POLITICS
SC clears way for recruiting 9,000 plus govt staff
SC clears way for recruiting 9,000 plus govt staff
KATHMANDU, July 2: The Supreme Court on Monday gave the go ahead to government authorities– Public Service Commission and Ministry of General Administration— for recruiting over 9,000 personnel for the local governments.
Jul 02, 2019
ECONOMY
PAN mandatory for all income earners from mid-July
PAN mandatory for all income earners from mid-July
KATHMANDU, July 1: Suman Kumar Gupta, 23, recently applied for Permanent Account Number (PAN) at a taxpayer service office of Inland Revenue Department in Kathmandu. “I had to apply for PAN as my employer asked me to get PAN before joining them,” Gupta, who has recently been hired by a commercial ba...
Jul 02, 2019
POLITICS
RJPN, SPN in informal talks for merger
RJPN, SPN in informal talks for merger
KATHMANDU, July 2: The Rastriya Janata Party Nepal (RJPN) and Samajbadi Party Nepal (SPN) have intensified informal negotiation for merger.
Jul 02, 2019
SOCIETY
View towers everywhere in eastern Nepal
View towers everywhere in eastern Nepal
BIRATNAGAR, July 2: Construction of view tower in their localities might or might not have interested people at all, but it is indeed emerging as a great interest of all three tiers of governments. As a result, a number of view towers are either already under construction or are in the planning. The...
Jul 02, 2019
SOCIETY
Special Court acquits 4 ex-APF chiefs of graft
Special Court acquits 4 ex-APF chiefs of graft
KATHMANDU, July 2: The Special Court on Monday acquitted 22 Armed Police Force officials, including former inspector generals Kosh Raj Onta, Sanat Kumar Basnet, Shailendra Kumar Shrestha and Basudev Oli, of corruption charges, on the ground that the charges labeled against them could not be substant...
Jul 02, 2019
ECONOMY
PM rules out bailout for loss-making NAC (with video)
PM rules out bailout for loss-making NAC (with video)
KATHMANDU, July 2: Prime Minister KP Oli has said the government will not inject funds in the crisis-ridden Nepal Airlines Corporation (NAC) under the existing circumstances.
Jul 02, 2019
SOCIETY, Latest Updates
KU padlocked by student union for a week
KU padlocked by student union for a week
BANEPA, July 2: Education at Kathmandu University remains halted for the past six days after the student union affiliated to the ruling Nepal Communist Party padlocked the university.
Jul 02, 2019
SOCIETY
Daughter behind mother's murder
Daughter behind mother's murder
BHAKTAPUR, July 2: Police investigation has revealed that the daughter of Sabitri Bhattarai, 60, of Bhaktapur, is behind her gruesome murder. Bhattarai was found dead, with her throat slit, inside a room at Changunarayan Municipality – 7, Basbari on Sunday afternoon.
Jul 02, 2019
SOCIETY, Latest Updates
Home ministry inspection team returns to capital without evidence
Home ministry inspection team returns to capital without evi...
SARLAHI, July 2: The government team which visited Sarlahi to investigate the killing of Kumar Paudel, the district in-charge of the Netra Bikram Chand-led Communist Party of Nepal (CPN), by police has returned to Kathmandu empty-handed.
Jul 02, 2019
SOCIETY, Latest Updates
Victims' families refuse to receive their bodies until demands met
Victims' families refuse to receive their bodies until deman...
SARLAHI, July 2: The family members of the youth who died during a police firing near Banke forest of Sarlahi on Sunday and the one who drowned in a pit dug up near Banke River on Saturday have refused to claim the dead bodies until their demands are addressed.
Jul 02, 2019