Kathmandu / Dec. 7: The government has decided to accept grant assistance amounting to over five billion rupees from Norway and Finland. A meeting of the Council of Ministers held on Tuesday made a decision to this effect. Making public the Cabinet decision through a press meeting on Wednesday, government spokesperson and Minister for Communication […]
Kathmandu / Dec 6: Private hydropower companies say they incurred losses of Rs 1 billion due to the reluctance of Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) to procure the electricity produced by the private power producers. According to Independent Power Producers’ Association Nepal (IPPAN), the NEA has not purchased electricity from 22 private sector-run power projects since […]
Kathmandu / Dec. 6: The Election Commission has estimated the counting of the votes under the proportional representation (PR) system will be over by Wednesday. Guru Prasad Wagle, spokesperson of the office of the chief election officer for the PR system in the EC, informed that the PR vote counting will be completed by tomorrow, […]
Kathmandu / Dec 6: Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) is going to hire the engineers who are on the alternative list of the Public Service Commission (PSC) on contract. It is mentioned in a notice issued by the KMC on Tuesday that civil engineers, architects, electrical engineers, and structural engineers who are in the alternative list […]
Yadav Raj Puri / Rautahat, Dec.6: You may find it incredible, but it is true that some 472 students of a secondary school in Rautahat take sacks to school to sit on because there are no benches for them. The plight of the students from grades 1 to 6 of Shree Secondary School in Fatuwa […]
Kathmandu / Dec 5: The Pushpalal (Mid-hill) Highway has made 64 per cent progress in one and a half decades since its construction was begun. The construction of this highway was started in 2064/65 BS. This roadway connects 215 settlements of 26 districts in the hilly region of the country. The 1,879 kilometres long roadway […]
Kathmandu / Dec 5: A total of 1,441 individuals from 176 expedition teams took permits to climb snow-capped mountains for the autumn season this year. The government collected royalties worth Rs 93.10 million from them. According to the Department of Tourism, 1,110 men and 331 women were issued permits to climb 49 mountain peaks, as […]
Kathmandu / Dec. 5: Melamchi water has arrived at Sundarijal today a week after it was sent to the tunnel headworks in Sindhupalchowk. The water supply into the tunnel was halted soon after the onset of the rainy season due to the fear of floods. The headworks area was severely damaged by the floods in […]
Kathmandu / Dec 4: The Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development (MoALD) on Sunday said that there are a total of 42,983 tons of chemical fertilizers in stock in the state-owned organizations. Unveiling a report, the MoALD has stated that the Agriculture Inputs Company Limited has a stock of 35,449 tons of fertilizer while the […]
Kathmandu / Dec 4: In the duration of eleven months of 2022, more than half a million foreign tourists arrived in Nepal. According to government officials, a total of 542,975 foreign tourists from different countries visited Nepal from January to November this year. A total of 16,975 tourists entered Nepal in the month of January, […]