Kathmandu / Aug 14: The Finance Committee under the Legislature-Parliament on Tuesday directed the government to resolve the issue of double and unnatural taxation imposed by federal, provincial and local governments. The Finance Committee directed the government after holding a two-day discussion with the officials of Finance Ministry, National Natural Resource and Fiscal Commission (NNRFC), […]
WASHINGTON DC, Aug 8: The World Bank Group’s Board of Executive Directors has approved a fourth Financial Sector Stability Development Policy Credit (DPC4) of $100 million to Nepal to help it continue to deepen its medium-term reform program in the financial sector. Nepal’s quest to secure a stable path to federalism and an inclusive and […]
Kathmandu / Aug 7: A total of 699,552 tourists visited national parks and conservation areas of the country in the last fiscal year 2017/18. Of them, 325,856 were foreign tourists while the remaining were domestic one, according to the Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation. Information Officer at the Department, Narayan Rupakheti, said that […]
Kathmandu / Aug 6: Nepal Media Society (NMS), the umbrella organisation of private publications and Television Broadcasters Nepal (TBN), has elected its new working committee on Monday. The second general assembly of the NMS that ended today elected ABC News Chairman and incumbent General Secretary Subha Shanker Kandel as the Chairman while Sagarmatha TV Chairman […]
Kathmandu, Aug 6: An exercise of high-ranking military officials from 20 countries has started here aimed at how the information flow could be systematised maintaining contact with multi-national armies while deploying in humanitarian rescue at times of disaster. The exercise is organised by the Nepalese Army with cooperation of the US Army’s Pacific Command. Theoretical […]
Ram Madhav Nepal and India are not just two countries; they are two great and ancient civilisations. The bonds between the two countries are so strong and sacred that no contemporary development can disturb them. Three Cs form the basis of this bonding and relationship: culture, connectivity and commerce. From time immemorial, India and Nepal […]
Nepal’s first-ever one-day international win in a low-scoring thriller over the Netherlands proved their hunger to succeed, said captain Paras Khadka. Nepal’s historic two-match ODI series ended all square after they pulled off a last-ball victory in the second match by one run on Friday, 3 August in Amstelveen. Of course, it wasn’t the first […]
Kathmandu, Aug 4: A team of three students of the Pulchowk Engineering Campus; Abhish Khanal, Subhash Timalsina, and Sushan Paudel will be heading for Vietnam to participate in a robotics competition, which will see participation of students from over 22 countries. As part of a pre-event, they demonstrated their robots on the campus on Friday. […]
BRISTOL, Aug 3: He’s spent more than half his life representing Nepal on a cricket field, starting with his first match captaining an Under-17 side against Bangladesh in February 2001. So it’s understandable that 34-year-old Shakti Gauchan’s legs might have felt a bit weary as he took the field as one of Nepal’s first eleven […]
Four years ago in Bangladesh, Nepal and Netherlands arrived at the World T20 seemingly walking on diverging paths. Nepal were playing in a major ICC championship for the first time, marking their status as an Associate team on the rise. Netherlands on the other hand had the makings of a team in decline, their streak […]