SPORTS
Volleyball prodigy Shrestha’s increased stakes in People’s Choice Award
Volleyball prodigy Shrestha’s increased stakes in People’s C...
KATHMANDU, May 11: Nepal national volleyball team open spiker Man Bahadur Shrestha’s rise as a professional player has put the national prodigy among the top candidates to win the upcoming People’s Choice Award in Pulsar Sports Award slated for May 17.
May 12, 2018
SPORTS
Semifinal scenarios completed in ongoing Nepal Ice AAN Futsal
Semifinal scenarios completed in ongoing Nepal Ice AAN Futsa...
KATHMANDU, May 11: Welcome Advertising, Media Basket, Mars Pvt Ltd and Outreach Nepal have reached the semifinals of the ongoing Nepal Ice AAN Futsal tournament in Kathmandu on Friday. The final knockout matches of the tournament played between the media houses, advertising agencies and corporate in...
May 12, 2018
SPORTS
Nepal Police Club clinches Damak Gold Cup title
Nepal Police Club clinches Damak Gold Cup title
KATHMANDU, May 11: Departmental team Nepal Police Club has lifted the title of Damak Gold Cup 2018 beating the Laxmi Hyundai Manang Marshyangdi Club by 1-0 in the final match of Damak Gold Cup 2018 at Damak Multiple Campus, Jhapa on Friday.
May 12, 2018
ECONOMY
Construction of ginger and turmeric processing plant does not seem viable
Construction of ginger and turmeric processing plant does no...
DHARAN, May 11: Citing the lack of infrastructure as per proposed framework, ginger and turmeric dusting and processing plant construction at former Bishnupaduka Village Development Committee (VDC), Sunsari, seems impossible. The Prime Minister Agriculture Modernization Project had designated this a...
May 12, 2018
ECONOMY
Saturday morning’s Pokhara-Jomsom flights canceled
Saturday morning’s Pokhara-Jomsom flights canceled
POKHARA, May 11: All commercial flights in the Pokhara-Jomsom sector scheduled for Saturday morning have been canceled in light of the Muktinath visit of India Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Issuing a notice to airmen (NOTAM), Jomsom airport has informed all airlines companies not to schedule their f...
May 12, 2018
WORLD
Riding on Karnataka: Rahul Gandhi's future, PM Modi's 2019 gambit, Kumaraswamy's survival
Riding on Karnataka: Rahul Gandhi's future, PM Modi's 2019 g...
Karnataka's politics is just like Bengaluru's fickle weather: A blast of hot air now, and a freezing cold breeze the next minute. The assembly polls are more than a mere fight between the Congress, BJP and JD(S).
May 12, 2018
ECONOMY
Modi’s visit could boost religious tourism, entrepreneurs say
Modi’s visit could boost religious tourism, entrepreneurs sa...
KATHMANDU, May 11: One aspect of India Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s two-day visit to Nepal is religious. He started his third visit to Nepal as a prime minister by landing at Janakpur where he worshipped at the Janaki Temple before flying to Kathmandu on Friday.
May 12, 2018
POLITICS
Oli, Modi vow to expedite air, water, rail connectivity
Oli, Modi vow to expedite air, water, rail connectivity
KATHMANDU, May 11 : Prime Minister KP Oli and his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi have agreed to strengthen air, waterways and rail connectivity of Nepal so as to transform Nepal from a landlocked to a land-linked and water-linked country.
May 12, 2018
ECONOMY
Renovation of Bhotekoshi Hydro to take another year and a half
Renovation of Bhotekoshi Hydro to take another year and a ha...
SINDHUPALCHOWK, May 11: The 45 megawatt Bhotekoshi Hydropower Project, whose construction was hindered time and again because of natural disasters that hit the project one after another, will possibly take one and half more years to come into operation.
May 12, 2018
ECONOMY
Fuel import bill climbs 34%
Fuel import bill climbs 34%
KATHMANDU, May 11: The import of petroleum products has gone up significantly in the first three quarters of the current fiscal year, making it a prime contributor in further exacerbating the yawning trade deficit of the country with India.
May 12, 2018