Central Zoo launches ‘Adopt an Animal’ programme

People can now take guardianship of an animal of the Central Zoo and provide for its food, care and nurture for a year under its animal adoption programme. The novel scheme titled ‘Adopt an Animal’ was launched by Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli on Wednesday on the occasion of World Wildlife Day.

Prachanda-Nepal faction suspends seven central members

The Prachanda-Nepal faction of the Nepal Communist party has taken action against seven leaders, including Subas Nembang and Bishal Bhattarai. A central committee meeting of the faction held at its Paris Danda-based party office on Wednesday decided to suspend central members Subash Nembang, Shanta Chaudhary, Bishal Bhattarai, Mahesh Basnet, Surya Thapa, Prabhu Sah and Karna Bahadur Thapa for six months.

Dialogue Breakthrough

In a major breakthrough, the government and Netra Bikram Chand ‘Biplav’-led Communist Party of Nepal (CPN) has started dialogue in a bid to bring the outlawed communist outfit into the mainstream politics. The first round of talks held Wednesday morning remained positive. The other day, both the sides had announced their separate teams to initiate the dialogue. Minister for Home Affairs Ram Bahadur Thapa Badal-led two-member government team has Prime Minister's Foreign A

Ensuring Accountability At Local Level

In its ideal form, democracy is described as the rule of the people, for the people and by the people. But it is not the reality in most of the democracies in the developing world like Nepal where the people are far still removed from the locus where power is re

Australia Inhibits Foreign Investment

Australia's Foreign Investment Review Board (FIRB) is a master in maintaining the increasingly fictional idea that Australia is open for foreign investment. It repeatedly advises that most foreign investment applications are approved. The recent withdrawal of a $300 million bid for the Australian construction firm Probuild by China State Construction Engineering Corporation exposes the heart of this fiction. The offer was withdrawn in a sleight of hand move. It was not formally rejected by the Australian...

Dharahara reconstruction nears completion

In addition to the work on the tower, other structures such as the triple basement, four-storey museum are being constructed simultaneously. Work on the museum has begun and around 65 per cent of work on the triple basement has been completed so far, Raju Man Manandhar, an expert with the European Union Technical Support, which is working under the National Reconstruction Authority (NRA), said.

Ancient idol of Lord Vishnu found while digging pond in Bara

Aspiring fish farmer, Kisundar Mahato Koiri, a local, had commissioned a JCB excavator to dig out his land for building a pond, but much to his astonishment, the excavator discovered a magnificent Lord Vishnu statue buried in mud and scrape. “The black statue is now safely housed at the Ward’s Shiva temple,” informed SP Dipendra Shahi of the District Police Office.

Second round of talks held between Govt. and Biplov-led NCP teams

The second sitting of the talks was centered on issues, according to Rajan Bhattarai, a member of the 2-member talks team of the government. The team is led by Home Minister Ram Bahadur Thapa.

US forces: Rockets hit airbase in Iraq hosting US troops

The Iraqi military released a statement saying the attack did not cause significant losses and that security forces had found the launch pad used for the rockets. It was found in the al-Baghdadi area of Anbar, an Iraqi military official said on condition of anonymity to discuss the attack with the media.

Salleri connected with national electricity grid, no more power outage

Namgel Jangbu Sherpa, mayor of Solududhkunda Municipality, said the area had been freed from chronic load shedding as he had planned to rid the area of a power outage after he got elected to the post and made a lot of efforts ever since by holding series of discussions with Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA).