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The government has finally decided to scrap the contract with Co-operativa Muratori Cementisti (CMC) Ravenna — the Italian contractor of the Melamchi Water Supply Project.The meeting of the Water Supply Development Board, held on Friday, concluded to terminate the contract with the Italian contractor and publish a ‘termination letter’…

Aadhaar cards are now valid travel documents for Indians under 15 and over 65 travelling to Nepal and Bhutan, according to a home ministry communique. Indians other than those in the two age brackets will not be able to use Aadhaar to travel to the two neighbouring countries, for which no visas are needed, clarified the communique issued…

Three years have passed since the President Bidhya Devi Bhandari formally inaugurated the reconstruction of Rani Pokhari on January 16, 2016, however, the pond is nowhere in sight.Delay in construction is attributed to the dispute among National Reconstruction Authority, Department of Archaeology and Kathmandu Metropolitan City related with…

Announcing cabinet decisions on Thursday, Minister of Communication and Information Technology Gokul Baskota said that the government has authorised the Ministry of Physical Infrastructure and Transportation to procure railway carriages.The green light on train procurement has come from the government amid plans to resume passenger rail…

A construction worker video has gone viral on Youtube and social media and is soon to become next internet sensation among the media.A video uploaded in Youtube shows a chinese worker dance to the moves of Michael Jackson in a construction site filled with dust and rubbles.The worker comes forward as the music begins and shows his…

Global Reach, an educational consulting company, is organizing a one-day Australian Education Fair at Hotel Annapurna in Kathmandu on Monday.Issuing a statement, the company said that the education fair will have presence of top 39 universities of Australia. “Nepali students who want to go to Australia for study can meet the representatives…

The tourism sector of Nepal enjoyed a phenomenal growth in international tourist arrivals in 2018. The consistent and upward momentum continued throughout the year and the annual arrival figures have reached well above the one-million mark.According to the Department of Immigration, 969,287 international visitors came by air and 203,785 came…

The government is planning to develop Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) — the sole international airport in the country — as a boutique airport.According to Raj Kumar Chhetri, general manager of TIA, the airport authorities have started to introduce modern technologies at the airport and have also started installing traditional art…

Gone are the days when traffic police personnel had to blow whistles at the top of their lungs to direct vehicles and pedestrians alike at the zebra crossings along various road sections in the city.The Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) has now geared up to install smart zebra crossings at various roads in the district. The new smart zebra…

The first trans-national fuel pipeline in between Nepal and India is near completion with only 12.2 kilometers remaining to be laid down.About 65 per cent of the Motihari-Amlekhganj Pipeline project that covers the length of 36.2 kilometers has been completed, informed the pipeline project office in Simara in Nepal.The trans-border…