Nepal | March 22, 2019
Nepal | March 22, 2019
With only a week left for the Nepal Investment Summit to kick off, the investment environment in the country does not seem anything to cheer about as foreign direct investment commitment has gone down notably in recent months....
The year’s main climbing season has begun in style as more than 300 foreign climbers are expected to attempt to scale the world’s highest peak fro...
The Muslim call to prayer sounded out over Christchurch and around New Zealand on Friday, as thousands gathered to remember the 50 people killed by a ...
Police arrested an Indian national with 164 kilograms of hashish from near Gajuri Bazaar of Dhading district along the Prithvi Highway on Thursday nig...
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Nearly 300 projects of road construction, handed over to the government of Sudurpaschim Province, are in a limbo as construction works have not begun ...
Two persons were injured after the motorcycle they were riding on rammed into a truck in Arun Rural ...
The Cabinet meeting held today has permitted the Department of Railways (DoRW) to begin the purchase...
The Union of Trekking Travels, Rafting and Airlines Workers - Nepal (UNITRAV) has threatened to lock...
Freed haliyas (bonded labourers) in Bajura have submitted a memorandum to Sudurpaschim Province dema...
The Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Security (MoLESS) has directed the local governments t...
Government ministers publicly spoke about amending the provisions of the new penal code that restricted freedom of expression and criminalised defamation, but the government did not register a new bill at the Parliament Secretariat to amend the restrictive provisions....
President Bidya Devi Bhandari has appointed chairpersons to five different constitutional commissions, today....
The new order of precedence proposed by the government to degrade captain and lieutenant of Nepali Army to lower level compared to the previous provis...
Police today arrested 159 persons for hooliganism and booked 558 motorists for violating traffic rules in Kathmandu valley during Holi celebrations....
Police have arrested four persons for allegedly using returnee Nepali migrant workers to smuggle gold via Tribhuvan International Airport....
Metropolitan Police Range, Teku, recently arrested three persons, including two women, on the charge...
Private medical colleges will have to return money they charged from students in addition to the gov...
The Ministry of Federal Affairs and General Administration has issued a circular to all local levels...
A person was killed in a bike accident at Dallu, Kathmandu, this afternoon....
Inspector General of Police Sarbendra Khanal on Wednesday left for Thailand to participate in the th...
Many people in the country are at high risk of heart related diseases, respiratory problems, diabete...
The Ministry of Health and Population has developed the ‘Procedure for Rehabilitation of Mentally ...
Festival of colours, Holi, was celebrated with a lot of gusto in Rajbiraj, Saptari, on Thursday....
Vehicles have started plying the Bajura section of the Karnali Corridor from Thursday....
Many in Nepal may not have heard of Guillain-Barré syndrome, but this rare disorder, which eventually causes paralysis, is being diagnosed in more an...
A meeting of the Cabinet held on March 18 passed the National Security Policy, but the government has not disclosed its contents....
The vice-chancellor of Pokhara University Chiranjibi Prasad Sharma laid the foundation stone of the hospital that had been proposed to open in affilia...
The Parliamentary State Affairs and Good Governance Committee on Thursday formed a nine-member sub-c...
Amnesty International Nepal on Thursday submitted 23,247 letters to the Ministry of Home Affairs dem...
Workers associated with tourism sector have drawn the attention of the bodies concerned, saying the ...
The Education Development and Coordination Committee in Tanahun has fixed the chairs of all 24 exam ...
Pushkar Lal Shrestha, editor-in-chief of Kamana News Publication, is undergoing treatment at the int...
Nepal Communist Party (NCP) has finalised the leadership of all locals levels in Panchthar district ...
As many as four persons were injured after a jeep they were travelling on overturned in Bhojpur Muni...
At least 79 people died when an overloaded ferry carrying families on an outing sank in the Tigris river in Mosul in northern Iraq, medical sources told....
The United States on Thursday threatened to pull out of the annu...
An explosion at a pesticide plant in eastern China's Jiangsu pro...
At least nine people were killed and four injured in an unexplain...
President Donald Trump abruptly declared Thursday the US will rec...
Several explosions in the Afghan capital of Kabul on Thursday kil...
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo hopes to use his first visit to...
Women took another step forward in the still male-dominated world...
High-level US-Russian talks on how to defuse Venezuela’s crisis...
The 500KW capacity Pharping Hydropower project, which came into operation in 1911, is the country’s first power plant....
A banking association is similar to other professional associations, in that it gathers intelligent, like-minded professionals to provide participants...
The parliamentary State Affairs and Good Governance Committee’s decision requiring an authorised doctor’s recommendation to obtain citizenship cer...
The 500KW capacity Pharping Hydropower project, which came into operation in 1911, is the country’s first power plant....
A banking association is similar to other professional associations, in that it gathers intelligent, like-minded professionals to provide participants...
The parliamentary State Affairs and Good Governance Committee’s decision requiring an authorised doctor’s recommendation to obtain citizenship cer...
