The Nepali Congress has showed concern over the view Nepal Communist Party Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal made about the late president of NC, Girija Prasad Koirala. NC flatly refuted the view Dahal made at a programme about Koirala on Thursday. Issuing a press release Thursday evening, NC Spokesperson Bishwo Prakash
Minister for Communications and Information Technology Gokul Prasad Banskota has said that the present government led by the NCP has been completely successful. "Everything that the present government has done has been good, it has not done anything bad," he said at the regular Thursday press briefing on cabinet decisions.
(Sharad Sharma and Sanchita Ghimire) The Ministry of Water Supply and Sanitation has vowed to complete the much-hyped Melamchi drinking water project by coming mid July. Minister for Drinking Water Bina Magar issued the white paper, vowing that the Melamchi project would be completed by mid July. "Drinking water is
The government, in a bid to repatriate Nepali students in corona-virus-hit Hubei province in China, will fly them to Nepal in the wee hours of coming Sunday. Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation (MoCTCA)’s Secretary Kedar Bahadur Adhikari told National News Agency (RSS) that the government has made arrangements
Minister for Communications and Information Technology, Gokul Prasad Banskota, has said government wants details about activities carried out under the grants provided for rural telecommunications infrastructures. Details on expense made with the grants amounting Rs 18 million provided to CG Telecom is needed because it was provided with the loan
Three non-resident ambassadors to Nepal presented credentials to President Bidya Devi Bhandari today. The ambassador from Ireland, Brendan Ward; from Iceland, Gudmundur Arni Stefansson; and from Armenia, Armen Martirosyan, presented the letters of credence to the President amidst a special ceremony at Shital Niwas. Also present during the ceremony were
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence, Ishwar Pokharel, has praised the Nepal Army, saying it has played central role in peacekeeping. DPM Pokharel said this inaugurating a seminar organised by the Army at Shivapuri today. He said the Army has worked all the time for the peacekeeping. He recalled
National Measles- Rubella Province-level Immunisation Campaign has begun from Murgia of Sainamaina municipality-4 in Rupandehi from today. Chief Minister of State-5, Shankar Pokhrel, inaugurated the campaign by feeding polio drop to an infant. A programme has been set to immunize measles-rubella to 109,799 children and to feed polio drop to
The police in Saptari arrested the province committee bureau member of Netra Bikram Chand ‘Biplav’-led party. Indal Sah aka Sahas of Dhanushadham was arrested from Surunga Municipality-6 today, the police confirmed. Sah was in the most-wanted list of Nepal Police on charge of murder, bomb explosion and organised crime. Sah
Minister for Land Management, Cooperatives and Poverty Alleviation, Padma Kumari Aryal, has said that the government is working to bring back the encroached public lands from across the country under the government in addition to the land plots of Baluwatar, Kathmandu. The government has legally brought 264 bighas land in
