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Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Nepal has been confirmed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) today. He is set to arrive on October 12.MOFA released a press statement today confirming that the Chinese President will pay a visit to Nepal on October 12 , accepting the friendly invitation of President of Nepal, Bidya Devi…

The official website of Visit Nepal Year (VNY) 2020 was launched on Wednesday, with only three months left for the campaign to begin.While the VNY Secretariat has been complaining of not getting enough budget for promotion of the campaign, it has been nine months since the government formed VNY Secretariat and official website and other…

BENGALURU: India lost contact with a spacecraft it was attempting to land on the moon on Saturday, the chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said, in a setback to the nation’s ambitious plans to become the first country to probe the unexplored lunar south pole.The event was broadcasted Live from all major Indian channels…

As many as five Chinese nationals have been arrested for their alleged involvement in hacking bank data and withdrawing millions of rupees from various Automated Teller Machine (ATM) booths using fake VISA cards in Kathmandu, on Saturday, police said.Acting on a tip-off, a police team deployed from the Metropolitan Police Range, Kathmandu…

Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) is preparing to set up a taxi tracking system, especially for night shift taxi services.In order to guarantee passengers’ safety and security, TIA has started doing homework to set up a taxi tracking system. Tourism Minister Yogesh Bhattarai directed TIA, during his inspection on Sunday, to make airport…

Metropolitan Traffic Police Division booked 12,749 taxi drivers for violating various traffic rules in the last fiscal year 2018-19. The number of cabbies booked was significantly higher compared to the previous fiscal year 2017-18, when 8,700 taxi drivers were booked.Traffic police say the trend of lodging complaints via social media and…

India has successfully launched its second lunar mission a week after it halted the scheduled blast-off due to a technical snag.Chandrayaan-2 was launched at 14:43 local time (09:13 GMT) from the Sriharikota space station.India's space chief said his agency had "bounced back with flying colors" after the aborted first attempt.India…

The government has raised tourist visa fees for foreigners effective from Wednesday, also the starting of the new fiscal year – FY2019/20.The Department of Immigration (DoI) has increased the visa fees for tourist, students, non-tourist, business and residential visa types.It had already been a decade since the visa fee was last raised.…

On Thursdaу, June 4, an earthquake of 6.4 magnitude was recorded in Southern California. This is the largest magnitude recorded in this area after decades.The epicenter of the earthquake was Searles Valleу in the Mojave Desert (district of San Bernardino) - about 100 miles from Los Angeles. Those who were at that moment in the citу could…

The Office of the Controller of Examinations today published the results of Grade X, also called Secondary Education Examination-2019, in letter grading system. The exams were held in March/April.As many as 459,275 students, including 449,642 from academic and 9,633 from technical schools, took the exams under regular category. Out of them,…