As Nepal begins new fiscal year 2025-26, all related to governance at all three government levels should dedicate themselves to the great cause of financial discipline. In absence of commitment to right use of finance and resources and in absence of political will in this regard, the chaos and irregularities currently troubling financial sector cannot...
The word Buddha means the Awakened One. In Sanskrit Bodha means knowledge. He is a man who has woken fully, as if from a deep sleep, to discover that suffering, like a dream, is over. Buddha doesn’t call him a God or an incarnation of the God. He doesn’t prefer to talk about the Soul...
Nepal’s foreign exchange reserves have reached Rs 2426.84 billion in the first nine months of the current fiscal year, according to Nepal Rastra Bank. As of mid-April 2025, Nepal’s total foreign exchange reserves increased by 18.9 percent compared to Rs 2041.10 billion in mid-July 2024. In US dollar terms, the foreign exchange reserves stood at...
Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli, on 21st January, had announced the launch of Sagarmatha Sambaad, Nepal’s flagship biennial dialogue forum, with its first edition scheduled for May 2025. The dialogue will focus on the theme ‘Climate Change, Mountains, and the Future of Humanity,’ aligning with the UN’s International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation 2025. The event...
Deputy Prime Minister (DPM) and Minister for Urban Development Prakash Man Singh has inaugurated the Newaa Technologies and Knowledge National Conference on Saturday. The event was organized by Nepalbhasha Academy with support of SALT Trading Corporation Ltd. Likewise Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) and National Foundation for Development of Indigenous Nationalities (NFDIN) collaborated the event to...
The Federal Parliament on Monday directed the government to initiate diplomatic dialogue with Indian authorities to ascertain the facts surrounding the death of Nepalese student Prinsa Sah at KIIT situated in Odisha, India. Speaker of the House of Representatives (HoR) Devraj Ghimire issued the ruling to the government after lawmakers raised this issue in the...
Adi Shankaracharya was a great saint of Bharatvarsha, who propounded the doctrine of Advaita Vedanta. He is credited to have given concrete shape to the ancient concept of ‘Advaita Vedanta’ and also explaining the fundamental concepts of Upanishads. He advocated the oldest concept of Vedic philosophy which explains the unification of the soul (Atman) with...
President Ram Chandra Paudel on Friday addressed the joint session of the Federal Parliament, presenting the government’s policy and programme for the upcoming fiscal year. The joint sitting of the House of Representatives and National Assembly at the Parliament Building in New Baneshwor, Kathmandu. The President’s address, as per the Article 95 of the Constitution...
During a joint session of the Federal Parliament on Friday, President Ram Chandra Paudel presented the government’s policy and programme for the upcoming fiscal year 2082/83. He said the government will make improvements to the roads in order to reduce the amount of road accidents. The government is set to make public transport services accessible, safe...
More than 12 million passengers use the services from Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) within a year. In the year 2081 BS, a total of 12.94 million passengers traveled through TIA including both domestic and international flights, according to the official data released by TIA. According to the TIA sources, the highest number of passengers...
