Kathmandu / August 16: The State Affairs Committee of the parliament has proposed including iris data of citizens in the biometric information in the national identity card although the government has already distributed such cards to nearly 117,000 citizens. Revising the Bill to Provision National Identity Card and Registration tabled by the Ministry of Home […]
Kathmandu / August 15: Inspector General of Nepal Police (IGP) Sarbendra Khanal has said that the police stationed at Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) would play an important role in making the Visit Nepal 2020 a success. Nepal is marking Visit Nepal in 2020 with an objective of attracting more than 2 million foreign tourists to […]
Kathmandu / August 15: A book titled ‘The Temperament of Nepal’ was released at the Embassy of Nepal in Beijing on Thursday. Addressing the program, Ambassador of Nepal to China Leela Mani Paudyal lauded the Chinese authors’ attempt to highlight Nepal’s rich cultural and natural heritage through the book. “I appreciate the authors’ efforts to […]
Banke / August 15: The Gyanodaya Community Library and Resource Centre Kohalpur has operated ward-level mobile library programme for advancing reading culture. Chetkanta Bhattarai, chair of the library, shared the mobile library programme has been put in place to promote reading culture. He further shared that the initiative was operational to mark the 12th National […]
Kathmandu / August 14: Minister for Foreign Affairs Pradeep Kumar Gyawali has termed the Nepal-India relations interconnected and interdependent. In his address to an interaction program organized here today on the eve of India’s 73rd Independence Day in the capital, he said prosperous India could be an opportunity for Nepal as well. India enjoyed significant […]
Kathmandu / August 14: Finance Minister Dr Yubraj Khatiwada has said that Nepal holds a suitable atmosphere for investment. Minister Khatiwada during a meeting with the ambassador to Nepal, Saeed Hamdan Al Naqei, called on the entrepreneurs of UAE to invest in the infrastructure and industrial sector. “Furthermore, irrigation, energy, tourism and agriculture sectors are […]
Kathmandu / August 14: Minister for Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation Yogesh Kumar Bhattarai expressed his commitment to making reforms in the Tribhuvan International Airport within one month. Problems ranging from air traffic would be resolved, he said at an interaction relating to tourism and private sector organized here by Nepal Chamber of Commerce on […]
Kathmandu / August 13: Nepal Electricity Authority has earned more than Rs 7 billion in the last fiscal year. Minister for Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation Barsha Man Pun amid a press meet at Singha Durbar on Tuesday informed that the profit of the NEA has risen over Rs 7.2 billion in the last fiscal […]
Kathmandu / August 13: Minister for Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation Yogesh Bhattarai has vowed to provide utmost support for the Khas museum to be constructed at Sinja Rural Municipality in Jumla district. Minister Bhattarai gave his word for the same to a team led by House of Representatives member Gajendra Bahadur Mahat, that called […]
Kathmandu / August 13: Supreme Court has stayed Nepal Rastra Bank’s recent decision to set an age bar for chief executive officers (CEOs) and board directors of the bank and financial institutions (BFIs). A single bench of Chief Justice Cholendra Shamsher Rana on Tuesday issued the ruling ordering the central bank not to issue circular […]