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Rudra Pangeni

Pangeni is an investigative journalist currently with CIJ Nepal.
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‘Minister Yadav demanded Rs 10m for post of DG’

Published On: July 16, 2016 08:02 AM NPT By: Rudra Pangeni

KATHMANDU, July 15: Joint Secretary at the Ministry of Irrigation Sagar Kumar Rai has revealed that outgoing minister Umesh Kumar Yadav demanded a bribe of Rs 10 million in exchange for the post of director general at the Department of Irrigation (DoI).

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Haphazard spending in the last week of fiscal year

Published On: July 16, 2016 02:10 AM NPT By: Rudra Pangeni

KATHMANDU, July 16: The government has spent Rs 34.46 billion in capital expenditure in the past eight days which is around 50 percent of the development budget spent in the rest of the fiscal year.

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Govt undecided on how to handle Sikta collapse issue

Published On: July 14, 2016 02:30 AM NPT By: Rudra Pangeni

KATHMANDU, July 14: Though it has already been two weeks since a canal of Sikta Irrigation Project crumbled, the government neither knows the reason behind the collapse, nor is clear about its future move on the issue.

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Districts getting more tourists given less budget

Published On: July 12, 2016 02:25 AM NPT By: Rudra Pangeni

KATHMANDU, July 12: Rasuwa district is one of the popular destinations for foreign tourists. Based on foreign tourist footfall, the district should have been in government's priority while allocating budget for district-wise tourism infrastructure development projects. But such is not the case.

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String of disasters curtail Upper Bhotekoshi's capacity

Published On: July 8, 2016 01:35 AM NPT By: Rudra Pangeni

KATHMANDU, July 8: The Bhotekoshi River flowed over Upper Bhotekoshi Hydropower dam following the Tuesday' flash flood in the river.

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4.5 percent of Rs 23 billion irrigation budget for minister's district

Published On: July 6, 2016 01:20 AM NPT By: Rudra Pangeni

KATHMANDU, July 6: The budget allocated district-wise for irrigation and coping with water-induced disasters in the next fiscal year has been increased disproportionately in Saptari, home district of Minister for Irrigation Umesh Yadav. He was elected from Saptari constituency no. 3 on a CPN (Maoist Centre) ticket.

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World Bank objects to change in quake grant modality

Published On: July 1, 2016 07:14 AM NPT By: Rudra Pangeni

KATHMANDU, June 30: The World Bank has objected to the government’s revision of the housing grants tranches, stating that such revision is against global best practices in post disaster reconstruction and build back better principles.

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Govt embracing e-Payment system from July 16

Published On: June 29, 2016 09:45 AM NPT By: Rudra Pangeni

KATHMANDU, June 26: Government offices in Kathmandu Valley are adopting electronic bill payment system from July 16.

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Development spending on downward course

Published On: June 29, 2016 01:15 AM NPT By: Rudra Pangeni

KATHMANDU, June 29:Development spending is on a downward trend over the past five years, government statistics shows.

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Brexit may impact Nepal's trade, tourism, aid medium-term: Experts

Published On: June 25, 2016 12:54 AM NPT By: Rudra Pangeni

KATHMANDU, June 25:The effects of the United Kingdom's referendum vote to leave the European Union are yet to be felt in Nepal, apart from a jump in the price of gold in the local market. The yellow metal rose Rs 3,000 per tola on Friday soon after the Brexit poll results came out.

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Food balance lowest in seven years

Published On: June 24, 2016 02:20 AM NPT By: Rudra Pangeni

KATHMANDU, June 24: Nepal will have only 30,000 tons of food grains in balance in 2016/17 - the lowest in the past seven years.

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High ATF price hindering plan to increase Ktm flights: Turkish Airlines

Published On: June 23, 2016 11:00 AM NPT By: Rudra Pangeni

ISTANBUL, June 23: Turkish Airlines has said that it will increase flights to Kathmandu if price of aviation turbine fuel in Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) in Kathmandu is reduced in line with drop in price in global oil market.

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High ATF price hindering plan to increase Ktm flights: Turkish Airlines

Published On: June 23, 2016 02:45 AM NPT By: Rudra Pangeni

ISTANBUL, June 23:Turkish Airlines has said that it will increase flights to Kathmandu if price of aviation turbine fuel in Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) in Kathmandu is reduced in line with drop in price in global oil market.

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Billions for local roads in home districts of bigwigs

Published On: June 15, 2016 09:41 PM NPT By: Rudra Pangeni

KATHMANDU, June 16:The prime Minister, other ministers and influential leaders of the opposition parties have managed to get huge funds allocated to their respective constituencies for the development of minor local roads in order to woo local voters.

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