Kathmandu, Oct 17: Prime Minister Sushila Karki has expressed commitment to hand over the power peacefully to the newly elected people's representative government by holding the election to the House of Representatives within five months. In course of a briefing to the Diplomatic Corp in Kathmandu, PM Karki, who also holds the portfolio of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, reaffirmed that the main objective of the incumbent government is to hold election on March 5, 2026 in a free, fearless and impartial manner. The following is the full text of Prime Minister Karki's briefing to Diplomatic Corps: Excellencies, Heads of...
Kathmandu, Oct 17: The government has approved the master plan for TU Cricket Stadium and decided to designate it as a national pride project. The meeting of the Council of Ministers convened on Thursday morning approved the master plan proposed by the Ministry of Urban Development. According to the master plan, the estimated cost of the stadium is around Rs 10 billion. Minister for Urban Development Kulman Ghising shared that the stadium is country's first international cricket infrastructure and expressed his confidence that it would significantly contribute to promoting international sports and tourism.
He further explained that...
Bhaktapur, Oct 17: Secretary at the Ministry of Youth and Sports, Dr Hari Prasad Lamsal, has pointed out the need of launching a campaign to form youth council in all 753 local levels. He shared so at a programme organised by National Youth Council, Sanothimi, at partnership of UNFPA here today. Saying difficulties have been encountered in implementation of the government's previous decision of forming youth council or any network in the name of youths in all local levels across the country, he stressed that youths themselves should now be active to form youth council or any youth network.
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Kathmandu, Oct 17: While Sagarmatha (Mt Everest) has long been a subject of documentaries and Hollywood movies, Jerry on Top, a Nepali feature film using the mountain as the core of its story, has officially released in cinema halls across the country from today. A love story with Everest expedition as its setting, the film marks a rare effort by Nepali filmmakers to craft a cinematic narrative centered about the world's highest mountain which lies in Nepal. The film made under the Ananya Films Production is one of the first mainstream Nepali productions to portray Mt Everest as the focus...