Kathmandu / Dec 17: The Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) has in the first five months of the current fiscal year signed the power purchase agreement (PPA) with 52 hydropower projects. As told by NEA Spokesperson Prabal Adhikari, the total capacity of such projects is 1,051 megawatts. All of them has the private sector investments, and […]
Kathmandu / Dec 17: Cloudy skies, light rain and snowfall at a few places across the country has been forecast today due to the impact of cyclone Phethai, originated from the south-west area of Bay of Bengal. In a press statement today, the Meteorological Forecasting Division, Department of Hydrology and Meteorology has predicted light rainfall […]
Pokhara / Dec 17: Former King Gyanendra Shah and his spouse Komal Shah were welcomed by a mass of cadres affiliated to royalist political groups and Hindu right-wing party, Rastriya Prajatantra Party Nepal, upon their arrival at Pokhara airport on Monday. The former king was feted with a 21-kg-garland and a traditional Panche Baja band. […]
Kanchanpur / Dec 16: A total of 781 people have benefited from a free eye camp in Shuklaphanta Municipality-4 in Kanchanpur district. Of the patients with eye problems, 93 have been found suffering from cataract, said Gajendra Chand, who supported the camp, adding that 330 others were provided with spectacles, medicines and counselling for free. […]
Kathmandu / Dec 16 : Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli said it was his duty to speak against the negative publicity being made against the government, his party and the president. “We have made some extraordinary achievements but there is a war going on against us in the form of negative publicity,” PM Oli said […]
Kathmandu / Dec 16 : Foreign Minister Pradeep Kumar Gyawali is leaving Kathmandu tomorrow morning for a visit to the United States, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on Sunday. Gyawali is scheduled to have a bilateral meeting with the US Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo in Washington D.C. on December 18, the ministry […]
Kathmandu / Dec 15: The Mahasamiti meeting of main opposition party Nepali Congress kicked off in Kathmandu on Saturday. Party President Sher Bahadur Deuba inaugurated the meeting at Yagambar Party Palace near Singha Durbar. The jamboree will discuss dozens of issues related to the party’s diminished position, future course of action and reshaping the party […]
Kathmandu / Dec 15: The Department of Tourism has collected revenue amounting to Rs 460 million in four months of the current fiscal year. The Department had set a target of collecting Rs 1.13 billion in the current fiscal. At present, it has been successful in only collecting a little less than half the target […]
Bharatpur / Dec 15: The Speakers, Deputy Speakers and Secretaries of the provincial assembly of all the seven provinces have been meeting in Sauraha, Chitwan today. The gathering is organized by the Province Assembly of Province No 3 for sharing inter-provincial experience. Speaker of the House of Representatives, the lower house of the Federal Parliament, […]
Pokhara / Dec 14: Efforts have been initiated to revive the Millennium Trekking route when the trend of trekking routes shortening due to the construction of motorable roads has been increasing in various parts of the country in recent times. The Millennium Trekking route runs from Dulegaunda of Tanahun to Rambachha of Syangja district. This […]