By TNW correspondent Although the local level elections are just over, political parties and leaders have begun strategizing for the parliamentary elections which should be held by the year end in about 7 months. The first action to this effect has been taken by the opposition party CPN UML. “It did not continue its disruption-move...
Nepali voters have, in offering their verdict in local level elections, clarified that political parties should be careful in responding to public concern, need and grievances. If they fail to be responsive, they have warned, alternative way of bypassing political parties will be pursued in future. The way people sidelined the political parties with rich...
As the vote counting continues in Kathmandu Metropolitan City, independent mayoral candidate Balen Shah has secured 47,752 votes till 7.30 pm Monday. Shah is followed by Sirjana Singh of Nepali Congress, who secured 28,815 votes while another candidate Keshav Sthapit (belonging to CPN-UML) has secured 27,977 votes. Rapper and engineer by profession, Balen is set...
As Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India directly flew to Lumbini and announced that “I am honoured to be in Lumbini, to pay reverence at the sacred site of Lord Buddha’s birth,” a positive message has spread in the tourism sector of Nepal, which was reeling under the difficult situation of Covid – 19 pandemic....
The Nepal Oil Corporation, state owned petroleum products supply company, hiked the prices of all petroleum products, a week after the last increment. The new rates will come into effect on Monday May 23. According to the revised rate, the price of petrol will cost Rs180 per litre, from the earlier Rs170.Similarly, the price of...
The government has utilized only 33 percent of the allocated budget under capital expenditure while the end of the current fiscal year is only two months away. According to the Financial Comptroller General Office (FCGO), the government, during mid-July 2021 and mid-May 2022, spent only Rs 118 billion in capital expenditure out of the budget...
By Purna N. Ranjitkar l Taking very simply, net-metering is a utility billing mechanism available in many countries that offers a credit to residential and business customers who are producing electricity with their solar panel systems installed on roofs or at any part of premises and sending it to the grid in the daytime. So...
By TNW correspondent As the silence period for the local polls begins Tuesday midnight political parties have wrapped up their election campaigns. Analysts cannot predict the trend of the outcome of the polls. They simply say “results will be varied and will reflect realities of local politics.” Big political parties appear to have convinced voters...
People are scheduled to decide on the next five years as they participate in the local level elections throughout the country. All are looking forward to the direction they prefer to take in matters related to governance, development and various aspects of public service delivery. The representatives they choose on the day will steer the...
The silence period of the local level polls will start from Tuesday midnight. During at a press meet on Monday, Shaligram Sharma Paudel, spokesperson of the Election Commission, said that the silence period would start from 12 am on Tuesday, May 10. The voting for local level bodies is slated for May 13. “As the...
