August 2021 - Digital Khabar

Bagmati Province govt adds four more offices

August 31, 2021August 31, 2021 Digital Khabar

Bagmati, Aug 31 (RSS): The Bagmati Province has decided to set up four new offices under the Ministry of Industry, Tourism, Forest and Environment in order to provide public service in a convenient manner. Three soil conservation offices under the forest and environment would be established to control landslide and an office under tourism development project for the development and... Read More

Koshi River’s water discharge fluctuating

August 31, 2021August 31, 2021 Digital Khabar

Inaruwa, Aug 31 (RSS): The level of water in Saptakoshi River has started fluctuating lately. Earlier, there was a rise in the water’s level following incessant rains in the eastern hilly and Terai districts. This morning, the flow of water in the river was measured at 214,745 cusecs per second and the measurement was taken at 7:00 am at the... Read More

Sri Lanka-Kathmandu direct flight launched

August 31, 2021August 31, 2021 Digital Khabar

Kathmandu, Aug 31 (RSS): The Sri Lankan Airlines has launched a direct flight from Kathmandu to Sri Lanka today. An aircraft –’A’ 320 of Sri Lankan Airlines that took off from Colombo landed at Tribhuvan International Airport, Kathmandu, at 10:24 am. A total of 132 passengers were in the airplane. General Manager at the TIA, Pratap Babu Tiwari, said that... Read More

Optical fibres laid on 1,006 km length

August 31, 2021August 31, 2021 Digital Khabar

Kathmandu, Aug 31 (RSS): The government has intensified laying optical fibres in line with the ambition set by the Digital Nepal Framework. Nepal Telecommunications Authority (NTA) has mobilized the Rural Telecommunications Development Fund to expand the broadband internet service across the country. Works on it have been completed in sixty districts under 15 packages out of 18. Similarly, fifty percent... Read More

14th Library Day: The story of a tragic death of Itahari’s once-famous three-story public library

August 31, 2021August 31, 2021 Digital Khabar

Birat Anupam Itahari, Aug 31 (RSS): Today, Nepal marks its fourteenth Library Day. Commemorating the institutionalization of library with librarian staff headed by Pandit Kedarnath Jha on 15 Bhadra 1869 BS, Nepal Government decided to observe Library Day on every Bhadra 15 (August 31) since 2008 AD. King Girwanayuddha Bikram Shah, the great grandson of Nepal’s unifier king Prithvinarayan Shah,... Read More

Drinking water shortage grips village in Nawalparashi

August 31, 2021August 31, 2021 Digital Khabar

Nawalpur, Aug 31 (RSS): Villages in Hupsekot Rural Municipality in Nawalparasi (Bardaghat-Susta East) have been reeling under acute drinking water shortage after flood swept away the drinking water pipe since the beginning of monsoon this year. Over 15,000 people from 3,000 households have been affected since the water supply stopped, said Mek Bahadur Pulami, Chairperson of the Urban Drinking Water... Read More

Top leaders agree to give full shape to government soon

August 30, 2021August 30, 2021 Digital Khabar

Kathmandu, Aug 30 (RSS): VTop leaders of the Nepali Congress (NC), CPN (Maoist Centre), CPN (Unified Socialist), Janata Samajbadi Party (JSP), Nepal and Rastriya Janamorcha have agreed to give full shape to the incumbent government as soon as possible. A meeting among the top leaders of the parties took place at the Prime Minister’s official residence, Baluwatar today ended with... Read More

Noted progressive literary writer Bhatta passes away

August 30, 2021August 30, 2021 Digital Khabar

Kathmandu, Aug 30 (RSS): Noted progressive literary writer Ananda Dev Bhatta passed away this morning. He was 86.Bhatta has been suffering from ‘Alzheimer disease’. He has been at own residence, Kalikasthan, following his treatment last month. Bhatta was active in Nepali literary writing, teaching and progressive thinking and has over two-and-a-half-dozen literary books including poetry, memoir, criticism and prose to... Read More

City drinking water project construction sees dillydally

August 30, 2021August 30, 2021 Digital Khabar

Bajhang, Aug 30 (RSS): The construction of City Drinking Water and Sanitation Project that entered into the signing of contract award to initiate works in Jayaprithvi-11, Bhojpur since 7 April 2019 has so far made 75 percent progress. As per the contract between the City Drinking Water and Sanitation Project Regional Office, Nepalgunj and Ashish JV Gwanllek Construction Service, the... Read More

Monsoon weakening

August 30, 2021August 30, 2021 Digital Khabar

Kathmandu, Aug 30 (RSS): Monsoon, which was active since some days back, is gradually weakening.The monsoon low pressure trough that was close to the eastern Tarai region has started to exit from Nepal from today, leading to the gradual fizzling out of the monsoon, said Raju Pradhananga, meteorologist at the Department of Hydrology and Meteorology. The weather is generally to... Read More