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Impact of my work will be seen in a month: Mayor-elect Shakya

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 …

Govt forms 22 more local units in Tarai districts

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 …

Maoists in blame game after KMC losses

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…

RPP seemingly headed for a stinging defeat

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 …

Painstakingly slow vote-counting a new challenge for EC

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 …

Large ballot paper confuses voters

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…

Locals to rebuild Kasthamandap

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. …

Kathmanduites want real issues tackled, not lofty promises

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…

2,300 households in need of relocation: Study

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 …

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