KATHMANDU, June 19: Jitendra Kumar Mukhiya has made a comeback to the national cricket team setup after the selection committee announced a 25-men preliminary squad for ICC World T20 Asia Regional Final set to be held in Singapore next month.

This Republic Day passed just like all the other days that we designate to commemorate important national milestones, with the sort of lukewarm remembrance that borders on indifference. Apart from presenting the budget of the government, by the government, and for the government, there wasn’t a whole lot that happened during the day.

CHITWAN, May 16: Preparations are underway to start the distribution of the National Identity Cards in Chitwan within this fiscal year.

POKHARA, April 25: Gandaki Province is set to host the Ninth National Games after a hiatus of 37 years. It had hosted the second edition of the games back in 1982. National games will complete its 40 years during the event in Gandaki.

Your daily dose of missed important news of the day.

Kathmandu, April 8: Fifty-five athletes will be competing in paragliding under the Eighth National Games scheduled at different places of state 5 from April 18.

KATHMANDU, April 4: Nepal women national football team has started the Asian qualifier with a humbling 3-1 defeat against Myanmar women in the round 2 qualification for Asia Football Confederation (AFC) Women’s Olympic Football Tournament, Tokyo, in the second group A match played at Mandalay in Myanmar on Wednesday.

RAJBIRAJ, Sept 27: Saptari police last week held an Indian national Ramjit Rajak for possessing forged Nepali citizenship. His addressed in the citizenship has been mentioned as Rajbiraj-3 while he had been staying temporarily at Damak Municipality of Jhapa for the past few months.

Aug 28: Julia Flores Colque is thought to be the world's oldest person, with a recorded age of almost 118.

KATHMANDU, Aug 6: Nepali National Cricket Team, which played historical ODI cricket series against Netherlands, has returned home this morning.

KATHMANDU, Aug 6: The National Assembly has passed a condolence proposal over the demise of former lawmaker Kamal Pangeni.

KATHMANDU, Aug 2: Four parliamentary committees of the National Assembly have been formed after the Nepali Congress shared the names of its members. Today's NA meeting has approved the names of members of the concerned committee.

SYDNEY, July 27: Australia coach Justin Langer was handed more power on Friday in a shake-up of the national cricket selection process following the resignation of Mark Waugh.

KATHMANDU, July 25: The national assembly's meeting has been postponed for August 1 after the lawmakers of Nepal Congress (NC) obstructed the proceedings.

KATHMANDU, July 24: The national assembly's meeting has been postponed until tomorrow after the lawmakers of Nepal Congress (NC) obstructed the proceedings.

KATHMANDU, July 23: A seven-member national table tennis team has left for India for a month-long training course in New Delhi in preparation of the upcoming 18th Asian Games that is scheduled to be held from August 18 to September 2 in Jakarta, Indonesia.

BIRGUNJ, July 6: Birgunj Metropolitan City (BMC) has collected just Rs 49.4 million as integrated property tax on National Medical College of Birgunj-18, instead of the previously calculated amount of Rs. 103.8 million.

KATHMANDU, July 4: Minister for Home Affairs Ram Bahadur Thapa has clarified that the government declared a prohibited area to various security sensitive areas not to affect the people's activities.

KATHMANDU, July 2:The much-awaited National Medical Education Bill-2075 BS is to be taken ahead through the parliamentary regular process with the main opposition's green signal to this regard.

KATHMANDU, July 2: Two days national games conducted by Special Olympics Nepal at APF on June 29 has concluded.

NIZHNY NOVGOROD, June 30: Lionel Messi’s last chance to add a major international title to a glittering array of personal achievements and trophies at club level almost certainly disappeared with Argentina’s elimination from the World Cup on Saturday.

PAANCHTHAR, June 22: The government has started collecting the details of citizens for the distribution of digitalized National Identity Cards (NIC), for the first time in history. Digitalization of citizen's details is one of the most ambitious projects of the country.

KATHMANDU, June 19: Prime Minister KP Oli, who is leaving for Beijing on a six-day official visit at the invitation of his Chinese counterpart on Tuesday, has said that Nepal will reach some key agreements with China keeping its national interests at the center.

