Archive for: March, 2016

Prime Minster’s visit to China

Promotion of cooperatives is government’s priority: PM Oli

Kathmandu / March 31: Prime Minister KP Oli has said the government is committed to developing the cooperatives sector as a means of organising the marginalised and unorganised sector. Addressing a seminar on network management for financial inclusiveness, organised by the Nepal Federation of Savings and Credit Cooperative Unions Ltd (NEFSCUN) here today, PM Oli […]

Driven by will of achieving different identity women in income generation (Commentary)

Pabitra Guragain / Kathmandu: Bebi Thulung Rai of Nagdesh of Bhaktapur feels a kind of satisfaction in return of her Dhaka (traditional textile made of cotton thread) weaving business that she started some two years ago with a nominal investment, as this business is paying off a net profit of up to Rs 25,000 to […]

Government expresses serious reservation over EU-India statement

Kathmandu / March 31: The Government has expressed serious reservation over the reference to Nepal made in the Joint Statement of the 13th EU-India Summit held in Brussels on 30 March, calling it ‘against the fundamental principle of non-interference in internal affairs of a country in breach of UN Charter and norms of international law’. […]

Construction of Pokhara Intl Airport to begin from New Year

Pokhara / March 31: Finally, after a long wait, construction works of the Pokhara Regional International Airport would begin from the Nepali New Year. A foundation stone for the construction of the Airport would be laid on April 13. The High Level Support Committee formed for the same held a meeting today and informed it. […]

Minister Rai solicits suggestions on minimum wage for journalists

Kathmandu / March 31: Minister for Information and Communications Sherdhan Rai Thursday held consultations with the investors of big media house to solicit their views over the enforcement of proposed minimum wages for working journalists. Minimum Wages Fixation Committee recently recommended Rs 19,500 as monthly minimum wage for a working journalist. In the discussion arranged […]

हात्तीपाइलेका बिरामी पत्ता लगाउन घरदैलो

    (कल्पना पौडेल) काठमाडौँ । हात्तीपाइले (फाइलेरिया) रोगबाट ग्रसित बिरामीका तथ्याङ्क सङ्कलन गर्न धादिङ र कञ्चनपुर जिल्लामा घरदैलो गणना हुने भएको छ । हात्तीपाइले लागेका बिरामी कति, उनीहरुको अवस्था कस्तो छ, उपचार व्यवस्थापन कसरी भइरहेको छ र कसरी यसबाट हुने अपाङ्गतालाई रोक्न सकिन्छ भन्ने विषयमा पत्ता घरदैलो गणनाबाट सहयोग पुग्ने बताइएको छ । आगामी […]

High-level committee formed to probe public land sale

Kanchanpur / March 31: The Ministry of Urban Development has formed a high-level committee to investigate into the public land that was sold or given on lease without following the due process. The Ministry formed the committee headed by its senior Engineer Suraj Poudel to probe the land sold or leased by Mahendranagar Municipality after […]

Land worth Rs 5 million donated to health post

Surunga (Jhapa) / March 31: Local donors have provided five kattha of land worth Rs 5 million free of cost for the construction of a building of Goldhap Health Post. It is noted that Yagya Raj Pakuwal, Ramesh Pakuwal, Jeevan Pakuwal, Sharma Raj Shiwakoti and Homraj Shiwakoti of Goldhap-2 donated one kattha each for the […]

Friendly football match between journalists and politicians concludes in the Capital

Kathmandu, March 30: A friendly football match was held between journalists and politicians at the Dasharath Stadium in Tripureshwar on Wednesday. The team of journalists led by President of the Federation of Nepali Journalists (FNJ) Dr Mahendra Bista defeated the team of politicians 3-2 in the 60-minute match organised to mark the 61st establishment day […]