KATHMANDU, Dec 7 : The Tribhuvan University (TU) has increased the amount of medical expenses being given to its students by hundred percent beginning from the current fiscal year.

MELAMCHI, June 27: The task force formed to resume works of the Melamchi Water Supply Project has urged the project's agitating local contractors, workers and suppliers to claim their due amount within three days.

KATHMANDU, June 12: The United States President Donald Trump argued that a peaceful Korean peninsula would “save tremendous amount of money” and bring American soldiers home. In 2017, the United States spent $818 billion in its military, up from $761 billion in 2016.

KATHMANDU, April 18: A report of the Office of Auditor General (OAG) reveals that the unsettled accounts at the Ministry of Health (MoH) amount to Rs 2.64 billion.

KATHMANDU, Nov 22:  The Special Court on Tuesday sent former chairman of the Tax Settlement Commission (TSC) Lumbadhoj Mahat and former member Umesh Dhakal to Dillibazar prison for their failure to post bail imposed by the court in relation to tax settlement cases.

KHOTANG, Nov 14: The District Natural Disaster Relief Committee (DNDRC), Khotang, has announced to provide relief amount to 34 households hit by natural disasters in fiscal year 2016/1017. According to the announcement, the DNDRC will distribute a total of Rs 240,000 among the 34 households.

KATHMANDU, Nov 5: IME Limited has handed over Rs one million cash to the 1st sixth-week winner’s wife Ms. Ambika Neupane on behalf of the winner Thaneshwor Neupane under IME’s ChakkaPanja Offer. The prize money was handed over by IME’s Chief Sales Officer Rudra Raj Poudel and Accounts Manager. Krishna Prasad Acharya amid a special program held at IME Head Office.

ITAHARI, August 30: The families of eight persons killed in the recent flooding in Itahari have received the relief amount. Each of the deceased's family received Rs 200,000.

KATHMANDU, August 22: Recent tarai floods have caused damages worth Rs 37 billion to the country’s physical infrastructure and agricultural sector, according to statistics. According to the concerned ministries’ preliminary data, flood damages amount to Rs 37.294 billion.

BHAIRAHAWA, May 21: Compensation amount for land to be acquired for Gautam Buddha International Airport has been fixed.

RATNANAGAR (Chitwan), April 27: Police has confiscated and destroyed a large quantity of home-brewed liquor including the ingredients from different places of the Chitwan district over a period of 10 days.

KATHMANDU, Jan 31: At a time when around 2,600 engineers and technical staff deployed by the government have been forced to stay idle due to sluggish progress in reconstruction of private buildings in the 14 earthquake-affected districts, the National Reconstruction Authority (NRA) is making preparations to deploy around 3,500 final year civil engineering students as volunteers for 'facilitating the victims in constructing earthquake resilient houses'.

KATHMANDU, Jan 2: In a recent operation by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) of Nepal Police, a 39-year-old woman was found to be involved in trafficking pharmaceutical drugs in order to collect bail amount for her husband who was sent to jail in a similar charge few months back.

KATHMANDU, Sept 5: Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal has intensified his efforts to manage financial resources for increasing the house reconstruction grants for the earthquake victims from Rs 200,000 to Rs 300,000 for each household.

Large amount of sugar seized

August 19, 2016 17:54 pm

ILAM, Aug 19: Police on Friday intercepted a large amount of sugar while being transported to Nepal illegally via the Pashupatinagar checkpoint bordering India.

KATHMANDU, Aug 6: A representative of contractors who have been working on various development projects has told a parliamentary committee that they have to pay up to 20 percent of their total contract amounts as bribes to top government officials.

KATHMANDU, July 3: Lawmakers speaking at today's Legislature-Parliament meeting drew the attention of the government to distribute a lump sum grant amount of Rs 1,50,000 to each earthquake survivor family to help them reconstruct their home destroyed in the April 25, 2015 earthquake.

KATHMANDU, June 25:With the new academic session just around the corner, some higher secondary schools in Kathmandu Valley have started collecting additional amount for the admission process against the guidelines of the government regulatory body. However, the concerned authority hasn't taken any action against them.