Showing posts from May, 2017
Photo Republica. CPN-UML candidate Bidya Sundar Shakya was elected mayor of Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) on Sunday, defeating his nearest rival Raju Raj Joshi of Nepali Congress. With Shakya all set to assume the top post …
Bhadra Sharma & Gyan P Neupane (KATHMANDU, May 23): Breaching the election code of conduct, the government on Monday created an additional 22 local units in the southern plains of the country in what it said was an effort to …
KATHMANDU, May 20: As Sarbottam Dangol, the ruling CPN (Maoist Center)'s mayoral candidate for Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC), has received very few votes in the initial counting, the candidate's team and the party l…
KATHMANDU, May 18: Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP), the fourth largest party in parliament, appears to be headed for a stinging defeat in the first phase of local elections held on May 14. The party has won just a single seat …
KATHMANDU, May 16: As the counting of votes for Sunday's first phase local elections begins at various local units, this task has turned out to be painstakingly slow, indicating that it may take weeks if the authorities …
KATHMANDU, May 15: Benu Dahal, 74, of Budhanilakantha Municipality-8, found herself confused as to whom she voted for by the time she arrived home. She expressed her confusion with her family when she reached home from the Jagann…
KATHMANDU, May 13: Government bodies - National Reconstruction Authority (NRA), Department of Archaeology (DoA) and Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) - have handed over the task of rebuilding the Kasthamandap Temple to locals. …
Image: Republica National Daily KATHMANDU, May 10: Sumana Shrestha, a local youth from Thahiti, doesn't appreciate political leaders who speak of turning Nepal into a Singapore or Switzerland, with high riseses and metro rai…
Households should be shifted to safer site in next two years to escape further damages KATHMANDU, May 4: A recent study conducted by the National Reconstruction Authority (NRA) has found that around 2,300 households in five of …