BHUWAN SHARMA

Of the total workforce under the Nepal Health Service, 54.7 percent are women, compared to 45.3 percent men, with 4,518 employees currently serving across the country.

Experts argue that in a country like Nepal, where public holidays are already abundant, a two-day weekend is largely impractical and disruptive to public service delivery.

The Department of Urban Development and Building Construction is working round the clock to make the main hall of the new Parliament building ready for the budget session. Currently, parliamentary meetings are being held in an alternative hall due to incomplete construction work.

The budget for the Fast Track is routed through the Ministry of Physical Infrastructure and Transport. According to ministry sources, overall physical progress on the project currently stands at around 46 percent.The dispute over the starting point of the Fast Track still remains unresolved. The sec...

The government is preparing to convert areas vacated after squatter settlement evictions into parks, green belts, expanded river corridors and widened buffer zones.

According to the ministry, 207 local governments have expressed interest in independently operating land revenue and survey services. These include sub-metropolitan cities such as Dharan, Ghorahi and Dhangadhi, which have shown readiness to begin operations.

The draft bill has been opened for public suggestions until Friday. 

The government began a campaign last Saturday to clear unauthorized squatter settlements across various locations in the Valley. While eviction efforts continue, a parallel process is underway to distinguish genuine landless people from those falsely claiming the status. Authorities are retrieving l...

The settlements were cleared over the weekend in coordination between the federal government and the Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC).

The Ministry of Finance on Sunday decided to shift from a monthly salary system to a bi-monthly payment structure for civil servants. The ministry has already written to the Office of the Financial Comptroller General to implement the new system.