July 31, 2024 18:40 pm
KATHMANDU, July 31: President Ram Chandra Paudel has appointed new provincial chiefs in three provinces upon the recommendation of the Council of Ministers.
July 30, 2024 09:36 am
KATHMANDU, July 30: The government has decided to recall the provincial chiefs of Bagmati, Lumbini and Karnali provinces.
July 25, 2024 20:18 pm
SURKHET, July 25: One hundred and twelve people have been killed in road accidents in Karnali Province in a year.
July 14, 2024 21:40 pm
KATHMANDU, July 14: The Karnali Province’s Social Development Ministry has initiated the construction of school infrastructure in 79 local bodies across 10 districts under the ‘School Educational Infrastructure Program’.
March 8, 2024 14:50 pm
Srijana Rawat, now the first pilot from Karnali, had a dream of flying aircraft since her school days.
February 24, 2024 09:00 am
Together, we're trying to work on changing the narrative of what Karnali is and what Karnali can be
January 29, 2024 18:52 pm
KARNALI, June 29: A biogas plant has been set up in Birendranagar of Surkhet district to produce clean energy and organic fertilizer from biodegradable waste.
January 24, 2024 21:10 pm
KATHMANDU, Jan 24: Over Rs 280 million has been collected in the Prime Minister Disaster Relief Fund (PMDRF) for the support of the quake survivors in Karnali Province.
January 6, 2024 09:25 am
KARNALI, Jan 6: A provincial level discussion was held on the feasibility of tea and coffee farming in Karnali. The discussion in Birendranagar on Friday was organized by the National Tea and Coffee Development Board in coordination with Siddhartha Multipurpose Cooperatives Limited Surkhet.
December 29, 2023 17:47 pm
KALIKOT, Dec 29: Rara lake has seen a surge in visitors as 6,200 tourists explored this destination in the last five months.
December 19, 2023 19:32 pm
KARNALI, Dec 19: 'Green restoration' would be carried out in the areas affected by the Jajarkot earthquake that occurred on November 3.
December 14, 2023 18:00 pm
SURKHET, Dec 14: Only 30 percent of families in Karnali Province are self-reliant in agricultural production, according to the national agriculture census, 2078. A large 70 percent cannot feed themselves with the productions throughout the year.
November 27, 2023 15:15 pm
KALIKOT, Nov 27: Licenses have been issued to conduct the feasibility studies of hydropower projects to generate about 6,000 megawatts of hydropower in Karnali Province. However, the production so far is only about 17 MW. Although licenses have been allotted for the construction of projects, the work of most of the projects is slow.
November 6, 2023 21:30 pm
KARNALI, Nov 6: The Karnali provincial government has given continuity to the search, rescue and relief efforts of the earthquake victims in the province. Chief Minister Raj Kumar Sharma said members of the Council of Ministers of the province were working in the quake affected areas. Following the conclusion of the search and rescue efforts, the rehabilitation of the victims would be carried forward, he said.
November 5, 2023 20:20 pm
KATHMANDU, Nov 5: The Members of Parliament representing the Nepali Congress (NC) have decided to contribute remunerations of 15 days for the cause of recent earthquake survivors in the Karnali Province.
October 10, 2023 15:39 pm
SURKHET, Oct 10: The second session of the Karnali Province Assembly has been prorogued. During this session, the assembly unanimously passed two bills: the Karnali Province Academy Bill and the Province Civil Service Employees Bill.
September 6, 2023 15:00 pm
SURKHET, Sept 6: The Karnali province government has adopted a policy of tax exemption to attract women, Dalits and backward classes towards industrial businesses.
August 31, 2023 16:15 pm
Karnali, Aug 31: The Karnali provincial government is to establish a liquid nitrogen plant. The process of constructing the plant is forwarded under the Ministry of Land Management, Agriculture and Cooperatives' approved programme for the fiscal year 2023/24.
August 24, 2023 15:03 pm
Jajarkot, Aug 24: Flights have been affected in Karnali for the last two days due to bad weather. The flights have been disrupted as it has been raining continuously.
August 10, 2023 17:00 pm
SURKHET, Aug 10: The number of people going for foreign employment has been increasing in Karnali Province in recent periods.
July 14, 2023 18:58 pm
KATHMANDU, July 14: The Royal Norwegian Embassy in Kathmandu and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in Nepal have signed an $8.2 million partnership agreement to enhance food and nutrition security in eleven local governments of Karnali and Sudurpashchim provinces.
May 21, 2023 11:44 am
TIKAPUR May 21: A young man died from drowning in the Karnali River in Daulatpur Ghat in Kailali district’s Tikapur Municipality-5.
April 23, 2023 15:54 pm
SURKHET, April 23: Karnali Chief Minister (CM) Raj Kumar Sharma has prepared to take the vote of confidence in the provincial assembly for a third time. Sharma registered a letter regarding the seeking the vote of confidence in the province assembly on Sunday.
April 20, 2023 14:10 pm
KARNALI, April 21: Chief Minister of Karnali Province, Raj Kumar Sharma, has expanded the Council of Ministers. He expanded his Cabinet yesterday after a meeting of the Nepali Congress Province Assembly parliamentary party recommended three names for induction as ministers.
April 19, 2023 19:45 pm
BIRENDRANAGAR, April 19: The number of ministries has been increased to eight in Karnali Province. The number of ministries in the province was reduced to seven on January 11 by the then CPN-UML and CPN (Maoist Center) coalition government.
April 2, 2023 10:01 am
KARNALI, April 2: Chief Minister of Karnali Province Raj Kumar Sharma has said that education, as the source of skilled human resources, is the foundation of economic development of the society.
