The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
KATHMANDU, JUL 19 - The government is considering setting up a tribunal to fast-track land acquisition and compensation distribution for mega infrastructure projects. Most of the national pride projects and national priority projects, including the Kathmandu-Nijgadh Fast-Track raod, Mid-Hill Highway, 132KV Thankot-Chapagaun-Bhaktapur Tranmission line, Kabeli corridor, Shikta Irrigation Project, are …
An unidentified disease has claimed the lives of two women at Ramnagar VDC-3 in Saptari district. The deceased have been identified as Makhaidevi Sadaya, 55, and Sunitadevi Sada, 30, of the Musahar community at Kodarkatti. Makhandevi had died in the village while Sunitadevi breathed her last during treatment in Biratnagar …
PARBAT July 19: More than one hundred and fifty households of fishermen have been displaced after a landslide that occurred here at Maldhunga located at district headquarters, Kusma, on Sunday morning. Dwellers at Maldhunga have been shifted at safer locations due to fear of fresh landslides in the area as …
KHOTANG, July 20: At a program organized for colleting feedback for the new constitution, teacher Khagendra Rai has suggested that one-horned rhino should be coined as the national animal in the new constitution. Rai who reached district headquarters Diktel from Buipa, suggested to make one-horned rhino national animal of Nepal …
Most studies of the causes of diarrhoea in low-income and middle-income countries have looked at severe disease in people presenting for care, and there are few estimates of pathogen-specific diarrhoea burdens in the community. The researchers undertook a birth cohort study with not only intensive community surveillance for diarrhoea but …
The Chitwan National Park has marked the Fiscal Year 2014/15 as zero poaching year of Rhino in the park. Not a single Rhino lost its life to poaching in the park as well as in the forest area of the district, according to Information Officer of the CNP Tikaram Poudel. …
Lions Club of Chitwan, Sauraha, Lions Club of Wildlife City, Sauraha, Leo Club of Chitwan, Sauraha and Sauraha Jaycees have jointly launched 'Go Green' campaign from today. Chairman of Lions Club of Chitwan, Sauraha, Prakash Chandra Bhattarai, said that the campaign was launched by planting saplings at Janakauli Community Forest. …
On 25 April, Nepal experienced a catastrophic earthquake that not only took the lives of over 8,000 people, injured over 22,000, and displaced over 100,000, it also affected the livelihoods of over 2.28 million households and pushed an additional 700,000 people below the poverty line. In light of this, ICIMOD, …
The death toll from natural disasters such as earthquakes, storms and heatwaves rose sharply worldwide in the first six months of 2015, the world's largest reinsurance company Munich Re said on Tuesday. However, the economic cost of such events dropped to $35 billion from $42 billion, Munich Re said in …
The Nepalese government unveiled the annual budget for the 2015-2016 fiscal year on Tuesday with a total amount of 819.468 billion Nepalese rupees (about 8.11 billion US dollars) focusing on the reconstruction of thousands of earthquake-damaged infrastructures. The annual budget was announced by Nepal's Finance Minister Dr Ramsharan Mahat at …
KATHMANDU: The National Seismological Centre said it recorded a light aftershock of the April 25 earthquake on Monday morning. The tremor of local magnitude 4.3 had hit the eastern district of Dolakha at 10:48 am. The coordinates 27.69°N, 86.20°E, show the epicentre was close to Jugu, east of the district …
BIRATNAGAR, JUL 06 - Three persons have died and two others gone missing in separate monsoon-related incidents in Sindhuli, Sankhuwasabha and Khotang districts in the past 24 hours. Two girls were killed as boulders fell off a cliff at Kakurthakur VDC-3 in Sindhuli district on Saturday. Sanimaya Tamang, 11, and …
RAJBIRAJ: Despite being declared open-defecation free zones, around dozen VDCs in Saptari are performing very poorly in terms of use of toilets. The fact came to light during a monitoring carried out by Drinking Water and Sanitation Coordination Committee in coordination with Sanchar Yatra Nepal in Malahan and Pipra Paschim …
KHOTANG: A mother and her daughter have gone missing after they were swept away by the flooded Tawakhola River at Mattim VDC of Khotang yesterday night. The swollen river, triggered by heavy rainfall, swept away Pari Maya Rai, 40, and her 12-year-old Samita Rai while they were sleeping in a …
KATHMANDU: The National Seismological Centre said it recorded a light aftershock of the April 25 earthquake on Monday morning. The tremor of local magnitude 4.3 had hit the eastern district of Dolakha at 10:48 am. The coordinates 27.69 N, 86.20 E, show the epicentre was close to Jugu, east of …
Kathmandu, July 5: Minister for Finance Dr Ram Sharan Mahat has said that budget would be allocated in the budget programme of the fiscal year 2072/73 BS under a separate heading for the reconstruction of the quake-hit structures. In today's meeting of the Finance Committee under the Legislature-Parliament, Minister Mahat …
Mustang, July 6: The Annapurna Conservation Area Project (ACAP), Lomanthang has launched a campaign to control poaching of wildlife in the area. Cases of wildlife poaching have reportedly gone up in the area, with six villages in the upper Mustang linked with the road network. Under the first phase of …
Banepa, July 6: Sustainable forest management programme has been started in three different VDCs in Kavre district. The District Forest Office, Kavre, said that the forest management programme was started in Chaubas, Methinkot and Dhungkharka VDCs for studies and researches as well as for the better livelihood of the locals. …
Saptari, July 6: The Koshi River Deluge Struggle Committee on Sunday staged a sit-in by halting the traffic movement in Saptakoshi Barrage for an hour demanding compensation for the losses from Koshi River as per the Agreement on the Koshi Project between Nepal and India, 1954. Thousands of locals staged …
BIRTAMOD (JHAPA), JUL 03 - Settlements at Khudunabari-3, 4 and 5 in the district were inundated for around 24 hours after the flooded Biring river breached an embankment on Tuesday night. Villagers said flood waters from the Biring and Tangting rivers also damaged paddy in the area. Local resident Dhana …
