RASUWA, July 31: It is informed that the electricity supply will be cut off from 8 AM to 5 PM in Rasuwa. According to Nepal Electricity Authority(NEA), Rasuwa, Trishuli Chilime 66 KV is under maintenance for which there will be no electricity supply for 9 hours.

KATHMANDU, July 12: Due to a spate of road deaths, mainly of motorcyclists, in accidents involving tippers, the government has decided to restrict tippers and other cargo vehicles to ply the Suryabinayak-Koteshwar section of the Arniko Highway during rush hours. The ban has been effected from Wednesday itself.

CHITWAN, July 4: The Narayangadh-Muglin road section, which was obstructed since 7:30 am today after two landslides, opened for traffic at 16:35 this afternoon.

SANKHUWASABHA, June 17: The four workers who were buried on Friday while digging a tunnel after a mould of earth caved in at Sankhuwasabha district have been rescued alive after 39 excruciating hours.

KATHMANDU, June 6: The Narayangadh-Muglin road will be open round the clock after road expansion completed today. Initially scheduled to complete by 2017, the expansion was delayed by 14 months. Provided that there is no traffic congestion, a vehicle would be able to reach either of the destinations in 35 minutes.

Qatar Airways, Wataniya Airways interested to operate in extended slot

KATHMANDU, May 20: The government is set to open Tribhuvan International Airport, the only international airport of the country, 21 hours a day from Monday. The operation period is from 6:00 am to 3:00 am.

POKHARA, May 20: Minister for Federal Affairs and General Administration Lalbabu Pandit has said that the government employees should not be engaged in activities of trade union activities during office hours.

KATHMANDU, May 16: Minister for Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation, Rabindra Adhikari, has requested all stakeholders to make extra efforts for bringing Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) into operation for 21 hours in a day.

POKHARA, May 9: Pilgrims visiting Muktinath, a popular religious shrine in the mountainous district of Mustang, will be banned from entering the temple from 20 hours before the visit of Indian Prime Minister (PM) Narendra Modi.

KATHMANDU, April 28: Nepal’s sole international airport, Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA), will be operational for 21 hours a day starting from May 21, 2018.

TIA closed for 13 hours

April 21, 2018 07:15 am

KATHMANDU, April 21: Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) remained closed for almost 13 hours from Thursday night to Friday morning after the aircraft of Malindo Air skidded off the runway while trying to take off.

KATHMANDU, April 20: Following hours of delay after a Malindo Airlines skidded off the runway during takeoff yesterday night, the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal has decided to operate 24 hours today to ease air traffic.

BUTWAL, April 8: The fire that broke out in the Bhatbhateni supermarket in ward no. 8 of Butwal Sub-metropolis has come under control after an effort of around four hours.

MYAGDI, March 29: Beni-Jomsom road will see a total of eight-hour closure a day from tomorrow (Friday) to accelerate the upgrading task, said the District Administration Office (DAO).

KATHMANDU, March 28: Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) has started preliminary work to extend airport operation time to 21 hours a day.

KATHMANDU, March 29: Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) has started preliminary work to extend airport operation time to 21 hours a day.

SURKHET, March 26: As the officials of various ministries of the provincial government seemed too busy using Facebook instead of development works, Karnali Province has announced to ban Facebook during the working hours from Tuesday onward.

SAPTARI, Mar 13: Within 24 hours, two women, aged 18 and 31 were raped in Saptari’s Shambhunath municipality and Bishnupur rural municipality on Sunday and Saturday respectively.

BIRATNAGAR, March 9:The Nepal-India border check points in Morang and Sunsari districts will be closed for 48 hours beginning at 6 pm today in view of March 11 Lok Sabha by-elections in Atariya of Bihar, India.

ROLPA, Feb 22: Bhumisara Gharti, a student from Rimsa village wakes up at five in the morning every day. Yet, because of the household chores, it is challenging to get ready for school by eight pm. Cooking, moping, washing and even taking care of cattle are some of the responsibilities she has to take care of. Sometimes the rush is so grueling that she doesn't find time for eating and leaves for school with an empty stomach.

NUWAKOT, Feb 10: It has been more than a month since vehicular movement on the Galchi-Trishuli-Mailung-Syafrubesi-Rasuwagadhi road section is being halted for eight hours a day in order to speed up construction and complete the road section within the given time frame.

BEIRUT, Feb 6: Syrian opposition rescue teams pulled babies from incubators in a hospital under attack, rushing them to safety in a pick-up truck. Elderly patients lay motionless on the ground and rescue workers searched for survivors in the rubble of a destroyed apartment building as stepped up airstrikes by Syrian government forces and their Russian allies on the country’s last remaining rebel strongholds killed at least 28 civilians on Monday.

CHITWAN, Jan 26: The Narayangadh-Muglin road section is come to a halt in the daytime for vehicular traffic from Saturday afternoon in view of the ongoing road widening works.

