ECONOMY
'Hyundai Exchange' starts today
'Hyundai Exchange' starts today
KATHMANDU, Aug 1: Laxmi Intercontinental Pvt Ltd, the sole authorized distributor of Hyundai cars for Nepal, organizing 'Hyundai Exchange' for all Hyundai models from Thursday.
Aug 01, 2019
ECONOMY
Cellpay launched
Cellpay launched
KATHMANDU, Aug 1: Cellcom Pvt Ltd has started operation of payment service named Cellpay. Issuing a statement, the company, which is licensed by the Nepal Rastra Bank to work as a payment service provider, said that Cellpay can easily be operated with its mobile and web application without any e-wal...
Aug 01, 2019
SPORTS
Volleyball mired in a series of controversies
Volleyball mired in a series of controversies
KATHMANDU, August 1: Nepali volleyball, which was once in a sorry state, is picking up the pieces to rise in the country’s sports arena. The game has taken a respectable height after it was declared Nepal’s national game.
Aug 01, 2019
ECONOMY
Paddy transplantation 80% complete
Paddy transplantation 80% complete
KATHMANDU, August 1: Paddy transplantation has been completed on 80.18% of the rice field across the country as of Sunday.
Aug 01, 2019
ECONOMY
Perennial fertilizer shortage hits farmers hard
Perennial fertilizer shortage hits farmers hard
BIRATNAGAR, August, 1: Rampyar Yadav, a seasoned farmer from Jahada village of Morang, has no memory of a single year when he did not have to struggle for fertilizer. No matter how proper preparation he did or how much rapport he built with fertilizer suppliers, he has always struggled with the shor...
Aug 01, 2019
POLITICS
Oli picks Bhattarai as tourism minister, makes good on his promise
Oli picks Bhattarai as tourism minister, makes good on his p...
KATHMANDU, Aug 1: Prime Minister KP Oli on Wednesday appointed the party's youth leader Yogesh Bhattarai as Minister for Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation, honoring his own promise to make him cabinet colleague during the parliamentary election campaign some two years ago.
Aug 01, 2019
SOCIETY
US-Bangla air crash victims’ kin file Rs 2.1 billion lawsuit
US-Bangla air crash victims’ kin file Rs 2.1 billion lawsui...
KATHMANDU, Aug 1: Relatives of some Nepali passengers killed in the 2018 US-Bangla Airlines Flight 211 crash have filed a lawsuit against the airline company demanding Rs 2.1 billion in compensation 'for wrongful deaths'.
Aug 01, 2019
POLITICS
Provincial capital, a challenge for leaders
Provincial capital, a challenge for leaders
DANG, Aug 1: When Krishna Chaudhary of Bardiya got elected to the post of Provincial Assembly member, one of her major agenda was to fix the provincial capital in a place convenient for majority of people.
Aug 01, 2019
POLITICS
Speaker offers probe into Sarlahi killings through SAC
Speaker offers probe into Sarlahi killings through SAC
KATHMANDU, Aug1: With stalemate between the ruling and opposition parties prolonging obstruction of the House of Representatives, Speaker Krishna Bahadur Mahara has floated a proposal to probe the police killings in Sarlahi through parliament's own State Affairs Committee (SAC).
Aug 01, 2019
ECONOMY
NFC, NTL to diversify business to be competitive in market after merger
NFC, NTL to diversify business to be competitive in market a...
KATHMANDU, Aug1: The government is hiring a team of experts for incorporation of a new company after merger of its two entities – National Trading Limited (NTL) and Nepal Food Corporation (NFC).
Aug 01, 2019