Surkhet, June 2/ Mid-western Transportation Entrepreneurs Association (MTEA) has started direct bus service connecting Birendranagar, the capital of Karnali Province, and Indian capital New Delhi beginning from Friday. The bus fare for the 634-kilometer journey has been fixed at Rs 2400. “We started this service for the convenience of the passengers who travel to India […]
Kathmandu, June 1/ The International Cricket Council (ICC) on Friday included Nepal, Netherlands, Scotland and the UAE in their ODI rankings list apart from the 12 existing countries. The ICC release states that results of all the bilateral ODIs involving these new teams will henceforth be taken into account while calculating the rating points. The […]
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 […]
Newbaneshwor
Kathmandu, Nepal
4479401
Editor : Mr. Divesh J.B. Rana
Chairperson : Mr. Kishore Thapa