Kathmandu / Oct 26: Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) has filed charge sheet against 25 former employees of Foreign Employment Department, Tahachal, Kathmandu, at the Special Court on Friday. The CIAA filed charge sheet against them after they were found providing work permit to 184 women bearing fake documents. The women were […]
Kathmandu / Oct 26: Official statistics revealed that Nepal has a trade deficit with 112 countries of the globe. According to recent data disclosed by the Department of Customs, out of 140 countries, Nepal has trade surplus with only 28 and a widening deficit with other 112. Nepal witnessed highest volume of trade deficit with […]
Kathmandu / Oct. 25:The Government of Japan has extended a grant assistance of Rs 1.085 billion to the Government of Nepal for the rehabilitation of the Sindhuli road affected by the 2015 earthquake. Masamichi Saigo, Ambassador of Japan to Nepal, and Dr. Rajan Khanal, Secretary of the Ministry of Finance signed notes to this effect […]
Kathmandu / Oct. 25:Newly appointed ambassadors of four countries have presented their ‘Letter of Credence’ to President Bidya Devi Bhandari today. At a special ceremony organised at Sheetal Niwas, US Ambassador to Nepal Randy W Berry, and non-resident ambassadors of Tanzania, Malta and Croatia — Baraka Haran Luvanda, Stephen Borg and Petar Jubicic respectively — […]
Kathmandu / Oct. 25:Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) has demanded that the federal government should construct landfill site for disposing the capital’s waste. Saying it was not the responsibility of KMC to construct the landfill site, Mayor Bidya Sundar Shakya argued that duty of local level was to take the garbage to landfill site after the […]
Kathmandu / Oct. 25: The government has planned to limit power leakage to around 17 per cent within three years. As per the Mid-Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) recently prepared by the National Planning Commission (NPC), the target is set to slash electric power leakage to a lower point. NPC has envisaged bringing down power leakage […]
Kathmandu / Oct 24: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has complained of non-implementation of its recommendations to the government. NHRC had recommended the government to prioritise construction of buildings for essential services as health and to make the buildings disabled-friendly. The government was also urged to reconstruct the quake-damaged historic, religious and cultural infrastructures […]
Rasuwa / Oct 24: Wire expansion has begun along the under-construction Trishuli-Kathmandu 220 KV ‘Double Circuit’. The wire is being installed on the electric poles from Suryamati to Thansingh of Nuwakot since Tuesday, shared Upper Trishuli Three ‘A’ Hydropower Project Chief Fadindra Raj Joshi. He further said the contractor company – China International Water and […]
Kathmandu / Oct 24: Deputy Prime Minister Ishwar Pokhrel has expressed the belief that the friendly relations subsisting between Nepal and the People’s Republic of China would be more fruitful and deeper in the days ahead. DPM Pokhrel, who is currently in China to attend the international military conference to be held in Beijing, said […]
Kathmandu / Oct 23: The mid-term expenditure report published by the National Planning Commission envisions increasing the life expectancy of Nepalis to 73 years in two years’ time. The life expectancy is 72 years. The report states that the life expectancy of a Nepali was 69 two years back. It is stated that the life […]
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