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Manipur: 7 school students killed in bus accident

Manipur: 7 school students killed in bus accident
22 December, Manipur: At least seven school students were killed while over 40 others were injured after the bus they were travelling in met with an accident in Noney district of Manipur on Wednesday morning, the police said. Officials said that the accident took place at Old Cachar road at around 10.30 am. The victims were students of the Thambalnu... Read More

Flights affected at TIA due to the weather

Flights affected at TIA due to the weather
22 December, Kathmandu: Flights and landings at Tribhuvan International Airport have been affected since early this morning due to fog. General Manager of Tribhuvan International Airport, Prem Nath Thakur , informed that both external and internal flights were affected due to low visibility. According to him, some planes that could not land have been diverted. Vistara from India’s Mumbai and... Read More

Cucumber farmers making good income

Cucumber farmers making good income
20 December, Jukepani: The farmers at Jukepani of Hupsekot Rural Municipality-1 in Nawalparasi Purba are now busy in collecting cucumbers from the field. Jukepani is known as the pocket area of agriculture. Thisma Rana who used to work in the houses of commercial farmers is now herself making huge income from cucumber farming. She had made an investment of only... Read More

Man sets his own house on fire

Man sets his own house on fire
20 December, Haripur : In Sarlahi’s Haripur municipality, a young man set fire to his own house, causing damages worth more than Rs. 1.5 million. Deepak Neupane, son of Kumbhamaya Baral Neupane of Haripur-2 Sano Jagatpur in the central part of the district, set fire to his house on Monday night. Inspector Vijay Kunwar, Police Spokesperson of Sarlahi District Police... Read More

Committee formed to draft Guthi law

Committee formed to draft Guthi law
20 December, Kathmandu: The Ministry of Land Management, Cooperatives and Poverty Alleviation has formed a committee to prepare a draft of the Guthi law. The seven-member committee is formed under the coordination of Joint Secretary and Chief of Land Management Division, Padma Nidhi Soti. As per the ministerial decision, the committee has the members as experts on Guthi, Chunda Bajracharya,... Read More

State responsible for rescuing migrant workers in need

State responsible for rescuing migrant workers in need
20 December, Kathmandu: Minister for Labour, Employment and Social Security, Sher Bahadur Kunwar, has said it is the State’s responsibility to rescue and rehabilitate the workers facing difficulty in various labor destinations. Addressing a three-day exhibition on fraud in wages of the migrant workers and their social security, Minister Kunwar assured that the State must take responsibility for the migrant... Read More

Nepal Police: Awareness for peaceful, safe society

Nepal Police: Awareness for peaceful, safe society
19 December, Kathmandu: The Nepal Police in collaboration with the local government units have prepared resource materials targeting local students to contribute to build a peaceful and safe society. The District Police Office Chitwan in cahoots with seven local level units of the district have developed the awareness raising materials for school students. According to the district police sources, the... Read More

Rabi Lamichhane elected for parliamentary party

Rabi Lamichhane elected for parliamentary party
19 December, Kathmandu: Party Chairman Rabi Lamichhane has been elected as the leader of the parliamentary party of the Rashtriya Swatantra Party. Today’s party meeting elected Lamichhane as the leader of the parliamentary party. The party’s co-general minister Kabindra Burlakoti informed that Lamichhane, who was elected unopposed in the preliminary elections, was approved by the parliamentary party leader at the... Read More

11 people seriously injured on Hawaii flight

11 people seriously injured on Hawaii flight
19 December, Kathmandu: Severe turbulence rocked a flight from Phoenix to Honolulu Sunday, seriously injuring 11 people in what an Hawaiian Airlines official called an isolated and unusual event. Jon Snook, the airline’s chief operating officer, said the airline hasn’t experienced “an incident of this nature in recent history.” The flight was full, carrying 278 passengers and 10 crew members,... Read More

Pak lawmaker Mohsin Dawar amid rising militancy

Pak lawmaker Mohsin Dawar amid rising militancy
19 December, Islamabad : Amid a surge in militancy in northwest Pakistan, the Member National Assembly Mohsin Dawar said a “war is underway” in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province after four police officials were killed “terrorist attack” in Lakki Marwat area. “4 police officials of Bragai police station were martyred in a terrorist attack in Lakki Marwat while there are reports... Read More