Kathmandu, March 21 President Bidya Devi Bhandari has today appointed chairpersons to five various constitutional commissions. The President, on the recommendation of the Constitutional Council, appointed Balananda Poudel the chairperson of the National Natural Resources and Finance Commission, Dr Shanta Raj Subedi the chairman of the National Inclusion Commission, Bijaya Kumar Dutta the chairman of […]
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Prime Minister Oli buys Trishuli III ‘B’ share
Kathmandu, March 21 : Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli bought 10,000 points share of the Trishuli III ‘B’ hydropower project as part of the launch of ‘people’s hydroelectricity programme’. PM Oli applied for the share at a programme organized by the Ministry of Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation at his residence, Baluwatar, this morning. Similarly, […]
Nepal-Kuwait playing friendship match after 19 years
Kathmandu, March 21 : Nepali national men’s football team is playing an international friendship match with Kuwati today. It is the first match after Johan Kalin became the lead coach of Nepali team. The game is being played in Kuwait. Before the game, lead coach Kalin informed at the press meet that the match would […]
Chief Minister Rai attends Holi celebration
Biratnagar, March 21 Nepal Communist Party Morang district committee organized a programme to exchange Holi greetings today. The programme was organized, wishing harmony and unity among the Nepalis on the occasion of the Holi festival. Chief Minister of State-1, Sherdhan Rai, party leaders Ram Lal Saha and party cadres exchanged greetings at the programme organized […]
Corruption on rise from centre to local levels: Chair Rana
Surkhet, March 19 : Chairperson of Rastriya Prajatantra Party (United), Pashupati Shumsher JB Rana, has said that corruption has spread from the centre to local levels in the country. At a news conference organised at Surkhet today, Chair Rana said that the culture of corruption, which was limited in centre earlier, has now taking place […]
Eight employees arrested for colluding with’Land Mafia’
Ranjha (Banke), March 19 : The police have arrested eight government employees on the charge of assisting the land mafia in transferring the public land to individual’s ownership. The eight employees of the land reform and the land revenue offices in Banke and Bardiya were arrested on Monday night for forging the documents related to […]
Medical colleges’ random fee charge issue riles Bibeksheel Sajha
Kathmandu, March 19 : The Bibeksheel Sajha Party has said its serious attention has been drawn to the latest media reports of massive overcharging by medical colleges. In a press statement today, the party said the policy of rapid commercialization in the sector of service-oriented sectors like education and health continued to hit guardians and […]
Minister Aryal stresses on women empowerment
Kathmandu, March 19 : Minister for Land Management, Cooperatives and Poverty Alleviation, Padma Aryal, has said that women empowerment campaign would be effective from promotion of women entrepreneurship. At a seminar ‘Women Empowerment through Entrepreneurship’ organised by Nepal US Alumni Network (NUSAN) here today, Minister Aryal said that the government was active for the women […]
Bird flu checkpoints in Kavrepalanchowk
Kavrepalanchowk, March 19 : Kavre-based Veterinary Hospital and Livestock Service Centre has decided to keep checkpoints in three different areas after bird flu was confirmed in federal capital Kathmandu and other adjoining districts. In order to prevent outbreak of bird flu epidemic in the district, the Centre decided to place bird flu epidemic checkpoints at […]
Three killed in separate incidents
Bharatpur, March 19 : Three persons have lost their lives in separate incidents in Chitwan last night. Pillion rider Kumar Adhikari, 34, of Khaireni municipality-13, died in a motorbike accident in Bharatpur at 1.00 am today, confirmed the District Police Office, Chitwan. The accident took place when the motorbike (Ba 91 Pa 348) en route […]