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FILE - Officials of different constitutional bodies, appointed by the government, take the oath of office and secrecy, at Shital Niwas, in Kathmandu, on Wednesday, February 3, 2021. Photo: Rajan Kafle/PM's Secretariat

NBA opposes recent appointments in constitutional bodies

Nepal Bar Association has issued a declaration at its 47th Executive Committee meeting opposing the appointments recently made in 11 constitutional bodies bypassing parliamentary hearings.

Supreme Court of Nepal. Photo: THT/File

Supreme Court lenient on pressing contempt charge against journalists

In a landmark verdict, the Supreme Court has held that any news report critical of the judiciary published with the objective of reforming it cannot be deemed contempt of court.

File Photo - President Bidya Devi Bhandari at Shital Niwas, in Kathmandu. Photo: RSS

Reinstated HoR to meet on March 7

President Bidhya Devi Bhandari has summoned the first meeting of the House of Representatives, acting on the February 24 directive of the Supreme Court, for March 7.

Doctors involved in the treatment of Former Prime Minister and Janata Samajwadi Party leader Babu Ram Bhattarai have concluded that his neuroendocrine tumour is non-cancerous. Photo: Baburam Bhattarai/ Twitter

Former PM Bhattarai's neuroendocrine tumour benign, doctors advice immediate surgery

Doctors involved in the treatment of Former Prime Minister and Janata Samajwadi Party leader Babu Ram Bhattarai have concluded that his neuroendocrine tumour is non-cancerous.

Kathmandu Metropolitan City. Photo: Sandeep Sen/ THT

KMC plan to use concrete at Kamal Pokhari infuriates activists, locals

Scores of rights activists and locals staged a symbolic protest in front of Kathmandu Metropolitan City office against the authority’s plan to use concrete structures in the historic Kamal Pokhari in the heart of the capital.

Pilots grounded for not reporting aircraft malfunction

Dahal appears before SC, expresses faith in judiciary

Former NC lawmaker Dr Shankar Prasad Uprety no more

In Pictures: Chariot procession around Boudhanath Stupa on Mamla Jatra

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Central committee member of Nepali Congress Nabindra Raj Joshi. Photo Courtesy: Twitter

NC leader Joshi in critical condition after stroke

Nepali Congress leader Nabindra Raj Joshi underwent a surgery after he had brain haemorrhage.

File Photo - Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli heads a meeting of his Cabinet in Baluwatar, Kathmandu. Courtesy: Rajan Kafle/PM's Secretariat

Removing Oli from PM's post easier said than done

The NCP faction led by Pushpa Kamal Dahal and Madhav Kumar Nepal wants to remove KP Sharma Oli as prime minister, but it is easier said than done.

File Photo - The Federal Parliament Building, in New Baneshwor, Kathmandu, as pictured on May 9, 2018. Photo: RSS

New Parliament session from March 7

The Council of Ministers on Friday decided to call the new session of the Parliament on March 7.

Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has appointed Bishal Bhattarai as the Chief Whip of NCP's Parliamentary Party, in Kathmandu, on Friday, February 26, 2021. Photo Courtesy: Rajan Kafle/PM's Secretariat

PM Oli appoints Bishal Bhattarai as NCP Parliamentary Party's chief whip

Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has appointed Bishal Bhattarai as the Chief Whip of NCP's Parliamentary Party.

Interview with Nepali Congress Vice-president Bimalendra Nidhi in Kathmandu, in August, 2018. Photo: Naresh Shrestha/THT

NC will have responsible role in House, says Nidhi

Nepali Congress Vice-president Bimalendra Nidhi has said that his party will play a responsible role in the Parliament.

Central committee member of Nepali Congress Nabindra Raj Joshi. Photo Courtesy: Twitter

NC's central member Nabindra Raj Joshi hospitalised

Central member of the Nepali Congress Nabindra Raj Joshi has been hospitalised after suffering complications in his health.

