VALLEY POLLUTION INDEX
Valley Pollution Levels
Valley Pollution Levels
The graph above is based on the pollutant of fine particulate matter, PM2.5 (PM less than 2.5 microns) of Kathmandu Valley in a day.
Aug 02, 2017
POLITICS
Local level bodies still without staffers
Local level bodies still without staffers
PALPA, Aug 1: The local body offices are yet to get staff though it has already been a month since the local polls were held in Palpa. The District Treasury Controller Office had already sent the required budget to the local bodies including the salaries and allowance of the local body staff on July...
Aug 02, 2017
SOCIETY
Underage pregnancy, abortion in street children a health concern
Underage pregnancy, abortion in street children a health con...
KATHMANDU, Aug 1: Five years ago, twelve years old Rina Dahal (name changed) of Dhading ran away from home and came to Kathmandu along with her friends. Though she used to work in a Thamel-based restaurant, she didn't earn enough to pay the rent of her room. This ultimately pushed her to the street...
Aug 02, 2017
SPECIAL
Tourism potential of Budhinanda region remains unexplored
Tourism potential of Budhinanda region remains unexplored
BAJURA, Aug 1: The mountain is 15,000 meters above the sea level. Even in the month of July or August it is not devoid of snow. For most part of the year it is fully covered with white snow. Small towns surround it from all sides at the base. There are numerous ponds in the area. And each of those p...
Aug 02, 2017
POLITICS
EC to request govt to purchase EVMs
EC to request govt to purchase EVMs
KATHMANDU, Aug 1: The Election Commission (EC) has said it will request the government to purchase Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs), concluding that the EC buying such machines on its own will invite ‘unnecessary trouble’.
Aug 02, 2017
SOCIETY
Social activist Baldev Ram dies at 74
Social activist Baldev Ram dies at 74
LAHAN, Aug 1: Baldev Ram, who led carcass boycott campaigns in Madhes besides other numerous social struggles at the behest of the squatters and landless people, breathed his last at the BP Koirala Health Science Academy on Thursday. He was 74.
Aug 02, 2017
POLITICS, Republica Watch
Dahal’s caretaker govt doled out Rs 167m to party cadres ahead of polls
Dahal’s caretaker govt doled out Rs 167m to party cadres ahe...
KATHMANDU, Aug 1: Prior to the second phase of the local elections in June, the caretaker government led by CPN (Maoist Center) Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal is found to have distributed over Rs 167 millions in a single day to the cadres of Maoist Center and Nepali Congress under the pretext of “finan...
Aug 02, 2017
SOCIETY, Republica Watch
Illegally printed Sabaiko Nepali whisked away from Sajha GM’s bookstore
Illegally printed Sabaiko Nepali whisked away from Sajha GM’...
KATHMANDU, Aug 1: It has been found that hundreds of copies of Sabaiko Nepali, a school textbook, printed under the Sajha Prakashan logo, were removed on Tuesday from the private book shop named Oxford International owned by Dolindra Prasad Sharma, chairman and general manager of Sajha Prakashan.
Aug 02, 2017
SOCIETY
Medical Education Act is Dr KC’s ‘bottom line’
Medical Education Act is Dr KC’s ‘bottom line’
KATHMANDU, Aug 1: Dr Govinda KC, professor and senior orthopedic surgeon at the Institute of Medicine (IOM), has said that the enactment of the Medical Education Act without delay is his ‘bottom line’ for agreement with the government. The third round of talks held between government officials and D...
Aug 02, 2017
POLITICS
India envoy advises RJPN to participate in polls
India envoy advises RJPN to participate in polls
KATHMANDU, August 2: Indian envoy to Nepal Manjeev Singh Puri has advised the Rastriya Janata Party Nepal (RJPN) to participate in the third phase of the local elections. Eight districts of Province 2 are scheduled to go to the polls on September 18.
Aug 02, 2017