Archive for: July, 2016

Solar lamps at homes of disappearing Raji people

Dhangadhi / July 15: The homes of disappearing Raji community in Tikapur, Kailali now are seen illuminated with solar lamps. Despite being town dwellers, they have not yet received basic electricity facility to light up their house. Though it has been number of years since electricity poles along with wire erected nearby Raji settlement at […]


Barrage to be constructed in Chatara area

Itahari / July 15: The construction of Barrage in Chatara has been essential to ease water flow to the main canal of Sunsari-Morang Irrigation Project built for irrigating 68,000 hectares of agriculture land in Sunsari and Morang districts. There has been no water flow to new intake of the irrigation canal with the Saptakoshi River […]


Informed parliament for evidence-based decision-making (Commentary)

Krishna Sapkota / Kathmandu: Parliament is a place where laws are drafted, people’s needs and priorities are set and country’s national interests are debated. Policy debate and review is one of the spectacular tasks of the parliament. The legislative strength is assessed based on its law-making process and oversight role. It has the power to […]


Monetary Policy hopes to maintain 7.5 % inflation and 6.5 % economic growth

Kathmandu / July 14: Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB), the central bank of the country, today released the Monetary Policy for the Fiscal Year 2016/17, focusing on harmonizing with the goals and priorities adopted by the budget as well as the national and international economic outlook. The Monetary Policy focuses on ramping up capital flow towards […]


National Youth Policy-2072, Youth Vision-2025 fail to come into effect

Kathmandu / July 14: Although a year has elapsed since the government approved the National Youth Policy-2072 and the Youth Vision-2025, both youth-oriented programmes have failed to come into effect owing to various reasons. Presenting a working paper, the Ministry of Youth and Sports (MoYS) admitted in a programme that these strategic programmes introduced to […]


ADB concerned over slow pace of development projects

Kathmandu / July 14: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has expressed grave concern over ‘slow implementation’ of the ADB-funded development projects in Nepal. ADB high officials expressed this worry in the Tripartite Portfolio Review Meeting of the development projects implemented with the loan or grant assistance provided by it here today. Among the key portfolio […]


Writ against surrogacy cancelled

Kathmandu / July 14: The Supreme Court has repealed the writ petition filed against surrogacy. A division bench of Chief Justice Sushila Karki and Justice Govind Kumar Upadhyay cancelled the writ petition filed by advocate Pushpa Raj Pandeya on Thursday, according to SC Joint Spokesperson Bishworaj Poudel. Last September advocate Pandey had filed the writ […]


KOICA provides financial assistance

Chitwan / July 14: The Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) has provided financial assistance to the School of Health Science, Bharatpur for the construction of a herbal garden and purchasing a bus for carrying students. The School is the constituent college of the Council for Technical Education and Vocational Training (CTEVT). KOICA representative Yong Mili […]


गाउँमा नगद भित्र्याउने माध्यम बन्यो आलुखेती (आलेख)

सन्तोष गौतम / म्याग्दी, ३० असार । म्याग्दीको हिस्तान–३ का धन तिलिजाले गत हप्ता ४५ मुरी आलु पोखरा लगेर बेच्नुभयो । अघिल्लो वर्ष आलु बेचेर एक लाख ९० हजार रुपैयाँ आम्दानी गर्नुभएका तिलिजाले यसपालि पनि त्यति नै कमाई हुने अनुमान गर्नुभएको छ । तिलिजा जस्तै उत्तरी म्याग्दीको नागी, राम्चे, टिकोट, घराम्दी, खिवाङ, शिख, फलाते, चित्रे […]


छवटा हिमताल जोखिमपूर्ण अवस्थामा

काठमाडौँ, ३० असार । व्यवस्थापिका–संसद् वातावरण संरक्षण समितिको आज बसेको बैठकमा हिमताल विस्फोट तथा जोखिम न्यूनीकरणका सम्बन्धमा सम्बन्धित निकायका पदाधिकारीसँग छलफल भयो । बैठकमा छोरोल्पा र इम्जालगायत छवटा हिमताल जोखिमपूर्ण अवस्थामा रहेको समुदायमा आधारित बाढी तथा हिमताल विस्फोटन जोखिम न्यूनीकरण आयोजनाका प्रमुख टोपबहादुर खत्रीले जानकारी दिनुभयो । छोरोल्पाबाट सोलुखुम्बुका चौँरीखर्क, खुमजुङ्, नाम्चेलगायत क्षेत्र र तराईका […]




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