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Valley Pollution Levels for 8 March, 2018

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Valley Pollution Levels for 8 March, 2018
Mar 09, 2018
SOCIETY

Illegal brick kilns in the middle of settlements

Illegal brick kilns in the middle of settlements
SIRAHA, March 9: There is a small village to the south-east of Siraha Municipality known as Sukhchaina. To the west of this village lies Muslim settlements called Nawatoli and Madar while Dhanuk Tole is to the north of the village. The southern part of it is attached with the Indian border. In the m...
Mar 09, 2018
POLITICS, SOCIETY

Three weeks on, Oli yet to name 11 ministers

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KATHMANDU, March 9: Prime Minister KP Oli has failed to give full shape to the cabinet even three weeks after he took charge of the government, and this is due to lack of any breakthrough in talks to bring the two Madhes-based parties on board the ruling coalition.
Mar 09, 2018
POLITICS, SOCIETY

Ex-kamlaris become MP, deputy speaker of Province 5

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DANG, March 9: Born in an economically weak family, Shanta Chaudhary of Dang district was made to work as a housemaid for a landlord of the district at a tender age of 10. From that age, she spent the next ten years working as a kamlari (indentured laborer).
Mar 09, 2018
SOCIETY

Rastrakavi's health improving

Rastrakavi's health improving
KATHMANDU, March 9: Health condition of ailing Rastrakavi (national poet) Madhav Prasad Ghimire is improving.
Mar 09, 2018
POLITICS

Bhattarai urges int'l organizations to understand ground rea...

Bhattarai urges int'l organizations to understand ground reality
KATHMANDU, March 9: Former prime minister and coordinator of Naya Shakti Party Nepal Baburam Bhattarai has urged the international organizations working in foreign countries to first understand the ground reality.
Mar 09, 2018
POLITICS

Ten organizational layers for unified party proposed

Ten organizational layers for unified party proposed
KATHMANDU, March 9: A task force formed to determine organizational modality of integration of the UML and the CPN (Maoist Center) has proposed dividing party organization into ten layers. Leaders working to the determinate appropriate model to integrate the organizations of the two parties said tha...
Mar 09, 2018
POLITICS

Maoists likely to pick Mahara for speaker

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KATHMANDU,  March 9: CPN (Maoist Center) is likely to select former deputy prime minister and multiple times minister Krishna Bahadur Mahara as its candidate for the new speaker of the House of Representatives.
Mar 09, 2018
ECONOMY

Locals suffer from illegal brick kilns in the middle of sett...

Locals suffer from illegal brick kilns in the middle of settlements
SIRAHA, March 9:  There is a small village to the south-east of Siraha Municipality known as Sukhchaina. To the west of this village lies Muslim settlements called Nawatoli and Madar while Dhanuk Tole is to the north of the village. The southern part of it is attached with the Indian border. In the...
Mar 09, 2018
SOCIETY

District HQ looks deserted as quake victims return home

District HQ looks deserted as quake victims return home
RASUWA, March 9: After living a displaced life for more than 33 months, a large number of quake victims have headed for their home villages for the reconstruction of their houses destroyed by the earthquake in 2015. This has emptied the makeshift tents at Dhunche, Bogatitar among other places.
Mar 09, 2018
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