KATHMANDU, Oct 21: The Foreign Employment Board has allocated a budget of Rs 250 million for providing free vocational training to youths.

After maize, armyworm destroys paddy and millet

Published On: October 21, 2019 08:32 AM NPT By: Republica

KHOTANG, Oct 21: The outbreak of armyworm is seen in different places of Halesi Tuwachung Municipality in Khotang district where millet and paddy have been planted. Before this, the pest destroyed maize in the same municipality.

Farmers still awaiting Rs 8.5m government grant

Published On: October 21, 2019 08:22 AM NPT By: Mithilesh Yadav

SIRAHA, Oct 21: Farmers who sold sugarcane to Himalaya Sugar Mills situated in Naraha Rural Municipality-3 of Siraha district are yet to receive payment of Rs 8.5 million.

Bülent Uyaniker, director of academic affairs and senior AI researcher at Fusemachines, an artificial intelligence talent and education solutions company, leads the AI curriculum research and development team at the company. The curriculum with an input of his experience of over 20 years as data scientist is geared towards enabling the students understand the real world problems and apply their knowledge to solve them.

Nepse edges lower in dull trading

Published On: October 21, 2019 08:15 AM NPT By: Republica

KATHMANDU: Sunday's trading lacked any charm as the Nepal Stock Exchange (Nepse) index wavered along the opening level initially and traded slightly in the red in the latter trading hours. The benchmark index dropped around 4 points at mid-session and flattened thereafter. The index closed the day at 1,133.71 points – down 4.03 points against the session earlier.

Himalaya Airlines to operate direct flight to Beijing from Oct 27

Published On: October 20, 2019 05:20 PM NPT By: RSS

KATHMANDU, Oct 20: The Himalaya Airlines will be conducting direct flight between Kathmandu and Beijing from October 27.

NRNA to help govt in promotion of Visit Nepal 2020

Published On: October 20, 2019 02:34 PM NPT By: Kamal Kshatri

KATHMANDU, Oct 20: The Nepal government and Non-Resident Nepali Association agreed to jointly launch a campaign to promote Visit Nepal 2020.

Only 4.41% capital spent in Q1 of FY2019/20

Published On: October 20, 2019 11:05 AM NPT By: Republica

KATHMANDU, Oct 20: The government has been able to achieve only 4.41% of capital expenditure progress in the first quarter of the current fiscal year – FY2019/20.

IMF recommends Nepal to contain domestic demand pressures

Published On: October 20, 2019 11:02 AM NPT By: Republica

KATHMANDU, Oct 20: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has recommended the government to contain domestic demand pressures in the country that would allow safeguarding external stability and to maintain financial sector stability.

KATHMANDU, Oct 20: Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) is planning to sign performance agreement with its staff to control power leakage and bring improvements in the service delivery and customer service.