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Student unions enforce one-hour chakka jam to protest fuel price hike

September 6, 2012, Posted By:- parakhi
Student unions affiliated to major political parties organized an hour-long chakka jam across the country today. The student unions decided to shut down all transportation services for an hour to pr...

Supreme Court orders Nepal Army to reserve 15 posts for Madhesis

September 5, 2012, Posted By:- parakhi
The Supreme Court (SC) has ordered Nepal Army not to fill 15 officer level posts reserved for candidates from the Madhesi community. The court ordered the Nepal Army to not fill the posts with indiv...

Government yet to appoint UN mission head

September 5, 2012, Posted By:- parakhi
The government has yet to appoint a permanent mission representative to the United Nations after the position became vacant when Gyan Chandra Acharya was appointed as Under Secretary General for the...

FBI disputes hacker group's claim that it stole 1 million Apple device IDs

September 5, 2012, Posted By:- parakhi
The FBI has refuted media claims that a computer hacker group stole personal identification data on millions of Apple device owners from an FBI agent's laptop. FBI has stated that it has never a...

McDonald's to open vegetarian restaurants in India

September 5, 2012, Posted By:- parakhi
McDonald’s Corp has announced that it will open two vegetarian restaurants in India next year. Instead of its trademark burgers, it will offer potato sandwiches for its Indian customers. The c...

GAESO to organize mass funeral for 60,000 undocumented Gurkha soldiers

September 5, 2012, Posted By:- parakhi
The Gurkha Army Ex-servicemen’s Organization (GAESO) has announced that it will organize a mass funeral rites for over 60,000 undocumented Gurkha soldiers who fought during the First and Secon...

DoI halts travel of Nepali citizens to Gulf countries on visit visas

September 5, 2012, Posted By:- parakhi
The Department of Immigration (DoI) has halted travel of Nepali citizens to Gulf countries on visit visas. According to DoI officials, the decision was made to prevent Nepali citizens from going to ...

Energy Ministry to scrap survey licenses of 12 hydropower projects

September 5, 2012, Posted By:- parakhi
The Ministry of Energy (MoE) has announced that it has begun the process of canceling survey licenses of 12 hydropower projects. The projects failed to completed the assigned tasks within the stipul...

NOC seeks Rs 3 billion to ease fuel supply

September 5, 2012, Posted By:- parakhi
The state-owned Nepal Oil Corporation (NOC) has requested the government to provide Rs 3 billion to ease fuel supply. NOC has stated that it will not able to maintain smooth supplies for long if the...

Nepal requests Israel to resume hiring of caregivers

September 5, 2012, Posted By:- parakhi
Nepal has requested Israel to resume hiring of Nepali caregivers. Israel had stopped issuing visas to caregivers three years ago after it found out that Nepali manpower agencies were charging as muc...