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Government to conduct sanitation audit at 10 major airports

Posted by | Jan 24, 2020 | ,

The government is set to carry out a sanitation audit at 10 main airports of the country as part of the Visit Nepal Year, 2020. The audit will take place on coming February 11, and an agreement in this regard had been reached acting on directions made following a discussion between Minister for Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation, Yogesh Bhattarai and representatives of the Non-Resident Nepali Association (NRNA) recently. The Ministry will conduct the audit in coordination with concerned agencies. The airports where the audit would take place are Tribhuvan International Airport (both domestic and international), Biratnagar Airport, Chandragadhi Airport, Janakpur Airport, Simara Airport, Bharatpur Airport, Gautam Buddha International Airport, Pokhara International Airport, Nepalgunj Airport and Dhangadhi Airport, according to a statement released by the ministry. As per the agreement, assigned volunteers are tasked with carrying out a field visit at the 10 airports, taking stock of airports’ situation and submitting the report to the ministry within one month (from March 3 to April 1). A clean up campaign and other progressive activities would be organised at airports and cultural tourist destinations of the country acting on the report, reads the...

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International media briefed about Sagarmatha Sambad

Posted by | Jan 24, 2020 | ,

The government has briefed that representatives of international media about the programme ‘Sagarmatha Sambad’, going to be organised with an objective of holding extensive discussion about the national, regional, international and global-level issues of contemporary and common interests. Sagarmatha Sambad is being held from April 2 to 4 in Kathmandu. A team of senior journalists of India was briefed about the programme, its relevance and participation. The team of Indian senior journalists is on Nepal visit at the invitation of the government with an objective of providing information about the global-level discussion, going to be held for the first time in Nepal, and promotional publicity of Visit Nepal Year-2020. At an interaction organised among Nepal representatives of the international media, the Rastriya Samachar Samiti and visiting Indian Journalists team at the Foreign Ministry here today, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Pradeep Kumar Gyawali said that the government has invited neighbouring countries, South Asian countries, BIMSTEC-member countries, mountain-countries affected by climate change and small island countries to participate in Sagarmatha Sambat programme. Noting the topic of the discussion of the first series of the programme, to be held in every two years, would be ‘Climate Change, Mountain Eco-System and Future of Human Beings’, Minister Gyawali said that though Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, has also been invited, response from New Delhi has not been received yet. Minister Gyawali stated that...

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Kathmandu Valley experiencing cold even during sunny days

Posted by | Jan 24, 2020 | ,

Although Kathmandu Valley has been witnessing sunny days for the past few days, the Valley dwellers have been experiencing chilling cold. Mainly, the cold is being experienced in the morning and evening. Meteorologist Shanti Kandel said that though no specific weather system has developed, this situation would remain for few days more. Kandel shared that temperature of Kathmandu Valley would not drop to the freezing point and the temperature would increase gradually. Other parts of the country have also been experiencing cold in recent period along with Kathmandu Valley.Thick fog takes place in Tarai area, causing cold during morning and evening hours. Meteorologist Kandel added that fog is taking place in Tarai area at present while skies of some places of east and central parts of the country have remained partly cloudy. As per the latest bulletin of the Meteorological Forecasting Division, today’s minimum temperature in Kathmandu Valley is 2.8 degrees Celsius and maximum temperature is 18.5 degrees Celsius. According to the Division, weather will remain generally clear throughout the country for next few...

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There is no court case against Sapkota, insists NCP chair Dahal

Posted by | Jan 24, 2020 | ,

Former Prime Minister and chairman of the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP), Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ has said there is no case against party leader Agni Prasad Sapkota. Talking to journalists here today, the ruling party chair said the propaganda being spread that leader Sapkota has a court case against him is false. When asked on this issue, party chair Dahal said, “I have been mentioning this from time to time that Agni Sapkota has no case against him.” Stating that the entire parliament has accepted him, Dahal insisted that the nation has come together at a single place in his favour and it was no use to unnecessarily make this topic an issue. Sapkota has filed his candidacy for the election to the post of Speaker of the House of Representatives, the lower House of Federal Parliament. Sapkota is the lone candidate for the high post and the House of Representatives is sure to elect him to the post when it convenes on January 26. Responding to another question that his home district, Chitwan, was without a police chief since some time, he said the government will send the police chief at its convenience. Dahal added that the incumbent Deputy Superintendent of Police in the district has also been carrying out his duty well. “Is there any security threat here at present? I do not feel there is...

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Crusher industry operation banned

Posted by | Jan 24, 2020 | ,

With increasing complaints from the public, the operation of crusher industries is coming to halt in Mahottari district. The District Monitoring Committee formed to oversee the consumption of natural resources and river products on Wednesday took a decision to ban the operation of crusher industries. Monitoring Committee Coordinator Suresh Prasad Singh shared that the decision to ban the crusher industries was made when their operators did not provide stock details of the fiscal year 2075/76 BS. He further said that directive was already issued to all the local level of the district to certify the stock of crusher and sand processing centres in their territory and send the details to the District Coordination Committee within five days. The district has 15 local levels. The crusher industries have been operational in Bardibas, Aurahi, Bahnagaha and Gaushala municipalities in the northern belt of the area without license. Singh, also the coordinator of District Coordination Committee, said re-operation license can be provided to the only industries which have completed all the stated process. Due to growing public complaint on illegal excavation of sand and gravel from Chure region, the district coordination committee and natural resource and environment committee of the state-2 have upped joint monitoring in the area. Around 50 crusher industries and sand processing centres did not provide the documents demanded in course of the monitoring. The committee decided to completely...

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