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Traffic police start vehicle mechanical tests in Rasuwa
Traffic police start vehicle mechanical tests in Rasuwa Many vehicles are found to have been travelling without proper road permits, and other necessary...
KMC carries out cleaning at 89 community schools
KMC carries out cleaning at 89 community schools Parents, teachers, and community members all pitched in to help with the cleanup
Study begins on resolving inundation problem in Biratnagar
Study begins on resolving inundation problem in Biratnagar Mayor Nagesh Koirala says the Biratnagar metropolis will seek a scientific solution to the perpetual...
Road works on 12-km Baglung section in limbo 
Road works on 12-km Baglung section in limbo  It has been a decade since the contract for blacktopping the 142km Baglung section of...
Baglung locals pool resources to build trekking trail
Baglung locals pool resources to build trekking trail The 725-metre trekking path connects Shantichowk in Kothekhola Rural Municipality to Tripureshwor Mahadev Mandir
Melamchi water supply resumes
Melamchi water supply resumes The project had first started distributing the Melamchi water in Kathmandu on March 28 last...
Auto dealers hit the streets in protest of vehicle import ban
Auto dealers hit the streets in protest of vehicle import ban NADA is holding a series of protests after the government overlooked their repeated requests to...
Foreign national killed in Chitwan collision
Foreign national killed in Chitwan collision Police say a motorcyle collided with a pickup van at Phisling along the Prithvi Highway...
Board’s uncertain fate can throw a spanner in Melamchi works
Board’s uncertain fate can throw a spanner in Melamchi works Employees threatened to halt the water supply to Kathmandu if the government did not pay...
Chandragiri Municipality to install 5,000 street lamps
Chandragiri Municipality to install 5,000 street lamps The local authority is also putting up CCTV and free Wi-Fi devices at several locations...
Two Humla border police posts shifted after mercury drops
Two Humla border police posts shifted after mercury drops There are altogether 13 police personnel posted at Hilsa, and 11 at Sunkhani    
More squatters apply for land titles in Chitwan
More squatters apply for land titles in Chitwan The land commission in the district has received additional 4,000 applications
Painfully slow progress makes Mid-hill Highway an object of international shame
Painfully slow progress makes Mid-hill Highway an object of international shame Construction started 15 years ago, but the national pride project has made only 64 per...
Squatters take to Kathmandu’s streets, demanding justice
Squatters take to Kathmandu’s streets, demanding justice With KMC Mayor Balen Shah offering no solution, it's unclear when and where the riverside...
Poaching leaves red panda on the brink of extinction in Myagdi
Poaching leaves red panda on the brink of extinction in Myagdi The lack of conservation efforts for the past two years has led to the increase...
Bomb threat outside UML leader Baskota’s house turns out to be hoax (Photo gallery)
Bomb threat outside UML leader Baskota’s house turns out to be hoax (Photo gallery) A team from Nepal Army bomb disposal unit reached the site at Lokanthali, Bhaktapur and...
Explosive remnants of armed conflict continue to haunt Karnali kids
Explosive remnants of armed conflict continue to haunt Karnali kids Two children were killed and three others injured in an IED blast on October 29...
Police launches probe into Rabi Lamichhane’s citizenship
Police launches probe into Rabi Lamichhane’s citizenship Complaint questioning his citizenship was registered with Home Ministry on November 22
Unauthorised intruders hacked into ukeraa.com's CMS: Pathseed Nepal
Unauthorised intruders hacked into ukeraa.com's CMS: Pathseed Nepal The company says exclusive news stories were deleted, photographs were changed.
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