Chef Santosh Shah. Photo Courtesy: Chef Shah's Twitter

Chef Santosh Shah warmly welcomed home

Santosh Shah, originally from Siraha and living in the United Kingdom, is the chef celebrity who introduced popular Nepali cuisines to the global audience.

Nepal Reconstruction Authority. Photo Courtesy: NRA/twitter

School reconstruction begins in Dakshinkali

Chief Executive Officer of National Reconstruction Authority Sushil Gyawali, head of Press Naveen Kumar, Information and Culture wing of the Embassy of India, and mayor of Dakshinkali Municipality jointly carried out the groundbreaking ceremony for reconstruction of Shree Champa Devi Secondary School in Dakshinkali, Kathmandu, on Wednesday..

This image shows the eastern face of Pashupatinath temple on Mahashivaratri festival, on Monday, March 4, 2019. Photo: Suresh Chaudhary/THT

Prez inaugurates golden jalahari installation ceremony at Pashupati

President Bidhya Devi Bhandari on Wednesday inaugurated the golden jalahari installation ceremony after completing a week-long Kshema Puja.

This combination image shows co-chairs of Nepal Communist Party (NCP)'s Dahal-Nepal faction Pushpa Kamala Dahal (left), Madhav Kumar Nepal (centre), and president of main opposition Nepali Congress Sher Bahadur Deuba (right).

Dahal-Nepal meet NC President Deuba following SC verdict

Co-chairs of the Dahal-Nepal faction of Nepal Communist Party (NCP) have met with Nepali Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba, today.

File Photo - Nepal Communist Party (NCP) Co-chair Pushpa Kamal Dahal (centre) participating in a sit-in protest organised at Maitighar Mandala. Photo: RSS

Dahal-Nepal faction of NCP calls Parliamentary Party meeting today

The Dahal-Nepal faction of Nepal Communist Party (NCP) has called for a meeting of its Parliamentary Party, today.

Kathmandu Metropolitan City. Photo: Sandeep Sen/ THT

New KMC law to protect consumer rights

Kathmandu Metropolitan City has issued its ‘Market Management and Monitoring Act- 2021’, which requires manufacturers, transporters, and distributors of goods and services to register their company or firm with the metropolis.

File Photo - Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli heads a meeting of his Cabinet in Baluwatar, Kathmandu. Courtesy: Rajan Kafle

Prime Minister Oli calls Standing Committee meeting of his faction

Nepal Communist Party (NCP) chair, Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli, has called the standing committee meeting of leaders close to his faction.

This image shows the eastern face of Pashupatinath temple on Mahashivaratri festival, on Monday, March 4, 2019. Photo: Suresh Chaudhary/THT

Two cases filed at SC against plan to use 108 kg gold at Pashupati

Two cases have been filed at the Supreme Court against the authorities’ decision to use 108 kilograms of gold jalhari at the sacred Shiva Linga inside the holy Pashupatinath temple.

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File Photo - Emergency maternity service comes into operation in Kolti Primary Health Centre of Bajura, on Friday, February 19, 2021. Delivery through C-section was carried out on Nirmala Chadara, 29, successfully. Photo: Prakash Singh/THT

Emergency maternity service at Bajura's Primary Health Centre comes to a halt

The Primary Health Centre (PHC) in Kolti of Bajura district that had started providing emergency maternity services closed operations a little over a week.

In this combination photo, actress Cynthia Erivo portrays Aretha Franklin in the National Geographic miniseries "Genius: Aretha," left, and Aretha Franklin holds her Grammy Award for Best Rhythm and Blue performance of the song "Bridge Over Troubled Waters," in New York on March 13, 1972. Photo: Associated Press

With much respect, Cynthia Erivo takes on Queen of Soul

The Tony Awards could bring Cynthia Erivo another Emmy.

