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Disable-friendly toilet with breast-feeding room to be constructed

Posted by | Feb 13, 2020 | ,

Non-Resident Nepali Association (NRNA) has agreed to construct disable-friendly public toilets in different parts of Kathmandu Valley. Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) and NRNA had signed a memorandum of understanding to this effect on February 6. Public toilets friendly to the people with disabilities would be constructed and operated in Kalanki, Koteswor, Chawahil and Maharajgunj within five years. According to the MoU, NRNA would look after human resource and management aspects of the rest rooms/toilets. KMC would take nominal charge from the users for regular maintenance and management. “Remaining money would be spent for expanding public rest rooms construction in other areas”, shared executive officer of the NRNA Hemanta Kuamr Dawadi. As per the agreement, public toilets would be constructed in Kalanki and Koteswor in the first phase. Female toilets are arranged with space for managing sanitary pad and making them risk-free. Likewise, the rest rooms are also constructed in a way that it has space for changing children’s diaper and breast feeding. The design of the rest room has been taken ahead to provide such basic facilities. KMC which has been discussing on the construction of public toilet for the past four years, has laid emphasis on constructing public toilets in the heritage sites and most crowded public area. KMC deputy mayor Hari Prabha Khadgi said emphasis would be placed on improving the standards of existing public toilets along...

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India Builds Chandrakot Campus in Gulmi District

Posted by | Feb 13, 2020 |

The inauguration of Chandrakot Campus, built with the Government of India’s assistance, was held at Chandrakot Rural Municipality in Gulmi District on February 12, Wednesday. Counsellor (Development Partnership) Dr. Praphulla Chandra Sharma represented the Embassy of India. Chief of Chandrakot Rural Municipality Mr. Drona Bahadur Khatri, District Coordination Officer, Mr. Bhaktiram Marasini and local political and community leaders also attended the inauguration. Chandrakot Campus was established in 2008 at the initiative of local people with the aim of providing higher education to students who are unable to pursue the same in cities like Palpa, Butwal, and Kathmandu etc. due to poor economic conditions. The Campus is a community-based Campus affiliated to Tribhuvan University TU and is providing courses on Bachelor in Humanities, Management and Social Science. Over 90% of the students studying in the Campus are female. The establishment of this campus has fulfilled the aspirations of the economically poor and socially backward students, in particular girls’ students, who were deprived of higher education in the absence of a college in the region. The new campus building constructed with Government of India’s grant assistance of NRs. 40.99 million, is a three-storied building comprising of twelve class rooms, office building and separate sanitation facilities for boys and girls on each floor. The project was being implemented by District Coordination Committee, Gulmi. The newly built infrastructures are expected to boost learning...

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Jagannath Dulal elected Press Union Kathmandu President

Posted by | Feb 12, 2020 | ,

Jagannath Dulal has been elected to the President of Kathmandu chapter of Nepal Press Union. The 8th convention of the Union on Tuesday elected a 15-member working committee under the leadership of Dulal. He defeated his close contender Maheswor Gautam by 92 votes. Dulal received 285 votes against 193 votes by Gautam, informed chief election officer Prakash Rawal. Only 477 out of total 843 votes were cast in the election. Among other elected are Achyut Regmi (vice-president towards open category), Tukmaya Bhandari (vice-president towards inclusive category), Bhakta Bahadur Kunwar (secretary), Sanchita Khanal (joint-secretary) and Niras Tamang (treasurer). Likewise, other elected members are Manoj Bhandari, Nirmal Dhital, Roshan Sapkota, Nawaraj Bhatta, Praveen Shrestha, Ghanashyam Shrestha, Lokendra Bhatta and Radha Dhungana, the election committee said. Newly-elected President Dulal pledged to raise voice in favour of working journalists by uniting democratic...

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Ncell, Microsoft join forces to deliver cloud service

Posted by | Feb 11, 2020 | ,

Kathmandu, February 11: Ncell Private Limited has collaborated with Microsoft Corporation to provide Microsoft’s productivity and communications solutions, cloud resources and online meeting tools. Amidst a special gathering attended by over 250 corporate clients from various banks, businesses and officials of NGO/INGOs last week, Ncell announced its collaboration with Microsoft Corporation for Microsoft Tier 1 Cloud Service Provider (CSP). Under this partnership, Ncell will be focusing to provide three major products—Office 365 (O365), Azure and Teams to Nepali businesses. Microsoft’s O365 is a cloud-based service that facilitates efficiency and helps everyone in an organization be more productive, communicate more effectively.  The Office 365 suite makes performing essential tasks like finding information, sharing knowledge, communicating with colleagues, processing data, and planning and organization faster and more straightforward, reducing time spent on administrative tasks and leaving businesses more time to create, innovate, and move the business forward. While, Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing service for building, testing, deploying, and managing applications and services through Microsoft-managed data centres. IT Teams of companies using this service will have the freedom to build, manage, and deploy application on a massive, global network using their favourite tools and frameworks. Likewise, Microsoft Teams is another innovative service. This is a unified communication and collaboration platform that combines persistent workplace chat, video meetings, file storage (including collaboration on files), and application integration. Teams provides a fully...

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Engineer and ward member held with bribe

Posted by | Feb 11, 2020 |

Engineer of Bhanu municipality, Tanahun, Sukdev Adhikari and member of ward 13 Krishna Bahadur Adhikari were held with bribe on Monday. A team from Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA)’s regional office Pokhara arrested engineer Adhikari and ward member Adhikari with bribe of Rs 75,000. CIAA Office Pokhara Spokesperson Meghnath Rijal shared that the Adhikari due was arrested from the municipality premises acting on a special tip-off that engineer Adhikari was demanding bribe for developing work execution report of a school building construction. Investigation into the incident is taking place, police...

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