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Nepal a source of water for one billion population: FinMin Dr Mahat

Finance Minister Dr Prakash Sharan Mahat has said Nepal has 45 percent forest coverage out of total land, thereby providing a clean breath of oxygen for human. Addressing the 7th assembly of Global Environment Facility in Canada, Minister Dr Maha…

11 candidacies filed for presidency of 10 parliamentary thematic committees

Nominations have been registered for the elections of presidents of 10 thematic committees under the House of Representatives (HoR).  According to the Federal Parliament Secretariat, various political parties including the Nepali Congress, C…

Official residence of CMs and Chiefs of 7 Provinces inaugurated

The residences built for the Chief Ministers and Heads of the seven provinces have been inaugurated amidst a ceremony on Sunday. Fourteen blocks built at Bhainsepati in Lalitpur were inaugurated and handed over to chief ministers and ch…

DPM Shrestha calls for maintaining religious tolerance

Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister Narayan Kaji Shrestha has urged one and all to keep up the inter-caste and religious tolerance. Addressing a press conference organized by Press Centre Nepal, Parsa chapter here today, he called for maintai…

RPP to get infrastructure parliamentary committee chair

The Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) has got the chairperson of the Local Development and Infrastructure Parliamentary Committee. A meeting of the ruling alliance comprising chief whips of the parties held this morning decided to give the chairpe…

PM urged to act tough against corruption

The  team representing the Campaign for Nepali Congress Transformation today called on Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda' and demanded that the government take stringent action against all those  found indulging in corru…

Lalita Niwas case: Dang CDO Baidya pulled over to Home Ministry

Sushil Baidya, the Chief District Officer (CDO) of Dang, whose name was linked with the Lalita Niwas alnd case, has been pulled over to the Ministry of Home Affairs. The Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) of Nepal Police has made him a defendant …

Aerial survey of Kerung-Kathmandu railway fails to gain momentum

The work of an aerial survey of the much-discussed Kerung-Kathmandu railway has been stuck after reaching the Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation under the Ministry of Forests and Environment. The work on the Detailed Project R…

American senator Hollen to visit Nepal

Senator Chris Van Hollen, a member of the US Senate Foreign Affairs and Appropriations Sub-Committee on State and Foreign Operations, is to visit Nepal. He is scheduled to reach Kathmandu in the first week of September. During his visit to Nepal,…

FinMin Mahat elected GEF Vice Chairperson

Finance Minister Dr Prakash Sharan Mahat has been elected the Vice Chair of Global Environment Facility (GEF) by a plenary session held under the ongoing Seventh GEF Assembly in Canada. During the session, the Republic of Panama today proposed hi…