KATHMANDU, June 13: Nepal is becoming an easy hub for the gold smugglers. According to the latest data from Nepal Police, in the last 46 months, 483 smugglers and porters have been arrested so far.

KATHMANDU, Feb 18: Smart Telecom has announced expansion of its network in 45 districts across the country.

CALIFORNIA, Oct 12: Internet users around the world may experience network connection failures on Thursday as the main domain servers and related infrastructure controlling the web will be powered down for some time.

LAHAN, July 31: In the last week of June, the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) of Nepal Police arrested Mahesh Basnet with a huge cache of drugs from Kathmandu. Police recovered different types of injections, liquid and tablets from Basnet.

BRAZIL, July 26: Facebook on Wednesday took down a network of pages and accounts used to spread fake news by members of a right-wing Brazilian activist group, sources told Reuters, as part of a crackdown ahead of an election in October.

JHAPA, Feb 15: Indian networking businesses, which earlier eased money, drugs and human trafficking, are now being used as medium to import illegal medicines from India and marketing them in Nepal.

BARDIA, Nov 10: Area Police Office, Mainapokhar, on Sunday rescued two women while they were being trafficked to India through the open border. The police arrested Prakash Tiruwa of Banke who was taking the women to Mihinpurwa of India.

KATHMANDU, September 3: Women's Network for Energy and Environment (WoNEE) has been formed here today at the national level with the objective of exerting pressure for ensuring women's participation through inclusive and participatory development and management of the energy sector.

TAPLEJUNG, July 22: Neighboring country China and Olangchungola in Taplejung district have been connected through a road network.

KATHMANDU, July 9: Nepal Telecom (NT) has started switching PSTN (landline) telephone service to IP-based network. Issuing a statement, the state-owned operator said that Mahendra Man Gurung, secretary of the Ministry of Information and Communications (MoIC) inaugurated the new technology by making a call from the NT's telephone exchange at Gwarko.

Kathmandu is nearer to New Delhi than Dhangadi, the far-western city of Nepal, due to lack of proper connectivity. The remoteness has not only created trade and economic bottlenecks, but also created political gap between Kathmandu and the rest of the country which has, in some way, weakened national unity and sovereignty.

PANCHTHAR, Dec 28: Locals in Panchthar have formed a network of Community Forest Users' Group with an aim to effectively conserve endangered red panda in the district.

KATHMANDU, Dec 19: Central Committee member of Chinese Communist Party and its Publicity Department Chief Liu Qibao called on Prime Minster Pushpa Kamal Dahal on Monday.

BABIYACHAUR (Myagdi), Nov 21: In a bizarre situation of its kind, five projects are running here with an aim to connect a single remote place with road network.

KATHMANDU, Nov 17: The new leadership of the CIAA, with support from other government agencies, has tried to dismantle the network set up by suspended CIAA chief Lokman Singh Karki for running the anti-graft body as a ‘parallel government’.

Private rocket launch service SpaceX is requesting government approval to operate a massive satellite network that would provide high-speed, global internet coverage, according to newly filed documents with the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.

KATHMANDU, Oct 8: There have been problems in the connection of mobile network of Nepal telecom since Saturday morning.

KATHMANDU, Sept 28: Nepal Telecom (NT), the state-owned telecommunications provider, has got authority to expand the 'optical fiber network' to 32 districts along the Mid-Hill (Pushpalal) Highway.

NEW YORK, Aug 21: Social media giant Facebook has launched a new iOS app Lifestage -- a sort of video diary where you answer biographical questions about yourself and share a visual profile of who you are with your school network.

KATHMANDU, June 27:: Smart Telecom Pvt Ltd has erected 50 towers in the capital to facilitate its customers.