ECONOMY, Latest Updates
Nepse ekes out marginal gains in volatile trading
Nepse ekes out marginal gains in volatile trading
KATHMANDU: Stocks opened on a positive note on Tuesday as the major average saw a steady rise in the first trading hour. The Nepal Stock Exchange (Nepse) index added 13 points in the morning session before succumbing to selling pressure in th e afternoon. After trading roughly 7 points lower at mid-...
Jan 22, 2020
SOCIETY, Latest Updates
Chopper with high-tech device, drones combing avalanche area
Chopper with high-tech device, drones combing avalanche area
Kathmandu, Jan 22: The government on Tuesday morning sent a helicopter equipped with a high-tech device to the Annapurna Base Camp area to detect the possible location of the trekkers, who are missing after a massive avalanche in the region last week.
Jan 22, 2020
My City, Entertainment, Movies
Melissa Joan Hart to direct 'Young Sheldon' episode
Melissa Joan Hart to direct 'Young Sheldon' episode
Actor Melissa Joan Hart has been roped in to direct one of the upcoming episodes of the comedy series ‘Young Sheldon’. Hart, best known for her titular characters in the sitcoms ‘Clarissa Explains It All’, ‘Sabrina the Teenage Witch’ and ‘Melissa & Joey’, took to Instagram to share the news.
Jan 22, 2020
VALLEY POLLUTION INDEX
Valley Pollution Index for January 21, 2020
Valley Pollution Index for January 21, 2020
Valley pollution levels for January 21, 2020.
Jan 22, 2020
SOCIETY, Latest Updates
Tear down these walls, says Lalitpur mayor
Tear down these walls, says Lalitpur mayor
KATHMANDU, Jan 22: As a part of its city beautification campaign, Lalitpur Metropolitan City has started to tear down old brick walls and build new ‘fence walls’ at three different places. These walls, as claimed by Mayor Chiribabu Maharjan, are called ‘less obstructive fence walls’ and the metropol...
Jan 22, 2020
SOCIETY, Latest Updates
8 Indians ‘die of suffocation’ at Makawanpur resort
8 Indians ‘die of suffocation’ at Makawanpur resort
MAKAWANPUR, Jan 22: Eight Indian tourists including four minors died of suffocation at a hotel in Thaha Municipality-4, Makawanpur, on Tuesday.
Jan 22, 2020
POLITICS, Latest Updates
Civil society urges NCP not to appoint Sapkota as speaker
Civil society urges NCP not to appoint Sapkota as speaker
KATHMANDU, Jan 22: Expressing serious concerns over the decision of the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) to field murder-accused Agni Prasad Sapkota as candidate for House Speaker, a group of civil society leaders on Tuesday urged the ruling party, the government and political leadership concerned...
Jan 22, 2020
POLITICS, Latest Updates
Sapkota set to be elected speaker unopposed
Sapkota set to be elected speaker unopposed
KATHMANDU, Jan 22: Nepal Communist Party (NCP) leader Agni Prasad Sapkota is all set to be elected speaker of the lower house of parliament unopposed as no other lawmaker contested against his candidacy.
Jan 22, 2020
POLITICS, SOCIETY, Latest Updates
‘How can someone responsible for murdering my husband be elected speaker?’
‘How can someone responsible for murdering my husband be ele...
Maoists took away my husband a decade and a half ago. Since then, my life has been an uphill struggle. Neither could I meet him alive nor was his dead body handed over to me. On April 29, 2005, my husband was attending a function at a local school when Bhola Aryal, Yadav Poudel and Shyam Gautam kidn...
Jan 22, 2020
POLITICS, Latest Updates
Leaders engage in heated debate on US-proposed MCC grant (with video)
Leaders engage in heated debate on US-proposed MCC grant (wi...
KATHMANDU, Jan 21: Leaders of different political parties engaged in a heated debate on the US proposed Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) on Tuesday.
Jan 21, 2020