12 June 2019, Kathmandu
National News
As many as 2,540 students of five schools in Jumla district have undergone tuberculosis tests. Students from Karnali Secondary School Anamnagar, Chandan Nath Namuna Secondary School Khalanga Bazaar, Ratnachundeswor Secondary School Bohoragaun, Janata Technical Secondary School Mahatgaun and Janajyoti Secondary School Barkote Wada received treatment of tuberculosis.
A four-room building of Ganesh Primary School based in Hetauda Sub-Metropolis-19, constructed with the assistance of the government of Japan, was handed over to the school.
Radio Parbat – a community radio based in Parbat district caught fire at 1.00 this morning. The fire that broke out due to electricity leakage destroyed all the materials and equipments, including computers, two mixtures, hybrid and television sets of the radio.
The State-5 government has laid emphasis on the promotion of different religious, historical and tourism sites based in Nawalparasi-west in keeping with the Lumbini Tourism Year-2076 BS.
Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has said Nepal would receive foreign loan based on the country needs and priorities. In an interview to Mathew Amliwala for BBC World, PM Oli clarified that the Nepal government has the capacity to manage such loan.
An ambulance has been managed for rescuing the injured or sick wild animals right from their jungle habitat for the first time in Nepal.
A 13-year-old girl was killed by lightning strike at Parashuram municipality-3 this morning. Three other people have been injured in the disaster.
Nepal Communist Party (NCP) chair and former Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ has assured that the Media Council Bill would be revised.
The parliamentarians from Nepali Congress (NC) and Rastriya Janata Party (RJP) have demanded that the newly tabled Guthi Bill to be repealed.
A shorter trekking route leading to the touristic site Khaptad has been constructed here. The visitors using this route can reach Khaptad in three hours. It starts from Unisaina of Sanfebagar municipality-12 in the district.
Chitwan which contributes largely to the poultry production at home, has now become fully sufficient on milk production as well, a study shows.
So far a total of 451 families in Gorkha district have got house of their own under the government’s Janata Awas Karyakram (People’s Housing Programme).
Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli and his delegation, presently in the Europe visit, is leaving for France today. He is scheduled to travel to Paris, the capital city of France, by train from London. The PM is visiting France at the friendly invitation of his French counterpart Edouard Philippe.
Speaking in the ‘zero hour’ of the House of Representatives’ meeting today, lawmakers expressed concern over the growing tendency among the doctors at the Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital (TUTH) emergency ward of encouraging the patients there to go to the private hospitals for treatment.
The Supreme Court has sought written answer from the government regarding why the illegal extraction of sand, pebbles and stones from the Sunkoshi river was not stopped.
Acting Prime Minister Ishwor Pokharel said that the government has accorded a high priority for the reform of public education sector in the country so that no one has to be left out to get an education due to poverty.
The ‘Third National Folklore Congress’ is commencing in the central capital from Friday. The two-day event is being organised by Nepal Folklore and Culture Society.
Journalist Nanda Bahadur Gelang died on the spot when a tipper hit him at Lode of Bheriganga Municipality-8 in Surkhet district today noon.
Chief of the Army Staff (CoAS) Purnachandra Thapa is going to China on June 16 at the formal invitation of the People’s Liberation Army of China.
Nepal Communist Party (NCP) chairman and former Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘ Prachanda’ has said it has been difficult to work due to the ‘old state structure’.
A total of 400,595 houses damaged in the 2015 earthquake have been rebuilt, while another 228,885 are under-construction. Accordingly, 52 per cent of the reconstruction has been completed and 30 per cent is under-completion.
International News
Five Afghan security personnel were killed and seven others sustained injuries as airstrikes mistakenly targeted a military base in Imam Sahib district of the country’s northern Kunduz province on Wednesday, district governor Mahboubullah Sayedi said.
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev was inaugurated as only the second elected president in Kazakhstan’s history Wednesday, after winning polls marred by a police crackdown and slammed by foreign monitors for “widespread voting irregularities.”
The air forces of the UN-backed Libyan government on Tuesday launched 3 airstrikes against the eastern-based army in south of the capital Tripoli, as the armed conflict in the city between the two parties continues.
Uganda’s minister of health late on Tuesday night announced that the east African country has registered an outbreak of the deadly Ebola Hemorrhagic fever.
Algerian energy giant Sonatrach and Portugal’s energy company Galp on Tuesday signed an agreement to extend Algerian gas exports to Portugal for 10 additional years, Sonatrach said in a statement.
At least 30 Venezuelan migrants are missing after the speedboat they were traveling in sank on its way to Curacao, an opposition lawmaker said on Tuesday.
A journalist was murdered Tuesday in southeast Mexico, her former employer and other news outlets reported. Norma Sarabia was a correspondent for the newspaper Tabasco HOY for 15 years and most recently worked for other media outlets in Tabasco state, the newspaper said in its report of her death. Sarabia is the sixth journalist slain this year in Mexico.
Shops began to reopen in Sudan’s capital on Wednesday but many residents stayed indoors after demonstrators called off a nationwide civil disobedience campaign that had brought Khartoum to a standstill.
Facebook has said it will not remove a manipulated video of its chief Mark Zuckerberg from Instagram, in which he appears to credit a secretive organisation for his success.
Website InfoWars has agreed to pay the creator of cartoon character Pepe the Frog $15,000 (£11,763) over copyright infringement.