DHADING, Jan 22: Sonisha Chepang walked two hours from her home to reach Sitamai Primary School of Rorang rural municipality-2. However, at 11:30 AM, there were neither teachers nor students. Some of students who had arrived were either basking in the Sun or playing.  After the earthquake of April 25, 2015 destroyed their two room classroom, students have been studying under the open sky. However, with all the walks that students commute to study, neither students nor the teachers arrive on time.

CHITWAN, Jan 19:Traffic along the Narayangadh-Muglin road section is come to a halt in the daytime from January 27 in view of the ongoing road widening works.

CHITWAN, Jan 17: The Narayangadh-Muglin road section is to be closed for vehicular traffic for six hours at night from today.

CHITWAN, Jan 2: Starting today, the Narayanghad-Muglin highway will be shut down from 10 PM to 4 AM for road maintenance. During the closed hours, contractors will work to demolish mountains and other works that would be difficult to carry out during day.

The Election Commission (EC) has directed Deputy Prime Minister Kamal Thapa to furnish clarification within 24 hours acting on a tip off that he had breached electoral code of conduct by wooing voters during the silence period.

KATHMANDU, Nov 19: Organizing a press meet, Norvic Hospital has stated that Prakash Dahal had passed away when he was admitted at the hospital. Dr. JP Jaiswal said that Prakash was admitted in the hospital at 5:50 AM. The reason of death is heart attack

KATHMANDU, Oct 25: Pune pitch curator Pandurang Salgaonkar has been caught on camera talking to India Today reporters disguised as bookies revealing the pitch will be made according to their demands.

JUMLA, Oct 8: Locals of Tila Rural Municipality have to walk more than three hours to the nearest health post. Patients with ordinary injuries and problems can walk to the health post, but not those who are seriously ill. The latter have to keep on suffering.

TOKYO, Oct 6: Japan has again been forced to confront its work culture after labor inspectors ruled that the death of a 31-year-old journalist at the country’s public broadcaster, NHK, had been caused by overwork.

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CHITWAN, September 12: The Narayangadh-Muglin road section is to be opened for traffic 24 hours from Wednesday in view of the approaching Dashain, Tihar and Chhath festivals.

GAUSHALA, August 20: Minister for Health, Girirajmani Pokharel, has today directed the health workers of Mahottari district to provide 24 hours service for flood-survivors.

DUBAI, August 15: Iran could abandon its nuclear agreement with world powers "within hours" if the United States imposes any more new sanctions, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Tuesday.

MAHOTTARI, July 11:Local Development Officer (LDO) Yuwak Raj Paudel of Mahottari District Coordination Committee (DCC) has not attended his office since a week. Although in other days, service seekers and politicians used to fill his office, currently his office desk has gathered dust and the chair always remains empty.

KATHMANDU, July 11: In view of the mounting traffic congestion during the rush hours in the Kathmandu Valley, the government has planned to ban tippers, trucks and mini trucks along the ring road from 9:00am to 11:00pm and from 4:00pm to 7:00pm from Wednesday.

RAMPUR (PALPA), July 11: A 10 – year – old boy stranded in the middle of the swollen Arun river was rescued after 15 hours this morning.

HUMLA, July 5: A bank customer had to stand in queue for seven hours to cash his check at the Rastriya Banijya Bank's Simikot branch.

DHARAN, July 3: Vote count has resumed in Dharan Sub-metropolitan City at 11 am after a hiatus of 4 hours. Vote counting had been halted from 7 am after Nepali Congress(NC) representatives did not reach the vote counting place in the pre-determined time as a sign of their dissatisfaction with the way vote counting is being conducted.

NEPALGUNJ, June 22: The border point in Banke district on the Nepal-India border is to be closed for 48 hours in view of the June 28 local election.

CHITWAN, June 18: The Narayangadh-Mugling road section that was obstructed by a landslide opened today morning after around 12 hours.

BHAKTAPUR, June 18: A huge fire that broke out on Saturday night at Yeti Carpet factory located in Sallaghari of Bhaktapur has not been taken under control yet.

JAJARKOT, June 12: Though it may sound strange, it is the reality for the 30 households at Pyargara of Tribeni Nalgadh Municipality-4 in Jajarkot who have to walk for at least six hours to the nearest source of water to fetch a jar of water.

KATHMANDU, May 15: It took around 18 hours to count just 2, 000 votes and strike a deal among candidates in a ward of the Lalitpur Metropolitan City (LMC). There are 29 wards in the LMC.

CHITWAN, May 5: In view of the local level elections slated for May 14, all-party meeting held at the office of District Administration in Chitwan on Monday has decided to keep Narayangadh-Muglin road open for 24 hours from May 8 to May 17.

NT bans Facebook during office hours

April 25, 2017 16:55 pm

KATHMANDU, April 25: The Nepal Telecom has made arrangements for the operation of around 550 government websites (gov.np domain) free of cost in its GSM mobile services.

NEW YORK, April 15: A train with about 1,200 passengers became stuck in a tunnel between New York and New Jersey for nearly three hours on Friday, and the chaotic scene escalated to pandemonium when Amtrak police used a stun gun to subdue a disruptive man in a station, sparking a stampede.