Basantapur heritage site earns Rs 1.3m in a day KATHMANDU: Basantapur Durbar Square, a world heritage site in the heart of Kathmandu, collected Rs 1.3 million entrance fee from tourists in a single day today. Chief of Hanumandhoka Durbar protection programme at Kathmandu Metropolitan City Udaya... Horoscopes 25 Oct, 2018
EDITORIAL: Poor show With more than 50pc of the quake-affected households yet to receive grant, the NRA has failed to live up to expectations Five CEOs at the National Reconstruction Authority (NRA) and five governments in the last three years! It sums up what has gone... 15 Oct, 2018
Women masons help build stronger homes in quake-hit Nepal RAIGAUN: On a recent summer morning, Suntali Rai was busy counting and stacking zinc sheets as she prepared to lay them on the roof of the house she had started building a month earlier. If it didn't rain, she planned to... Travel 26 Sep, 2018
Thapa to take charge of Nepali Army as acting CoAS Kathmandu, August 8 Chief of Army Staff Rajendra Chhetri is handing over his job responsibility to acting CoAS Lieutenant General Purna Chandra Thapa tomorrow. CoAS Chhetri will take a leave from Friday till September 8 when he... Horoscopes 09 Aug, 2018
Masons produced, employed at local level for reconstruction works RASUWA: The masons produced by Cottage and Small Industry Development Committee have been contributing to the post-quake reconstruction efforts in the district. The committee provided masonry training to 194 locals including 66 women in five... Travel 07 Jul, 2018
Lisa Choegyal recognised for New Zealand-Nepal relations KATHMANDU: Local tourism operator and New Zealand Honorary Consul in Nepal, Lisa Choegyal has been awarded the honour of being made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to New Zealand-Nepal relations. Choegyal was presented... Travel 30 May, 2018
�Make disaster recovery policies gender-responsive� Kathmandu, April 27 A need for gender-responsive disaster risk reduction and recovery policies was stressed in an interaction programme today as existing gender disparities put women at disadvantage during disasters. The view was expressed during... Horoscopes 28 Apr, 2018
EDITORIAL: Usefulness outlived? Three years after the devastating quake, questions are now being asked whether the NRA has become a white elephant and outlived its utility Just before the clock struck noon three years ago on April 25, a devastating quake struck Nepal, leaving us... 25 Apr, 2018
Over 300,000 qualified for second installment of NRA grant KATHMANDU: Over 300,000 earthquake survivors included in the National Reconstruction Authority (NRA)'s list of beneficiaries have been certified for drawing the second installment under the private housing grant. The NRA had set the deadline of... Travel 19 Mar, 2018
Bulldozing Rohingya villages was not 'demolition of evidence', Myanmar official says YANGON: Myanmar has bulldozed the remains of Rohingya Muslim villages to make way for refugee resettlement, not to destroy evidence of atrocities, an official leading reconstruction efforts in the troubled northern state of Rakhine said on... Women 26 Feb, 2018
Bulldozing Rohingya villages was not 'demolition of evidence', Myanmar official says YANGON: Myanmar has bulldozed the remains of Rohingya Muslim villages to make way for refugee resettlement, not to destroy evidence of atrocities, an official leading reconstruction efforts in the troubled northern state of Rakhine said on... Women 26 Feb, 2018
Japanese embassy hands over community centre in Kavre Kathmandu, February 9 Embassy of Japan in Nepal has handed over a community centre and signed a grant contract for improving water access in Sindhupalchok district. At a function held here today, Ambassador of Japan to Nepal Masashi Ogawa handed... Travel 10 Feb, 2018
