Public transport operators welcome the move, advise government to enforce dedicated lane rule effectively.

Negligence at the landfill site has caused reduction in agricultural production, proliferation of flies, disruption of education in schools, respiratory problems and skin diseases.

Additional Inspector General of Police Kiran Bajracharya, who is also the chief of the Central Investigation Bureau (CIB), which is investigating the Lalita Niwas land grab scam and 60 kg gold scam, on what transpired during the investigation.

Nine of the defendants are foreigners including seven Chinese, an Indian and a Belgian.

Disposal of the truckloads of collected cables has emerged as a new headache for the civic body.

Over the past 18 years, authorities have reached 175 agreements with the locals but they have all been breached.

Victims say they paid between Rs2.5 million and 7.5 million to Hasta Gautam and his agents to be smuggled.

Speakers at an event held in Kathmandu to mark Interpol’s centenary highlighted the importance of its coordination.

Police have arrested the alleged assailant, Shyam Sapkota, who styled himself as a pro-royalist and anti-MCC activist.

Rate of road accidents has remained unchanged in traffic-clogged Kathmandu over the past few years, even as traffic police claim they have tightened surveillance for rule violations.

Local residents, representatives have objected to the metropolitan city’s move.

Say they will talk only with the prime minister and agree for nothing less than a separate body to address their problems.

Supreme Court recently said foreign detainees should be provided legal and language support.

Experts are concerned that it may curtail the right to privacy and freedom of expression in Nepal.

Ex-prime ministers Nepal and Bhattarai spared in police report on Lalita Niwas probe submitted to district attorney.