The ‘National Action Plan to End Child Marriage’ is likely to take a few months before coming into effect due to apathy of concerned stakeholders towards giving a final shape to the draft.

The Chabahil-Sankhu Road expansion project—which was supposed to be completed by December this year—is set to be delayed by at least two years due to myriad problems facing the expansion drive, road officials warn.

Beginning Wednesday, stakeholders have agreed to launch a seven-day trial run of banning trucks, tippers and mini trucks during rush hours from entering the Valley in a bid to curb chronic traffic congestion at Lokanthali, Jadibuti, Koteshwor and Tinkune.

Several cultural heritage sites in Kathmandu Valley continue to remain in rubbles more than two years after they were destroyed by the Gorkha Earthquake.

Though monsoon brings cheers giving respite from scorching heat, it also results in a spike of water-borne diseases.

Around 150,000 students of the 462,136 who appeared in the Secondary Education Exam (SEE) won’t be able to pursue higher education, not even vocational subjects offered by the Council for Technical Education and Vocational Training (CTEVT).

Domestic workers, the most vulnerable unregistered workers of the labour community, who often work without clear terms of employment, are facing identity crisis and inferiority complex, stakeholders have said.

The President’s Women Empowerment Programme, one of the two national level programmes named after the head of state, has officially started in 26 of the total 40 districts where the Ministry of Women, Children and Social Welfare had launched it.

When Nepal Police set up Women and Children Service Directorate (WCSD), the main objective was ensuring women and children’s easy access to the law enforcement agency so that they could report in case any offence is committed against them.

The country would have been celebrating zero rhino poaching for third consecutive year on May 3, a feat in Nepal’s conservation efforts, had there not been a major setback on the night of April 7 when poachers killed a one-horned rhino in the Chitwan National Park (CNP).

On an evening in 2012, Uma Khadka (name changed) was out with her friends at a restaurant. She got a frantic call from her sister, who alerted her about the nude photos of women leaked from her Facebook page. Bewildered, Khadka checked her profile immediately and removed the posts.

Chabahil locals on Monday took to the streets for about an hour to protest against the “snail-paced work” of the Melamchi Water Supply Project (MWSP) which is laying pipes in different parts of the Capital.

The much-talked about Republic Monument, being built on the eastern side of Narayanhiti Palace in the Capital, will be completed by the end of this May.

More than one-third of the children who were rescued from the streets of Kathmandu Valley have been reunited with their families almost a year after a rehabilitation campaign was initiated by the Central Child Welfare Board in May 2016.

Data analysis of air quality monitoring stations set up last year in five places across the country shows that Lumbini is the most polluted city followed by Chitwan, Ratnapark (Kathmandu), Pulchowk (Lalitpur) and Dhulikhel (Kavrepalanchok).