National Assembly members bet their tenure on luck

KATHMANDU, June 10: The Federal Socialist Forum Nepal (FSFN) and Rastriya Janata Party Nepal (RJPN) have been granted the status of a national party in the National Assembly (NA), the upper house in the bicameral Federal Parliament of Nepal.

KATHMANDU, June 10: The National Assembly (NA) is likely to approve its regulation. The approval will complete the process to form 16 parliamentary committees in the federal parliament. Two days ago, the House of Representatives had endorsed its regulations.

KATHMANDU, Jun 6: Main opposition Nepali Congress has nominated Surendra Raj Pandey as the parliamentary party (PP) leader of the National Assembly.

KATHMANDU, June 2: National poet Madhav Prasad Ghimire returned home after undergoing treatment at Medanta Hospital, New Delhi. Ghimire was flown to New Delhi on May 23 after Dhapasi based Grande International Hospital referred him to Medanta.

KATHMANDU, May 31: Parliamentarians of ruling parties have said that the budget for fiscal year 2018/19 brought by the government was excellent while lawmakers from the opposition party, Nepali Congress, indicated the budget was not implementation-oriented.

KATHMANDU, May 30: Finance Minister Yubaraj Khatiwada has allocated Rs 2.4 billion for organizing the 18th Asian Games, the 13th South Asian Games and the eighth National Games to be held later this year.

Our 200 plus years of illusive quest to bring wealth home from abroad have often ended up in tragedies

KATHMANDU, May 21: The government has stated that the nation's foreign policy will be based on protection and promotion of national interests.

KATHMANDU, May 18: The 1st Science, Information and Technology National Youth Conference-2018 is taking place in the Capital from June 18 to 20 with the aim to review existing situation in various aspects of science, information and technology, and make necessary work policy of related field in next 10 years.

KATHMANDU, May 17: The All Nepal Football Association (ANFA) unveiled on Wednesday the date to organize the country’s football backbone, ‘A’ Division National League, which has not been played for the past three years. The league will be held from September 29.

BHAKTAPUR, May 16: The government has prepared the blueprint of a national curriculum for school education including the necessary skills for development.

3,670 out of 11,300 stoves, gifted by Chinese govt, sold so far

KATHMANDU, May 14: Former Captain of national football team Mani Bikram Shah passed away today.

KATHMANDU, May 7: Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli has said Nepal's national security has reached the advanced level.

RASUWA, May 7: The wildfire in a forest inside the Langtang National Park has come under control in the morning today.

RASUWA, May 6: Langtang National Park has caught a fire on Sunday. The jungle of Brabal at Dhunche, Rasuwa has caught a fire since Sunday noon.

KATHMANDU, April 30: As Nepal's equidistant relations with its immediate neighbors have come under scrutiny especially after the new government came into place, top diplomats and foreign policy experts have advised the government not to make any compromise on the country's national interests in the name of equidistant relations with India and China.

KATHMANDU, April 26: Photo Journalist Club Nepal (PJC) has unveiled the photo book named 'Nepal Land of Contrast-2016' on the occasion of 90th national photojournalism day on Thursday.

KATHMANDU, April 25: The National Economic Census is conducted by the Central Bureau of Statistics will cost approximately Rs 400 million.

KATHMANDU, April 25: Manmohan Memorial Cricket Center is set to organize the first Manmohan Memorial Inter-province U-16 National Cricket Tournament from Thursday.

KATHMANDU, April 14: The 'First National Economic Census-2075 has been initiated from today.

First economic census to give complete picture of Nepal’s economy

KATHMANDU, April 13: The departmental team Nepal Police Club’s Tara Devi Pun has bettered her own national record in 75 kg weight category in the first Inter-club National Weightlifting Tournament on Thursday. She improved her record in snatch, clean and jerk and total categories.

KATHMANDU, April 12: The Manmohan Memorial Cricket Centre is going to organize the U-16 Manmohan Memorial Inter-province national cricket tournament.

Eight new national records set

KATHMANDU, April 12: Manmohan Memorial Cricket Center is set to organize the Manmohan Inter-province U-16 National Cricket Tournament from April 26.