Students who were abducted by gunmen from the Government Girls Secondary School, in Jangebe, last week are seen after their release meeting with the state Governor Bello Matawalle, in Gusau, northern Nigeria, Tuesday, March 2, 2021. Zamfara state governor Bello Matawalle announced that 279 girls who were abducted last week from a boarding school in the northwestern Zamfara state have been released Tuesday. Photo: Associated Press

Nigerian governor says 279 kidnapped schoolgirls are freed

Hundreds of Nigerian schoolgirls abducted last week from a boarding school in the northwestern Zamfara state have been released, the state’s governor said Tuesday.

A family wearing face masks is pictured inside the premises of Bouddhanath Stupa, in Kathmandu, on Saturday, March 14, 2020. Photo: Skanda Gautam/THT/File

78 new Covid-19 cases registered on Tuesday; nationwide tally hits 274,294

Nepal on Tuesday reported 78 new cases of coronavirus infection from across the country. With this, the nationwide infection count has advanced to 274,294.

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EDITORIAL: Way to digital Nepal

The government’s decision to slash internet charges in the country is not only welcome but long overdue. Only an inexpensive internet service will help the country go digital and promote e-commerce.

People look out from their homes while the body of a 65-year-old man is taken on an ambulance towards the cremation site, succumbed to COVID-19 disease, while undergoing home isolation treatment since the past three-days during a government imposed lockdown amid concerns over the rising spread of coronavirus contagion in Bhaktapur, Nepal on Sunday, August 30, 2020.

Recovery efforts

The economic crisis resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic is having a profound detrimental effect for most people around the world.

A person works on the statue of the Buddha inside an under construction monastery, the Thousand Buddha Temple (Pal Thubten Shedrub Ling Monastery) in Lumbini, the birthplace of Lord Buddha, in Nepal, on Monday, March 1, 2021. Photo: Skanda Gautam/THT

In Pictures: Daily Life in Lumbini

Workers build the Thousand Buddha Temple (Pal Thubten Shedrub Ling Monastery) in Lumbini, the birthplace of Lord Buddha, in Nepal.

FILE - In this Monday, Feb. 24, 2020 file photo, Michael Ryan, left, Executive Director of WHO's Health Emergencies programme, next to Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, right, Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), addresses a press conference about the update on COVID-19 at the World Health Organization headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. The emergencies chief of the World Health Organization said on Monday March 1, 2021, it was “premature” and “unrealistic” to think the pandemic might be stopped by the end of the year, but that the recent arrival of effective vaccines could at least help dramatically reduce hospitalizations and death. Photo: AP

WHO: 'Premature,' 'unrealistic' COVID-19 will end soon

A senior World Health Organization official said Monday it was “premature” and “unrealistic” to think the pandemic might be stopped by the end of the year, but that the recent arrival of effective vaccines could at least help dramatically reduce hospitalizations and death.

A man cast his vote on a ballot box during the parliamentary and provincial elections at Chautara in Sindhupalchok District November 26, 2017. Photo: Reuters

Your vote matters

In a democratic system, a citizen has various responsibilities and duties towards a nation.

Satdobato defeat Bhagwati, restore lead

Satdobato Youth Club restored the three-point lead in the Martyrs Memorial B Division League following their 1-0 victory over Shree Bhagwati Club here at the ANFA Complex grounds on Monday.

Illustration by Ratna Sagar Shrestha/THT

Decriminalisation of abortion in Nepal: Tabooed yet crucial debate

The issue of abortion must be treated as a medical procedure, where the well-being of the women is placed at the centre.

Officials, artists and sports personalities look on during the launch of ‘My Stadium, My Seat’ campaign for the Gautam Buddha International Cricket Stadium, in Kathmandu on Monday. Photo: THT

DSF launches 'My Stadium, My Seat' campaign

Dhurmus Suntali Foundation today launched the ‘My Stadium, My Seat’ campaign to raise funds for the construction of the Gautam Buddha International Cricket Stadium in Chitawan.

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