Nepal has an impressive forest cover of nearly 45 percent of its total land area

Nepalese President Bidhya Devi Bhandari stressed the need to ensure equal access of differently-abled persons to education, health and employment opportunities provided by the government

Civil liberty is something the KP Sharma Oli administration has never given two hoots about. It was evident from its initial decisions not to allow protests in the Maitighar area

Lawmakers and leaders from Nepali Congress resented the Nepal government’s order which banned protests across the country in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, reported The Himalayan Times

Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli, who is also a co-chair of the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP), did not attend the party Secretariat meeting today, forcing the Secretariat to postpone its meeting till December 5

Nepali Congress senior leader Ram Chandra Poudel has been released following widespread protest against the government

Going by the Ministry of Health figures, Nepal’s COVID-19 pandemic has peaked, and the number of daily cases, the positivity rate and the number of active cases are all going down

Around 13 percent of the country’s population has been found to have been infected with the coronavirus until September, according to a seroprevalence survey carried out by the Ministry of Health and Population

Nepali Congress (NC) senior leader Ramchandra Poudel, who reached Tanahun district to inaugurate a motorable bridge in Byas Municipality, has been taken into police custody

Upendra Chaudhary, a seventh-grader from Saraswati Secondary School in Deukhuri, Dang, was completely cut off from his classes until the school started the in-person classes on November 22 after the festive season was over

Nepal’s ruling party NCP has postponed an important secretariat meeting today that could have witnessed another face-off between Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli and his political rival in the party, former PM Pushpa Kamal Dahal, The Himalayan Times reported

A majority of members prevailed on Tuesday in the Secretariat meeting of the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP), as Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli was forced to agree to discuss the proposal of party Co-chair Pushpa Kamal Dahal, although the PM wanted Dahal to withdraw his proposal

The Central Investigation Bureau of Nepal Police, with the help of Pokhara Police, has arrested French citizen Christia Serge Henri Nougaret on then charge of sexually abusing three young boys — all under 12 years of age

In June Siddhartha Aauji, who cleaned toilets at Bayalpata Hospital in Achham district, set himself on fire in front of the hospital, after he was sacked, along with 32 others for lack of resources, and subsequently died of the injuries sustained. The international award-winning hospital, completed in 2019, served not only people from the district but also from several neighbouring ones

Nepal's Minister of Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation Barshaman Pun, who is close to Dahal, today said at a public forum in Rolpa district that second generation leaders of the party were ready to lead the government and the party if the two co-chairpersons stepped down from the party leadership