Kathmandu, June 1/ Nepal and Saint Kitts and Nevis have established formal diplomatic relations on Wednesday. Issuing a press release, Ambassador Durga Prasad Bhattarai, Permanent Representative of Nepal to the United Nations, and Ambassador Sam Terence Condor, Permanent Representative of Saint Kitts and Nevis to the United Nations signed a deal to this effect at a […]
Kathmandu, May 31/ A meeting of the Federal Socialist Forum Nepal (FSFN) on Thursday asked party Chairman Upendra Yadav to finalize the names of three ministers to represent the party in Prime Minister KP Oli’s cabinet. The party earlier this week signed a two-point agreement with the Nepal Communist Party agreeing to join the government […]
Kathmandu, May 30 — Nepal honored several Sherpa guides for their Everest successes on the anniversary Tuesday of the first conquest of the world’s highest peak. Government minister Bina Magar, herself an Everest climber, honored the guides at a ceremony held every year on the date in 1953 that New Zealander Edmund Hillary and his […]
Kathmandu, May 29/ The fiscal budget has made provisions to levy tax on alcohol, cigars, sanitary, electronics and construction materials. Similarly, the budget has scrapped the provisions to impose VAT on education, health which was being imposed on the income made through providing health facilities. Meanwhile, the government has also decided to waive the over-long-due […]
Kathmandu May 29/ Finance Minister Yubaraj Khatiwada has launched the first ever federal budget of Rs 1.315 trillion for the fiscal year 2018/19, today. Out of the total budget, government aims to utilise Rs845.5 billion as recurrent expenditure. Likewise, Rs314.28 billion and Rs155.18 billion have been earmarked for capital expenditure and financing provision, respectively. Moreover, […]
Kathmandu, May 29: Supreme Court on Monday has directed government to furnish original documents on a decision supposedly taken by government to grant amnesty to Bal Krishna Dhungel, who is serving a jail sentence after being found guilty on a murder case. The division bench of Justices Meera Khadka and Tanka Bahadur Moktan directed to […]
Kathmandu, May 27: The National Assembly, upper house in the bicameral Federal Parliament of Nepal, passed government’s new policies and programmes with majority. A meeting of the NA held today at the Federal Parliament Building, New Baneshwor, passed policies and programmes for the upcoming fiscal year. President Bidya Devi Bhandari on May 21 had presented […]
Hetauda, May 27 : A meeting of Parliamentary Party of the Communist Party of Nepal of Province 3, on Sunday elected Chief Minister Dormani Poudel as parliamentary party leader unanimously. The meeting held in Hetauda, also decided to express gratitude to the unification between the then CPN-UML and CPN-Maoist Centre. There are 80 province assembly […]
Nepal will be able to utilise $500 million grant pledged by a US government agency beginning September 2019 if it is able to lay the necessary groundwork for release of the fund, a senior US official said today. The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), an independent US government agency working to reduce global poverty through economic […]
KATHMANDU: NASA’s former astronaut and scientist Dr Sandra Hall Magnus has visited Koteshwor-based Kanjirowa National Secondary School. In a press release issued by the school, it is stated that Magnus was welcomed by the school’s management team in a special programme to grace her visit. Executive Director of the school, Mahendra Khanal said, “Dr Magnus’s […]
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