Hemanta Joshi and Sita Bhattarai / Kathmandu: The number of beneficiaries receiving the social security allowance in the past five years has reached around one million while the government’s responsibility under the social security has increased four folds. Presenting the budget for the current fiscal year, 2023/24, Finance Minister Dr Prakash Sharan Mahat said the […]
Kathmandu / Aug 9 : Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defense, Purna Bahadur Khadka, has spoken of the need of support and cooperation from all quarters to complete the Kathmandu-Tarai/Madhesh Fast Track Project within the stipulated timeline. In his address to the fourth quarterly and annual progress review of the Ministry and its subordinate […]
Bhairahawa / Aug. 9: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is going to make further investment in Siddharthanagar Municipality (Bhairahawa) of Rupandehi district. Earlier, it had invested in infrastructure development projects including roads and sewerage here. ADB is about to make reinvestment shortly after the conclusion of the previous plan. With the investment from the ADB, […]
Kathmandu / Aug 8 : The government has decided to permit the Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) to mint 150 million pieces of Nepalese rupee 5 (five) denomination circulation coins. A meeting of the Council of Ministers held today at the Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers (OPMCM) decided to give approval for […]
Kathmandu / Aug 8: Minister for Physical Infrastructure and Transport, Prakash Jwala, has instructed the bodies concerned to make the life of the citizens easier by immediately rebuilding the roads and bridges damaged by rain-triggered disasters. He issued the directive to the subordinate bodies to immediately collect the details of the damage resulting in the […]
Kathmandu / Aug 8 : Stakeholders have expressed their discontent on the proposed arrangements regarding private schools in the bill that the government is set to present at the federal parliament to mend and integrate school education. Organizing a joint press conference today, the organizations related to the private school operators have demanded amendment to […]
Bhauch Prasad Yadav / Dhading, Aug 7: The digging work of the evacuation tunnel of the Nagdhunga Tunnel Construction Project has been completed. The evacuation tunnel’s breakthrough was done on Monday with the last blast by following the Nepali and Japanese cultures jointly. The breakthrough was conducted in the presence of the Minister for Physical […]
Nabin Lamichhane / Manang, Aug 7: Farmers of the mountainous district, of Manang, are getting attracted to apple farming with many finding their calling in this sector. Sol Bahadur Gurung of Naso Rural Municipality-8 has switched to apple farming from traditional agriculture with the farming generating high incomes. “I switched to hybrid apple farming from […]
Kathmandu / Aug 7: Dr Shambhu Prasad Acharya has, on behalf of Nepal, registered his candidacy for the regional director of the World Health Organization (WHO) South East Asia Region (SEAR). The Ministry of Foreign Affairs had written to the United Nations on July 23 informing the latter about Acharya’s candidacy to the post of […]
Hemanta Joshi / Kathmandu, Aug 6 : The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Compact that was signed between the Ministry of Finance and the US Government around six years ago has reached the entry into force (EIF) phase and the development itself marks a significant milestone in the implementation of the agreement. According to the Millennium […]
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