Morang / Aug 23: Minister for Energy, Water Resource and Irrigation Barshaman Pun on Wednesday marked the beginning of the 30-kilowatt capacity solar mini-grid project installed in Miklajung Rural Municipality-1 in Morang district. Along with the instalment of the project, electrification was done in altogether 75 houses in Aitabare area that was deprived of the […]
Kathmandu / Aug 23:The Constitutional Council has recommended the name of Justice Om Prakash Mishra for the post of Chief Justice. The meeting held on Thursday evening unanimously recommended the name of Mishra as the new CJ of the country. The post was vacant as the Parliamentary Hearing Special Committee turned down Deepak Raj Joshee […]
Kathmandu / Aug 22: The foreign affairs experts and former diplomats have said one of the major focuses of the BIMSTEC could be the reduction of climate change effects. During a discussion organized at Foreign Ministry today, former ambassadors and diplomats argued that time has come to link all members of the BIMSTEC through air, […]
Kathmandu / Aug 22: National Reconstruction Authority (NRA) has approved the preliminary plan for the development of five integrated settlements in three districts—Sindhupalchowk, Ramechhap and Kavrepalanchowk. A meeting of NRA Executive Committee held today for the first time after the appointment of Sushil Gyawali to the post of Chief Executive Officer took the decision to […]
Kathmandu / Aug. 22:The Kalimati Fruits and Vegetable Market in Kathmandu which was shut down since Monday has resumed its operations today. The vegetable vendors had stopped selling the vegetables and fruits in the Kalimati vegetable market following a dispute which surfaced between the monitoring team and the vegetable traders on Tuesday morning. According to […]
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 […]