Kathmandu / Nov 21: Revenue collection in the first quarter of the current Fiscal Year 2024/25 has increased by 17 per cent compared to the corresponding period of the previous fiscal year. As per the details on revenue collection presented in a meeting of the Ministry of Finance, Higher Management Committee today, revenue of Rs […]
Dhangadhi / Nov. 21: Home Minister Ramesh Lekhak has said that the Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli’s upcoming visit to China will be based on the consensus between the ruling Nepali Congress and CPN (UML). At a press conference held by the Nepal Press Union in Dhangadhi today, the Home Minister said that the Prime […]
Kathmandu / Nov 20: In the first quarter of the current fiscal year, Nepal supplied electricity worth Rs 12.72 billion to India. According to the Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA), one billion 667 million and 892 thousand units of electricity, the surplus during the rainy season, was exported to India. The export rate per unit was […]
Kathmandu / Nov 20: President Ramchandra Paudel has said the objective of a federal democratic republic is to improve the status of citizens including those pushed into exclusion, and to make them feel their future is secured within this system. Releasing a book entitled “Nepal’s Nidhi,” about the struggling life of the late Mahendra Narayan […]
Kathmandu / Nov 20: The government debt increased by Rs 84 billion in the first four months of the current Fiscal Year (FY) 2024/25, according to the Public Debt Management Office (PDMO). Nepal’s total public debt now exceeds 44 percent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The PDMO report revealed that total public debt stood […]
Kathmandu / Nov 19: The country has received Rs 407.31 billion in remittances in the first three months of the current fiscal year. “Remittance inflows increased 11.5 per cent to Rs 407.31 billion in the review period compared to an increase of 25.8 per cent in the same period of the previous year,” Nepal Rastra […]
Kathmandu / Nov 19: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has urged the government to complete the peace process soon by forming a trustworthy commission. Likewise, the NHRC has urged the government to focus on the concerns of the victims and implement its past recommendation. The NHRC has asked to finalize the peace process in […]
Kathmandu / Nov 19: Police arrested medical entrepreneur Durga Prasai on Tuesday from his residence in Bhaktapur. A team from the Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) of Nepal Police reached Prasai’s residence and arrested him. Hobindra Bogati, spokesperson and Superintendent of Police (SP) of the CIB, confirmed that Prasai has been arrested on the charge of […]
Kathmandu / Nov. 18: Former Speaker Daman Nath Dungana has been cremated with state honours at Arya Ghat in Pashupatinath. On the occasion, a squad of the Nepali Army offered a sorrowful farewell salute of 17 cannons. Dhungana’s sons lit the funeral pyre. Speaker Dev Raj Ghimire, Chairman of National Assembly Narayan Prasad Dahal, Chief […]
Hari Prasad Koirala / Urlabari, Nov. 18: Devendra Basnet of Urlabari Municipality-7, Morang, has been engaged in commercial mushroom farming for 18 years. Basnet, 42, who planted 10 packs of mushrooms for household consumption as test production, started commercial mushroom farming after getting a good yield. Earlier mushrooms were cultivated only in the months of […]