Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda' inaugurated the general convention. National council members of different chapters of FNJ across the country are attending the general convention.
At least 20 people died while 21 others were injured on Friday morning when a passenger bus overturned on the Karakoram Highway in Gilgit-Baltistan’s Diamer district, rescue officials said.
The vehicular movement along the Kanti Highway was disrupted after a landslip in Kalche area of Lalitpur district.
National Assembly (NA) Chairman Narayan Prasad Dahal has extended a message of best wishes to the media fraternity and all on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day stating that a matured and robust democracy cannot be imaged without press freedom.
Minister for Communications and Information Technology Rekha Sharma has said that democracy will not be complete without freedom of the press and freedom of expression.
Issuing a message today on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day, the President said freedom of the press and freedom of expression is a foundation of democracy and recalled the contributions of the Nepali press sector in the country's major movements taken place for democracy.
May 3 each year is marked as World Press Freedom Day in commemoration of the Windhoek Declaration for the Development of a Free, Independent and Pluralistic Press in Windhoek in Namibia in 1991. The Day was first observed in 1993 following the recommendation of UNESCO.
The government has conferred the ICT Excellence Award 2024 on Dr Shailendra Giri by recognizing his contributions to the development and expansion of communications and information technology. The Award carries a purse of Rs 100,000.
Visiting UN Assistant Secretary-General and Director of the Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Kanni Wignaraja and Finance Minister Barshaman Pun held a meeting at the Ministry of Finance in Singhadurbar on Thursday.
The Ministry of Communications and Information Technology has said that its serious attention was drawn to the internet service disruption by some privately-owned internet service providers.
UN Assistant Secretary-General and Director of the Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Kanni Wignaraja, paid a courtesy call on Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda' at Singhadurbar on Thursday.
President Ram Chandra Paudel has summoned the joint session of the federal parliament- House of Representatives and the National Assembly for May 10.
More than 65 houses have been gutted in an incident of fire that took place at Baraudhoran village located in Bishnu rural municipality-1 of Sarlahi.
Chief Minister of Koshi Province Kedar Karki has said that the province government is trying to exercise a different pattern of development.
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda' has said that the Vice Chancellor of the universities have been appointed based on merit.