02 May 2019
This is the glimpse of today’s national and international news:
National News
Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives Shivamaya Tumbahamphe has stressed the need for all three tiers of governments to put coordinated efforts for the protection and preservation of Makawanpurgadhi.
Minister for Foreign Affairs Pradeep Kumar Gyawali said the role of Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) was critically important for Nepal to propel BRI, Protocol to the Agreement on Transit and Transport or any project in new border entry point with China.
In view of the Nepal Tourism Year-2020, a new campaign is to be put in place to attract tourists to Nepal’s popular destination, Sauraha. Local tourism entrepreneurs have said new packages would be brought to lure tourists in off-seasons as well. It is the idea to promote tourism throughout the year rather not being limited to fair, festivals and events.
Domestic sugar product worth amounting to millions of rupees has been stocked for long in lack of market. Sugar mills in west Nawalparasi are struggling enough to clear their stock due to market competition, said entrepreneurs. It is difficult for Nepali sugar mills to compete with the cheaper sugar imported from foreign countries.
Country’s only Gurung museum based in Taplejung headquarters Fungling has failed to operate well due to financial crisis.
Local governments based in Baglung district have started consultations with stakeholders in course of the formulation of policy and budget for upcoming year.
Nearly 300 citizenship cards issued on the basis of descent have been annulled in Banke district. The District Administration Office Banke stated that this many citizenship cards from Rajhena,Khajurakhurda and Manikapur have been scrapped.
The government is to present its policies and programmes for the coming fiscal year in both houses of the Federal Parliament on Friday.
Chief Minister of Gandaki state government Prithvi Subba Gurung has said appointing the party cadres to the Judicial Council was unfortunate.
More than 2,500 senior citizens of Bangad Kupinde municipality of Salyan district have been affected in many ways as they are eagerly waiting for elderly citizen’s allowance for the past six months.
Minister for Foreign Affairs, Pradeep Kumar Gyawali returned home today after participating in the Second Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation and upon visiting the Tibet Autonomous Region of People’s Republic of China.
Police have arrested a senior vice-chairperson of All Nepal Teachers Organisation Association, Kanchanpur, close to Netra Bikram Chand (Biplav)-led group, Bibek Prasad Lamsal.
The Nepali cricket team, the winner of one-day and T-20 international cricket series against UAE, has been awarded with cash. At a programme organized at the Ministry of Youth and Sports today, Sports Minister Jagat Bahadur Bishwokarma and Member-Secretary of the National Sports Council, Keshav Kumar Bista, honoured the players with Rs 500,000 each.
Lawmakers attending today’s meeting of the Sustainable Development and Good Governance Committee of the National Assembly demanded that the government clarifies the issue of public land encroachment in Baluwatar and Khula Manch to the public. Anyone involved in the illegal act, irrespective of political leaders or those in power, should not be spared from action, they demanded.
Federation of Nepali Journalists (FNJ) has stated that the attempt to restrict press freedom by means of various Acts and laws, despite the very Preamble of the constitution guaranteeing full press freedom, itself was the challenge to press freedom.
Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli today inaugurated the campaign of ‘model smart school’ based on information technology for teaching by remote-clicking amid a programme held in Kamalpokhari, Kathmandu.
International News
Afghan officials called for a ceasefire Thursday as a huge peace summit wound down in Kabul after thousands of delegates spent days discussing possible conditions for a peace deal with the Taliban.
Sri Lanka’s Roman Catholic Church said it had cancelled plans to resume Sunday services because of fears of fresh bomb attacks.
U.S. media reported Wednesday that the Trump administration has not reached a consensus on whether to engage in military intervention in Venezuela to support the opposition leader Juan Guaido.
Nearly 800,000 people in India’s eastern coastal districts have been evacuated ahead of the expected arrival of a major cyclone packing winds of up to 200 kilometres (125 miles) per hour.
The Algorand Foundation today announced the appointment of Dr. Tal Rabin as the head of research.
Named on Forbes World Top 50 Women in Tech 2018 and a member of the National Academy of Arts and Sciences, Dr. Tal Rabin has spent decades pioneering research on cryptographic theory. Dr. Rabin will bring her wealth of experience, specifically around multiparty computations and the design of efficient and provably secure cryptographic protocols, to her work at the foundation.
The king of Thailand has married the deputy head of his personal security detail, and given her the title of queen.
A US cruise ship has been placed in quarantine by the Caribbean island of St Lucia after a case of measles was reported on board.
Wildlife authorities have shared photos of a three-eyed snake that was found on a highway in northern Australia.
Google is to offer users the option of automatically deleting their search and location history after three months.
