KATHMANDU, April 11: The Road Division Office, Janakpur, has decided to terminate the contracts with four construction companies including Pappu Construction. The Division Office issued a notice on Thursday and said that four construction companies including Pappu Construction will be blacklisted for their failure to fulfill their contractual obligations.

KATHMANDU, Feb 6: The government has cautioned China State Construction Engineering Corporation Limited (CSCEC), the company which has been awarded the contract for the expansion of the Narayanghat-Butwal road segment, to complete the work within the stipulated time.

KATHMANDU, Feb 5: The Division Road Office, Bhaktapur has initiated the process of terminating the contract with Gauri Parbati Company, which was awarded the contract for the construction of the Dhulikhel-Khawa road section under the Araniko Highway.

KATHMANDU, Dec 12: Two months after the cancellation of the transmission line construction contract under the popular US aid project Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) project, the new contract process has not yet started.

KATHMANDU, Oct 19: The abrupt cancellation of contract processes related to the construction of a 400 kV power transmission line, financed by the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), has triggered confusion regarding the next steps and timelines for this vital project.

KATHMANDU, July 16: Modi Jalvidyut Company Limited has invited interested companies to apply for the contract to construct the 42 MW Upper Modi-A Hydroelectric Project.

KATHMANDU, May 28: The Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) has warned a contractor company to cancel the contract, stating that the work progress is unsatisfactory.

NAWALPUR, Sept 26: As the construction works along the Narayanghat-Butwal road section of the East West Highway remained intolerably slow, the government has warned the contractor of contract termination.

SURKHET, Sept 16: The government has been advised to blacklist a construction company which has done nothing about building a bridge over the Bheri River along the Bhurigaun-Telpani road, a short route connecting Karnali with Bardiya, even 10 years after the signing of a contract for the same. The Road Division Office, Surkhet, has terminated the contract and recommended to the government to blacklist the Pappu/Mall JV, which was awarded the contract to build the bridge.

KATHMANDU, Sept 11: An investigation carried out by a parliamentary committee has found some officials of the Nepal Army (NA) guilty of not following the due process of the Public Procurement Act while awarding the contract for the Kathmandu-Terai fast track.

KATHMANDU, Jan 19: The government has awarded the construction contract of a four-lane flyover in Gwarko, Lalitpur to M/S Ashish Samanantar JV.

August 11: Lionel Messi finally signed his eagerly anticipated Paris Saint-Germain contract on Tuesday night to complete the move that confirms the end of a career-long association with Barcelona and sends PSG into a new era.

Grading of women cricketers made for the first time in Nepal

LONDON, Jan 9: Max Verstappen has signed to stay at Red Bull until the end of 2023 in a clear vote of confidence in the former world champions’ Formula One title potential and their Honda partnership.

KATHMANDU, Sept 24:Nepali Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba has accused the government of engaging in a ‘shady deal’ while awarding the contract for Melamchi Water Supply Project to a Chinese contractor.

BARCELONA, May 20: Toni Kroos has agreed to a contract renewal with Real Madrid until the end of the 2022-23 season, the Spanish club said on Monday.

RASUWA, April 30: The contract award for the construction of dry port at Timure of Rasuwa district will be signed next week, according to government officials.

GORKHA, April 21: Imnath Paudel, the chief of the Division Forest Office, Gorkha, has been found to have registered a company of his own and awarded it the contract to prepare the work plan of various community forests in the district without competition.

KATHMANDU, March 19: As the parliament meeting on Monday endorsed a bill that bars foreign firms from contracting out the manufacturing of their primary products to Nepali firms, experts and some lawmakers have said the provision will discourage foreign investors.

KATHMANDU, March 8: Tanahu Hydropower Limited (THL) has terminated the contract for diversion and headworks of Tanahu Hydropower Project signed with Italian firm CMC.

KATHMANDU, Jan 29: Parliament’s Development and Technology Committee has directed the government to make concrete work plan to complete the remaining works of Melamchi Water Supply Project and award the contract through special procurement provision.

KATHMANDU, Jan 24: The government has cancelled a controversial contract awarded to Chinese electronics manufacturer Huawei to develop a Digital Action Room at the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) after the anti-graft body CIAA launched a probe.

MORANG, Dec 15: The All Nepal Football Association (ANFA) signed a contract with the Province 1 government, Thursday, to organize two big mofussil tournaments.

BARA, Nov 14: A border dispute has ensued between two municipalities after both the local units assign contract for extracting construction materials from the same area of Lalbakaiya River.

