HUMLA: Snowfall has occurred here again in the third week of March, leading to a dip in temperature and causing problem to the students who are appearing in the Secondary Education Examination (SEE) that is underway.
The weather has become cold after the snowfall in the district which lies in the mountainous region. Students sitting for the SEE especially at two exam centers in the district headquarters will be hardest-hit, examination superintendent at the Mansarovar Secondary School exam centre, Amar Bahadur Shahi, said.
SEE started across the country from March 24 and would conclude on April 4. Nine hundred and fifty three students are taking SEE from Humla district this year.
It had rained throughout the day in Humla on Monday and snowfall has started taking place since the morning today, giving rise to mercury.
Snowfall is taking place in the upper reaches of the district while the lower parts and valleys are receiving rainfall. Namkha Rural Municipality in the northern belt of the district has received heavy snowfall, the district police office said.
KATHMANDU: A 10-day raining on analysis of crime-related information has kicked off at National Police Academy in the capital. The training is organized by the Interpol General Secretariat in collaboration with Interpol Nepal.
Representatives of various organizations working in investigation on environmental protection, wildlife conservation and criminal activities, among several issues, are participating in the training.
The training is focused on how to analyze the information on criminal activities related to wildlife, environment, climate and other sectors and on how to reach to conclusion, Interpol Nepal said.
Seventeen police officers including 13 foreigners, instructors included, are participating in the training. The participants include four Nepalis, two Cambodians, two Vietnamese, three Indians, two Malaysian, two Thai, one British and one French national, the Nepal Police Headquarters has stated.
One hundred and ninety four countries are the members of the Interpol General Secretariat based in Leon, France.
KATHMANDU: With the new session about to begin, the private schools have fixed the fee structure unilaterally.
Over 6,000 private schools are across the country where over 1.8 million students study. These private schools are charging fee to the parents exorbitantly due to the lack of proper monitoring by the government, a report in Rajdhani daily said.
The local government is mum on this issue. They have been charging fee on various topics such as exam fee, monthly fee, computer lab, hostel, diary, belt, tie, shoes, shocks among others.
On top of that they have been fleecing parents by imposing syndicate on notebooks and textbooks.
KATHMANDU: The government on March 12 decided to ban the Biplav outfit following a series of bomb explosions across the country. The government started arresting Biplav cadres and leaders under a ‘search and arrest’ operation. The government has urged the Biplav outfit to come for talks within a month.
Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli on Monday gave a month-long deadline to the group to come for negotiation .
On the other hand, Bipalv has warned that his party would ban the government if the latter did not withdraw its decision to ban at the earliest, Annapurna daily reported.
KATHMANDU: Several minor mistakes have been found in the questions papers of Secondary Education Examination (SEE) that kicked off from Sunday.
The examiners have complained that most the questions are illegible especially in English and Nepali papers in all the seven provinces.
English paper was held on Sunday and Nepal paper was conducted on Monday under the SEE.
National Examination Board (NEB) had prepared separate question papers for English and Nepali subjects in each province.
KATHMANDU: A British national has been left high and dry at Emergency Ward of Bir Hospital of the Capital City.
Philips Malcolm was admitted to the Teku-based Sukraraj Tropical & Infectious Disease Hospital some two weeks ago where he was diagnosed with Hepatitis C.
The hospital referred him to Bir Hospital last Friday.
Malcolm has been only receiving emergency service at the hospital and he is yet to get further treatment for the disease.
KATHMANDU: Main opposition, Nepali Congress (NC) has blamed that the incumbent federal government was trying to exercise the centralized governance system and shadow other State agencies.
In a meeting of the NC’s parliamentary party here on Monday, the major opposition concluded that the government had intended to centralize rights of the executive body against the principle of power balance and decentralisation of power.
Informing the media persons of the meeting, NC Chief Whip Bal Krishna Khad shared that the NC assessed that although the constitution empowers governments in all three levels with authority, the central government had introduced many bills with an objective to centralize power.
He said that the NC suggested that the government revokes the three bills relating to the rights of the national security council, projects of national priorities and information technology as some points of the bills related to the national security council and national priority projects would vest more power to Prime Minister, while the bill relating to the information technology would infringe on the rights to the freedom of expression.
NC President and parliamentary party leader Sher Bahadur Deuba directed his party parliamentarians to play more effective role in the parliament so as to check the arbitrariness of the government.
KATHMANDU: The people showed tremendous interests in the Upper Trishuli 3B Hydropower Project as a whopping over 100,000 applications have been dropped demanding to purchase over Rs 660 million worth of shares, said Global IME Capital, the Project’s sales promoter.
The project is being developed under the government’s People’s Hydropower Program which aims to generate 3,500 mega watt of electricity by investing Rs 698.8 billion in 19 hydropower projects. The Upper Trishuli III B in Nuwakot, which is being constructed by the Nepal Electricity Authority, is one of them.
There could be an increment in the number of the applications dropped as some banks and financial institutions authorized to collect the applications are yet to submit the details, said Paras Mani Dhakal, the bank’s chief executive officer.
The number of the total applications dropped is by around 18 folds than called for, and in case of the amounts collected from the IPO, it is by around two folds, he said. The Project’s issued capital is over Rs 2.4 billion.
Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli had applied for 10,000 unit of shares. Likewise, Minister for Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation Barsha Man Pun had applied for 1,000 unit of shares.
Main investment partners of the Project are Nepal Electricity Authority and Nepal Telecom, while Trishuli Hydropower Company is the promoter.
Construction of this 37 megawatts project has started with the completion target of the Falgun 17, 2078 BS, said the company’s managing director Mohan Prasad Gautam.
KATHMANDU: Chairman of Nepal Communist Party, Pushpa Kamal Dahal held talks with Alice G Wells, Acting Assistant Secretary, Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs at the State Department in Washington DC.
Dahal is currently in the United States for the treatment of his spouse, Sita. During the meeting, the duo discussed Nepal-US relations, Dahal’s secretariat posted on social media.
Dahal is learned to have remained busy in political meetings in the United States.