Tony Awards telecast makes inclusive history and puts on quite a show despite Hollywood strike

NEW YORK, JUNE 12The intimate, funny-sad musical "Kimberly Akimbo" nudged aside splashier rivals on Sunday to win the musical crown at the Tony Awards on a night when Broadway flex...

Children suffer heat-related illness in Banke

KATHMANDU, JUNE 7Nepalgunj, one of the major cities in Banke of Province 5, is enduring scorching heat for the past few days. The rising temperature has already started taking its...

Bill on power trade to be tabled in parliament

KATHMANDU, JUNE 7Today's meeting of the Council of Ministers has decided to table the bill designed to make arrangement regarding power trade in the federal parliament.Spokesp...

FM Mahat comes clear on MPs' questions

KATHMANDU, JUNE 6Finance Minister Prakash Sharan Mahat today told the House of Representatives that Ram Krishna Shrestha was hired as a junior assistant but he had no role in levyi...

Budget for upcoming FY not capable of tiding over economic crisis: UML Chair Oli

KATHMANDU, JUNE 6Chairman of the main opposition party CPN (UML), KP Sharma Oli, has claimed that the budget for the upcoming fiscal year brought by the government would not tide o...

KMC warns against employing child labour

KATHMANDU, JUNE 6The Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) has warned of action if found illegally providing custody to children or employing them in precarious work.Publishing a notic...

Mother's untimely death leaves six siblings including infant in desperate situation

BAJURA, JUNE 2Six siblings including a mere one-month-old baby are left in dire straits after their mother, 32-year-old Ashmita Devi Damai of Chatara in Triveni Municipality-1, Baj...

Excessive heat forces Banke community schools to shut

NEPALGUNJ, JUNE 2Nepalgunj Sub Metropolitan City and Khajura Rural Municipality have decided to shut community schools within the local levels due to unbearable heat.Temperature in...