Prakash Singh / Bajura: International Nepal Fellowship (INF), Bajura has distributed relief items and medical equipment among the poor families in Bajura district. According to Capacity Development Officer Tilak Bhandari at INF Bajura, relief items, medical equipment and sanitary napkins were provided to poor families and single women. A total of 625 families comprising 215 […]
Kathmandu / July 23: The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) signed an agreement with the government of Nepal to provide a grant assistance of 300 million Japanese Yen (Rs 335 million) for the 5th year of the “School Sector Development Program (SSDP). According to a press statement issued by JICA, the agreement was signed by […]
Bhaktapur / July 19: Nepal Korea Friendship Hospital run by the Madhyapur Thimi Municipality in Bhaktapur has availed free coronavirus test for patients from the Bhaktapur Cancer Hospital and Shahid Gangalal National Heart Centre. As per the agreement reached with two special health facilities for particular diseases, the Hospital has launched free PCR tests for […]
Kathmandu / July 17: The government and the World Bank signed a $450 million (around Rs. 54 billion) financing agreement that will help Nepal improve efficiency and safety of transport infrastructures, cross-border trade, and strengthen capacity for strategic road network management. In presence of Finance Minister Dr. Yuba Raj Khatiwada, the agreement was signed by […]
Kathmandu, July 8: The Government of Japan has extended grant assistance of Rs. 407 million to the Government of Nepal for implementing the Human Resource Development Scholarship (JDS) Project. Saigo Masamichi, Ambassador of Japan to Nepal, and Sishir Kumar Dhungana, Secretary of the Ministry of Finance, signed notes to this effect today Another set of […]
Kathmandu / July 6: Shree Saptmai Gurukul Sanskrit Vidyalaya in Barbote Rural Municipality in Ilam was formally inaugurated via video-conferencing by the representatives of the rural municipality, School Management Committee and Embassy of India, Kathmandu, on Monday. According to a press statement issued by the Embassy of India in Kathmandu, the school building was constructed […]
Kathmandu / June 25: The Government of Japan has extended grant assistance of about Rs. 333 million to the Government of Nepal for the Economic and Social Development Programme. Saigo Masamichi, Ambassador of Japan to Nepal, and Shreekrishna Nepal, Joint Secretary of the Ministry of Finance, signed notes to this effect, on Thursday, according to […]
Kathmandu / June 24: With the ‘unilateral’ decision of the Speaker Agni Sapkota to put off the meeting of the House of Representatives (HoR) till July 1, the implementation of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) projects is now uncertain. As the ruling NCP remains sharply divided on whether to endorse the MCC agreement through the […]
Kathmandu / June 16: The Government of South Korea has provided 50,000 RT-PCR kits to the Government of Nepal. The assistance required for the novel cornavirus test was, on behalf of the Korean International Corporation Agency (KOICA), handed to the government officials amidst a programme here today. Dr Rajan Pokhrel, Chief Health Advisor of Ministry […]
Biratnagar / June 1: The government of Province 1 has received medical supplies from the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. The medical supplies worth Rs 77.3 million were handed over to the provincial government through the Nepal-China Executive Council in Biratnagar on Monday. The medical supplies from Tibet comprise two sets of Polymerase Chain Reaction […]