The very first meeting of the Industry, Commerce, Labour and Consumer Interests Committee under the House of Representatives (HoR) concluded today. On the commencement of the meeting, committee senior-most member (by age) Ranendra Baraili welcomed the members to the meeting held at the Singha Durbar-based committee's meeting hall.
Three persons, who were injured due to lightning while collecting the valuable alpine herb, yarsagumba, in Darchula, have been rescued today after four days. All of them were airlifted to Nepalgunj Medical College on a Nepali Army chopper at 9:00 am for treatment, said Chief District Officer, Kiran Joshi.
A Nepali cyclist has planned to tour the world on a cycle to generate awareness about the importance of blood donation.
The centrepiece of Mr Watts’ visit is going to be the handover of a 13th century wooden tunala (temple strut) from Ratneshwar Temple at Sulima Square to the local community in a ceremony organised at Patan Museum.
The people's daily life has been severely hit in Mahottari district due to rising in temperature for the past few days. The temperature has reached as high as 42 degree centigrade.
Thousands of tourists have been flocking to Damak in Jhapa every day due to the alluring flowers that have bloomed along certain sections of the road over the past month. This area, located near a tea shop in Damak-9, has been named 'Tea Garden Viral Sports' by the locals.
The Catalan giants clinched their 27th Spanish championship at the home of their neighbours, with scenes turning ugly at full time as celebrating Barcelona players were chased from the field by pitch invaders.
Held in Narayani Kala Mandir, Narayangadh, the two-day festival had Dilip Mahato's father Ram Jiban Mahato and his younger sister Laxmi Mahato as speakers among others at the session titled 'The long journey of the fight for justice'. A conservation activist, Dilip had been protesting against the illegal mining in the Aurahi River in Dhanusha. He was brutally killed by a crusher operator and his agents on January 10, 2020.
Tike Damai, a resident of Hasnapur in Ward No. 8 of Baijnath Rural Municipality, Banke district, has been active in preserving the Panche Baja (five traditional Nepali musical instruments) and the Naumati Baja (nine traditional musical instruments) even at the age of 71. A group of 23 people, including Damai, who are interested in Panche Baja and Naumati Baja have been working to preserve the traditional music since their childhood.
The number of Nepali films being nominated and screened at international film festivals continue to rise, with "The Secrets of Radha" being the latest one. After 'Kalopothi', and 'Seto Surya' many films have been selected for the festivals while some have even won different awards.
The fire that broke out here on Sunday evening has gutted goods worth Rs 22.9 million. In the fire, New Dajubhai, a furniture store operated by 37-year-old Bijan Chauguthi of Suryabinayak Municipality-5, Chundevi, the three-and-a-half-storey house of Bijan and adjoining Kripalu furniture factory of Pushpa Shilpkar were burnt down.
A meeting of the House of Representatives (HoR) today formed a draft committee to amend the 'Federal Parliament, Joint Meeting and Joint Committee (Work Operations) Regulations'.
Prime Minister Prachanda put forth the views during his briefing to the heads and representatives of the diplomatic missions here today.
Speaker of the Federal Parliament Devraj Ghimire has informed the parliament of the arrest of lawmaker Top Bahadur Rayamajhi. Rayamajhi was arrested from Budhanilkantha in Kathmandu on Sunday evening, he notified.
Shankar Paudel, advocate at the Kathmandu district court, informed that the police was given a period three days to keep Rayamajhi in custody for investigation.