decided to use all its energies to foil the proposed amendments to the new Constitution, which it has termed an attempt to undermine the sovereign existence of the country.
Agents of change
- by Renu Adhikari
Knowing of the sacrifices women rights defenders make every day, let us commit to respect them
DRI starts probe against four Biratnagar factories
- by Amar Khadka
ITAHARI, Dec 1: The Eastern Regional Office of Department of Revenue Investigation (DRI) has started investigation against four factories of Biratnagar, suspecting their involvement in revenue evasion.
The great barrier
- by Gunjan Upadhyay
The new trade integration strategy has acknowledged non-tariff measures as ‘serious bottleneck’ to boosting exports
Our moral obligation to save Dr KC’s life
- by Subhash Ghimire
KATHMANDU, Dec 1: Today is the 18th day of Dr. KC’s hunger strike, longer than any of the last nine. He has now sat for 120 days in hunger strike in the last four years in a relentless crusade to end corruption and injustices in Nepal’s medical education.
Nepal faces Thailand today
- by Republica
KATHAMNDU, Dec 1: Nepal will face fellow associate team Thailand in its fourth match of the ongoing ACC Asia Cup Women's T20 Cricket Tournament in Bangkok, Thailand on Thursday. Nepal had flown to Thailand with the target of defeating at least one Test-playing nation, but it has lost all three matches against Test nations in the tournament so far.
Zone potential
- by Bhairab Raj Kaini
The plan to develop super zones in each of the seven provinces is welcome news for farmers
Amendment bill meets with criticism on social media
- by Republica
KATHMANDU, Dec 1: The government's constitution amendment bill registered in parliament with a proposal to hive off all the hill districts from Province 5 has met with widespread criticism on the social media.
Anti-amendment protests erupt in districts
- by Republica
KATHMANDU, Dec 1: A day after the government registered its constitution amendment bill in Parliament, protests have erupted in various parts of the country, demanding that the federal setup finalized under the new Constitution be left intact.
Got a java head? Some gift ideas for coffee lovers
- by Associated Press
Coffee lovers can also be lovers of other things, clearly, but the true java head surely wouldn’t scoff at a related gift.
GoPro to cut 15% workforce in restructuring effort
- by Techcrunch
GoPro has announced the company will cut 200 jobs, about 15% of its global workforce. The company says this will reduce its 2017 non-GAAP operating expenses to about $650 million and will help the company fulfill CEO Nick Woodman’s stated goal of returning the company to profitbility in 2017.
VR offers television producers ‘Hollywood in a box’
- by Agence France-Presse
On a soundstage no bigger than a large bedroom a cameraman takes up various angles to film a helicopter that isn’t there, landing in a field that isn’t there either. Until recently, virtual reality was the preserve of the gaming crowd but producers say the technology is on the cusp of a boom which could change forever the way television is made.
Taiwanese teenagers win World Robot Olympiad in India
- by Associated Press
Whizzing around a green felt table chasing a soccer ball beaming infrared light, the boxy robot shoots and scores and wins its Taiwanese teenage creators first prize at this year’s student robot games.