ECONOMY
Price of LED bulbs down by 20%
Price of LED bulbs down by 20%
KATHMANDU, Oct 17: The maximum retail price (MRP) of light-emitting diode (LED) bulbs has come down by as much as 20 percent, according to retailers and wholesalers.
Oct 18, 2017
ECONOMY
Land brokers’ protest troubles public
Land brokers’ protest troubles public
SURKHET, Oct 17: Jayarup Budha, 74, of Lekhgau, is in the district headquarters Birendranagar since the past four days. Since last Friday, he has been making rounds of the land revenue office, every day, where he has to get some office work done for handing over his ancestral property to his two son...
Oct 18, 2017
ECONOMY
Brokerage firms to be allowed to provide margin trading service
Brokerage firms to be allowed to provide margin trading serv...
KATHMANDU, Oct 17: The Securities Board of Nepal (Sebon) is preparing to allow stock brokerage firms to provide margin trading service to their clients.
Oct 18, 2017
ECONOMY
Nepali ginger stranded at border after India’s GST
Nepali ginger stranded at border after India’s GST
JHAPA, Oct 17: After India implemented Goods and Service Tax (GST) from the first of July this year, illegal trade across the border was expected to be controlled and formal import-export was believed to become easier. But to the contrary, bilateral business between Nepal and India is facing more di...
Oct 18, 2017
SOCIETY
Kukur Tihar and Narake Chaturdashi being observed today
Kukur Tihar and Narake Chaturdashi being observed today
KATHMANDU, Oct 18: Kukur Tihar, the festival of dogs, is being celebrated at every household today, to mark the second day of Yamapanchak of the Tihar festival. Tihar is the second biggest festival of the Nepali Hindus.
Oct 18, 2017
SOCIETY
IOM suspends MBBS entrance result
IOM suspends MBBS entrance result
KATHMANDU, Oct 18: The Office of the Dean at the Tribhuvan University's Institute of Medicine (IOM) has suspended the results of MBBS entrance exams conducted on Saturday.
Oct 18, 2017
SOCIETY
Rural municipality announces plans to upgrade community school
Rural municipality announces plans to upgrade community scho...
PARBAT, Oct 18: With the establishment of private schools in villages, number of students in community schools has decreased significantly. In primary level classes, there are some grades with no students at all. Parents shift their wards to private schools citing poor education standard in communi...
Oct 18, 2017
ECONOMY
Yak rearing source of income for community schools
Yak rearing source of income for community schools
MYAGDI, Oct 18: Two community schools of Myagdi have jointly invested in Yak husbandry as an income source. These schools have been rearing Yaks in Annapurna Rural Municipality-5, Khayar Baraha.
Oct 18, 2017
ELECTION
NC leaders doubt benefits from Naya Shakti alliance
NC leaders doubt benefits from Naya Shakti alliance
GORKHA, Oct 18: Leaders and cadres of the ruling Nepali Congress (NC) have expressed skepticism that supporting Naya Shakti Coordinator Baburam Bhattarai for the election from Gorkha Constituency-2 at the expense of their own candidates would yield any benefit to the NC.
Oct 18, 2017
POLITICS
PM reshuffles cabinet, Maoists ministers left portfolio-less
PM reshuffles cabinet, Maoists ministers left portfolio-les...
KATHMANDU, October 18: Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba on Tuesday reshuffled his cabinet, taking away the portfolios of all ministers representing the CPN (Maoist Center).
Oct 18, 2017