EDITORIAL As a major breakthrough in Nepal’s power trading sector, India has endorsed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to import up to 10,000 megawatts of electricity from Nepal within a decade. The agreement has given an enormous boost to Nepal’s hydropower development. Nepal has been endowed with immense water resources but it requires huge investment...
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ Sunday held extensive consultations ahead of his upcoming official visit to China. Prachanda is leaving on September 16 for United States of America to attend the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) and subsequent visit to China. During the discussions held at the Prime Minister’s Office at Singha Durbar, Kathmandu...
Shabnam Shivakoti Aryal, spokesperson, Ministry of Agriculture & Livestock Nepalese farmers felt a kind of relief during this year’s paddy planting season as sufficient amount of chemical fertilizers were available in the market. Unlike in the past, this year the government was able to bring in fertilizers on time through tender. “The government has allocated...
President Xi Jinping’s decision to stay away from the Group of 20 summit may have been intended to deny India its moment. Instead, Prime Minister Narendra Modi — along with the U.S. and Europe — figured out how effectively they can counter China on the international arena. Fellow G20 nations hailed India’s success in reaching agreement on...
EDITORIAL The way Traffic Police of Kathmandu Metropolitan City treated Kathmandu Mayor Balen Shah’s wife, who was in a health emergency, raises serious question about the police personnel’s attitude towards city dwellers. According to media reports, the police stopped the vehicle carrying the mayor’s wife to inquire about using a vehicle with government registration on...
Nepal government has been working out around a dozen agendas for the forthcoming official visit of China by Prime Minister Pushapa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda.’ Foreign Minister NP Saud revealed about these agendas during a press meet organized by Nepal Press Union Solukhumbu District Committee in Solukhumbu of Eastern Nepal Sunday morning, according to the secretariat...
Issuing a statement Nepalese Foreign Ministry reiterated that it stands firm on the political map the Parliament has endorsed three years ago and asked the international community including neighbouring countries to honour the same. “Nepal stands firm and clear on its political and administrative map unanimously approved by the Parliament of Nepal in 2020,” the...
By Purna N. Ranjitkar Chairperson of Agriculture, Cooperatives and Natural Resources of Federal Parliament Dr.Arju Rana Deuba had said that legal cultivation of Ganja has been a need to discuss among the stakeholders and instruct the Government to take needful actions. She was speaking recently at the meeting of the committee on the programmes for...
Editorial The recent incidents of social disharmony and dispute surfacing in some parts of the country including eastern Nepal town Dharan has alarmed many patriotic Nepalese. Nepal has long been displaying social harmony, religious tolerance and diversity in unity. However, the type of incidents that erupted in Dharan is not of our origin. We have...
The District Attorney’s Office, Kathmandu on Sunday filed cases of forgery of government documents at the District Court, Kathmandu against 310 individuals including former ministers and incumbent and retired top bureaucrats linking them to the Lalita Niwas land grab scam. This is probably the largest government land grab scam so far uncovered in the country....
