Lalitpur / Feb 18: The Mahalaxmi Municipality is to construct a faecal sludge management (FSM) plant at local Lamatar. This plant would be as per the ISO 24521 Guidelines on FSM and the first of its kind in the whole of South Asia. The plant is going to be constructed with the joint initiatives and […]
Kathmandu / Feb 15 : Chairman of National Assembly Ganesh Prasad Timilsina gave away ‘Ambassador of Pakistan Scholarships’ to 500 Nepali students. The scholarships amounting to NRs. 10,000 each were awarded by the Pakistan Embassy at the 8th Annual Ambassador of Pakistan Scholarship programme. Besides scholarships Samir KC from Pashupati Secondary School, Parbat was awarded […]
Kathmandu / Feb. 6: The World Bank has approved additional credit of US$ 200 million (approximately Rs. 22.82 billion) for the implementation of the Earthquake Housing Reconstruction Project (EHRP) in Nepal. An agreement to this effect was signed here Thursday. Shreekrishna Nepal, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Finance and Faris H. Hadad-Zervos, World Bank Country Manager […]
Kathmandu / Feb 5: Japan has extended a financial assistance of USD 442,839 to SHAPLA NEER – Citizens’ Committee in Japan for Overseas Support – under the Grant Assistance for Japanese NGO Projects Schemes. Shapla Neer, an international NGO based in Japan, will work with a Nepali partner NGO, Rural Reconstruction Nepal (RRN), to implement […]
Kathmandu / Jan 31: The enrollment rate of children who were out of school has increased significantly after the implementation of the Partnership for Equity and Access in Kapilbastu (PEAK) programme in two rural municipalities of Kapilbastu district. The PEAK Action is funded by the European Union and implemented by WeWorld-GVC in partnership with Siddhartha […]
Lalitpur / Jan 28: Over 400 thousand people of around 90 thousand households have their access to advanced and clean energy through the Renewable Energy for Rural Livelihood (RERL) project in a period of five years. The Alternative Energy Promotion Center (AEPC) in the financial assistance of the United Nations Development Programme and Global Environment […]
Chitwan / Jan 14: Chinese ambassador to Nepal, Hou Yanqi has committed to support the health sector in Nepal. Speaking in a programme organized at BP Koirala Memorial Cancer Hospital here today, ambassador Hou expressed China’s willingness to support in upgrading and advancing the hospital. She added that the Chinese government was happy to continuing […]
Kathmandu / Jan 12: The Abu Dhabi Fund for Development (ADFD) has announced that it will provide USD 10 million assistance to Nepal to help generate electricity from the waste. The announcement was made at the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) Assembly held in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates on Sunday. Leading a Nepali delegation, […]
Kathmandu / Jan 2: US ambassador to Nepal, Randy Berry, through his tweet today announced that Embassy of the United States in Nepal would be promoting the Visit Nepal Year 2020 (VNY2020) campaign for one month. Posting his pictures taken in various places of Nepal, ambassador Berry said, “The embassy, with the use of social […]
Morang / Dec 30: The Biratnagar Metropolitan City has started preparations to set up a drinking water project worth Rs 10 billion. Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) which will fund it has launched a study on the project. As part of the ‘one house one tap’ campaign launched by the metropolis, the project aims to […]