- Friday, 10 April 2026
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39 local levels in Madhes yet to submit budget details
A total of 39 local levels of Madhes province have not yet submitted their budget details for the financial year 2020/2022. Out of 136 municipalities in the Province, 30 have not submitted their budget statement, according to the Ministry of Federal Affairs and General Administration.
Nepal and Finland to cooperate to reduce climate-induced natural disasters
An agreement has been reached between Nepal and Finland to cooperate to reduce the increasing risk of climate-induced natural disasters owing to the effects of climate change. Accordingly, Nepal's Department of Hydrology and Meteorology (DHM) and the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI) of Finland have agreed to join hands to move forward toward that end.
Power generation project completes in ten days
With the commitment and activism of the newly elected Mayor Harka Raj Rai (Sampang), the Dharan Sub-Metropolitan City has successfully generated electricity from the local Sardu River in Dharan. The Sub Metropolitan City has generated 300W electricity from the river with the concept of Mayor Sampang.
Work-Performance committee meet of NC today
The Nepali Congress has called its Central Work-Performance Committee’s meeting for Saturday. NC chief secretary Krishna Prasad Paudel informed that the meeting was likely to be held in the morning. The agenda of meeting is seat-sharing among the five ruling parties for November 20 elections to the House of Representatives and Provincial Assemblies, he informed. In the meeting, the NC is likely to make its stand clear on the seat sharing and ask the members representing the party in the five-party seat sharing taskforce to take stand as per the party line.
Cultural Thrills Of Progress
The cultural path of progress rests on the maximisation of social utility through reflective education, not ideological fermentation. It is the pattern of life in many Asian nations. Now, many of them are rediscovering their own cultural roots of knowledge, norms and spirituality and trying to redefine national self, rationalise the worldview, educate feelings and emotions, solve their problems and define the path of progress in terms of highest good. While the West’s success is attributed to Protestant ethics and enlightenment, the Chinese people boast of Confucian culture, Japan Shinto Buddhism, India Hinduism, Malaysia and the Gulf nations Islam and Israel Jewish culture filling souls with native visions.
Arctic Is Getting Warmer Alarmingly
The Earth is approximately 1.1℃ warmer than it was at the start of the industrial revolution. That warming has not been uniform, with some regions warming at a far greater pace. One such region is the Arctic.
Right To Development
Development is often considered a luxury, something countries and communities get through hard work and sound policies. Development, physical, economic, social or human, is not viewed as something people are entitled to. Instead, it is something that has to be earned. However, this thought process goes against the international norm of the right to development. Recognised in the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights and the Arab Charter on Human Rights, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1986 and reaffirmed by instruments like the 1992 Rio Declaration, 1993 Vienna Declaration, 2002 Monterrey Consensus, 2005 World Summit Outcome Document and the 2007 Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the right to development is “an inalienable human right by virtue of which every human person and all peoples are entitled to participate in, contribute to, and enjoy economic, social, cultural and political development, in which all human rights and fundamental freedoms can be fully realised.”
382 school buildings rebuilt in Ramechhap
A total of 382 school buildings destroyed by the 2015 earthquake have been reconstructed in Ramechhap district. The earthquake and the subsequent aftershocks had damaged 419 schools in the district. However, 15 of the schools were merged because of small number of students in them. Bharat Bhattarai, Head of Education Development and Coordination Unit, Ramechhap, said that the reconstruction work on the remaining 22 school buildings had also reached the final stage.
EC finalises poll schedule of PR category
The Election Commission (EC) has approved the election schedule of proportional representation (PR) category for the election of House of Representatives (HoR) and provincial assemblies slated for November 20. The election programmes for the PR electoral system for the members of HoR and provincial assemblies will kick off from August 24, said the EC. Issuing a press statement on Thursday, EC’s Spokesperson Shaligram Sharma Poudel said from Wednesday’s meeting the commission approved the election programmes for the PR electoral system.
Export from Makwanpur declines
Export from Makwanpur district to India and the third countries has been declining over the years. With the decline in the export trade, Nepal's trade deficit with India is increasing. The effect of this widening trade deficit has also been noticed in the export business of the industries operating in Makwanpur. Export trade of the industrial zone of Hetauda was worth billions of rupees two decades ago, but it has now dropped to millions. The export trade from Makwanpur district to India and the third countries has also decreased in the fiscal year 2021/22.
Palpa’s Shreenagar attracting tourists
Shreenagar, located about half a kilometre from Tansen Bazaar in Palpa district, is being developed as a beautiful tourist destination. With the beautification, the district is seeing a growing number of visitors from outside the district. The green surroundings with a variety of tall trees including Chir pine, Needlewood Tree, honey tree, Castanopsis indica, and Dhupi Salla are sights to behold. According to Yadav Singh Karki, spokesperson for Tansen Municipality, there are waiting rooms, a well-equipped environment wherein children can play, among others, available inside Srinagar. The municipality has been constructing cottages, a mini zoo, and a children’s park and a garden in the area. Karki said that they are working hard to make Shreenagar look more attractive.
‘Highway’s 4-lane upgradation may cause felling of over 12,000 trees’
More than 12,000 trees will be chopped down in the forest area when Kakarvitta-Laukhi section of the East-West Highway is made four-lane. Environmentalist Rajen Shrestha informed during a public hearing organised by Susung Engineering Consulting Korea in association with Environment and Resource Management and Tech Studio of Engineering Private in Kanepokhari Rural Municipality in Urlabari, Morang that the 120-km-long underpass would be constructed for the wildlife crossing while expanding the road.
Thousands take holy bath in Gosaikunda
Thousands of devotees came to Gosaikunda on the day of Janai Purnima on Friday to take a bath in the lake’s water. According to Sanjeev DM, chairman of the Gosaikunda Area Development Committee, around 10,000 bathed in the holy water body on Friday, motivated by the popular belief that taking a dip here cleanses a person of all their sins, liberates the souls of their ancestors and gets their wishes fulfilled.
The last earthen mask maker of Bhaktapur
On a mat laid out beside a window in the second-floor room of his brick house at Yachhe, Bhaktapur, artisan Purna Chitrakar is hard at work crafting earthen masks. With an almost other-worldly level of concentration and hands deceitfully steady for a 77-year-old, Chitrakar carves out the prepossessing faces of gods from featureless lumps of soil. His eyes give the slightest hint of the immense skill he wields, and his demeanour betrays the great responsibility – or burden – he carries.
CIAA seizes Madhyapaschim University documents for investigation
The Surkhet-based office of the Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) has seized the documents of the Madhyapaschim University.