Bianca Andreescu of Canada with the championship trophy after defeating Angelique Kerber (not pictured) in the final match of the BNP Paribas Open at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden. Mandatory Credit: Jayne Kamin-Oncea-USA TODAY Sports
People erect a colourful pole or "chir" to mark the commencement of Holi in Basantapur, Kathmandu March 14, 2019. Photo: Reuters
Akash Ambani, son of Mukesh Ambani, Chairman of Reliance Industries, and Shloka Mehta perform a ritual during their wedding ceremony at Bandra-Kurla Complex in Mumbai, India. Photo: Reuters
Carnival revellers play their piccolos during the traditional Morgenstreich parade through the streets of Basel, Switzerland March 11, 2019. Photo: Reuters
A herd of deer seen grazing at Shuklaphanta National Park in Kanchanpur district, on Wednesday, March 06, 2019. Photo: RSS
A scenic view of Chapchaur in Kaligandaki Rural Municipality-7 of Gulmi district, on Wednesday, March 06, 2019. Photo: Sajan Dhakal
As per the statistics revealed by Nepal Rastra Bank on Friday, the country has witnessed a surge in remittances by 28.9 per cent in seven months of the fiscal 2018/19 when compared to same period last year....
Smile Home, a home for children, was inaugurated by Masamichi Saigo, ambassador of Japan to Nepal, amidst a ribbon-cutting ceremony in Arkhaule, Nuwak...
Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli applied for 10,000 shares of the Trishuli III 'B' hydropower project marking the official launch of government's 'people'...
Europe's antitrust regulators slapped Google with a big fine Wednesday for the third time in less than two years, ordering the tech giant to pay 1.49 ...
The government’s plan to install embossed license plates in vehicles has been in limbo for more than a year affecting over 10,000 applicants who had...
The government has barred domestic manpower companies from recruiting Nepali workers in 67 companies...
A massive government scheme that aims to raise Rs 102.3 billion from the public to build over one-an...
If everything goes as planned, the Garment Processing Zone (GPZ) within the Simara Special Economic ...
Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) has said that construction works of the 60-megawatt Upper Trishuli...
Even as eight months of the fiscal year have already passed, the Ministry of Physical Infrastructure...
As the country is set to host the Nepal Investment Summit with much fanfare on March 29 and 30 in a ...
On the occasion of International Women’s Day, Ford Nepal along with Higher Ground organised a 5.2k...
The Cabinet meeting held today has permitted the Department of Railways (DoRW) to begin the purchase...
Nepal seem to have prepared well to break India jinx and lift the maiden trophy in the final of the ...
Nepal head coach Hari Khadka said the team was prepared well to break India jinx and lift the maiden...
Ashalata Devi Loitongbam (left) and Niru Thapa respectively skippers of India and Nepal take photo w...
Australia all-rounder Glenn Maxwell may be rested from the first one-day international against Pakistan as the tourists recover from a stomach bug that has hit the team in the United Arab Emirates....
Rain wiped out the opening day play at the Miami Open on Tuesday, delaying the start of the tournament at its new Hard Rock Stadium home....
"People can say all they want but I think all the teams in the Premier League would love to have him in their side," defender Van Dijk told the club website....
British sprinter Dina Asher-Smith, a triple European gold medallist, would like to raise the profile of female athletes and believes the best way of doing that is to have more women telling the story....
Teenage substitute Davies completed the rout with his first Bundesliga goal 20 minutes from time, leaving the visitors in 13th place on 30 points....
“Captain Marvel” has continued to dominate the global box office in its second weekend in theatres, leaving newcomers in the dust....
Wonder Woman star Gal Gadot has come to the rescue of a fellow Israeli celebrity in a spat with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu....
Brie Larson’s “Captain Marvel” is soaring to a heroic opening weekend of $153 million in North America at 4,310 sites, reviving what had been a slumbering 2019 box office....
Jennifer Lopez said yes to Alex Rodriguez’s proposal, and with the rock he presented, who could say no?...
The nation’s largest LGBTQ civil rights organization is honoring Christina Aguilera with its Ally for Equality award....
Warner Bros. chief Kevin Tsujihara, one of the highest ranking Hollywood executives to be felled by sexual misconduct allegations, stepped down from t...
There’s no question that Michael Jackson changed music history. But how will history remember Michael Jackson?...
Alicia Keys has a memoir coming out in November, to be published by Oprah Winfrey's imprint. Flatiron Books announced Wednesday that Keys' "More Mysel...
Hal Blaine, the Hall of Fame session drummer and virtual one-man soundtrack of the 1960s and '70s who played on the songs of Frank Sinatra, Elvis Pres...
Jayaram Shrestha carded two-under 70 to extend the lead after the second round of the Pilot Golfers NPGA Classic he...
People who use cannabis every day run a significantly higher risk of developing the serious mental illness psychosi...
Scientists studying damaged brains of boxers and other sports people have found key details about a head injury-lin...
Earth's ultimate survivors can weather extreme heat, cold, radiation and even the vacuum of space. Now the US milit...
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NASA’s plan to scoop up dirt and gravel from an asteroid has hit a snag, but scientists say they can overcome it....
