Sapkota finding inspiration from nature for fashion designing

Fashion is the art of creating exquisite patterns by sewing and weaving fabrics of different colours, sizes and varieties. Fashion certainly requires skills but it also depends heavily on inspiration and for aspiring fashion designer Radha Dhakal Sapkota, that inspiration comes from nature.

Junk food prohibited as midday meal in Baglung schools

With the aim of prohibiting junk food as a midday meal in schools and promote locally produced food across the public schools of the Tamankhola Rural Municipality, Baglung, the Municipality has ordered schools to strictly prohibit feeding junk food as lunch in the schools.

Locals to organise fair to preserve lakes

Locals residing around the Khaste and Neureni lakes in Pokhara are organising a 10-day fair to promote and publicise the rich biodiversity that exists around the water bodies.

Grocery store worker narrowly escaped gunman’s notice

An employee of the Colorado supermarket where a gunman killed 10 people watched as the assailant opened fire and narrowly escaped his notice while joining with other bystanders in a desperate scramble to get away.

PM Oli urges precautions against virus

Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli Wednesday stressed the need to maintain a compulsory social distancing in every place as the new variant of the coronavirus has started gripping the world. Launching a report on ‘Responding to COVID-19 and Provincial Profiles for COVID-19 Response’ prepared by COVID-19 Crisis Management Centre (CCMC) today, Prime Minister Oli said everyone required to observe social distancing and precautionary measures to contain the infection.

'Federal and local governments are not rivals'

Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has said that the local representatives should be the engineers of social awareness, development and servant of people. “People have sent the representatives to play the role in their favour in their own right. Therefore, let’s consider ourselves public servant, not officials,” he said while addressing the 28th Anniversary programme of the Municipal Association of Nepal (MuAN) in the Capital on Wednesday.

Revenue collection at 98 per cent of target

The government has mobilised about 60 per cent revenue against the annual target of the current fiscal year 2020/21. By the end of the first eight months of this year, about Rs. 603.9 billion revenue is collected which is 97.80 per cent compared to the target for the same period, the Ministry of Finance said in a statement on Wednesday. The data were presented at the ministry-level Development Action Committee organised at the ministry.

Air pollution peaks in lack of pre-monsoon rains

Air pollution has increased in many parts of the country, including in the Kathmandu Valley, due to lack of sufficient rainfall this season. Meteorologists have said that dust particles have been accumulated in the atmosphere and there is no likelihood of rainfall or wind to clear the dust particles in the air immediately. According to senior meteorologist Meen Kumar Aryal at the Meteorological Forecasting Division under the Department of Meteorology and Hydrology (DHM), the present cloud in the...

Muslim religious leaders seek to end dowry system

The Muslim scholars (Maulana) in Banke have come together in a bid to eradicate the practice of dowry, which is growing among the Muslim communities in the district in recent years.

Women's effective participation in public life stressed

Minister for Women, Children and Senior Citizens Julie Kumari Mahato stressed that women’s full and effective participation in public life and decision-making process underpins Nepal’s development aspirations to create an inclusive, just, and equitable society, the Permanent Mission of Nepal to the United Nations stated in its statement.