SARLAHI, June 20: Dilliram Bhattarai, principal of Janata Adharbhut Vidyalaya of Hariban-8 had a huge headache. No matter how much he would request teachers to come to school on time, they would not heed him.

KATHMANDU, Sept 28: Even as National ID Management Center expedites efforts to complete technical and structural set up for issuing biometric ID cards, the center has simultaneously launched consultations with different government and non-government agencies on the significance of biometric identification cards.

KATHMANDU, Aug 17: The government has geared up its effort to distribute biometric national identity (NID) cards to as many as 117,000 citizens within the next 18 months.