March 31, 2023 18:00 pm
SURKHET, March 31: Karnali Chief Minister Rajkumar Sharma has won the vote of confidence. A total of 38 parliamentarians from four parties gave the vote of confidence to Chief Minister Sharma in the Province Assembly meeting held on Friday afternoon.
March 15, 2023 15:30 pm
SURKHET, March 15: Karnali province government is constructing 1000 small roads this year alone. The provincial government has been constructing roads in the settlements of Karnali to bring the citizens who are out of reach to the roads.
January 11, 2023 17:40 pm
KATHMANDU, Jan 11: CPN (Maoist Centre) leader Rajkumar Sharma has been appointed as the chief minister of Karnali Province.
January 11, 2023 17:15 pm
SURKHET, Jan 11: The CPN-UML and CPN (Maoist Center) have agreed to take turns to appoint the chief minister in Karnali Province.
December 27, 2022 15:00 pm
SURKHET, Dec 27: With the formation of a seven-party alliance with CPN-UML at the center, the debate on who will be the Chief Minister of Karnali Province has started. With the new equation at the center, the Nepali Congress, which is currently leading the government in Karnali, will be the main opposition party. Competition has started between CPN (Maoist Center) and CPN-UML for the post of Chief Minister.
December 16, 2022 21:00 pm
BIRENDRANAGAR, Dec 16: From Karnali, 61 MPs have been elected directly and proportionally to the Provincial Assembly and the House of Representatives. In the provincial assembly, 24 direct, 16 proportional and in the House of representatives, 12 direct and 9 proportional which summed up to 61 people.
November 30, 2022 13:12 pm
Birendranagar, Nov 30: As many as 24 candidates for the House of Representatives and Provincial Assembly from Karnali Province failed to receive even 100 votes each. Those who got less than 100 votes are both party candidates and independent candidates.
November 13, 2022 11:56 am
KARNALI, Nov 13: The campaigning for the election to the House of Representatives and the Provincial Assembly has intensified in Karnali, with only seven days to go for Election Day. Parties and candidates have expedited their election campaigns in the lead up to November 20.
October 21, 2022 10:39 am
KASKI, Oct 21: The Ninth National Games held in Gandaki Province concluded last night in the presence of thousands of people at Pokhara Stadium.
October 16, 2022 14:05 pm
SURKHET, Oct 16: As many as 10,714 people have been rendered homeless due to the recent floods and landslides in Karnali Province. The Karnali Province Police Office, Surkhet, stated that the largest number, i.e. 5,282 people have become homeless due to the natural disasters in Mugu, followed by 1,763 in Kalikot district, 1725 in Jumla, 639 in Salyan, 566 in Surkhet, 474 in Humla, 207 in Dailekh, 25 in Dolpa, 18 in Jajarkot and 15 in Rukum West.
October 2, 2022 16:00 pm
KOHALPUR, Oct 2: People going to the remote districts of Karnali have not been able to go home during the festive season due to the lack of flights.
October 1, 2022 16:10 pm
KARNALI, Oct 1: With the rise in the temperature in mountainous regions due to climate change, dengue cases have been detected.
August 26, 2022 15:00 pm
SURKHET, August 26: The CPN (Maoist Center) has recalled two ministers from the Karnali provincial government.
August 26, 2022 14:00 pm
KARNALI, August 26: More than 9,000 candidates who participated in the local level polls held on May 13 in Karnali Province have not submitted their election expenditure details even three months after the polls.
August 25, 2022 15:56 pm
KALIKOT, August 25: A Karnali Province level open volleyball tournament will be held on 26th September. Karnali Province has the biggest prize money in this competition so far. The competition will be organized by Lingasaini Youth Club.
August 22, 2022 18:00 pm
SURKHET, August 22: If there were no park and forest area along the Kohalpur-Surkhet transmission line, 132 kV electricity would have reached Karnali by September 15. Even though there is an agreement to complete it in two years, it is not known how many more years it will take for the 132 kV transmission line to enter Karnali.
August 11, 2022 11:37 am
KARNALI, August 11: The Karnali Province is still short of roughly 60,000 textbooks.
July 28, 2022 12:05 pm
SURKHET, July 28: Khadka Bahadur Khatri of Gurvakot Municipality-7 of Surkhet had to go to the headquarters Birendranagar to buy seeds as early as 10 years ago.
July 19, 2022 06:45 am
Was Karnali always like this - poor, deprived, and backward? The answer is ‘No’. The Karnali Kingdom was prosperous and cultured until the 18th century from the 9th century. This can be sensed through the region's folk songs and stories which have been transferred from generation to generation and are still in existence in the oral form. Humla, in particular, was a prosperous land as early as two generations ago.
May 6, 2022 06:30 am
KATHMANDU, May 6: Bagmati Province, which also has the federal capital of the country, is estimated to contribute over one-third to the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) while the contribution of Karnali Province to the national GDP will stand below five percent in the current fiscal year.
April 5, 2022 09:34 am
KARNALI, April 5: The corpse of a newborn baby pictured while a dog was carrying it in its mouth on the premises of the Surkhet Provincial Hospital on Saturday has been identified. The identity of the decapitated body was revealed after a police investigation.
March 29, 2022 15:45 pm
KALIKOT, March 29: Rakam Karnali Rafting Firm has brought rafting service into operation at Aathbish Municipality in Karnali district with a goal to promote tourism in the region.
March 12, 2022 14:57 pm
SURKHET, March 12: Nepal Electricity Authority Director Kulman Ghising said that a 132KV transmission line will be connected to Karnali within a year. He also said that the delay in the project was caused due to Bardiya National Park and the forest area.
February 20, 2022 12:05 pm
SURKHET, Feb 20: The government has started making preparations for the expansion of the Surkhet Airport. The airport is being prepared for expansion by acquiring 12.43 bighas of land to the north of the current airport.