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The welfare state distributes social security allowances to improve the living standards of people with poor economic status, a responsibility of the state. Nepal provides such allowances to senior citizens, Dalit seniors, the disabled, and single women.
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KATHMANDU, Aug 7: Nepali insurance companies are found dilly dallying on settlement of claims of their clients, as Nepal Insurance Authority (NIA) has been receiving an increasing number of complaints related to the issue in recent years.
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KATHMANDU, Aug 7: The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) has directed officials and employees who failed to submit their property details within the deadline to pay a fine of Rs 5,000.
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KATHMANDU, Aug 7: The Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) mopped an additional amount of Rs 40 billion from the banking system for liquidity management.
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KATHMANDU, Aug 7: United Nations Resident Representative to Nepal, Hanna Singer Hamdy, paid a courtesy call on Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli at Singha Durbar on Wednesday.
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KATHMANDU, Aug 7: Nepal failed to win the title of the CAVA Women's Nations League after losing the final match to India on Wednesday.
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KATHMANDU, Aug 7: President of the Federation of Nepalese Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FNCCI) Chandra Prasad Dhakal highlighted Nepal's readiness to welcome foreign investors and the importance of trade facilitation for regional economic growth.
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JHAPA, Aug 7: Kakarvitta, serving as a major transit point in eastern Nepal, has been opened for the people from third countries. The transit point along the Nepal-India border in Jhapa district was closed for tourists from third countries due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
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KATHMANDU, Aug 7: JSW MG Motor India has named its upcoming crossover utility vehicle (CUV) as ‘Windsor’.
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KATHMANDU, Aug 7: The government has formed a three-member committee to investigate the crash of an Air Dynasty chopper in Shivapuri Rural Municipality-7, Nuwakot, which killed all five people on board.
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KATHMANDU, Aug 7: Nepal Stock Exchange (NEPSE) recovered 108.35 points on Wednesday, the very next day of Tuesday when it plunged by a record-high 145.05 points.
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KATHMANDU, Aug 7: The U.S. Geological Survey has announced that the International Astronomical Union (IAU) Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature approved the name Lhamu for a crater on the Moon.
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KATHMANDU, Aug 7: Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has canceled his plan to attend the final match of the Central Asian Volleyball Association (CAVA) Women's Nations Volleyball Tournament on Wednesday.
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KATHMANDU, Aug 7: Last year, the Mugling-Narayanghat road section was closed for a total of 120 hours due to landslides, heavy rainfall, and road expansion work.
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KATHMANDU, Aug 7: A helicopter with the call sign 9N-AJD belonging to Air Dynasty crashed in the Shivapuri hills in Nuwakot, killing all five people on board.
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KATHMANDU, Aug 7: The five dead bodies recovered from the Air Dynasty chopper crash site at Shivapuri Rural Municipality-7, Nuwakot, are to be sent to Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital (TUTH), Maharajgunj for postmortem.
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KATHMANDU, Aug 7: Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has called an emergency Cabinet meeting following the Air Dynasty helicopter crash at Surya Chaur-7 in Nuwakot on Wednesday.
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KATHMANDU, Aug 7: The Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN) has mobilized a Prabhu Helicopter’s chopper with registration number 9N-ANL for rescue efforts at the helicopter crash site in Shivapuri Rural Municipality-7, Nuwakot.
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KATHMANDU, Aug 7: Police have recovered five dead bodies from the helicopter crash site in Ward No 7 of Shivapuri Rural Municipality, Nuwakot.
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KATHMANDU, Aug 7: European Union Ambassador Veronique Lorenzo paid a courtesy call on Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli on Wednesday.