Gopi Gyawali / Nawalparasi, Dec. 4: A company producing herbal aromatic oil at Bardaghat in Nawalparasi is getting so much demand that it is facing difficulty to meet the demand. The Chisapani Community Aromatic Oil Company established some 8 years ago at Bardaghat in Nawalparasi district is having insufficient production compared to the demand it […]
Keshav Raj Poudel / Kathmandu, Dec. 1: Face mask producers in Nepal have claimed that the country has become self-reliant in mask production, thanks to the shortage of face mask in the beginning of COVID-19 pandemic that motivated the business people toward mask production. Raman Kayasthya, coordinator of proposed Nepal Mask Producer Association, said that […]
Kathmandu / Nov 24: The International Cricket Council (ICC) on Tuesday released the nominations for the silverware to be awarded to various cricketers including Nepal’s Paras Khadka for their performances over the decade and across formats. Khadka has been nominated for the ICC Men’s Associate Player of the Decade. Other nominees in this category are […]
Kathmandu / Nov 22: The government’s campaign to make the country free of street children is gaining momentum with the implementation of related programs. So far, 574 street-children have been rescued from various parts of the country and rehabilitated successfully. Of them, 465 are boys and 109 are girls. The campaign was launched in 2016. […]
Nabin Shishir BK / Baglung, Nov. 19: Yam Prasad Sharma of Kathekhola Rural Municipality-2 in Baglung district became a farmer due to compulsion and circumstances such as lack of employment at home village, responsibility to sustain the family and his unwillingness to go abroad for jobs. Sharma has been into vegetable farming for the last […]
Chitra Mijar / Sindhupalchowk, Nov. 12: Youths at Shikharpur, Melamchi Municipality-10, either returnees from foreign employment or getting ready to fly foreign land for job, have started a collective buffalo husbandry in Rs. 30 million investment and are making half a million rupees as profit a month. The seven youths have registered a firm, Indrawati […]
Kathmandu / Nov 10: Nepal Tourism Board’s former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Deepak Raj Joshi has been awarded with ‘Tourism Heroes Award’ by the World Tourism Network, on Tuesday. With this recognition, Joshi becomes the first recipient from the South Asian region and only Nepali to be enlisted as a member of the “International Hall […]
Myagdi / Nov. 8: Free agriculture insurance programme has been launched in 11 districts including Myagdi of Gandaki Province. The federal government has been providing 75 percent grant in the premium money of agriculture insurance while the Ministry of Land Management, Agriculture and Cooperatives of the Province would bear remaining 25 percent. “The provincial government […]
Kathmandu / Oct. 24: Nepal has won two honourable mention awards under the Global e-Competition on Astronomy and Astrophysics this year. Rahul Ranjan Sah from St. Xavier’s College, Maitighar and Amshu Raj Sedhain from Capital College and Research College, Koteshwor bagged the award, said Suresh Bhattarai, chairperson of the Nepal Astronomical Society. The attending team […]
Jaya Krishna Yadav / Inaruwa, Oct.18: Shyam Sundar Chudhary, 50, a resident of Bhamari, Sunsari Rural Municiplaity-2, has been into fishing business for 28 years. The fish farming which he started in the pond of two kathha of land has now turned into a business that yields him three million rupees a year. Chaudhary started […]