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31,000 tourists visit Annapurna circuit last year
A total of 30,866 foreign tourists visited the globally renowned Annapurna Circuit Trek in 2024. Ranked among the top ten trekking routes in the world, this route saw 18,499 men, 12,362 women, and five individuals of other categories as visitors within a year.
Jan 02, 2025
Hotels and restaurants contribute two percent to Nepal�...
Hotels and restaurants contribute two percent to Nepal�...
Jan 02, 2025
Govt finalizes USD 46.5 billion investment plan to prod...
Govt finalizes USD 46.5 billion investment plan to prod...
Jan 02, 2025
Bandipur Visit Year-2025 kicks off
Bandipur Visit Year-2025 kicks off
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Envisioning A Child Marriage Free Nepal
Ousted UML Vice Chair Rawal announces formation of patriotic alternative political force
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5Child singer Sachin Pariyar won hearts, but was ultimately defeated by pneumonia and pulmonary haemorrhage
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Nepal, Malaysia ink bilateral labor deal
Nepal, Malaysia ink bilateral labor deal
KATHMANDU, Oct 29: Minister for Labor, Gokarna Bista, and his Malaysian counterpart M. Kula Segaran has signed a labor deal amid a function at Hotel Hayat today.
Oct 29, 2018
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Online share trading to go live next week
Online share trading to go live next week
KATHMANDU, Oct 29: Nepal Stock Exchange (Nepse) Ltd is all set to launch the fully-automated trading system from next week.
Oct 29, 2018
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Banking stocks pull Nepse down
Banking stocks pull Nepse down
KATHMANDU: The sole securities market of Nepal witnessed weakness throughout the trading period on the week’s first day. The Nepal Stock Exchange (Nepse) index, which fell sharply in the beginning hours, consolidated slightly mid-session. Nonetheless, stocks failed to recover the day’s losses, shedd...
Oct 29, 2018
ECONOMY
Sugar mills start settling cane farmers’ outsanding dues
Sugar mills start settling cane farmers’ outsanding dues
KATHMANDU, Oct 29: Sugar mills have started releasing pending payments to sugarcane farmers after the Department of Industry (DoI) stopped providing government services like issuing letter of recommendations to the mills.
Oct 29, 2018
ECONOMY
Bamboo stools worth Rs 3 million exported to China
Bamboo stools worth Rs 3 million exported to China
RASUWA, Oct 29: Nepali bamboo stools made by jail inmates are becoming popular in China.
Oct 29, 2018
ECONOMY
Malaysian Minister of Human Resources arrives in Nepal
Malaysian Minister of Human Resources arrives in Nepal
KATHMANDU, Oct 28: Malaysia's Minister of Human Resources M. Kula Segaran has arrived in Kathmandu on Sunday to sign a bilateral labor pact with Nepal.
Oct 28, 2018
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Construction Contract annulled for dilly-dallying
Construction Contract annulled for dilly-dallying
MYAGDI, Oct 28: The Raghuganga hydropower project has annulled a construction contract with a contractor after it failed to complete work even seven years after the first deadline.
Oct 28, 2018
ECONOMY
Khadi industry makes a comeback in Khotang
Khadi industry makes a comeback in Khotang
KHOTANG, Oct 28: It was their ancestral occupation. However, the new generations of Sakela village of Khotang gradually lost touch with the production of khadi as weaving cotton by hand was considered a ‘low job’. Girls and boys switched to other occupations. But in the recent years, the ancestral p...
Oct 28, 2018
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Top ministries spend only 10% of total budget
Top ministries spend only 10% of total budget
KATHMANDU, Oct 28: Despite its objective of taking the country on the path of economic prosperity, the government has failed to spend its development budget in the first quarter of the current Fiscal Year 2018/19.
Oct 28, 2018
ECONOMY
Malaysian minister arriving today to sign labor pact
Malaysian minister arriving today to sign labor pact
Nepal’s top foreign employment destination to bear all costs of workers
Oct 28, 2018