December 4, 2020 13:00 pm
DHAKA, Dec 4: Authorities in Bangladesh on Friday started sending a first group of more than 1,500 Rohingya refugees to an isolated island despite calls by human rights groups for a halt to the process.
January 14, 2020 07:09 am
KATHMANDU, Jan 14: The government has directed 18 gasoline stations that are operating at roadsides in Kathmandu Valley to relocate their operations to safer spots.
July 16, 2019 01:00 am
Relocating NRB away from Kathmandu will be crucial in ushering many transformative changes in Nepali economy. It will help keep politics and finance separate from each other
June 18, 2019 07:30 am
KATHMANDU, June 18: The government has decided to relocate the Metropolitan Police Circle, Kamalpokhari, away from its current office building amid accusations that the police office was encroaching upon public land.
February 13, 2019 03:56 am
KATHMANDU, Feb 12: Prime Minister KP Oli, on Tuesday had dismissed the arguments made by some people against the relocation of the Nepal Police Academy from Maharajgunj to Panauti as 'unethical'.
January 11, 2019 07:52 am
KATHMANDU, Jan 11: Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the National Reconstruction Authority (NRA) Sushil Gyewali, has said that the ongoing post-quake reconstruction work would be completed within the next two years.
December 25, 2018 07:43 am
RASUWA, Dec 25: As many as 1015 households living in 29 settlements in Rasuwa district are at risk. The land they occupy has fissures dating back to the devastating earthquake of April 2015.
July 22, 2018 03:00 am
BARA, July 22: Local representatives and provincial assembly members representing Kalaiya have been agitated in Bara over the government's decision to relocate the land revenue and survey office to the northern part from the district headquarters Simara.
March 4, 2018 04:00 am
DOLPA, Mar 4: Angry over the shifting of Dolpa's Thulobheri Municipality's center from Dunai to Juphal, agitating locals have intensified protests which are increasingly turning violent.
January 11, 2018 02:29 am
KATHMANDU, Jan 11: Families living in risky areas in the earthquake-hit districts have been increasingly seeking collective relocation, thanks to the National Reconstruction Authority's offer to help develop basic physical infrastructures like road, sewerage, electricity and drinking water facilities required for the new settlements.
August 1, 2017 12:34 pm
KATHMANDU, August 1: The Bhutanese Refugee Camp Management Committee Jhapa – Morang has advanced a five – point demand to the government seeking to internationalize the refugee problem.
May 4, 2017 00:30 am
KATHMANDU, May 4: A recent study conducted by the National Reconstruction Authority (NRA) has found that around 2,300 households in five of the worst quake-hit districts are in need of relocation to the safer sites.
April 18, 2017 01:00 am
KATHMANDU, April 18: A recent study has found that 30 new earthquake-hit settlements are likely to be added to the list of settlements that require relocation.
April 8, 2017 03:54 am
KATHMANDU, April 7: The executive committee of the National reconstruction Authority (NRA) has endorsed a guideline on relocating survivors of 2015 earthquakes to safer spots.
February 27, 2017 01:20 am
KATHMANDU, Feb 27: Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the National Reconstruction Authority (NRA) Govinda Raj Pokharel has suggested to the prime minister different plans for relocating earthquake-hit settlements to safer locations.
February 6, 2017 08:36 am
DHADING, Feb 6: Earthquake victims in northern part of the district, who had temporarily shifted to a camp in Dejumdanda jungle, are waiting for permanent relocation to a safer place. Their villages were destroyed by earthquakes in 2015 and the land had cracked to such extent that they marked prone to landslides and inhabitable.
October 26, 2016 09:10 am
KATHMANDU, Oct 26: Relocation of landslide-prone settlements in the earthquake-hit districts to safer sites was one of the key issues besides reconstruction of the damaged houses following the devastating earthquake in April last year. But over 18 months have elapsed since the disaster and the issue of relocation of the risky settlements has been completely neglected by the government.
October 22, 2016 08:32 am
KATHMANDU, Oct 21: The Sorhakhutte Paati, an ancient 16-wooden pillared rest house, situated near the crossroads of Sorhakhutte was demolished about two years ago as part of the road widening program.
September 17, 2016 00:00 am
DADELDHURA, Sept 17: Over 200 families in Dadeldhura displaced by floods in 2003 are forced to live in a pitiable condition as government's promise to relocate them hasn't materialized even 12 years after they were displaced from their settlements.
July 18, 2016 01:00 am
KATHMANDU, July 18: Even though almost 500 settlements in over 18 worst quake-hit districts are at risk of landslides during the ongoing monsoon, the National Reconstruction Authority (NRA) is yet to devise any plan for relocating the risky settlements to safer sites.