Kathmandu / Nov 2:Finance Minister Janardan Sharma and a team led by Parliamentary State Secretary of Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development of Germany, Barbel Kofler, held discussion on various issues of relations between the two countries, mutual interest and cooperation. During the meeting held at the Ministry of Finance on Wednesday, matters related […]
Kathmandu / Nov 2: India has set a quota on specific types of paddy while exporting the agricultural product to Nepal at zero duty. Issuing a public notice on Monday, India’s Ministry of Finance announced to lift the 20 percent duty being imposed on a number of paddies to be exported to the landlocked country. […]
Kathmandu / Nov 1: The process to install embossed number plates on vehicles which is considered vital for the safety of motor vehicles reports a sluggish process. The government decided to install such number plates on vehicles six years ago but so far embossed number plates have been fixed on less than two percent of […]
Kathmandu / Nov 1: Printing of ballot papers towards the first-past-the-post (FPTP) electoral system is awaited just for seven districts. These districts include Kathmandu, Lalitpur, Bhaktapur, Bara, Dhanusha, Sarlahi and Rautahat. According to the Election Commission (EC), around 8.4 million FPTP ballot papers are required in the above-mentioned districts in view of the voting of […]
Kathmandu / Nov. 1: The 49th Nepal Mountaineering Association (NMA) day is celebrated with various activities on Tuesday. In a formal program organized at NMA Secretariat Nagpokhari, Naxal, representatives from various tourism umbrella organizations extended their best wishes. A group of six tourism experts and tourism entrepreneurs along with Dr Harka Gurung, Kumar Khadga Bikram […]
Kathmandu / Oct 31: The World Bank (WB) has projected that Nepal’s economic growth rate will reach to 5.8 per cent in 2022. Unveiling a report ‘Nepal’s Development Update, October 2022’ on Monday, the WB estimated that Nepal’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) would increase by 5.8 per cent. The WB projected that Nepal’s GDP would […]
Kathmandu / Oct 31: Now international chartered flights will take off and land at the newly-constructed Gautam Buddha International Airport (GBIA) in Bhairahawa, the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN) decided. Earlier, all international chartered flights took place at the Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA). The independent civil aviation regulator of the country resorted to the […]
Kathmandu / Oct 31: A total of 161 have so far been successful to climb the Manaslu peak this spring season. According to the Department of Tourism, 77 foreigners and 84 Nepal reached the top of Manaslu measuring 8,163 meters high this spring. Department’s Mountaineering Section’s officer Bigyan Koirala said this time 407 foreigners acquired […]
Kathmandu / Oct 30: The government has sent a diplomatic note to India on the death of a 10-year-old boy Pawan Mahara from Darchula district after he was hit by a stone on his head in course of road construction in the opposite side- Dharchula area of Uttarakhand, India. Spokesperson at the Foreign Ministry, Sewa […]
Kathmandu / Oct 30: President Bidya Devi Bhandari has celebrated Chhath festival at Gaurighat, Kathmandu. The main ritual of the four-day Chhath festival is being observed today by worshiping and making offerings to the setting sun. The Hindu festival dedicated to the Sun God is observed for four days. As per the beliefs associated with […]
