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Make foreign employment dignified: PM

Kathmandu: Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal has urged entrepreneurs to make the foreign employment sector more systematic and dignified.
Such a remark of the Prime Minister comes at a time when youths aspiring for jobs abroad have been complaining about rampant cheating.
Receiving a memorandum submitted by Progressive Foreign Employment Entrepreneurs’ Forum in the Capital today, PM [...]

September 2, 2010 | Posted in English Headlines | बांकी अंश »

Journalist faces sexual harassment charge

Kathmandu: Kathmandu District Police Office, Hanumandhoka, is preparing to file a case against journalist Bikash Thapa under the Electronic Transactions Act, 2063.
A case will be filed against him under the Act at court for sexually harassing journalist Maina Dhital of Kantipur daily through email and SMS message, said Senior Superintendent of Police Rana Bahadur Chand. [...]

September 2, 2010 | Posted in English Headlines | बांकी अंश »

No obstruction in Sisdol, garbage disposal resumes

Kathmandu: The Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) disposed garbage in Sisdol landfill site today after nearly two weeks of obstruction.

September 2, 2010 | Posted in English Headlines | बांकी अंश »

Ranabhat to contest for NC central member

Pokhara: Former Speaker and Nepali Congress (NC) leader Tara Nath Ranabhat has announced that he would file his candidacy for the post of a central member as an open contestant in the 12th General Convention of the party.

September 2, 2010 | Posted in English Headlines | बांकी अंश »

Gold worth rs 13.7 million confiscated

Parsa: A revenue patrol team of Armed Police Force seized gold worth Rs. 13.7 million, which was illegally imported from India evading customs tax, in Birgunj this morning.
Police seized 4 kg and 299 gram of gold brought in Nepal from India hiding under the seat of a car (Ba 7 Cha 6344) and handed over [...]

September 2, 2010 | Posted in English Headlines | बांकी अंश »

Finance Minister cannot bring budget: Rijal

Pokhara: Culture Minister Dr. Minendra Rijal has said that the Finance Minister of the party that has been staying neutral in the prime ministerial elections and making the country a prisoner of indecision has no right to bring new budget.
This fiscal year’s budget should be introduced by a new government, not the present caretaker government, [...]

September 2, 2010 | Posted in English Headlines | बांकी अंश »

NC leader fears constitution fiasco

Nawalparasi: Nepali Congress central member Dr. Shashanka Koirala has expressed his fear that the new constitution would not be drafted even within the extended deadline due to increasing disagreement among political parties.
Speaking at a function organised in Nawalparasi district today by Former Army Welfare Group, he said that parties have been talking about consensus outside, [...]

September 2, 2010 | Posted in English Headlines | बांकी अंश »

30,000 Bhutanese refugees resettled in U.S.

Sometime this week the number of Bhutanese refugees who have departed Nepal for the United States will reach 30,000. At about the same time, the number of this group to be resettled in any country will reach 35,000. These two milestones come during the on-going large scale resettlement of [...]

September 2, 2010 | Posted in English Headlines | बांकी अंश »

Sadikshya Shrestha crowned Miss Nepal 2010

A supremely confident Sadikshya Shrestha, who would like to see world-class scientists emerge from Nepal, beat 17 other finalists to become Dabur Special-Hidden Treasure Miss Nepal 2010 at a scaled-down pageant here Wednesday, marked by opposition by the Maoists and a campaign against the main sponsor – Dabur Nepal.
Shrestha, who [...]

September 2, 2010 | Posted in English Headlines | बांकी अंश »

‘No problem for salary, allowance during Dashain’

Kathmandu: Finance Secretary Rameshwor Khanal has said there would be no problem for providing salary and allowance to civil servants during the Dashain festival despite the delay in bringing full-fledged budget.
Speaking at a face-to-face programme organised here Wednesday, Khanal claimed that Dashain allowance and salary for employees won’t be frozen as the government has the [...]

September 1, 2010 | Posted in English Headlines | बांकी अंश »