Kathmandu / Aug. 21: Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) has assured the Parliamentary Committee that eight percent economic growth rate would be achieved in the current fiscal year 2018/19. In today’s meeting of the Finance Committee of the House of Representatives, NRB Governor Dr Chiranjivi Nepal said that the analysis of economic growth rate achieved in […]
Kathmandu / Aug. 21: The national flag carrier which bought two wide-body aircrafts recently is exploring new destinations in Europe, North America and South East Asia to bring in more visitors to the country. With the new destinations, the Nepal Airlines Corporation (NAC) expects to increase its business and carry 400,000 tourists on board the […]
Kathmandu / Aug. 21: The government has planned to carry out complete repairs of the runway at Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA), the country’s sole airport operating international flights. The Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation has initiated necessary process in this regard. During the repair works, the airport will remain closed for 10 hours […]
Kathmandu / Aug 20: A meeting of the House of Representatives (HoR) today passed a proposal tabled, seeking an endorsement of the ‘BIMSTEC Convention on Cooperation in Combating International Terrorism, Transnational Organised Crime and Illicit Drug Trafficking’. The proposal presented by Home Minister Ram Bahadur Thapa was approved by a majority. Tabling the proposal before […]
Kathmandu / Aug 20: Minister for Education, Science and Technology, Giriraj Mani Pokhrel, has remarked that the Tribhuvan University should pay attention on maintaining the quality of its education system. Addressing the 58th-anniversary celebration of Ratna Rajya Laxmi Campus (RR) in Kathmandu today, the education minister stressed that the university should ensure delivering quality education […]
Kathmandu / Aug 20: Nepal Cricket Team has left for Sri Lanka today for the preparation of upcoming Asia Cup Qualifier 2018 to be held in Malaysia from August 29–October 06. During the tour to the island nation, Nepal will feature in three practices matches against the local teams of Colombo. Nepal will play against […]
Kathmandu / Aug 19: A meeting of the Council of Ministers held today has recommended the Acting Chief of Army Staff Purna Chandra Thapa as the Chief of Army Staff. According to government spokesperson and Minister for Communication and Information Technology Gokul Prasad Banskota, the cabinet meeting held at Singh Durbar took a decision to […]
Kathmandu / Aug 19: Construction of the Kerung-Kathmandu railway would be completed in nine years with State’s investment if the government invests Rs 28.55 billion every year. According to the senior divisional engineer at the Department of Railways, Prakash Bhakta Upadhyaya, a total of Rs 257 billion should be invested for the same. The Department […]
Kathmandu / Aug 19: The education and health committee under the House of Representatives (HoR) is to hold discussions with Prof Dr Govinda KC and other people concerned from the related field with regard to the National Medical Education Bill- 2075 BS. A meeting of the committee held today decided to hold discussions with the […]
Kathmandu / Aug. 18: Prime Minster KP Sharma Oli has today delivered a special address at the Provincial Assembly (Pradesh Sabha) of Province 2 in Janakpur. The Prime Minister had held discussions with the Chief Minister, Speaker, Deputy Speaker and other senior ministers of the province before addressing the assembly. PM Oli, in his speech, […]