Kathmandu, Sept 16 .Nepal is meeting Kuwait tonight for a match to be held under the AFC U-16 Championship Qualification underway in Jordan. The match will be held at the Prince Mohammed International Stadium. The Nepali soccer team reached Jordan after two weeks of its achievement as the first runner-up of SAFF U-15 Championship. But […]
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Budha clinches Jumla-Rara Ultra Marathon title
Khalanga, Sept 16 . Dhir Bahadur Budha of Jumla has clinched the title of the Jumla-Rara Ultra Marathon towards the male category. Dhirendra Bhandari, also from Jumla, took the second position while Dev Raj Mahatara of Tribhuvan Army Club came out third in the marathon organized for the second time, the organizer Karnali Sports Club […]
Kashthamandap reconstruction sees 50 percent progress
Kathmandu, Sept 16 . Kashtamandap has seen fifty percent of its reconstruction progress. It is noted that reconstruction will be completed in time if the works are carried out as planned. Rajesh Shakya, chairperson of Kashtamandap shared that under the reconstruction the four main wooden pillars has been erected and wall-rising between the pillars has […]
Overcrowding, a constant challenge for Central Jail
Kathmandu, Sept 16 . Country’s central prison based in Jagannathdewal is finding it very challenging to cope with overcrowding issues. The jail remains as the oldest prison and was established in 1971 BS. Presently, it serves as the confinement center for 3,129 inmates and detainees. Of them, 2,742 are male, 378 are women and nine […]
NCP Chair Prachanda calls for retaliating anti-change forces
Kathmandu, Sept 16 . Chairperson of the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP), Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ has called on the student youth to become alert against the anarchic and reactionary tendencies directed against the democratic republic and to retaliate such tendencies. Addressing the Fifth Memorial Day function of party leader the late Posta Bahadur Bogati […]
Bhimeswor becomes first child-friendly municipality in State-3
Jiri, Sept 16 . Bhimeswor municipality of Dolakha has been declared the first-ever child-friendly local government in State-3. State-3 Minster for Social Development Yuwaraj Dulal declared Bhimeswor as child-friendly local government amidst a programme on Sunday. Bhimeswor municipality has met all the child friendly local governance (CFLG) indicators to become the first local government in […]
Police post set up at Fisling
Muglin, Sept 16 . A temporary police post has been set up at Ichhakamana rural municipality-3, Fisling in Chitwan. Inaugurating the police post amidst a programme on Sunday, State-3 Assembly member Ghanashyam Bhusal said good governance can be maintained only when there is collaboration between citizens and police. He also highlighted the need to upgrade […]
Hundreds of tourists stranded for no alternative to air route
Solukhumbu, Sept 16 . Hundreds of foreign tourists have stranded at Lukla in Solukhumbu district owing to unfavourable weather condition for the past three days. Imanath Adhikari, Chief, Civil Aviation Authority Lukla, informed that as many as 300 tourists, who were returning to Kathmandu from the tourism area, have been stuck at Lukla. Lukla has […]
Free eye camp benefits 576 people
Attariya, Sept 15 . A free eye camp organised jointly by the Lions Club of Attariya City, Nepal Netra Jyoti Sang and Geta Eye Hospital at Godavari municipality- 2 in Kailali ended Saturday, providing services to 576 aged people. Of those benefitted from the camp, 70 were diagnosed with cataract and sixth with conjunctiva, Lions […]
27 passengers injured in an Indian bus accident
Damauli, Sept 16 . As many as 27 passengers sustained injuries when a bus with Indian number plate met with an accident at Byas municipality-12, Kamalabari in Tanahun along the Prithvi Highway this morning. According to the District Police Office, Tanahun, some 27 passengers were injured when the bus (UPBP 4995) en route to Muktinath […]