ECONOMY
BFIs blacklist around 4,000 loan defaulters in eight months of current fiscal year
BFIs blacklist around 4,000 loan defaulters in eight months...
KATHMANDU, April 4: Banks and financial institutions (BFIs) blacklisted as many as 3,942 individuals and firms on charge of defaulting loans during the eight and a half months of the current fiscal year from mid-July 2020 to March-end 2021, despite Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB)’s repeated direction for no...
Apr 04, 2021
Latest Updates, Coronavirus
128 new cases of COVID-19 confirmed taking national tally to 277,768
128 new cases of COVID-19 confirmed taking national tally to...
KATHMANDU, April 3: The country reported a total of 128 new cases of coronavirus in the past 24 hours. With this, the caseload of coronavirus in the country reached 277,768.
Apr 03, 2021
ECONOMY
Department of Revenue Investigation to dispose of 72 tons of substandard sugar seized last...
Department of Revenue Investigation to dispose of 72 tons of...
KATHMANDU, April 3: The Department of Revenue Investigation (DRI) has decided to destroy substandard sugar seized last year.
Apr 03, 2021
POLITICS
PM Oli miffed at PAC directive to suspend ongoing construction works of Kathmandu-Tarai Fa...
PM Oli miffed at PAC directive to suspend ongoing constructi...
KATHMANDU, April 3: Prime Minister KP Oli has expressed serious dissatisfaction over the directive issued by a parliamentary committee to suspend the ongoing process of awarding the contract for a section of the Kathmandu-Tarai Fast Track project.
Apr 03, 2021
POLITICS, Latest Updates
New govt will be formed very soon: CPN (MC) Chair Dahal
New govt will be formed very soon: CPN (MC) Chair Dahal
KATHMANDU, April 3: Chairman of the CPN (Maoist Center), Pushpa Kamal Dahal has said that the country’s political scenario has taken a turn for the better.
Apr 03, 2021
POLITICS
NC will table no-confidence motion against PM Oli if he does not step down voluntarily
NC will table no-confidence motion against PM Oli if he does...
KATHMANDU, April 3: Senior leader of the main opposition, Nepali Congress (NC), Ram Chandra Paudel has announced to sponsor a vote of no-confidence against Prime Minister K P Oli “if he does not step down voluntarily”.
Apr 03, 2021
WORLD
Myanmar protesters defy crackdown, five killed; junta hunts critics
Myanmar protesters defy crackdown, five killed; junta hunts...
MYANMAR, April 3: Myanmar security forces opened fire on pro-democracy protests on Saturday killing at least five people, a protester and media said, as the military reinforced its bid to end dissent with arrest warrants for online critics and internet blocks.
Apr 03, 2021
ECONOMY
Nepal has to focus on exporting value-added products than its niche products to benefit fr...
Nepal has to focus on exporting value-added products than it...
KATHMANDU, April 3: Nepal needs to diversify its exportable goods rather than just focusing on the niche products in order to gain from trading with other countries.
Apr 03, 2021
SOCIETY, Latest Updates
Weather: Rain with thunder forecast toward afternoon
Weather: Rain with thunder forecast toward afternoon
KATHMANDU, April 3: The weather will be partly cloudy in the hilly region of the country with chances of light rain accompanied by thunder and lightning at some places toward the afternoon due to the influence of the local wind, the Department of Hydrology and Meteorology said.
Apr 03, 2021
ECONOMY, POLITICS, Latest Updates
Nepal plans to add at least 2,210 kilometers of blacktopped roads at a cost of Rs 57.1 bil...
Nepal plans to add at least 2,210 kilometers of blacktopped...
PM Oli, during the inaugural ceremony, turned a switch on to mark the commencement of the construction of these strategic roads in all 165 electoral constituencies across the country.
Apr 03, 2021