Kathmandu / Nov 24: Finance Minister Janardan Sharma said the government will take stern measures to reduce imports to maintain the country’s foreign currency reserves. Speaking at a meeting of the Ministry Level Development Problem Solving Committee organized by the Ministry of Finance (MoF) on Wednesday, Sharma said the ballooning imports has led to the […]
Kathmandu / Nov. 24: Vice President Nanda Bahadur Pun has said that cooperatives form the basis for socio-economic transformation. Speaking on the occasion of the 4th Lalitpur Savings and Credit Cooperative Societies (SACCOS) Summit organised by Lalitpur District Savings and Credit Cooperatives Union Wednesday, he said that cooperatives should be the foundation for a self-reliant […]
Kathmandu / Nov. 24: The Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) on Wednesday confirmed 305 new cases of COVID-19. According to Dr. Samir Kumar Adhikari, assistant-spokesperson at the MoHP, a total of 305 people were found infected with the virus in 7,590 RT-PCR tests carried out in the last 24 hours. Similarly, the infection was […]
Kathmandu / Nov. 23: Finance Minister Janardan Sharma has informed that discussions were underway to allow Non-Resident Nepalis (NRNs) to open dollar accounts in Nepal. “We are mulling to allow NRNs to open dollar accounts to ease the balance of payment. It can be utilized in making the investment in Nepal and abroad,” he said […]
Kathmandu / Nov. 23: The 13th meeting of the Nepal-EU Joint Commission begins here on Wednesday. Deputy Managing Director of the European Union’s External Affairs for Asia and the Pacific, Paola Pampaloni has arrived here to take part in the meeting. Pampaloni will be co-chairing the meeting with Foreign Secretary Bharat Raj Paudel. The meeting […]
Kathmandu / Nov. 23: As many as 313 people have been found infected with the novel coronavirus in the last 24 hours. According to the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP), 8,729 RT PCR tests were conducted in the period wherein 313 were found infected with the virus that causes COVID-19. 38 people tested positive […]
Kathmandu / Nov 22: Around 37 percent of the internet users in the country have been using 4G services with the telecommunication companies aggressively expanding the service across the country. According to the records with the Nepal Telecommunications Authority (NTA), 12.86 million individuals have been using the 4G internet service as of mid-October. It accounts […]
Ajay Chhetri / Kathmandu, Nov. 22: The Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) survey has shown that 87.1 per cent of the respondents are expecting inflation in the next quarter. According to the Inflation Expectations Survey (IES) of the first quarter, 96.3 per cent of the respondents have expected price levels to increase over the next year. […]
Kathmandu / Nov. 22: With 367 new cases of COVID-19 confirmed on Monday, the nation’s novel coronavirus tally has reached 819,386. In 9,921 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests done in the past 24 hours, a total of 367 persons were found infected with SARS-CoV-2, informed the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) in its […]
Kathmandu / Nov 21: Yoga guru Ramdev Baba has described Nepal as an unrivaled country rich in Vedic Sanatana and religious culture, and that he would make free publicity of its religious and spiritual tourism back in India. The Indian yoga guru said this in a yoga and meditation session he conducted at Chandragiri Hills […]