Published On: May 19, 2018 07:25 AM NPT By: Bishnu Prasad Aryal
KATHMANDU, May 18: Police in the Kathmandu Valley said about two-thirds of the mobile phone theft victims are women.
Published On: May 15, 2018 05:15 AM NPT By: Bishnu Prasad Aryal
KATHMANDU, May 15: It has been revealed that Tribhuvan University (TU), the oldest and biggest university in the country, deprived its permanent teachers of opportunities to study various Master's degree courses in China under full scholarship.
Published On: May 1, 2018 05:59 AM NPT By: Bishnu Prasad Aryal
KATHMANDU, May 1: It has been revealed that the Nepal Police Hospital procured drugs worth millions of rupees without following necessary procedures.
Published On: April 20, 2018 03:59 AM NPT By: Bishnu Prasad Aryal
Plan International Nepal has proposed a project of Rs 8 billion allocating only about 10 percent of the budget for physical infrastructure development.
Published On: April 17, 2018 06:00 AM NPT By: Bishnu Prasad Aryal
KATHMANDU, April 17: A report published by the Office of the Auditor General (OAG) shows that officials at Sajha Prakashan gobbled up Rs 130.3 million by selling books printed by Janak Education Materials Center (JEMC) in the year 2074 BS (2017/18).
Published On: April 14, 2018 03:32 AM NPT By: Bishnu Prasad Aryal
KATHMANDU, April 13: Like in the previous years, the government has failed to supply school textbooks to the districts on time this year too. According to the rules, the textbooks should have been delivered to the districts before April 1.
Published On: April 13, 2018 06:00 AM NPT By: Bishnu Prasad Aryal
KATHMANDU, April 13: Private schools all over the country have collected an estimated Rs 15 billion from guardians under the head of annual fees for the academic session that begins from April 14. An estimated Rs 5 billion is collected under this head in Kathmandu Valley alone.
Published On: March 30, 2018 10:33 AM NPT By: Bishnu Prasad Aryal
KATHMANDU, March 30: As in previous years, private schools have hiked their fees, up to 30 percent this time, breaching the rules set down by the government.
Published On: March 22, 2018 06:00 AM NPT By: Bishnu Prasad Aryal
RAMPUR, PALPA, March 22: After less than a year in the post, Mayor of Rampur Municipality Raman Bahadur Thapa has been widely criticized for carrying out development and other activities of the municipality in an arbitrary fashion and against the norms of elected office.
Published On: March 20, 2018 06:15 AM NPT By: Bishnu Prasad Aryal
KATHMANDU, March 19: The students of Purna Hira Secondary School at Bansgadhi Municipality-8 in Bardia district have to endure up to 44 degree Celsius during summer as they study under corrugated zinc sheet roofs due to the lack of proper buildings. Of the total 522 students at the school, 65 percent are from the Tharu community.
Published On: March 14, 2018 07:48 AM NPT By: Bishnu Prasad Aryal
KATHMANDU, March 14: A neurosurgeon and 12 to-be-doctors lost their lives in the US-Bangla aircraft crash on Monday, while two seriously injured medical students have been struggling to survive.
Published On: March 2, 2018 07:30 AM NPT By: Bishnu Prasad Aryal
KATHMANDU, March 2: As Nepal Medical Council (NMC), the apex body of medical doctors in the country, marked its 55th anniversary on Wednesday, doctors and experts expressed worries over the lack of specialty doctors to provide certain specialized health services in the country.
Published On: February 27, 2018 06:05 AM NPT By: Bishnu Prasad Aryal
KATHMANDU, Feb 27: Patients visiting government health facilities in all 77 districts are going to be deprived of essential medicines for at least the next three months as the government has failed to purchase and supply the drugs meant to be distributed free of cost.
Published On: February 14, 2018 07:19 AM NPT By: Bishnu Prasad Aryal
KATHMANDU, Feb 14: Various non-academic organizations including 13 NGOs have been operating unhindered inside Tribhuvan University (TU) premises during the past decade.
Published On: February 9, 2018 06:23 AM NPT By: Bishnu Prasad Aryal
KATHMANDU, Feb 9: Some 58 percent children aged between 8 and 12 years are exposed to cyber risks in Nepal, according to a recent study.
Published On: February 7, 2018 09:40 AM NPT By: Bishnu Prasad Aryal
KATHMANDU, Feb 7: Tribhuvan University (TU), which has unsettled accounts of over Rs 16 billion, has claimed that it will settle these within the next 45 days. Most of the unsettled accounts pertain to the last 17 years.
Published On: February 5, 2018 11:58 AM NPT By: Bishnu Prasad Aryal
KATHMANDU, Feb 5: A total of 273,703 of the 5,373,800 households in the country do not have a toilet, according to government data. Similarly, among the seven provinces, Province 2 has the highest number of people practising open defecation while every household in provinces 4 and 6 has at least one toilet.
Published On: February 3, 2018 07:26 AM NPT By: Bishnu Prasad Aryal
KATHMANDU, Feb 3: Between 400 to 500 persons rush to the state-owned Shukraraj Tropical and Infectious Disease Hospital at Teku of Kathmandu daily after being bitten by dogs or other animals in the Kathmandu Valley. Ninety two percent of rabies cases belong to dog bites, according to health officials.
Published On: February 1, 2018 06:30 AM NPT By: Bishnu Prasad Aryal
KATHMANDU, Feb 1: The stocks of up to 60 drug varieties and medical items at the government's regional drugs storages are currently nil. However, the government is yet to make the drugs purchases for this year. Last fiscal year, the Department of Public Health Services (DoPHS) procured drugs worth only Rs 490 million out of the Rs 1.10 billion allocated for the purpose.
Published On: January 27, 2018 03:30 AM NPT By: Bishnu Prasad Aryal
KATHMANDU, Jan 25: At the behest of the Principal of Tribhuvan University (TU)'s Central Campus, Krishna Prasad Acharya, the leaders of student unions, students and TU officials burned plastic heaps in front of each of the 32 central departments of the university from 11AM to 1PM on Thursday.