KATHMANDU, July 31: Some land plots occupied by Hotel Water Front owned by Karna Shakya on the bank of Fewa Lake fall in the public land.

Qatar's World Cup team used a secret "black operations" propaganda campaign to undermine rival bids in violation of FIFA rules, a British Sunday broadsheet has reported.

KATHMANDU, July 4: The Government of Nepal is all set to gift two pairs of rhinos to China.  If things go as planned, two rhinos- Bhadra and Rupasi- will be flown to the northern neighbor on July 12 while the other two will be sent to China in the next fiscal year. The four rhinos are kept in separate pits at the eastern sector office of Chitwan National Park (CNP) in Sauraha since the last two months.

Most of us have known Rajesh Hamal as an intelligent actor of Nepali film industry, the actor who has played in over 100 films in his career, and who at times appears in quiz shows and television interviews. But what is the superstar’s understanding of Nepali politics, economy, society and Nepal’s foreign affairs? Where do we stand as a nation today? Mahabir Paudyal and Thira L Bhusal met the superstar to explore various aspects of Nepali politics.

KATHMANDU, June 22: The concrete structures that were built in course of the reconstruction of the historic Rani Pokhari would be removed within a week.

When Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico last September, it ravaged the island’s electrical grid and communications systems. For weeks, many of the approximately 5 million Puerto Ricans living in the mainland U.S. were unable to reach their loved ones. While recovery groups worked to restore power and deliver aid, cell providers scrambled to repair their networks. To get its service back up and running, AT&T tried something new: the Flying COW, a tethered drone that beamed mobile data signals up to 40 miles in all directions.

BIRATNAGAR, June 8: Video drone cameras are to be employed for facilitating the development and construction works in Biratnagar Metropolitan City.

TANAHUN, May 31: The authorities on Wednesday took under control an excavator used to illegally scoop the river bed for materials from the Marsyangdi river at Turture of Bhanu municipality – 3.

KATHMANDU, Mar 23: Stakeholders including guardians, students, teachers and government officials have started taking Grade 10 exams easy in the second year of the implementation of the new examinations system.

BOGOTA, March 17: Video assistant referees (VARs) will be used at the World Cup for the first time in this year’s finals in Russia, FIFA president Gianni Infantino said on Friday, and teams will be allowed a fourth substitute in matches that go to extra-time.

KATHMANDU, March 3: The Election Commission (EC) is set to hand down around two dozen cars which have been in use for a few years to the government for use by the provincial governments. The commission will, however, keep dozens of new vehicles it had bought recently for itself.

PARSA, Feb 1: Criminals dealing in narcotics have been found using pregnant women and new mothers in its trafficking.

CHITWAN, Jan 25: Sixty-seven sophisticated cameras installed in the Chitwan and Parsa sectors for the purpose of tiger census are missing.

KHOTANG, Jan 12: A month after the successful completion of the parliamentary and provincial elections, the promotional tools and materials used in the election campaigns are yet to be removed from public places in Khotang.

KHOTANG, Jan 11: A month after the successful completion of the parliamentary and provincial elections, the promotional tools and materials used in the election campaigns are yet to be removed from public places in Khotang.

KHOTANG, Jan 10: A month after the successful completion of the parliamentary and provincial elections, the promotional tools and materials used in the election campaigns are yet to be removed from public places in Khotang.

KATHMANDU, Dec 21 : Hundreds of thousands of women migrant workers in the Middle East have signed employment contracts that they do not understand or do not adequately protect them against discrimination and abuse, according to a recent study carried out by UN Women and the International Organization for Migration with support from the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation.

BAJHANG, Dec 18: The Tamail Vegetable Collection Center (TVCC) of Bajhang, which was built for collecting and selling vegetables of farmers, has now turned into a sex trade hub and a shed for cattle.

DANG, Dec 1: Octogenarian Tilak Bahadur Dangi had voted for the first time almost sixty years ago in 1959. The eighty-seven-year-old local of Tulasipur still has vivid memory of the general election of February 18 that year. Election those days used to be simple and cheaper, he reminisces. Nepali Congress had secured a two-thirds majority in the first parliamentary election of the country, which picked up late BP Koirala as the first elected prime minister of the country. Dangi fondly recalls the historic election even to this day.

KATHMANDU, Nov 17: One hundred and eighty eight types of election symbols will feature in the ballot papers to be used for the House of Representatives and State Assembly elections on November 26 and December 7.

PARBAT, Nov 15: Many political parties in Parbat are conducting their poll campaigns by going against the election code of conduct set by the Election Commission (EC).

SURKHET, Nov 11: Police have seized a large cache of explosive materials used for making bombs.

RASUWA, Sept 7: Arousing enough suspicion, except at Nepal-China border, there is no registration record of the vehicle Tata Safari jeep, Ba 17 cha 6427, which was used for transporting 88 kilos of gold recently.

KATHMANDU, June 27: Different political parties have used 853 children against Election Code of Conduct in course of first round of local-level election.

TULSIPUR (DAMG), June 24: Choppers will be used to provide security patrol in six districts of Province no 5 during the second phase of the local polls scheduled to take place on June 28.

POKHARA, May 7: A vehicle used by Nepali Congress candidate for ward chief from Machhapuchchhre rural municipality-2, Gunjaman Gurung, for the election purpose was set on fire on Saturday night.

DHADING, May 7: Unidentified group has set on fire two vehicles being used in the election publicity campaign by Nepali Congress.

BUTWAL, May 6: The Butwal-based National Pathology Lab has been slapped a fine of Rs 50,000 for haphazardly disposing off used syringes on roads, ignoring the severe impacts it could have on human health.

KATHMANDU, March 17: Minister for Energy, Janardan Sharma, today said the government employees will be encouraged to invest in the hydro power projects.

KATHMANDU, Feb 13: Two unidentified individuals set fire on an official vehicle of Tribhuvan University Rector Shudha Tripathi near the UN Park at Kupandol, Lalitpur on Monday.

KATHMANDU, Feb 11: Is anyone throwing garbage into Bagmati river? Beware! You may be caught and booked.

China will not allow anyone to use Hong Kong as a base for subversion against mainland China or to damage its political stability, Beijing's top official in the territory told state television.

BHAKTAPUR, Nov 7: The Model Settlement Society based at Gathaghar of Madhyapur Thimi Municipality is set to use the money collected during Deusi-Bhailo program for construction of a community building.

Google took aim Wednesday at the red-hot mobile messaging market, with a new artificial intelligence-powered Allo app that seeks to compete with popular rivals such as WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger.

LONDON, Sept 14: In mock irritation with his wife's "unsympathetic attitude", a Briton put his wife up for sale on eBay in an ad modeled on an ad for used cars. The joke, though, was on him. Within hours, the bids hit nearly 66,000 pounds and his wife declared that she wanted to kill him.

KATHMANDU, Aug 28: The reconstruction of the Boudhanath stupa which was completely damaged by the devastating earthquake on 25th of April 2015 is now in its final stage.

CHARLESTON, Aug 26: Federal agents in South Carolina have seized 35 tons of a chemical used to make methamphetamine at the Port of Charleston and are investigating whether the contraband is tied to a drug operation.