KATHMANDU, Dec 22: The Indian company awarded the tender to print banknotes of Rs 1000 denomination with security threads has not yet delivered the notes. Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) granted approval to Security Printing & Minting Corporation of India Ltd in November 2022 to print Rs 1000 banknotes worth Rs 430 million. However, the company, approved to print a total of US $11.13 million (approximately Rs 1.47 billion), has not submitted a single banknote as per the agreement.

KATHMANDU, Oct 16: Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) has initiated the distribution of new banknotes, a customary practice for the festive season. NRB is offering the exchange of new banknotes at a rate of Rs 18,500 per person.

KATHMANDU, Nov 3: The Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) is making preparations to introduce new notes of Rs 100 and Rs 500 denominations that can be identified by even the visually-impaired people by touching the notes. Earlier the NRB had introduced the same type of note for Rs 1,000 with a highly-secure security thread that could be verified by machines.

KATHMANDU, Sept 28: Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) has started to provide exchange facility for bank notes for the festival of Dashain, from Friday.

KATHMANDU, Sept 20: Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) is providing exchange facility for crisp banknotes for the Dashain festival from September 27.

KATHMANDU, May 16: Police have arrested six persons with Rs 26.06 million fake banknotes in the capital on Wednesday.

KATHMANDU, Nov 10: The government has not made any serious efforts for getting exchange facility for demonetized Indian banknotes held by Nepalis.

POKHARA, Sept 27: People from different villages of Kaski and surrounding districts are coming to Pokhara to exchange crisp notes for Dashain celebrations.

KATHMANDU, September 5:  General public can exchange their old banknotes with crisp bills for the upcoming Dashain festival from September 13.

POKHARA, June 14: Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) has suspected that fake banknotes are being circulated among people in rural areas as people in urban areas can easily identify such notes.

KATHMANDU, May 11: Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) destroyed damaged banknotes worth Rs 26.28 billion in the last fiscal year 2015/16.

KATHMANDU, March 2: A two-member team of Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has held discussions with the officials of Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) and representatives of commercial banks on a range of technical issues on providing exchange facility for demonetized Indian banknotes of 1,000 and 500 denominations in Nepal.

MAHOTTARI, Feb 15: Three counterfeit banknotes with denomination of Rs 1,000 have been found while a customer took a bundle of the currency notes from a local Sahayogi Development Bank.

KATHMANDU, Feb 14: The government is making preparations to start security printing in Nepal itself.

KATHMANDU, Jan 9: A government team is visiting India this week to discuss the fate of demonetized 1,000 and 500 rupee banknotes in Nepal with Indian officials.

KATHMANDU, Jan 9: A government team is visiting India this week to discuss the fate of demonetized 1,000 and 500 rupee banknotes in Nepal with Indian officials.

KATHMANDU, Nov 14: Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal on Monday held a telephone conversation with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on management of 500 and 1,000 Indian currency notes in Nepal following the demonetization by the Indian government.

BHAIRAHAWA, Nov 10: India Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s announcement on Tuesday night that his government had withdrawn the legal tender of high-denomination Indian Rs 500 and IRs 1,000 dollar bank notes has started hitting daily life and business across Nepali border towns and villages.

KATHMANDU, Nov 9: Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) has said that it was in touch with the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) for management of 1,000 and 500 Indian rupee bills in circulation in Nepal.

KATHMANDU, Oct 2: The Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) has started distributing new banknotes to general public for the Dashain festival from Sunday.

KATHMANDU, Oct 2: The central bank has started distributing new banknotes to the general public for the Dashain festival from Sunday.

KATHMANDU, Sept 26: Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) has started circulating new banknotes for the upcoming festive season to the public from Sunday.

KATHMANDU, Sept 6: Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) has said that general public can exchange new bank notes for the major festivals from October 2.