Asia Nepal Balgopaleshwor Temple will remain open this year on Bhai Tika day, the last of the five days of the Tihar festival, with the Kathmandu Metropolitan City making all preparations to open the temple from morning today
Asia Nepal The Telecom Authority has prepared a draft regulation allowing and recommending that telecom service providers merge; there are currently 138 internet operators
Asia Nepal A Kathmandu District Court verdict prevents businesses from adding VAT at 13% and service charge at 10% to the bill, as they have done so far
Asia Nepal The stagnating prices of paracetamol are contributing to its shortage; the price hasn't been revised for 14 years and the government has listed it as an essential drug, providing it for free to state health facilities in the country
Asia Nepal About 18% of children under five in Saptari and Udayapur districts were found to be suffering from wasting, compared to the national average of 12%, according to officials of the Ministry of Health and Population
Asia Nepal The 'Himalayan Vegan Festival 2022', organised by the World Vegan Organisation of Nepal, in Lumbini, Kathmandu and Pokhara during the month of September, aims to spread awareness of a healthy plant-based diet and promote plant-based culinary tourism
Asia Nepal In 2019, the country recorded the highest age-standardised mortality rate for chronic lung disease caused by air pollution, thus having the highest rate in the world, according to results from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
Asia Nepal Nepali Congress president Deuba has appointed 10 women as members of the party's Central Working Committee
Asia Nepal The state oil monopoly Nepal Oil Corporation is reluctant to reduce prices despite price cuts by the Indian supplier
Asia Nepal The state-owned telecommunications company stated that the 5G trial will be delayed for another few months after blocking trials of the new mobile network technology for a year
Asia Nepal The government's spending on social security allowance is set to almost double in two years by the end of the next fiscal year 2022-23 due to measures such as lowering the age of eligibility for old age allowance
Asia Nepal According to Pasang Sherpa, president of Pioneer Adventure, Nepali mountaineer Pasang Lhamu Sherpa climbed to the summit of Nanga Parbat on 1 July, becoming the first Nepali woman to scale the 8126 metre peak
Asia Nepal The country is preparing to move Everest Base Camp - located on the Khumbu Glacier and used by 1500 people during this spring climbing season - because global warming and human activity are making it unsafe for crevasses to form in the ice