30 May 2019, Kathmandu
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National News
The Shuklagandaki municipality in Tanahu has provided a grant to goats farmers as an incentive for them. Fifty farmers mainly from indigent community of Shuklagandaki municipality-12 received Rs 20,000 to 100,000 each, said ward chair Manaraj Gurung. Leading farmers Til Bahadur Gurung and Min Bahadur Gurung who have systematic goat farms with more than 15 mother goats were given Rs 100,000 each.
Three people have been arrested by police while intaking brown heroin from Ratnagar of eastern Chitwan. According to the Area Police Office, Ratnagar, they were arrested from Bhagmara of Ratnanagar municipality-7 on Wednesday night. A squad from the office confiscated drug weighing 2.74 grams from them. The accused are Ramesh Pandey of Ratnanagar-4, Ramu Pariyar of Ratnanagar-7 and Narayan Shrestha of Ratnanagar-1. They are being interrogated keeping at the office.
The Ministry of Water Supply is learnt to have been working on an idea of a high-powered authority for the systematic management of waste produced from the Kathmandu Valley. Secretary at the Ministry, Deependra Nath Sharma, during a meeting with members of Bagmati River and Ring Road Area Clean-up campaigns, shared the government concept of establishing the high-powered body to deal with the waste management issues, which, as he said, are becoming more challenging day by day.
Historic Palpa Museum has been formally inaugurated after four years of its operation. The inauguration ceremony took place Wednesday was attended by State 5 state assembly member Tularam Gharti, District Coordination Committee Palpa’s chief Daya Raj Basyal, State 5 social development ministry’s secretary Krishna Prasad Gyawali, and Federation of Nepali Journalists, Palpa chair Rajesh Kumar Aryal, among others. On the occasion they highlighted the need of effective management and regular surveillance of the museum.
Myagdi has given instruction to cease bridge construction works under the Beni-Jomsom-Korola road project. The Office cited the use of substandard construction materials in the construction of a cemented bridge over the Rahughat River and directed for the halt until a next notice. Raghuganga rural municipality Chief Bhawa Bahadur Bhandari gave a notification to the office that low-standard sand and rocks were used in the construction of bridge foundation.
The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) has arrested a person for trying to bribe a police official. The CIAA squad took Abhishek Karki of Jhapa under control for allegedly offering money to police.
The country celebrated the 12th Republic Day on Wednesday with several programmes across the nation. The Day commemorates the overthrow of the 240-year-old monarchy establishing the people’s true sovereignty for the first time in the country.
A school based in Pipara rural municipality of Mahottari, the district in state 2, has been padlocked for three days after the school principal did not allow a Dalit teacher to sign in.
A 35-year-old woman died in Doti district after severely burnt while trying to put out the fire that caught a forest nearby her village.
Government has conferred the Constituent Assembly medal on all the members of Constituent Assembly (CA) elected in first and second CA elections.
Police have made public a man arrested on charge of sacrificing a child in the name of god amid a press conference in the district police office in Dhanusa, today.
Ruling Nepal Communist Party, Chitwan, has suspended two NCP leaders for their alleged involvement in destroying the compound walls of the under-construction Gautam Buddha International Cricket Stadium.
‘Hamra Mahila Pratinidhi’ (Our Women Representatives), a profile of women representatives elected in the local levels in Gandaki province, has been released amid a programme here today.
The District Police have arrested Gyan Bahadur Shahi (Gyanendra), 32, on charge of misbehaving with journalists. Shahi was arrested acting on a complaint saying Shahi damaged the prestige of media persons by calling journalists of Karnali state thieves and dogs through Facebook on May 1, said Deputy Superintendent of Police Pradeep Bahadur Chhetri, Spokesperson for the District Police Office.
Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli on Sunday pointed out that there should be an equal opportunity for women for their upliftment. “There is not possibility of the elevation of the society without the upliftment of women. For their elevation, there should be equal opportunities,” he said while inaugurating ‘First National Women Rights Day, 2076’ organised here by the Ministry of Women, Children and Senior Citizen.
The Meteorological Forecasting Division (MFD) has predicted partly cloudy weather and rainfall, from light to moderate, for three continuous days in Kathmandu Valley as well as to other parts of the country.
Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has left for New Delhi today to participate in the Swearing-in ceremony of Narendra Modi, who starts his second term as India’s prime minister after a resounding victory in the recently concluded parliamentary elections.
Chief Justice at the Supreme Court, Cholendra Shamsher JB Rana has administered the oath of office and secrecy to the chief judge duo Kumar Prasad Pokharel and Ramesh Pokharel amid a function organized at the Supreme Court in the capital today.
International News
Narita International Airport Corp. unveiled four new robots to be deployed for security patrols at the international airport located in Tokyo’s neighboring prefecture of Chiba, local media reported Thursday.
Seven South Korean tourists died and 21 others were missing after a sightseeing boat capsized and sank on the Danube in Budapest, Hungarian and South Korean officials said Thursday.
At least 21 people were killed and over 30 sustained injuries in a road accident on Wednesday in eastern Mexico’s Veracruz state.
Bhutan Prime Minister Lotay Tshering on Thursday arrived in Delhi to attend his counterpart Narendra Modi’s oath ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhawan.
A baby born weighing just 245g (8.6oz), believed to be the tiniest on record to survive premature birth, has been discharged from hospital in the US. Baby Saybie weighed the same as a large apple when she was born at 23 weeks and three days in December 2018.
China accused the Trump administration of committing “economic terrorism” on Thursday, escalating its war of words with the United States amid rising trade tensions between the two countries.
Astronomers have found an exoplanet so rare that they have deemed it “The Forbidden Planet,” according to a new study.
Venezuela’s economy is in shambles and the country has plunged into political chaos. The dysfunction is so great that basic economic data has been hard to come by.
