05 June 2019, Kathmandu
National News
The District Hospital here has installed a software- health management information system (HMIS) – to ensue well managed and transparent services.
The Ministry of Education and Science Technology has made it clear that the budget allocated for education by the federal government had not breached the working areas and rights of the local levels and State governments.
A teenage girl was killed with snakebite at Motipur of Rajpur rural municipality in Dang district on Monday morning. The victim was Pramila Yadav, 17, according to the District Police Office.
In a bid to help students in their study, Sinja rural municipality in the district has distributed solar lamps to 12 schools free of cost.
Waling municipality here has launched the Prime Minister Employment Programme in order to develop smart municipality. Municipality mayor, Dilip Pratap Khand, informed that construction of Chhaprak-Siddhababa trekking route at ward no 2 of the municipality was the first priority under the programme.
Waling municipality here has launched the Prime Minister Employment Programme in order to develop smart municipality. Municipality mayor, Dilip Pratap Khand, informed that construction of Chhaprak-Siddhababa trekking route at ward no 2 of the municipality was the first priority under the programme.
President Bidya Devi Bhandari conducted puja at Bageshwori Temple of Nepalgunj this morning. The President conducted puja and received prasad, said personal joint secretary of the President, Dipa Sharma.
President Bidya Devi Bhandari conducted puja at Bageshwori Temple of Nepalgunj this morning. The President conducted puja and received prasad, said personal joint secretary of the President, Dipa Sharma.
Fifteen couples who had done the inter-caste marriage have been honoured here. The joint political Dalit struggle committee honoured the couple amidst a programme organized on the occasion of the national day on elimination of untouchability on Monday.
State 1 Chief Minister Sherdhan Rai has extended best wishes to all Muslim brothers and sisters on the occasion of the Eid Ul Fitre, the holy festival celebrated by the Muslim community.
Vice-President Nanda Bahadur Pun has hoped the Eid Ul Fitre, the festival being celebrated by the Muslim community today, would strengthen social amity and religious and cultural harmony in the country.
Minister for Forest and Environment Shakti Bahadur Basnet today stressed the need for each individual to play a constructive role in helping keep world’s environment balanced.
President Bidya Devi Bhandari has asserted that it was imperative to raise on investment in education sector to achieve sustainable development in the country.
A teacher, who has been arrested for beating up fourteen school children leaving them injured, arms of five girl students broken, is to face a trial under indecent ‘behaviour’.
On the contrary to people’s constructed perception about Dhamijhakris (traditional healers) staying away often from doctors, some of them have visited a free health camp organised by Nepal Army at Shikhar municipality in the district for a health checkup and counseling.
A nine-point ‘Pangretar Declaration’ issued in Sindhupalchowk has forwarded the plan that the community schools’ teachers should compulsorily enroll their children to the community schools.
Nepali Congress Spokesperson Bishwa Prakash Sharma has said the party’s awareness campaign has prompted the culture of dialogue among the party cadres. Talking to journalists here today, he said the campaign aims to further reform the party and it had been helpful to determine the party’s future course of action.
Karnali state chief minister Mahendra Bahadur Shahi has said the Kakre Bihar in Surkhet, the major touristic destination of the state, would be further developed through the open ‘zoo’ concept.
Around 99 per cent of the installation of petroleum pipeline along the Motihari-Amlekhgunj has been completed. Petroleum products from India will be imported to Nepal via around 78-kilometres pipeline under this Project which remains as the first cross-border project in the entire South Asia.
The National Conference of Young Scientists Conference, 2019 has kicked off here today with the aim of exchanging experiences and knowledge about latest development in science and technology in the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) region.
Local representatives of Kailali, the district in Far West State, have expressed their commitments to taking measures against child marriage. They vowed to take action against anyone found involved in conducting child marriage. As per the prevailing law of Nepal, marriage before the completion of 20 years is unlawful. But the child marriage continues to happen as thirty-seven percent of girls in Nepal marry before age 18, and 10 percent are married by age 15, UNICEF data shows. The local governments in Kailali are preparing to come up with a drive against child marriage and a dowry system, which are main causes of violence against girls and women.
Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has marked the World Environment Day by planting a sapling of avocado on the premises of Singha Durbar today.
Nepali Congress President and former Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba today extended good wishes to all Muslim community on the occasion of Eid Ul Fitre, the holy festival celebrated by the Muslim community. “May this festival bring happiness, peace and prosperity and increase religious harmony and goodwill,” he said in a message or greetings.
The main opposition Nepali Congress has registered an urgent proposal of public importance relating to a ban on Nepali workers seeking jobs in Malaysia at the Federal Parliament Secretariat. The issue of Nepali migrant workers is looked after by the Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Security.
Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has called on one and all to be part of the national campaign ‘One Nepali, One Fruit Sapling, One Tree’ campaign. In a video message released on the occasion of the World Environment Day today, PM Oli said that the new fiscal year would be observed as the afforestation year.
The Federation of Nepali Journalists (FNJ) has expressed its concern over the threats of physical assault to journalist Birat Anupam by Itahari sub-metropolis mayor Dwarika Lal Chaudhary. The mayor on June 4 allegedly threatened the journalist with physical assault by a telephone call. “I have allocated Rs 10 million to break your nose,” he rudely spoke to the journalist on the telephone, according to a statement issued today by the umbrella organisation of journalists.
International News
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Tuesday that he will not attend the G20 summit to be held on June 28-29 in the Japanese city of Osaka.
Militants killed eight Egyptian paramilitaries on Wednesday at a checkpoint in the Sinai Peninsula, centre of a long-running jihadist insurgency, security and medical sources said.
Rescuers have been searching for the 17 crew of a cargo boat which sank in the waters off Central Sulawesi province, Indonesia, head of the search and rescue office in the provincial capital Basrano said on Wednesday.
Sixty people have been killed in a two-day crackdown on Sudanese protesters carried out by troops and paramilitaries, a doctors’ committee close to the demonstrators said on Wednesday.
The Trump administration clamped down on US tourist visits to Cuba Tuesday, aiming to cut the flow of dollars to a country that Washington accuses of helping prop up Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
Under pressure after a deadly season on traffic-clogged Mount Everest, Nepal is considering tightening access to the world’s highest peak, but mountaineering experts fear the proposed changes could amount to little more than lip service.
Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Russia Wednesday for talks he said would boost strategic cooperation, as Beijing and Moscow continue to spar with the US.
North Korea will temporarily suspend its spectacular “Mass Games” propaganda displays from next week, travel agencies said Wednesday, after leader Kim Jong Un censured the show’s content.
Urban expansion and hunting have pushed chimpanzees, humanity’s closest relative in the animal kingdom, into shrinking islets of wildness, top experts said Tuesday after a three-day meeting in Germany.
One school in northeast India has taken a novel approach to addressing the scourge of plastic waste by making its collection a condition of free attendance.
No country is on track to achieve the gender equality called for in the United Nations’s development blueprint, a report released on Tuesday said.
