Tourism Council urges all to seek alternative to banda   

Pokhara Tourism Council has urged all sectors to seek alternative to banda (general shutdown) at a time when tourism industry has suffered worst due to the Covid-19.  

Madhyabindu municipality begins distribution of concessional loans to unemployed youths 

Madhyabindu Municipality in Nawalparasi (Bardaghat-Susta East) district has started the process to provide concessional loans to unemployed youths under the youth self-employment campaign launched by the government.    

Tika-Dhan Active Journalism Award Established

Dhankala, 94, and her family members of Galkot Municipality-9 here established ‘Tika-Dhana Active Journalism Award’ at Baglung chapter of the Federation of Nepali Journalists

NCP Sarlahi in-charge Wagle dies in road accident   

Nepal Communist Party (NCP) central member and Sarlahi in-charge Dacharaj Wagle died in a motorbike accident.    

Four trucks vandalized for defying general strike   

Shutdown enforcers have vandalized four trucks in course of the general strike announced for today by the Nepal Communist Party (Dahal-Nepal Group).   

Shutdown enforcers arrested 

Normal life across the country has been affected today due to a general strike enforced by the Nepal Communist Party (Dahal-Nepal Group).    

Taxi set on fire in Samakhusi   

An unidentified group has set a running taxi on fire in Kathmandu metropolis-26, Samakhushi at around 6.30 this morning.

Couple mobilization in place to initiate change from home  

Kailali’s Tikapur municipality has initiated mobilizing couples noting that a campaign to end discrimination should be initiated from kitchen. 

Rain, snowfall forecast in some places for three days from Thursday

Issuing a weather bulletin today, the Department stated that the low-pressure system that has developed nearby Pakistan and surrounding areas will enter Nepal from Thursday and the weather will be partly to generally cloudy in the western region of the country. Light to moderate snowfall will take place at some places in the high hilly and mountainous regions of the Sudurpaschim, Karnali and Gandaki provinces that day.

'House of Representatives was dissolved in line with parliamentary practice'   

Senior advocate Sushil Panta has argued that the House of Representatives, the lower house of parliament, has been dissolved in course of the parliamentary exercise as Nepal is a country adhering to the parliamentary system.