Kathmandu / Sept 24: Girija Prasad Koirala Foundation and Institute of Rubber and Jatropha Research-Nepal, USA, have signed an agreement for commercial rubber farming and research. Director at the Science and Technology Department of the Foundation, Dr Tara Prasad Banjade, and Executive Director of the Institute, Tilak Bhandari, on Thursday signed the agreement in presence […]
Kathmandu / Sept 23: The Department of Transport Management (DoTM) has requested people to not travel unless it is absolutely essential. The DoTM in a statement on Wednesday asked people to avoid travel only if it is absolutely essential. The government has allowed long-haul public transportation service to operate from September 17 following the health […]
Kathmandu / Sept 21: Domestic airlines in Nepal are all set to resume their flight services starting Monday. The internal air services have remained suspended since March after the government announced a nationwide lockdown to contain the spread of COVID-19. Airline operators had been pressing the government to let them resume their services as the […]
Kathmandu / Sept 19 : Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli addressed the SDG Moment 2020 this morning. The SDG Moment 2020 is a high-level event convened by UN Secretary-General on the margins of the 75th session of the UN General Assembly. In his address, PM Oli expressed concerns that the pandemic threatened the hard-earned development […]
Kathmandu / Sept. 18: The World Bank (WB) on Thursday approved a $200 million ‘Finance for Growth’ development policy credit for Nepal to strengthen Nepal’s financial sector stability, diversify financial solutions, and increase access to financial services in support of Nepal’s COVID-19 resilience and recovery efforts. “In this era of COVID-19, protecting people’s lives is […]
Laxman Poudel / Bhairahawa, Sept 17: The suspended examinations of the Lumbini Buddhist University are being conducted in the ‘door to door’ model. The Lumbini Buddhist University (LBU) has started conducting the examinations, which were suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the lockdown, by managing the exam centres near the homes of the students. […]
Kathmandu / Sept 12 : The Department of Drug Administration is all set to take action against five industries for producing non standard sanitizers, thereby posing threat to human health. Four such industries from Kathmandu and one from Bhaktapur district were blacklisted for producing sanitizer with the use of toxic chemical methanol. The Department said […]
Kathmandu / Sept. 10: Players of the National Cricket Team have got their last one year’s remuneration. The remuneration was of 2019. Cricket Association Nepal (CAN) on Wednesday provided the remuneration to 22 national players and one video analyst, said CAN treasurer Roshan Bahadur Singh. The A grade players received Rs 45 thousand per month, […]
Kathmandu / Sept 9: Minister for Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation Yogesh Bhattarai has directed Nepal Airlines Corporation (NAC) to immediately expedite the purchase plan of aircraft for domestic flights to provide services to the people living in mountain and remote areas. Minister Bhattarai made the directives to the state-owned airlines at a joint meeting […]
Kathmandu / Sept 8 : Nepal Tourism Board has formed Tourism Revival Taskforce in order to revive tourism industry of the country which is affected from the COVID-19 pandemic. The NTB has brought the tourism revival plan as further coordination and collaboration was necessary as per the government priority, private sector’s wish and compulsion. The […]
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