Narayan Dhungana / Kathmandu, Aug. 17: Data shows that the country has sufficient food reserve, but food imbalance due to disproportionate production and distribution posed a threat to food security in Nepal with 7.8 percent population at risk of severe food crisis. Minister for Agriculture and Livestock Development Mrigendra Singh Yadav said the existing food […]
Kathmandu / Aug. 17: Minister for Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation Pampha Bhusal said that the profits earned by Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) will be invested in the construction of infrastructures related to electricity supply. Speaking at the 37th Anniversary Program of NEA organized on Wednesday, Minister Bhusal rejected the demand of NEA employees to […]
Kathmandu / Aug 17: Contributors to the Social Security Fund (SSF) can now avail of different types of loan facilities through its mobile application. The Fund has launched the app today. The contributors could get special credit, housing loan, educational loan and social loan using the app. At a programme organised at the Ministry of […]
Kathmandu / Aug. 16: As many as 84 political parties have registered at the Election Commission for participating in the election slated for November 20. The EC has called the parties for registering at the EC by today in order to be allowed to participate in the election of the members of the House of […]
Ajay Chhetri / Kathmandu, Aug. 16: Foreign exchange reserve has dropped below the warning benchmark as it is now sufficient merely for the import of goods and services for 6.9 months. According to the annual data 2021/22 released by Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) on August 16, the foreign exchange reserve declined by 15 per cent […]
Kathmandu / Aug. 16: Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) has increased the threshold of money remitted from abroad on a daily basis from Rs 1 million to Rs 1.50 million. Revising a unified directive on Monday, the central bank has increased the limit of remittance earned by an individual as an income for selling goods, commission, […]
Kathmandu / Aug. 15: Prime Minister and Nepali Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba has termed local levels as the first school for democracy and stressed a leadership with competence and vision should be elected right from the local level to strengthen democracy since its foundation. “The local government is the closest government to the people […]
Kathmandu / Aug. 15: Thanks to timely and sufficient rainfall, transplantation of paddy, the major staple crop of the country has concluded enthusiastically. Paddy transplantation has taken place in 75 of the 77 districts except for the two districts of Manang and Mustang. Hundred per cent transplantation of paddy has been held in 24 districts […]
Kathmandu / Aug. 15: Lalitpur Metropolis has removed the concrete dividers and replaced them with rubber dividers on the roads in the metropolis. The metropolis has removed the cement dividers in Lalitpur’s Kupondole, in front of Pulchowk Engineering Campus, the road to the Ministers’ Quarters, the road to Krishna Galli and the area in front […]
Kathmandu / Aug. 14: President Bidya Devi Bhandari has returned the Nepal Citizenship, First Amendment Bill to the House of Representatives (HoR) for reconsideration. The amendment bill was presented to the President for authentication after being endorsed by the HoR and the National Assembly (NA). The spokesperson of the Office of the President, Sagar Acharya, […]