KATHMANDU, Oct 28: Temporary staffers and employees those working on contract and daily-wage basis in various government bodies have launched agitation to pressurize the government to fulfill their demands, on Sunday

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.

The flood in Lalbakaiya River, Gaur-4 forced a passenger boat against an under-construction bridge, resulting in the deaths of four people, of the 27 persons onboard.

RUSSIA, July 27: The Russian football authorities are set to extend national team coach Stanislav Cherchesov’s contract for at least a further two years, following the team's impressive World Cup campaign. Cherchesov, 54, recently guided Russia to the World Cup quarter-finals and will be rewarded for his success with an extension of his contract on a ‘2+2’ basis, according to TASS.

The prolific forward told the Bernabeu board that he wants an eye-watering salary of £1.35m-per-week if he is to sign a new deal.

LONDON, May 18: Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola signed a contract extension with the Premier League champions on Thursday that will keep him in the job until 2021.

MAKWANPUR, April 30: In Province 3's 13 districts, which are among the most affected ones by the devastating 2015 Gorkha earthquake, only 364,476 beneficiaries of housing reconstruction grant have started rebuilding their houses. This is only 61.4 percent of the total quake victims of 593,516 in the province.

KATHMANDU, April 4: Nepal Airlines Corporation (NAC) is preparing to handover the overall maintenance responsibility of its two new Airbus A330-200 series aircraft, which are expected to join its fleet within few months, to London-based engine manufacturing company Rolls-Royce.

KATHMANDU, Mar 1: All Nepal Football Association (ANFA) has extended contract of national football team Head Coach Gyotoku Koji’s for a year on Wednesday. The Japanese international’s contract ended on February. ANFA also extended Chiaki Takeda’s contract as Technical Director for the national football team.

BARCELONA, Jan 30: Barcelona’s Spain defender Gerard Pique has signed a contract extension until 2022 which will take him beyond his 35th birthday, the Liga club said on Monday.

KATHMANDU, Oct 5: The government has started contract process for projects to be developed by utilizing Line of Credit III announced by India in 2014.

KATHMANDU, September 3: Few large-scale civil contractors have monopoly of government contracts and they apply 'match fixing' in the contract process to get contracts, a CPN UML Party leader has said.

ILAM, August 7: Though contract farming is beneficial for both farmers and businessmen, experts say it is not flourishing in the lack of rules, regulations and laws.

KATHMANDU, Aug 1: Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the parliament has directed the government to scrap the decision of the contract award of solar project of 25 megawatts to a Chinese company, citing the decision was against procurement law.

KATHMANDU, July 12: Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) is to cancel the contract with Kathmandu View Tower construction Company, citing the company has not forwarded works even after one year after the agreement.

BARCELONA, July 5: Argentina forward Lionel Messi has agreed to a three-year contract extension that will keep him at Barcelona through 2021.

Juventus forward Paulo Dybala has extended his contract by two years until June 2022, the Turin club said on Thursday.

KATHMANDU, April 7: Nepali footballer Rohit Chand has signed with Indonesian football club Persija Jakarta for next season.

KATHMANDU, March 31: Instead of starting work immediately on the Kathmandu-Tarai Expressway project by instituting a special purpose vehicle as per recommendations, the government has started preparations to award the contract to Nepal Army.

KATHMANDU, Feb 17: Though the Department of Roads awarded the contract to build the 3.6 km Chabahil-Jorpati (Bagmati bridge) road to the contractor, United Builders, a year ago, the project is yet to see any progress. The construction of the road is yet to start as the right of way is yet to be cleared.

KATHMANDU, Jan 26: Construction of the Kathmandu View Tower has begun nearly a year after the contract for it was signed.

Brazil international midfielder Philippe Coutinho has extended his contract with Liverpool, the Premier League side said on its website (www.liverpoolfc.com) on Wednesday.

KATHMANDU, Jan 23: As civil servants continued to show reluctance to work for the National Reconstruction Authority (NRA), the authority has initiated preparations to hire necessary staffers on a contract basis to resolve the problem.

KATHMANDU, Jan 18: Government officials have found some 'unequal provisions' in the contract agreement that the government signed three and half years ago with Nepal Purbadhar Bikas Company Limited (NPBCL) to develop Kathmandu-Kulekhani-Hetauda Tunnel Project.

BARCELONA, Dec 10: Barcelona coach Luis Enrique's mind has been put at ease by news his talisman forward Lionel Messi has begun contract negotiations with the La Liga champions, he said on Friday.

BARCELONA, Dec 8: Barcelona's prolific striker Luis Suarez will be offered a new contract with the Spanish champions until 2022, president Josep Maria Bartomeu said on Thursday.