Kathmandu, Oct. 11: CPN-UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli has been elected the new Prime Minister of Nepal, following the promulgation of the new constitution of federal republic Nepal. In a voting for the post of the Prime Minister held at the Legislature-Parliament today, Oli...
Kathmandu, Oct 11: Speaker Subas Nembang has today approved the resignation tendered by Dr Baburam Bhattarai from the post of parliamentarian. Dr Bhattarai elected from UCPN (Maoist) Gorkha Constituency No 1 had tendered his resignation on September 26. Assistant Spokesperson at the Legislature-Parliament Secretariat,...
HERAT, Afghanistan, Oct. 9 (Xinhua) — A group of Taliban militants stormed police checkpoints in Pashtun Zarghon district of the western Herat province early Friday, triggering gun battles and leaving 10 militants dead, police said. “More than 80 Taliban militants launched coordinated offensive on...
Kathmandu, Oct 9: An election to the post of Prime Minister would be held on October 11 at 11:00 am as per the provision of the new constitution. Sharing information about this in today’s meeting of the Legislature-Parliament, Speaker Suabs Nembang said that the...
Biratnagar, Oct 9: A total of 62 cargo vehicles, including 36 tankers carrying petroleum products, have entered Nepal from India via Rani Customs Office, Biratnagar today as of now. According to Krishna Basnet, Chief of Rani Customs Office, 24 tankers carrying diesel, three carrying...
Kathmandu, Oct 9: CPN (UML) leader Madhav Kumar Nepal has asked Prime Minister Sushil Koirala to support Chairman of the CPN (UML), KP Sharma Oli, for the leadership of the new government. Calling on the Prime Minister Koirala at the latter’s official residence at...
Kakadvitta (Jhapa), Oct 8: No tankers ferrying petroleum products have entered Nepal via Kakadvitta check point today, according to the Mechi Customs Office. Of the total 25 empty tankers travelling to the Siliguri Depot in India for filling, only five of them were being...
BEIJING, Oct. 8:(AFP) – China’s ruling Communist party said it is investigating the former boss of state-run energy giant Sinopec for alleged corruptionthe latest figure in the oil sector to be probed. Su Shulin is suspected of “serious disciplinary violations”normally a euphemism for corruptionparty...
Bhaktapur, Oct 7: The Higher Secondary Education Board (HSEB) has published the Grade XII results of the Plus Two level under the faculties of humanities, management and education, today. Out of a total of 161,458 students under regular category across the country who appeared...
BAQUBA, Iraq, Oct. 6 (Xinhua) — At least 35 people were killed and 40 others wounded on Monday in a car bomb attack at a marketplace in Iraq’s eastern province of Diyala, a provincial police source told Xinhua. The powerful blast occurred when a...
Kathmandu, Oct 6: CPN (UML) deputy general secretary Bishnu Poudel has said that the UML chair KP Sharma Oli would lead the new government on the consensus among the major political parties. Speaking in a face-to-face programme organized by Reporters’ Club here today, leader...
OSLO, Oct. 6 (Xinhua) — A total of 4,904 asylum seekers came to Norway in September, almost four times as many as the same month last year, the country’s immigration agency said on Monday. So far this year, 13,246 asylum seekers have come to...