KATHMANDU, Nov 14: The government collected more than Rs 14 billion in revenue from the exemptions and 'schemes' provided by the Finance Act in the last Fiscal Year (FY) 2023/24. According to the ...

KATHMANDU, May 4: Press freedom in Nepal has witnessed a troubling downturn over the past year, with the killing of two journalists and a spike in violations targeting media professionals, according ...

KATHMANDU, July 19: Representatives of the United Nations to Nepal Robert Piper met with Constituent Assembly Chairman Subas Nembang at the latter’s office on Monday. During the meeting, the two ...

BIRATNAGAR, June 15: Surya Nepal has decided to shut its garment factory in Biratnagar after agitation of workers took a nasty turn on Wednesday. As many as 16 persons were injured in a clash between ...

Waste management is a basic public service. As this is also linked with the health of the public, this issue should not be held hostage by political parties, private companies, or the federal or ...

Piercing for navel jewels, dainty eyebrow rings and chunky tongue studs, and piercing lips, tongues, nipples and genitalia, and tattooing of body parts – these are no longer limited to Western ...

"If ever you are interviewed for your good deeds, tell that person that I have given you your name. I will be delighted to see that happen," Ang Maya Sherpa aka Jharana Sherpa was told by her ...

KATHMANDU, Sept 27: Nepali ambassador to Russian Federation Ravi Mohan Sapkota presented his Letter of Credence to Russian President Vladimir V. Putin at a special ceremony held in Kremlin on ...

Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal is confident that the big three parties - Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), Nepali Congress and Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist) - will ...

Many of us in Nepal have a tendency to walk alone. We imagine alone, dream alone, decide alone, do things alone, rejoice alone in successes, and regret alone in failures. So are we isolationist, mean ...

At twenty-five and a mother of two, she was a wisp of a woman who flitted about like an apparition. When she came to work one morning two months ago, she looked disheveled. The drag in her gait, rheum ...

KATHMANDU, Aug 14: Minister for Foreign Affairs Sujata Koirala returned home after her five-day visit to India on Friday. Koirala said she did all the preparatory works for Prime Minister Madhav Kumar ...