ECONOMY
Financial experts call for promoting digital finance
Financial experts call for promoting digital finance
KATHMANDU, March 10: Banking experts and stakeholders have said that promoting digital finance system will help bring a large number of the country's population into the formal financial system.
Mar 10, 2018
ECONOMY
Entrepreneurs urge government to separate area for rafting
Entrepreneurs urge government to separate area for rafting
KATHMANDU, March 10: White water rafting, an adventurous tourist activity with high business potentials in Nepal, is threatened by the government’s failure to separate hydroelectricity projects from rafting sites in rivers allowed for rafting.
Mar 10, 2018
ECONOMY
IBN forms panel to sort out West Seti issues
IBN forms panel to sort out West Seti issues
KATHMANDU, March 10: Investment Board Nepal (IBN) has formed a seven-member panel to study and recommend measures to sort out the issues arising in the development of West Seti Project, a reservoir project of 750 MW.
Mar 10, 2018
ECONOMY
Province 6, 7 and 2 lag behind in overall dev indicators, report says
Province 6, 7 and 2 lag behind in overall dev indicators, re...
KATHMANDU, March 10: Province 6, 7, and 2 lag behind in overall development indicators, while the indicators of province 3 are at the top in almost all categories, says a study report on Nepal’s provinces.
Mar 10, 2018
SOCIETY
Four years on, plights of Surkhet flood victims sees no end
Four years on, plights of Surkhet flood victims sees no end
SURKHET, March 10: Four years ago, massive floods from Bheri River had completely washed away all the family members of Sarjan Tamatta, a local of Panchapuri Municipality-10 in Surkhet district. At that time, he was in India working as a daily-wage laborer, and became the sole surviving member of th...
Mar 10, 2018
VALLEY POLLUTION INDEX
Valley Pollution Levels for 9 March, 2018
Valley Pollution Levels for 9 March, 2018
Valley Pollution Levels for 9 March, 2018
Mar 10, 2018
POLITICS
RJPN calls for Chaudhary’s release
RJPN calls for Chaudhary’s release
KATHMANDU, March 10: Citing his declining health, Rastriya Janata Party Nepal (RJPN) has demanded the immediate release of Resham Lal Chaudhary, an RJPN House of Representative member and also the main accused of the Tikapur carnage.
Mar 10, 2018
ECONOMY
NBA ostracizes NIC Asia Bank for hiking interest rates on deposits
NBA ostracizes NIC Asia Bank for hiking interest rates on de...
KATHMANDU, March 10: Nepal Bankers Association (NBA) on Friday told its member banks to suspend their interbank transactions with NIC Asia Bank Ltd for raising interests on deposits “in breach of an informal understanding to cap the interest rates.”
Mar 10, 2018
POLITICS
Mahara is sole candidate for speaker
Mahara is sole candidate for speaker
KATHMANDU, March 10: CPN (Maoist Center) leader Krishna Bahadur Mahara, 58, is set to be elected as speaker of parliament unopposed on Saturday, after the main opposition Nepali Congress (NC) decided not to field its candidate for the post.
Mar 10, 2018
SOCIETY
Nine mediation centers come into operation in Rangeli
Nine mediation centers come into operation in Rangeli
KATHMANDU, March 9: A total of nine community mediation centers in nine different wards of Rangeli Municipality in Morang district came into operation from Friday. The mediation centers, established with the assistance of Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), will assist the municipality to...
Mar 10, 2018