KATHMANDU: Kathmandu Upatyaka Khanepani Limited (KUKL) and an Indian company have signed a contract for the rehabilitation and expansion of Wastewater Treatment Plant at Guheshwari under the Kathmandu Valley Wastewater Management Project funded by the Asian Development Bank (ADB).

Kathmandu: The Department of Food Technology and Quality Control (DFTQC) has said that bottled drinking water must be shrink wrapped in plastic from mid-June, one month later than previously announced. The department said it extended the deadline in order to give manufacturers ample time to comply as the rule will be enforced strictly.

Stories of Nepali families devastated by earthquakes, floods, droughts, and other hazards will proliferate in the future

By: AJAYA DIXIT

On April 22, high-level government representatives from about 55 countries participated in a signing ceremony held in New York as a first step in implementing the Paris agreement. The agreement aims to “[hold] the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2°C above the pre-industrial level and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C above the pre-industrial level.”

By: MADHAV ARYAL, PALPA

Palpa: Scores of families at Bhuwanpokhari VDC in Palpa are reeling under severe water shortage caused by drought.

After the local water sources  dried up one after another, the villagers are now compelled to  travel long distance every day to fetch water.