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Anushka Shrestha was crowned Miss Nepal World 2019 as she beat 24 other contestants at the grand finale of the pageant held in the Capital on May 9. Shrinkhala Khatiwada, Miss Nepal World 2018 crowned her 23-year-old successor, who hails from Kathmandu.Chief judge Ila Sharma asked the final seven contestants: “If we focus more on our…

Yeti Airlines has become the first airline in Nepal, and most probably South Asia, to successfully reduce and offset its total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of 2018, replicating the UN’s ‘Greening the Blue’ approach to climate neutrality.The airline underwent an independent carbon audit process facilitated by the United Nations Development…

The Asian Development Bank said it was committed to completing the Melamchi Drinking Water Project which has been a long time in the making, and that it would extend the completion deadline if necessary. Hun Kim, director general (South Asia) of the Manila-based multilateral lending agency, said the bank wanted to complete the project as early…

Traffic police took action against 12 taxi drivers in Kathmandu valley yesterday for fleecing passengers or violating traffic rules.According to Metropolitan Traffic Police Division, they were caught operating taxis without mandatory seal on fare-meter, refusing to provide short distance service to passengers, tampering with and using…

The laying of underground petroleum pipeline from Motihari, India to Amlekhgunj, Nepalgunj is taking place in a high pace. Pipe-laying for the much-awaited cross-border petroleum project has remained only in 5-km area within the Parsa National Park. As of now, it has been carried out in 65-km out of 70-km pipeline.As 9-km of the…

The government is preparing to revive the Nepal Railway Company (NRC) with a view to start offering railways services in Nepal.The NRC used to earlier operate the Janakpur-Jayanagar railways.The Department of Railways (DoRW) has started the process to revive the government-owned entity that had been inactive since 2014 and has already…

Kathmandu and neighboring districts were hit by two earthquakes early morning today. The first jolt took place at 6:29 AM. It was followed by another aftershock in less than five minutes difference.According to the National Seismological Center, the first 5.2 Richter scale earthquake’s epicenter was Naubise, Dhading.On April 25,…

Despite the recent police crackdown, cabbies continue to fleece passengers in Kathmandu valley.Metropolitan Traffic Police Division said it booked as many as 809 taxi drivers over a period of one month (mid-March to mid-April) for violating traffic rules.MPTD In-charge Senior Superintendent of Police Basant Kumar Pant said the law…

Construction of the Pokhara Regional International Airport runway in Pokhara has been finally completed.According to Pradeep Adhikari, an engineer at the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN), 50 per cent of the construction work has been completed after completion of the runway.In overall 35 per cent work of the airport was…

Nepal on Thursday banned the popular online game PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG), saying its violent content had a negative impact on children, an official said."We have ordered the ban on PUBG because it is addictive to children and teenagers," Sandip Adhikari, deputy director at Nepal Telecommunications Authority (NTA), the nation's…