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25 per cent hike in govt employees’ salary

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Kathmandu, May 28: The government has announced 25 per cent hike in the existing salary of the government staffers. Minister for Finance Bishnu Prasad Poudel made the announcement while unveiling the budget estimates for Fiscal Year 2016/017 at the meeting of the Legislature-Parliament here...

Public vehicles in standstill in Kathmandu

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Kathmandu, May 26: In protest of the increment of the penalty slapped for breaching traffic rules the transport entrepreneurs have enforced chakkajam in the Kathmandu Valley since early this morning. The transport entrepreneurs have brought public transport to halt protesting the hefty rise in...

Four die while scaling Everest in this season

२०७३ जेठ ११ गते १५:५३

Kathmandu, May 23: As many as four people have died in course of scaling the Mt Everest, the highest peak of the world so far in this season, said Department of Tourism, Everest Base Camp sources. The deceased are Phurba Sherpa, 24, Arik Arnold,...

Nepal Day Parade held in New York, America

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America (New York), May 23: A ‘Nepal Day’ Parade has been organised at New York today on the occasion of the Republic Day of Nepal on May 28. Charge d’Affairs at the Permanent Mission of Nepal to United Nations, Sewa Lamsal, flagged off the...

One dies, six go missing while scaling Everest

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Kathmandu, May 23: An Indian national Suvas Paul died in course of scaling the Mt Everest, the highest peak of the world last night, said Department of Tourism, Everest Base Camp sources. Similarly, six other mountaineers have gone missing. Of the missing, three are...

Construction worker killed in building wall collapse

२०७३ जेठ ९ गते १८:२६

Lahan (Siraha), May 22: A construction worker from India was killed when a building wall gave way and fell on him at Lahan Municipality-7 in the district today. Basanta Paswan, 50, was working on the house of local resident Banu Paswan when the incident...

Lalighat landslide kills three; 10 missing

२०७३ जेठ ७ गते १२:०७

Kalikot, May 20: At least three persons killed and other 10 went missing when a landslide occurred at local main Haatbazaar, Lalighat, of Kotwada VDC, Kalikot at 11.00 last night. The landslide has swept away more than two dozens shops located in the city...

Lumbini is the centre of world peace: PM Oli

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Kathmandu, May 19: Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has said that Lumbini of Nepal, the birthplace of the Shakyamuni Gautam Buddha, the proponent of peace, is the centre of world peace. Inaugurating the International Buddhist Conference organised as part of the celebration of the...

Fire destroys property worth over 8 million

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Rajbiraj (Saptari), May 19: Six houses were reduced to cinders when a fire broke out at Sitapur-1 in Saptari Wednesday night. The fire started from the cowshed of local resident Raju Chaudhary and ripped through the houses of Chaudhary, and other local residents Lakhan...

Four die in road accident

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Golbazaar (Siraha), May 18: Four people were killed and another was seriously injured when three motorcycles collided at Bhotiyatol of Lahan Municipality-1 in Siraha district on Tuesday. Those killed in the accident are Bibek Singh of Golbazaar, Laxman Ram of Saptari Gamhariya-3, Ram Ashis...

US-based organisation donates Rs 5 m to rebuild quake-damaged school

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Kathmandu, May 18: A financial company Capital Funding Group with its headquarters in Baltimore of the United States of America has donated Rs 5 million to a school in Nuwakot to reconstruct its building ravaged by the April 25, 2015 earthquake. The bodies concerned...

‘Nepal also a source of Buddha philosophy’

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Kathmandu, May 16: Minister for Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation Ananda Prasad Pokharel has said that Nepal beside the birthplace of Siddhartha Gautam is also the origin of Buddhist philosophy. At a face-to-face programme organized here Monday by the Reporters Club Nepal, he said...

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