Speaker Devraj Ghimire has called for restoring the supply of water from Melamchi to Kathmandu at the earliest possible.
The travel documents of 246 out of more than 1500 youths going abroad on visit visa were found fake, the Kathmandu Valley Crime Investigation Office said.
The renovation of Swoyambhunath Stupa, a world heritage site, has been completed.
In her inaugural speech, Minister Sharma urged the government media to be a medium of communication between the people and the government by giving space to the people's issues and concerns and also highlighting the government's works and efforts to that end.
Minister for Communications and Information Technology, Rekha Sharma, has said despite the pressing need to focus on the agenda of development and prosperity, the nation is still entangled in political matters.
Nepali Congress general secretary Bishwa Prakash Sharma has urged the people in the party line to not worry about the election to be held after four years and instead concentrate on development plans.
A three-day meeting of the Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP), central working committee, has begun from today. The meeting is convening at SR Banquet at Dhumbarahi of Kathmandu.
Vice President Ramsahaya Prasad Yadav has extended best wishes for the happiness, peace, prosperity and good health of all the Nepali sisters and brothers within the country and abroad on the occasion of the Bibaha Panchami festival.
Eighteen people, including four minors, were injured in a bus plunge at Byas municipality-12 in Tanahu this morning.
Vehicular traffic on the Narayangadh-Muglin road section will be closed for four hours daily from coming December 23. The road will remain closed to chop off a hill on the road side to build a bridge in the Tuin river of the road.
President Ramchandra Paudel has said that the Bibaha Panchami festival celebrated in the Mithila region since ancient times carried cultural and historical significance. The President has also expressed his belief that this festival would promote national unity and help strengthen the spirit of harmony, tolerance and fraternity in the country.
As part of Bibahapanchami, a Mithila cultural festival, the marriage procession left for Janakpur via Jaleshwar from Matihani in Mahottari this morning.
The Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) of Nepal Police has arrested a man on the run after committing a crime of fraud from the UAE and brought him to Nepal the help of INTERPOL.
Ward member of Madi municipality-2, Jiblal Luintel, 60, has died in a road accident. The accident took place when the motorcycle he was riding was hit by a vehicle at ward no. 1 of the municipality on Saturday evening.
Following the government's direction to the authority concerned to collect revenues gained from bargain purchase gains through premium of FPO (follow-on public offer), mergers and acquisitions and sale of auction shares, over Rs 12.8 billion in revenue has been deposited in the state coffers in two days.