VDC secys awaiting Maoist response to return to work Lalitpur, May 28:Eighteen secretaries of rural VDCs in Lalitpur, who are serving from the headquarters for more than two years, are waiting for a response from Maoists to get back to their respective villages.They have been discharging their duties... Horoscopes 29 May, 2006
Assume-office order scares Kavre VDC secys Kavre, February 11:The Ministry of Local Development (MoLD) has ordered the secretaries of 85 VDCs in Kavre, who had put in the papers two weeks ago after the Maoists threatened to take ‘physical action’ against them if they did not resign, to... Travel 12 Feb, 2006
39 VDC secys resign Kavre, January 27:Responding to a 10-day ultimatum given by the Maoists to either quit or face consequences, 39 VDC secretaries of Kavre resigned from their posts today. The Maoists of Kavre district, issuing a press release on January 18, had warned... Travel 27 Jan, 2006
VDC secys protest ‘manhandling’ Ramechhap, January 8: Many of the Village Development Committee (VDC) secretaries of Ramechhap district today halted their regular duties to protest against the Friday’s alleged beating to the Gumdel VDC secretary by a Ramechhap DDC member.One Friday... Travel 09 Jan, 2006
DDC member beats up VDC secy Ramechhap, January 7:A government-nominated area member of the Ramechhap District Development Committee, Angnima Sherpa, allegedly beat up the secretary of Gumdel VDC, Yadav Pahadi, yesterday.Sherpa, who is a regional member of Area Number 1, assaulted... Travel 08 Jan, 2006
Taplejung folks unaware of identity card system Taplejung, January 7:The people of Taplejung are yet to receive identity (ID) cards due to lack of awareness among them of the same, though 15 days have elapsed since the government implemented the ID card system to cross the Tibetan border. As per an... Travel 08 Jan, 2006
Tihar sans joy for senior citizens of Kapilvastu Kapilvastu, November 1:Senior citizens and destitutes of Kapilvastu district are not celebrating Tihar this year. The reason being simple as that: They have not yet received the government allowances, which they were supposed to get during Dashain,... Travel 01 Nov, 2005
Lalitpur VDC secretaries working from HQ Lalitpur, October 6:The services of remote Village Development Committees (VDC) of Lalitpur are being provided from District Development Committee (DDC) office at Manbhavan, Lalitpur, since the breakdown of ceasefire in 2003.Of the 41 VDCs in the... Horoscopes 07 Oct, 2005
ONCE-OVER RNA clarification: POKHARA: Prakash Bahadur Basnet, the division chief of Royal Nepalese Army western division headquarters, Pokhara, has said the RNA men had fired tear gas cells on the Prithvi Narayan Campus premises to control the students on... Travel 02 Sep, 2005
Secys fear insecurity Himalayan News ServiceBiratnagar, April 5:Secretaries of the village development committees have said they are unwilling to go to villages to collect the voters’ lists, notwithstanding the administration’s commitment to ensure their... Travel 05 Apr, 2005
ONCE-OVER Free rights defenders’: Kathmandu: The Human Rights Organisation of Nepal (HURON) has expressed its concern over the arrest of human rights defenders, journalists, professors and political leaders and has called for their immediate release. In a... Travel 22 Feb, 2005
VDC secretaries resume work Himalayan News Service Phidim, February 13:Forty-one VDC secretaries of Panchathar district, who had resigned en masse last September following the Maoist threat, have resumed work.The local administration requested them to resume work but they had... Travel 14 Feb, 2005
