'Human rights activists becoming target of perpetrators'

6 years ago

Hetauda, Makawanpur,  Human right activists fighting against violence against women (VAW) are becoming target of perpetrators lately, said a woman right activist Aarati Pathak.  Talking to Rastriya Samachar Samiti,...

First Obor China-Nepal Lacquer Art Exhibition drawing audiences

6 years ago

Kathmandu,  The First Obor China-Nepal Lacquer Art Exhibition with the theme 'Reaching the Summit' has caught the fancy of Nepali audiences.  Organised with the objective of contributing to the...

Annually 2,000 people lose lives in road accidents

6 years ago

Kathmandu,  As many 12 2,000 people lost their lives to road accident in Nepal annually.  According to the data provided by Nepal Police, total 8,982 people had lost their...

Medicine shortage hits health posts in rural Myagdi

6 years ago

Myagdi,  The only health post at Gurja of Dhawalagiri rural municipality-1 is reeling under shortage of medicines.  The health post has not been getting the medicines that are provided...

Province No 2 having first historic session today

6 years ago

Mahendranagar, Dhanusha, Feb 4 (RSS): The Province Assembly of Province No 2 is having its first historic meeting here at the Education Office and Teachers' Training Centre-turned province assembly at...

Province-3, SA meeting concludes

6 years ago

Hetauda, Members at the State Assembly of Province-3 have called for unity among all to maintain political stability and good governance as per the public mandate.  Speaking in the...

Govt to make transport sector child-labour free

6 years ago

Kathmandu, The government has launched a campaign to relieve public transport sector of child labour.  In the first phase under the child labour-free public transportation drive, various awareness programmes are...

Ex-Maoist fighter Dilmaya who stood firm despite adversities now serves as SA member

6 years ago

Baglung, She was barely three years into marriage when her husband was killed in a cross firing during the Maoist decade long insurgency in the country.  With additional responsibility to...

Two million kgs firewood used annually for cremation in Aryaghat

6 years ago

Kathmandu, A total of two million kgs of firewood worth around Rs 20 million is used annually for the cremation of dead bodies in Aryaghat.  The Timber Corporation of...

Survey Department team in Birgunj to look into border pillar row

6 years ago

Parsa,  A team of the Survey Department has arrived in Birgunj today to investigate into the border dispute that has surfaced at Chhapkaiya of Birgunj Meropolitan City-1.  The dispute is...

Jajarkot viral fever yet to be controlled, even three weeks into the epidemic

7 years ago

-Hemanta KC  Jajarkot,  Viral fever that is taking its toll at Junichande rural municipality in the district is yet to be contained, even around three weeks into the epidemic. So...

No health workers and medicines reach disease-ridden Badkule even after nine deaths

7 years ago

- Hemanta KC  Jajarkot, Nine persons have died of cough and cold, and fever that have spread in the district for the past week, but neither health workers nor medicines...

A remote Chepang village in Dhading in the throes of famine

7 years ago

- Sitaram Adhikari  Malekhu, Dhading,  Famine has gripped the people of the impoverished Chepang community at Brushabang of Benighat Rorang rural municipality in southern belt of Dhading district in the...

U.S.-DPRK relations to be Trump's biggest 2018 foreign policy challenge, experts say

7 years ago

  -By Matthew Rusling  WASHINGTON,  Washington's relations with Pyongyang are expected to be U.S. President Donald Trump's greatest foreign policy challenge in 2018, as tensions continue to simmer between...

Sky-blue is the colour of House of Representatives and red that of Upper House

7 years ago

- Narayan Neupane  Kathmandu, The Legislature-Parliament Secretariat is using different colours of upholstery and carpet to refurbish the House of Representatives and the National Assembly meeting halls so as to...