Gandaki Province government has allocated Rs 34.6 million budget for the ninth National Games scheduled to be held in Gandaki Province from October 14-20.
President Bidya Devi Bhandari today took stock of the health condition of Nepali Congress leader Pradeep Giri, who is undergoing treatment at Mediciti Hospital in Lalitpur. The President reached the hospital at 11:00 am today.
Preparations for the 9th national games scheduled to be held from coming October 14 to 20 are underway. However, infrastructure for some of the events is still a matter of concern more than three years since the tournament was decided to be held in Gandaki province.
Security officials say 10 people have been killed after al-Shabab militants stormed a hotel in the Somali capital, Mogadishu. Police said attackers detonated two explosives outside the hotel before entering the building and opening fire.
Senior leader of Nepali Congress Ramchandra Paudel has pledged to work for the development of his home district, Tanahun.
Parshuram Kalwar, 40, and his 25-year-old son Bablu Kalwar, residents of sub-metropolitan city-17, died in an accident that happened while charging an e-rickshaw, according to District Police Office, Banke.
The thymotic drive of Nepal, a drive for national independence and kernel of its sovereign identity in the world of nations, has given it strong resilience in a disorderly world of dynamic complexity. The paragon of its national pride has separated it from colonial traits of tutelage to any alliance and allowed scope for national-self-determination in the tradition set by Prithvi Narayan Shah and followed by Jung Bahadur Rana, King Mahendra and B.P. Koirala. They represented different points in time but adopted realism in foreign policy by maximising the state power, utilised all the available soft power of the society to defend it, managed the geopolitical spoilers and pursued the strategy of justice, progress and social peace.
The history of public toilets in Nepal dates back to the period of King Pratap Malla when the first toilet was built at Hanumandhoka. After that, it took about 400 years for every household in Kathmandu to have a simple bathroom. From the beginning of civilisation, people started using a toilet to maintain health and hygiene, and protect themselves from various communicable diseases and foul smell. Toilets are regarded as the best tools in the public health management system.
Altogether 42 buildings of health institutions have been constructed in four districts of the then Rapti zone in the last five years. These buildings were constructed under the integrated health infrastructure programme. After the construction of the buildings, it has been easier to provide efficient and quality health services to the public. The programme was implemented in Dang, Pyuthan, Rolpa and East Rukum districts from the fiscal year 2017/18.
Musahar family living in Musahar Tole in Pachharwa, Shaheed Municipality-5, in Dhanusha, is facing a hard time due to abject poverty. Satrudhan Sada, 35, who is the head of the family, has failed to provide for his family because he is disabled by birth. Unable to build a house due to dire economic condition, the family has been living in a hut surrounded by plastics for the past seven years, locals said. “Living in a tent will be hard during the rainy season and cold waves. Rainwater leaks everywhere, and during winter, it’s unbearably cold,” Sada said.
A long period of drought has left farmers in Terai districts, including Sarlahi, worried about the bleak harvests. Due to the lack of irrigation, the rice plants have started drying up. As there is no rainfall, the farmers are irrigating their lands using diesel-powered pump sets, buying the fuel at a whopping cost. Rajendra Sah, a farmer of Chandranagar Rural Municipality-2, Babarganj, complained that he had to irrigate his paddy field by spending Rs. 173.50 per litre of diesel.
There has been an increase in the number of foreign tourists coming to the Everest region this ‘off-season.’ According to the office of the Sagarmatha National Park, more foreigners have come to the Khumbu area this year in the post-tourism month of August than previous years. Up until last year, the park would hardly see a couple of tourists a day this month. This year though, it has seeing around 14. Dwarika Achhami, chief of the Lukla office of the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN), informed that the increase in the number of visitors had boosted air travel too. “Three flights are taking place every day,” Achhami said. “More than two dozen helicopter flights also take place daily.”
Nepali Congress general secretary Bishwo Prakash Sharma on Friday said that it was shame to be unable to collect the garbage piled up in Kathmandu even though three tiers of government are in the country. Unveiling a book Kamaredko Janai here, Sharma said that the streets of Kathmandu were full of garbage and it was a shame that the three tiers of governments have failed to manage it. He underlined the need for ending the shameful situation immediately.
On a query how he was taking the claim of the CPN (Unified Socialist) from Tanahun constituency-1, Poudel clarified that their claim would not be established when he himself was interested to fight election from the constituency.
The Children of Nepali parents who have been long deprived of a Nepali citizenship card would get the constitutional document once the bill is certified, he said at a sermon delivered by Chaitanya Jhanki on the occasion of Krishna Janmashtami on Friday.