BANEPA, July 12: Green pest management treatment method introduced from China has been found effective in controlling Chinese citrus flies that have been destroying Junar -- a variety of sweet orange -- in Sindhuli among other parts of the country.

POKHARA, April 6: The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority on Friday arrested two technicians of District Education Office on charge of receiving bribe from service seekers.

SINDHUPALCHOWK, Sept 11: “The technicians do not want to stay at all in the village”, says Dr Yuvaraj Poudel, chief of the district coordination committee of the Department of Urban Development and Building Construction. “They come, work for some days and then quit,” he adds.

KATHMANDU, July 18: The National Reconstruction Authority (NRA), the governmental body formed to deal with the post-earthquake reconstruction works, has decided to depute engineering technicians to the 31 most affected districts again to determine the standard of private houses.

JAJARKOT, JULY 11: The technicians at the District Technical Committee in Jajarkot are said to have been taking a commission of three to 10 percent from every project they approve. Local consumer groups have been forced to pay the amount demanded by district engineer Surya Bahadur Shahi.

KATHMANDU, March 6: A team of technicians, comprising of hydrologists of China Three Gorges Corporation (CTGC), arrived in Kathmandu on Monday to verify hydrological data collected from the site of West Seti Hydropower Project.

KATHMANDU, Dec 21: After the government did not address their demands, agitating engineers and other technicians deployed for assisting in the houses reconstruction work in the 11 earthquake-hit districts have tendered their resignation en masse to the Ministry of Urban Development on Tuesday.