SOCIETY, Latest Updates
Tear down these walls, says Lalitpur mayor
Tear down these walls, says Lalitpur mayor
KATHMANDU, Jan 22: As a part of its city beautification campaign, Lalitpur Metropolitan City has started to tear down old brick walls and build new ‘fence walls’ at three different places. These walls, as claimed by Mayor Chiribabu Maharjan, are called ‘less obstructive fence walls’ and the metropol...
Jan 22, 2020
SOCIETY, Latest Updates
8 Indians ‘die of suffocation’ at Makawanpur resort
8 Indians ‘die of suffocation’ at Makawanpur resort
MAKAWANPUR, Jan 22: Eight Indian tourists including four minors died of suffocation at a hotel in Thaha Municipality-4, Makawanpur, on Tuesday.
Jan 22, 2020
POLITICS, Latest Updates
Civil society urges NCP not to appoint Sapkota as speaker
Civil society urges NCP not to appoint Sapkota as speaker
KATHMANDU, Jan 22: Expressing serious concerns over the decision of the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) to field murder-accused Agni Prasad Sapkota as candidate for House Speaker, a group of civil society leaders on Tuesday urged the ruling party, the government and political leadership concerned...
Jan 22, 2020
POLITICS, Latest Updates
Sapkota set to be elected speaker unopposed
Sapkota set to be elected speaker unopposed
KATHMANDU, Jan 22: Nepal Communist Party (NCP) leader Agni Prasad Sapkota is all set to be elected speaker of the lower house of parliament unopposed as no other lawmaker contested against his candidacy.
Jan 22, 2020
POLITICS, SOCIETY, Latest Updates
‘How can someone responsible for murdering my husband be elected speaker?’
‘How can someone responsible for murdering my husband be ele...
Maoists took away my husband a decade and a half ago. Since then, my life has been an uphill struggle. Neither could I meet him alive nor was his dead body handed over to me. On April 29, 2005, my husband was attending a function at a local school when Bhola Aryal, Yadav Poudel and Shyam Gautam kidn...
Jan 22, 2020
POLITICS, Latest Updates
Leaders engage in heated debate on US-proposed MCC grant (with video)
Leaders engage in heated debate on US-proposed MCC grant (wi...
KATHMANDU, Jan 21: Leaders of different political parties engaged in a heated debate on the US proposed Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) on Tuesday.
Jan 21, 2020
SOCIETY, Latest Updates
Dipak Manange slaps ANFA Kaski president Gurung
Dipak Manange slaps ANFA Kaski president Gurung
POKHARA, Jan 21: Provincial assembly member of Gandaki Province Rajiv Gurung aka Deepak Manange has manhandled All Nepal Football Association Kaski chairperson Milan Gurung at a public event in Kaski today.
Jan 21, 2020
SOCIETY, Latest Updates
ToR of Sunkoshi-III hydro power project nears final phase
ToR of Sunkoshi-III hydro power project nears final phase
KAVREPALANCHOWK, Jan 21: The submission of the Terms and Reference (ToR) related to construction of Sunkoshi III hydropower project has reached the final phase.
Jan 21, 2020
WORLD
Winter storm lashing Spain leaves 4 dead, power cuts
Winter storm lashing Spain leaves 4 dead, power cuts
MADRID, Jan 21: A winter storm lashed much of Spain for a third day Tuesday, leaving 200,000 people without electricity, schools closed and roads blocked by snow as it killed four people.
Jan 21, 2020
WORLD
U.S. calls Iran's $3million reward to kill Trump "ridiculous"
U.S. calls Iran's $3million reward to kill Trump "ridiculous...
GENEVA , Jan 21: A U.S. envoy on Tuesday called an Iranian lawmaker’s offer of a $3 million (2.3 million pounds) reward to anyone who killed U.S. President Donald Trump “ridiculous” and said it pointed to the “terrorist underpinnings” of the Iranian government.
Jan 21, 2020