KURASHIKI, July 12: Intense heat and water shortages raised fears of disease outbreaks in flood-hit western Japan on Thursday as the death toll from the worst weather disaster in 36 years neared 200.

KATHMANDU, May 28: The stock market prolonged its losses further as the Nepal Stock Exchange (Nepse) index lost 17.81 points to close at 1,300.41 points on Sunday. The first trading day of the week witnessed a constant decline of the index which dropped 1.35 percent at the close.

SINDHUPALCHOWK, May 3: Kathmandu Upatyaka Khanepani Limited (KUKL) has expedited works to lay down water pipeline in the Kathmandu Valley, following breakthrough in tunnel digging to bring Melamchi water to Kathmandu.

KATHMANDU, March 19: The election committee of the Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN) has decided to form a working committee for a special general meeting under the direction of the International Cricket Council (ICC).

KATHMADU, Dec 1: With the second phase of parliamentary and provincial assembly elections less than a week away, the incidents of violence aimed at derailing the polls have gone up sharply in different parts of the country including the capital city.

POKHARA, Oct 15: With the parliamentary and provincial elections just around the corner, most of the district level leaders of established political parties have flocked to the capital to meet the central leaders of their party to lobby for their candidacy.

POKHARA, Oct 15: With the parliamentary and provincial elections just around the corner, most of the district level leaders of established political parties have flocked to the capital to meet the central leaders of their party to lobby for their candidacy.

TATHALI (BHAKTAPUR), Oct 12: Farmers of Banmala settlement in Tathali of Changu Narayan Municipality-9 are busy plucking Globe Amaranth flowers for the upcoming Tihar season.

KATHMANDU, July 18: Wholesale price of vegetables has started to climb up as the end of growing season nears. Seasonal vegetables like tomato (small), eggplant, cow pea, French bean and capsicum have seen consecutive price hike in the last three days.

PARBAT, July 17: Tek Bahadur GC of Mallaj of Jaljala Rural Municipality is happy that a four-decade old irrigation project is finally being completed. But he is equally worried at the sustainability of the project as the Irrigation Development Sub-Division will withdraw from the project once it is completed.

KATHMANDU, July 13: Most government offices across the country are found to be engaging in massive irregularities in recurrent expenditure as the end of the fiscal year approaches.

BIRATNAGAR, June 25: With the last day for election campaign about 12 hours away, all the political parties have intensified their election campaigns using all of their energy in Biratnagar Metropolitan City.

KATHMANDU, May 20: As vote-counting for the first round of local elections is about to be completed the main opposition CPN-UML has emerged as the largest party in terms of winning the posts of chiefs and other positions in the  283 local units that voted.

BHAKTAPUR, May 10: Chief District Officer (CDO) of Bhaktapur Dorna Pokharel has said that the security condition of the district has been beefed up in view of the local-level elections.

BARCELONA, April 30: Barcelona and Real Madrid maintained their neck-and-neck title race in the Spanish league on Saturday, when both teams won to stay level on points at the top.

NEW DELHI, Dec 12: Authorities in southern India evacuated thousands of people from low-lying areas Monday after weather experts issued a cyclone warning.

KANCHANPUR, Dec 4: The Amarpur Kaluwapur Drinking Water Project at Jhalari Pipaladi Municipality – 11 of Kanchanpur is nearing completion.

WASHINGTON DC, Nov 7: Laura Lawson, the phone bank captain at the Alexandria office of Democratic Party in Virginia, was busy throughout Saturday in training the volunteers coming at her office in the last minute to support their candidate Hillary Clinton.

GUIZHOU, Sept 12: Chinese engineers have completed the structure of what is expected to become the world’s highest bridge, local authorities said.

KATHMANDU, July 16: The process to collect inputs from stakeholders for drafting an education regulation is in its final stage, according to the Ministry of Education (MoE).

KATHMANDU, June 26: Government expenditure, which was sluggish till the 11th month of the fiscal year, is gaining momentum in the final month of the fiscal year.