ELECTION
Unidentified group sets off bomb at polling center
Unidentified group sets off bomb at polling center
POKHARA, May 13: A bomb went off last night at the premises of the Barahi Higher Secondary School at the Lakeside in Pokhara – Lekhnath Metropolitan City.
May 13, 2017
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
May 13, 2017
ELECTION
Triveni transit point sealed off for local polls
Triveni transit point sealed off for local polls
NAWALPARASI, May 13: The Triveni transit point along the Nepal – India border has been sealed off from this morning as part of a wider security measure for the local level polls.
May 13, 2017
POLITICS
Election Commission prohibits vehicular movement on election day
Election Commission prohibits vehicular movement on election...
KATHMANDU, May 13: Vehicular movement will be prohibited on Sunday for the first phase of local level elections. The Election Commission (EC) has decided to prohibit the use of public and private vehicles on May 14 in 34 districts of provinces 3, 4 and 6.
May 13, 2017
SOCIETY
Locals to rebuild Kasthamandap
Locals to rebuild Kasthamandap
KATHMANDU, May 13: Government bodies - National Reconstruction Authority (NRA), Department of Archaeology (DoA) and Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) - have handed over the task of rebuilding the Kasthamandap Temple to locals. The temple was demolished in the April 2015 earthquake.
May 13, 2017
ECONOMY
Authorities crank up expansion of central transmission line in Manang
Authorities crank up expansion of central transmission line...
LAMJUNG, May 13: The expansion of the national transmission line in the trans-Himalayan district of Manang is gaining momentum.
May 13, 2017
SOCIETY
Madheli village declared fully vaccinated
Madheli village declared fully vaccinated
ITAHARI, May 13: The Madheli village – which recently merged with the Gadhi Village Council in Sunsari – was declared a fully vaccinated village on Friday amidst a function.
May 13, 2017
POLITICS
Leaders concerned over ‘security lapses’
Leaders concerned over ‘security lapses’
KATHMANDU, May 12: Growing cases of poll-related violence in the backdrop of the local elections has exposed lapses in the ‘integrated polls security plan’ of the Ministry of Home Affairs.
May 13, 2017
ELECTION
Senior politicians, ministers not to cast their votes in phase I polls
Senior politicians, ministers not to cast their votes in pha...
KATHMANDU, May 12: While millions of people are preparing to cast their votes to elect their local level representatives after two decades on Sunday, most of the senior leaders including the president, former president and former prime ministers will not cast their vote in the first phase of the loc...
May 13, 2017
SPECIAL, ELECTION
Raute demand voting rights
Raute demand voting rights
DAILEKH, May 12: The main leader of Raute community known as Mahamukhiya in the community, Manbahadur Shahi is very much excited with the local election. On Sunday, the country is set to conduct election in three provinces and Shahi wants to cast his vote to his preferred candidate. But the problem...
May 13, 2017