Nature conservation key to prosperity: Chair OliChairperson of CPN UML KP Sharma Oli has said conservation of nature and human being is imperative for development and prosperity.At a programme organized by the Tulsilal Memorial Foundation and the All Nepal Women Association on the occasion of the World Environment Day here Sunday, the former prime minister said, "If the environmental issues are ignored, development carries no meaning. He reminded that although Sagarmatha Dialogue was proposed during his premiership in 2020 focusing mountain and environment, it was postponed due to COVID-19.Degradation of environment would pose severe threat to human civilization, according to him. Chairperson Oli further viewed environment conservation is one of the agendas of SDGs to be achieved by 2030. He further recollected that he had made clear the world community on climate change issues in the Himalayan countries like Nepal with the participation in the global forums.
Among the solid waste brought from the mountains were 7,227 kgs of biodegradable and remaining were non-biodegradable, shared the NA. Similarly, the cleaning team collected skeleton of two humans from Mt Kanchenjunga.
PM Deuba reminded that after passing SLC from Uchchakot School of Doti, he had to make a long journey to arrive in Kathmandu for higher study- the travel was sometime on foot and sometime by train and bus via the country and across border.
The inauguration took place in the presence of Minister for Agriculture and Livestock Development, Mahendra Raya Yadav.
According to Dinesh Mainali, Superintendent of Police (SP) and spokesperson at Metropolitan Police Range, Teku, the accident occurred at Kanak Pump and the injured are undergoing treatment at the National Trauma Center.
Spokesperson at the MoHA Phadindra Mani Pokharel shared that the stakeholders dwelt on presenting the amendment bill in the ongoing session of the House of Representatives (HoR) after forging a consensus among the political parties. No consensus has been reached on the bill yet while the government is preparing to table the bill in the ongoing HoR session.
The party has recommended Metmani Chaudhary as the Minister for Urban Development, Bhawani Khapung as Health and Population, Jibanram Shrestha as the Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation and Sher Bahadur Kunwar as the Labour, Employment and Social Security.
Sahadev Shrestha from Nepal has won a silver medal in the 13th International Open Friendship Taekwondo Championship (IOFTC).
According to Speaker Sapkota’s secretariat, the meeting was focused on election to the Chair of State Affairs and Good Governance of the HoR and leadership of the Public Accounts Committee.
The survey found that 70 per cent of the smoke and emission from vehicles needs to be cut down in the valley to meet the standard national air quality index.
The CPN (Unified Socialist)'s secretariat meeting decided to assign the top leaders in the party to shuffle its ministers in the cabinet.
In 1,579 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests done in the past 24 hours, a total of nine people were found infected with SARS-CoV-2, informed the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) in its regular update on Sunday.
As the nation joins the world today to mark the World Environment Day, the federal capital, Kathmandu, is confronted with the perennial problem of piling garbage which is in turn leading to river pollution.
This year's monsoon has entered Nepal today, a week earlier than the normal monsoon onset date.
A meeting between the Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) Mayor Balendra Shah and Chief Minister of Bagmati Province Rajendra Pandey has taken place today morning at the latter's private residence in Swayambhu in Kathmandu.