School management committee chair and headmaster held over bribe case

Parasi, Aug 16, The Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) has arrested school management committee chair and headmaster with bribe of Rs 65,000 from Nawalparasi-west The arrestees are Kedar Giri, chairperson of school management committee of Siddhartha Secondary School based in Palhinandan rural municipality-3 and Lekhnath Upadhyay, headmaster of the same school. According […]

House of State Assembly’s chief whip attacked

Butwal, Aug 16, An unidentified group assaulted the private house of Bhumiswor Dahakal, chief whip of the Nepal Communist Party (NCP) for State-5 State Assembly, last night. The unknown group had pelted three kerosene-filled bottles at the house of Chief Whip that caused damage to the back side of the government-owned vehicle (Lu 1 Pa […]

Karnali State Minister Khatry relieved of post

Surkhet, Aug 16, Minister for Physical Infrastructure Development of the Karnali State government, Khadka Bahadur Khatry has been relieved of his ministerial post. The Karnali State government on Thursday removed him from the post. Chief Minister Mahendra Bahadur Shahi relieved Physical Infrastructure Development Minister Khatry of the ministerial berth as per the Article 169 (2)(a) […]

PM aggrieved of Dixit’s demise

Kathmandu, Aug 15,  Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has expressed deep sorrow on the demise of noted literary figure MadanMani Dixit today. “I am deeply aggrieved of the passing away of eminent literary philosopher and practitioner. The literary world would ever remember his contributions”, PM Oli tweeted today. The Prime Minster also paid tribute to […]

Mobile library in place to promote reading culture

Ranjha, Aug 15, The Gyanodaya Community Library and Resource Centre Kohalpur has operated ward-level mobile library programme for advancing reading culture. Chetkanta Bhattarai, chair of the library, shared the mobile library programme has been put in place to promote reading culture. He further shared that the initiative was operational to mark the 12th National Library […]

One dies of altitude sickness in Gosainkunda

Rasuwa, Aug 15,  A youth died while taking holy dip in Gosainkunda last night.   Deepak Dhakal, 23, a permanent resident of Melamchi, Sindhupalchowk, currently living in Mulpani, Kathmandu breathed his last due to altitude sickness in Gosainkunda, according to Om Prasad Wagle, spokesperson of District Police Office.   Gosainkunda is located in an altitude […]