The District Hospital Doti has started providing free ambulance service to pregnant women visiting hospital for delivery.
Eight persons including chairman of Sayam Bhawani community forestry users' committee Bhola Tharu at Raptisonari Rural Municipality-5 in the district of Banke have been arrested on charge of embezzling wood worth Rs 5.2 million.
With the slight impacts of both local and westerly winds, the hilly regions in the country are expended to witness a partial rain today.
The Hotel Pauwa Pvt Ltd has established a new hotel in tourist city Pokhara with the investment of Rs 100 million. This is the 11th hotel that the company has run. The company had been running hotels in Butwal, Bhairahawa, Dhangadhi, Dang, Jumla, Palpa, Gulmi and other cities.
As high as 96 per cent of total population in Karnali Province is deprived of access to safe and pure drinking water.
The Waling Municipality in Syangja district has initiated the campaign to clean up the river two hours a week on every Saturday. Armed Police Force, Nepal Police, community-based organisations and local residents have made concerted efforts to carry out the cleanliness campaign.
Insignia has been conferred to five Additional Inspectors General of the Nepal Police.
The ruling alliance parties including the Nepali Congress, CPN (Maoist Centre) and CPN (Unified Socialist) have held discussions regarding the government expansion.
Minister for Communications Information Technology Rekha Sharma has requested the Government of India to reduce the tariff charged for making telephone calls from India to Nepal
The minister observed that the establishment of ITU area office in New Delhi will be a milestone for capacity building of the member countries with ITU expertise in the region, thereby bridging the digital divides.
Prime Minister and chairperson of CPN (Maoist Center) Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda’s Press Coordinator Surya Kiran Sharma informed that in addition to the PM, Nepali Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba, Chairperson of CPN (Unified Socialist) Madhav Kumar Nepal, Chairperson of Janata Samajbadi Party, Nepal Upendra Yadav are in the meeting.
Ambassador of the People's Republic of China to Nepal, Chen Song, paid a courtesy call on President Ramchandra Paudel.
: The Non-Resident Nepali Association (NRNA) has said launching of social security scheme targeting the Nepali migrant workers and those who are self-employed in foreign land was a great achievement.
“Troubling migrant workers is now gone. Now, all will get an honour. Their self-esteem will be increased. Your (Nepali migrant workers) contribution will be taken into account.”
Making it clear that he is aware of the problems facing the construction entrepreneurs of the country, he said that the responsibility of building the nation also rests on the shoulders of construction entrepreneurs.