- by Republica
KATHAMNDU, Oct 24: All Nepal Football Association (ANFA) will get a new president for remaining one year period through special general assembly on Sunday. ANFA Acting President Narendra Shrestha and Vice President Karma Tsering Sherpa are contesting for the top job of the football governing body.
- by Subhash Ghimire/Guna Raj Luitel
KATHMANDU, Oct 24: “I came to Kathmandu to study music,” says Om Prakash Aryal, 40, with a smile. Born in Amarpur, Gulmi, Aryal completed his schooling at a local public school and came to the capital in 1995. Upon learning that he did not have good enough marks in English to enroll in music studies at Ratna Rajya Campus, Aryal decided to study law at Nepal Law Campus right next door. His grandfather was a junior official in the judicial service, and his father a retired Indian army serviceman.
- by Associated Press
MADRID, Oct 24: Coach Jorge Sampaoli felt Sevilla needed a big win against a top opponent to establish itself as a true contender in Spain.
- by Associated Press
MOHALI, (India), Oct 24: Virat Kohli scored his 26th ODI hundred and went on to an undefeated 154 as India scored 289-3 in 48.2 overs to beat New Zealand by seven wickets in the third one-day international on Sunday.
- by Ashok Dahal
KATHMANDU, Oct 24: Parliament has decided to begin deliberations on the impeachment motion filed against the chief of the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA), Lokman Singh Karki, on Tuesday.
- by Santosh Pokharel
POKHARA, Oct 24: Israeli national Amit Mosche Reichman, 42, has gone missing while trekking along the Annapurna trekking circuit. Reichman had last contacted friends and families a week ago and was reported to have been trekking along the Mardi Himal trekking route. Since then his whereabouts remain unknown.
- by Kalendra Sejuwal
SURKHET, Oct 23: A girl of about 13 entered a medical store at Pushpalal Chowk, Nepalgunj and asked whether abortion pills were available.
- by Sagar Ghimire
KATHMANDU, Oct 24: Microfinance institutions (MFIs) have sought permission to mobilize deposit from public after their traditional source of fund is likely to dry up following the new requirement for commercial banks to extend 2 percent of their total loans to deprived sector.
- by Republica
KATHMANDU, Oct 24: The parliamentary International Relations and Labor Committee (IRLC) has suspected the role of the officials of Nepal Airlines Corporation (NAC) behind recent rise in cancellation and delay of domestic as well as international flights of the national flag carrier.
- by Republica
KATHMANDU, Oct 24: With the arrest of a member of Mongol Mulbasi Rastriya Force last week, police have uncovered plans of possible terror attacks mainly targeting Kathmandu Valley and some other places of Nepal.
- by Chiran Sharma
LONDON, Oct 23: Nepal government will hold a formal talk with the British government regarding the demands of the retired Nepali Gurkha soldiers.
- by Rudra Pangeni
KATHMANDU, Oct 24: Economic indicators of Bangladesh were worse than Nepal's a decade ago.
- by Republica
KATHMANDU, Oct 24: The Ministry of Federal Affairs and Local Development has ordered four municipal authorities to make all the preparations to welcome Indian President Pranab Mukherjee, who is visiting Nepal for three days starting November 2.
- by Bishnu Prasad Aryal
ANNAPURNA BASE CAMP, Oct 24: Trekking trails along the Annapurna Base Camp (ABC) that reaches to an altitude of 4130 meters traverse through cascading music of waterfalls, chirping of birds in the mysterious and wonderful forests amidst the background of serene snow-capped mountains. However, the local tourists traveling along the trails are the cold shoulder by the hotel owners as they get well paid by foreign tourists.
- by Tenzn Tsomo
KATHMANDU, Oct 24: Some five to seven thousand cases of breast cancer are reported in Nepal annually, according to experts working on breast cancer awareness programs.
- by Republica
KATHMANDU, Oct 24: With the CPN (Maoist Center) on Sunday formally deciding to back the impeachment motion against CIAA chief Lokman Singh Karki, all eyes are now fixated on the Nepali Congress (NC) for its support is a must to unseat Karki from the anti-graft body.
- by Gyanu Sapkota
KATHMANDU, Oct 24: Violence against women in the country is till rampant despite several attempts to fight against the social ill.
- by Republica
This new tendency of Congress to follow rather than to lead has once again come to the fore on the question of impeaching CIAA Chief Lokman Singh Karki.
- by Ram Saran Tamang
KATHMANDU, Oct 24: Nepal has been losing a number of snow leopards mostly to poaching and retaliatory killings, according to a recently published report of TRAFFIC, a wildlife trade monitoring network.
- by Republica
KATHMANDU, Oct 24: As Indian President prepares to visit Nepal after a hiatus of almost two decades, former diplomats and experts in Kathmandu see this as reflection of New Delhi's desire to improve 'troubled' relations between Nepal and India.