- Friday, 10 April 2026
TRN Online
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.
COVID-19 update: 781 new cases, with two deaths
Altogether 781 new cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in the last 24 hours across the country.
Dwindling deposit preludes repo rates hike in coming weeks
The repo rate is likely to hike steeper as the deposit of commercial banks has sharply dwindled in the backdrop of a continuous rise in the credit outflow towards the end of this week.
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Govt. committed to all language and ethnic communities-Communications Minster Karki
Minister for Communications and Information Technology Gyanendra Bahadur Karki said development of all language and ethnic communities was first and foremost for the country to prosper.
Government and Tharu welfare Assembly office-bearers hold meeting
A meeting has been held between the government and office-bearers of the Tharu Welfare Assembly today.
Government forms taskforce to combat loan sharking
The government has formed a task force to take steps for the containment of loan sharking. The six-member task force formed by Home Minister Bal Krishna Khand at the direction of Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba is coordinated by Home Ministry's joint-secretary Dr Bhishma Bhusal.
781 new cases, two deaths in 24 hours
In 2,290 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests done in the past 24 hours, a total of 419 people were found infected with SARS-CoV-2, informed the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) in its regular update on Friday. Likewise, the virus infection was detected in 362 people in 2,422 antigen tests performed in the last 24 hours.
Madhesh PA session prorogued
The ninth session of the Madhesh Province Assembly had commenced on June 2 and it had endorsed eight important bills including the Appropriation Bill over time, according to Yadav.
Gandaki Province passes RTI Bill
A meeting of the Gandaki Province Assembly unanimously endorsed the Right to Information (RTI) Bill. Province Minister for Law, Communications and Province Assembly, Bindu Kumar Thapa, presented the Bill before the PA session on Thursday.
Chinese ambassador calls on Speaker Sapkota
Ambassador of China to Nepal, Hou Yanqi, paid a courtesy call on Speaker Agni Prasad Sapkota at his official residence at Lainchaur this morning. In the meeting, Speaker Sapkota and Chinese ambassador Hou talked about matters of bilateral relations, mutual interest and concerns between Nepal and China.
Government is committed to ending educational unemployment among youth - PM Deuba
Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba has said that the government is committed to ending educational unemployment among the youth in the country.
63 local governments yet to enter budget details in Ministry portal
Sixty-three local levels across the country have yet to ensure an entry of their budget for the current fiscal year in the Federal Government system.
2,187 new factories registered in Sarlahi in last FY
A total of 2,187 new factories have been registered in the Cottage and Small Industries Office, Sarlahi, in the fiscal year 2078/079 BS. Of them, 1,541 factories are agriculture-based.
