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Nepal sets an international record in 10-meter air pistol

Posted by | Jan 24, 2020 | ,

Mr. Bipesh Khadka from Kathmandu has set an international record from Nepal in 10-meter air pistol in HH The Amir’s Ninth Grand Prix in Kuwait by reaching the Final 8 by scoring 560/600 score and finishing in 6th in the Final. Mr. Khadka along with Mr. Abdul Wahi from Nepalgunj who secured the 20th position with 536/600 score participated in the event slated in Kuwait from 10 to 18th January 2020, where 20 other countries also participated. Mr. Raju Darshan was the Team Manager and Mr. Trilochan Shrestha was the Coach representing...

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Delay payment impedes insurance programme in Bharatpur hospital

Posted by | Jan 24, 2020 | ,

Bharatpur Hospital has been providing service to the patients of 14 districts under its health insurance programme. The Health Insurance Programme had come to effect in the district since 15 August 2017. The hospital has been providing insurance service to the patients as a first service point, shared hospital’s information officer Leeladhar Poudel. He informed that as many as 53,438 patients have received insurance service up to 14 January 2020 since 15 August 2017. The same patients received medical services from the hospital 244,942 times, he shared. According to the data, Chitwan witnessed the highest number of patients receiving health service from the hospital. Makawanpur, Tanahun and Gorkha districts followed Chitwan in terms of receiving service from the hospital. Patients from Rolpa, Rukum, Palpa, Dang, Arghakhanchi, Parsa, Sindhuli, Ramechhap, Kaski and Rautahat had received first service point and referral service from the hospital. The hospital had received Rs 261.25 million from insurance programme. Hospital’s medical superintendant Dr Sriram Tiwari said Bharatpur hospital is the best among the public hospitals implementing insurance scheme in terms of service. It has however become tough to operate insurance programme due to delay in the payment of insurance amount by Health Insurance Board. The insurance programme that had came into effect from Kailali since April 2015 has so far covered 50 districts. Dhading is the 50th district where the insurance programme has recently come...

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Nepal directly enters global qualifier for ICC T20 world cup

Posted by | Jan 24, 2020 | ,

Nepal has gained direct entry into the Global Qualifiers for the ICC T20 Men’s Cricket World Cup 2021. Nepal will play the global qualifiers to be held in India next year. The global qualifying games will be participated in by 16 countries. This year the T20 World Cup is taking place in Australia. According to the ICC statement, “The bottom four teams from the ICC T20 Men’s World Cup 2020 will join the regional qualifiers in the global qualification events along with the next four best T20 ranked teams as of 1 January 2020: Zimbabwe, Nepal, UAE and Hong Kong”. This means Nepal does not need to play Asian Qualifiers for the world cup qualification, the statement reads. The 16-team Men’s T20 World Cup 2021 which replaces a previously scheduled eight team ICC Champions Trophy, will see 11 regional qualification events take place across the five ICC regions (Africa, Asia, America, East Asia Pacific and Europe) with eight teams progressing to one of two global qualifying events, the ICC...

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NA Chair Timilsina urges entrepreneurs for spurring investment

Posted by | Jan 24, 2020 |

National Assembly chairperson Ganesh Prasad Timilsina has urged the investors to flow their investment in a confident manner given the improved investment climate in the country. Inaugurating the sixth Parbat festival organized under the aegis of Parbat Chamber of Commerce and Industry on Thursday, he asked the entrepreneurs to spur their investment in business ventures for the sake of country’s prosperity. “It is not the State which makes all investment. The entrepreneurs should also come up with the plans for investment”, asserted chairperson of the upper House of the federal parliament. “The state would facilitate the process if the entrepreneurs want to draw money from banks on collateral for investment purpose”, he assured. Festival main organizing committee coordinator and Parbat chamber of commerce and industry chair Kedarnath Sharma expressed his confidence that the event would help identify the local products and bring them to market. He shared the festival has set a target to raise Rs 15 million. There are 200 stalls in the...

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Man arrested on rape charge

Posted by | Jan 23, 2020 |

Saptari, Jan 23 :  Area Police Office Kalyanpur here has arrested one person on the charge of raping a four-year-old girl. The arrestee is Rambhagat Chaudhary, 25, of Khadak municipality in the district. Chaudhary was accused of raping the girl by luring her on January 17. He was arrested on the basis of a complaint filed against him by the girl’s...

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