Kathmandu / Oct. 21: The year-on-year (y-o-y) consumer price inflation remained at 8.64 percent in the second month of 2022/23 compared to 3.49 percent a year ago, Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) said. According to the Current Macroeconomic and Financial Situation of Nepal (Based on Two Months’ Data Ending Mid-September, 2022/23) released by the central bank […]
Kathmandu / Oct 21: The House of Representatives (HoR) and Provincial Assembly elections are now a month away. The twin elections are slated on November 20. The Election Commission, the Government of Nepal and the concerned sides are delivering on necessary and preparatory works in view of the upcoming elections. The Constitution of Nepal has […]
Kathmandu / Oct 21: The Pashupati Area Development Trust (PADT) issued a 35-day notice to remove the structures built against the agreement with the PADT in and around the Pashupati Gaushala Dharmashala area in Kathmandu. The Pashupati Gaushala Dharmashala built by Marwadi Sewa Samiti Nepal in the area was not being run in line with […]
Kathmandu / Oct. 20: Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba has said that the government is committed to focusing the players’ attention on sports. Prime Minister Deuba expressed the commitment while addressing the closing ceremony of the 9th National Games held at Pokhara Stadium on Thursday evening. He said that the government is committed to focusing […]
Lalitpur / Oct 20: 15th Godawari Flower Expo has been started in Jawalakhel, Lalitpur on Thursday. The expo’s programme coordinator D.B. Tamang said that the expo will last until October 23. According to the Floriculture Association, the expo has been displaying 49 commercial stalls, three competitive stalls and four informative stalls. The expo will sell […]
Kathmandu / Oct 20: Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Dinesh Kumar Thapaliya has urged the media and social site users to refrain from disseminating content likely to taint the election and democracy. CEC Thapaliya was addressing a virtual training for media persons organized by Meta, the parent company of Facebook, today. The training is held at […]
Kathmandu / Oct 19: The Election Commission has said to date it has completed the printing of 27 per cent of ballot papers towards the first-past-the-post (FPTP) system in view of the elections to the House of Representatives (HoR) and the Province Assembly. It may be noted that the voting for the twin elections is […]
Kathmandu / Oct 19: Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) is selling gold and silver coins (Asharfi) from Thursday, targeting Dhanteras and Laxmi Puja of Tihar–the festival of light that is just a few days away. Dhanteras is the first day of the five-day-long Tihar festival, which falls on Saturday. Since the day is considered to be […]
Kathmandu / Oct 19: Ambassador Patricia Danzi, Director General of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) together with Barbara Böni, Head of South Asia, paid an official visit to Nepal on October 14, to discuss cooperation between the two countries and acknowledge the long standing bilateral relations. The Swiss high-level delegation met in […]
Kathmandu / Oct 18: Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Dinesh Kumar Thapaliya has said that regulation of fake news, misinformation and hate speech that are disseminated through the social networking sites was a tough job and the Election Commission (EC)’s lone efforts could not be effective for it. At a conference on Election Integrity organised by […]