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 […]
CHITWAN, May 25: Acting Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Deepak Raj Joshi has said both sides of a disputed win if the dispute is resolved through mediation, arguing that this is so because both sides themselves decide on their respective issues. Addressing a program of interaction entitled ‘Usefulness of Mediation: Peace and Goodwill’ organized […]
Kathmandu, May 24 / Nepal will play their first two ODIs against Netherlands on the 1st and 3rd of August, it was revealed Wednesday (May 23). The two matches will take place at as-yet-undisclosed venues in the Netherlands immediately following the two nations’ T20 tri-series with the MCC at Lords, which is scheduled for the 29th […]
Kathmandu, May 24/ The World Health Organisation has validated Nepal for having eliminated trachoma as a public health problem – a milestone, as the country becomes the first in WHO’s South-East Asia Region to defeat the world’s leading infectious cause of blindness. “Nepal’s achievement is commendable and results from strong political commitment, intense community engagement […]
RAJBIRAJ, May 24: The Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN) has confirmed that the test flight conducted in Rajbiraj Airport on Wednesday was successful. However the locals will have to wait for a few more weeks for regular flights. A CRJ200 jet engine of Shree Airlines with the capacity of carrying 50 passengers successfully completed […]
