Kathmandu / Aug. 30: The government has decided to approve a total of 663 temporary posts for different projects and programmes under various ministries. A meeting of the Council of Ministers held on August 29 took a decision to this effect for the fiscal year 2079/80 BS. In a news conference today, Minister for Communications […]
Kathmandu / Aug. 30: An electric-vehicle (EV) charging station built by Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) at Ratnapark, Kathmandu, has come into operation from Tuesday. Minister for Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation, Pampha Bhusal inaugurated the charging station on Tuesday. The charging station will be providing services to EVs. According to the NEA, big vehicles including […]
Kathmandu / Aug. 30: Patients with dengue fever have increased day-by-day in the Kathmandu Valley. Of late, the dengue cases have been mostly detected in Kathmandu, Lalitpur and Rupandehi districts in the country. Inflow of patients has increased in the hospitals of the districts for dengue treatment. The mosquito-borne disease is transmitted by Aedes-aegypti and […]
Kathmandu / Aug. 29: The Government and the World Bank (WB) today signed a concessional financing agreement for $100 million (equivalent to Rs. 12.7 billion) for Green, Resilient, and Inclusive Development (GRID). The proposed budgetary support aims to support improvements in the enabling environment in Nepal toward green, climate-resilient, and inclusive development. This is the […]
Kathmandu / Aug. 29: The Supreme Court (SC) has directed Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) Mayor Balendra Shah (Balen) to furnish written clarification within seven days on a contempt of court case filed against him. A single bench of Justice Hari Krishna Karki issued the order in response to a writ petition filed earlier by Advocate […]
Kathmandu / Aug. 29: Home Minister Bal Krishna Khand has said the government wished that all Nepali citizens could get citizenship as ensured by the Constitution. During a discussion on the message of the President in regard to the Bill to amend the Nepal Citizenship Act- 2007 in a meeting of the Legislation Committee, National […]
Lumbini / Aug. 27: Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba has said the development of a clean and beautiful city could ensure well-managed urbanization. He argued Nepal was facing various sorts of disasters due to not having well-planned and managed cities. PM Deuba was saying it amidst a programme organized to inaugurate an international conference centre […]
Kathmandu / Aug. 27: Nepal’s per capita debt reached Rs 68,907 as of mid-July, which was an increase of Rs 5,597 per person just in around four months’ period. According to the Economic Survey 2021/22, the per capita debt of Nepal was Rs 63,310 per person as of mid-March. Two years ago, this was Rs […]
Rukumpurba / Aug. 27: Farmers in Rukumpurba have been worried over the lack of market to sell potatoes. Every household from Putha Uttarganga Rural Municipality of the district has stored potatoes while half of the potato is ready for harvest in the field. The farmers from the villages of Tak, Sera, Damchan, Ghimliwang, Mayang, Gar […]
Chitwan / Aug 26: Finance Minister Janardan Sharma said import and remittance merely could not generate adequate resources to run the country. In his address to the fifth district conference of the Federation of Nepalese Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FNCCI) Chitwan chapter here today, Minister Sharma said that revenue generated through domestic production was […]