ECONOMY, SOCIETY, Latest Updates
Visit Nepal campaign fails to enthuse remote Karnali districts
Visit Nepal campaign fails to enthuse remote Karnali distric...
SURKHET/ JUMLA, Jan 2: Karnali Province inaugurated Visit Nepal Year (VNY) 2020 campaign on Wednesday at provincial capital Birendranagar with great fanfare and rejoicing.
Jan 02, 2020
ECONOMY, Latest Updates
Trade deficit down but government struggles to meet revenue target
Trade deficit down but government struggles to meet revenue...
KATHMANDU, Jan 2: The government's efforts to narrow down trade deficit have yielded some positive results. However, it has hit the target of import tax collection, putting the government authority in pressure to manage financial resources from alternative sectors.
Jan 02, 2020
SOCIETY, Latest Updates
Children deprived of vaccination in Bajura
Children deprived of vaccination in Bajura
BAJURA, Jan 2: The vaccines that should have been made available to children of Kolti by December has not been delivered by the government yet. More than a hundred children in the region have been deprived of this health service.
Jan 02, 2020
My City, Gen-Next, Slammed
So much of pressure to handle
So much of pressure to handle
There's so much of chaos going on in mind
What to do and what not to do makes us grind
It takes so much of energy and we don't even know it
We are left paralyzed but no one notices it.
Jan 02, 2020
SOCIETY, Latest Updates
Sinja’s 10-year tourism master plan gathers dust
Sinja’s 10-year tourism master plan gathers dust
JUMLA, Jan 2: The 10-year master plan prepared by Jumla Social Development Center in 2008 for the developing Sinja valley in Jumla district into a tourist destination has been limited to papers alone. The draft which was handed to the District Development Committee has been gathering dust.
Jan 02, 2020
ECONOMY, Latest Updates
Fuel prices up by Rs 2 per liter
Fuel prices up by Rs 2 per liter
KATHMANDU, Jan 2: Nepal Oil Corporation (NOC) has increased the prices of petroleum products again in less than half month.
Jan 02, 2020
ECONOMY, Latest Updates
Stocks begin 2020 on a positive footing
Stocks begin 2020 on a positive footing
KATHMANDU Jan 2: Stocks remained little changed on the first trading day of 2020. After trading essentially flat in the first half of the trading session, stocks gained some ground and pushed the Nepal Stock Exchange (Nepse) index slightly higher. Nepse eventually closed the day 3.47 points higher a...
Jan 02, 2020
Editorial
Welcome to Nepal
Welcome to Nepal
The Visit Nepal 2020 campaign has officially begun. Amid the grand celebration in Kathmandu and several places of seven provinces, the program was inaugurated on Wednesday with great fanfare and rejoicing. There have been commitments from all sides to make VNY 2020 a grand success.
Jan 02, 2020
OPINION
Why Visit Nepal?
Why Visit Nepal?
After a long struggle of Nepali people, Nepal promulgated the constitution from the sovereign Constituent Assembly in 2015. Along with the implementation of the constitution, we have been able to end political discrimination and inequality. After the general elections held in 2017, a stable and stro...
Jan 02, 2020
OPINION
What Yadav’s exit means
What Yadav’s exit means
The resignation of Upendra Yadav from the post of Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Law on the ground that the federal government did not address the demands of Madheshi, Janajati and other disadvantaged groups by amending the constitution has created a ripple in Nepali politics. With this devel...
Jan 02, 2020