SAPTARI, June 21: The collection of garbage at Rajbiraj municipality has been resumed after three days with the discussion and agreement between the workers and administration.

Going all out

June 7, 2019 08:48 am

K-pop seems to be getting popular by the day and even in Nepal it’s slowly becoming a subculture of sorts with mostly teenagers and young adults being enamored by it. If they are listening to music, one can be sure there is a K-pop song or two on that playlist. This K-pop craze also has many fans buying expensive albums and merchandise, and they all seem to have solid reasons of their own.

Allure of Antiques

May 10, 2019 12:47 pm

Mahima Shrestha was in a very disturbed state of mind when she sat for her CA exams because her grandmother had recently been diagnosed with cancer, and Shrestha had found out that the cancer had reached an extremely advanced stage.

21-year-old Aagya Khanal is all set to unveil her debut collection of her fashion line, Sansa, on April 17, 2019. Khanal has been exploring different creative fields since she was a teenager. Today, she’s a musician, dancer, makeup artist, stunt rider, and a fashion designer. “Trying out different things makes it easier for you to realize what you want and don’t want to do in life,” she says. And although Khanal claims to still enjoy all the creative ventures she’s dabbled in, fashion designing seems to be her calling.

Valley waste collection resumes

July 23, 2018 10:53 am

KATHMANDU, July 23: The garbage that has been piled up in the Kathmandu Valley for the past one month is being picked up today.

RASUWA, July 21: The Rasuwa Customs Office in Timure has doubled the revenue collection in the outgoing fiscal year compared to the previous fiscal.

KATHMANDU, July 15: Owing to packed Sisdole landfill site, it will take some more days for Kathmandu Metropolitan city to collect the garbage from the Valley. The garbage is not collected in the Valley for a month.

PAANCHTHAR, June 22: The government has started collecting the details of citizens for the distribution of digitalized National Identity Cards (NIC), for the first time in history. Digitalization of citizen's details is one of the most ambitious projects of the country.

Measures introduced by finance minister not yielding desired results

Yarsa collection charge increases

April 16, 2018 08:51 am

TRIPURAKOT,  April 16 (RSS): Extra charge of Rs 500 has been slapped while collecting Yarsa in the mountainous district, Dolpa, from this year.

ARGHAKHACHI, April 4: The family of Sita Tharu of Padini Rural Municipality in Arghakhanchi district was thinking of migrating to the plains due to acute water crisis in the village. Since many others did so, this family also wanted to follow suit. According to Tharu, the greatest problem in her locality has always been that of water.

JHAPA, March 23: The Mechi Eye Hospital at Sainikmode, Birtamod Municipality-3 in Jhapa district has started providing cornea transplant services by setting up a cornea collection centre.

KATHMANDU, March 3: Finance Minister Dr Yubraj Khatiwada has directed the chiefs of the customs office to resolve the loopholes witnessed in revenue collection.

UDAYAPUR, Feb 18: Revenue records of the first six months of current fiscal year at the Taxpayer Service Office (TSO) show that the office is well on track to meet its annual revenue target.

After all the controversies surrounding Sanjay Leela Bhansali's magnum opus 'Padmaavat', the film that finally released on January 25, 2018, managed to create history at the domestic and worldwide box-office. The film which stars Deepika Padukone, Ranveer Singh andShahid Kapoor in pivotal roles, has been loved by the audience and critics and even found fans in legendary Bollywood actors.

SYANGJA, Jan 20: Galyang Municipality has established a Small Farmer Milk Collection and Distribution Center at Galyang Bazar-3 of the municipality, at an investment of Rs 12 million.

BIRATNAGAR, Jan 18: Revenue mobilization by the Biratnagar Customs Office, which was affected due to collapse of a bridge in bordering India due to August floods, is finally coming back on track.

KATHMANDU, Dec 29: "Blood is life, donate blood to save others" blared a music player placed atop the debris of the demolished Nepal Red Cross Society (NRCS) building at Pradarshani Marg in the capital.  Under  tents provided by Red Cross Society China,  blood donors recline on  chairs  to donate their blood. NRCS staff  busied themselves  collecting the blood.

Sarlahi mills start sugarcane collection

December 21, 2017 03:15 am

SARLAHI, Dec 21: Local farmers have started taking sugarcane to Indu Shankar Sugar Industry of Hariban, Sarlahi, as the crushing season begins.

BAJHANG, Dec 18: The Tamail Vegetable Collection Center (TVCC) of Bajhang, which was built for collecting and selling vegetables of farmers, has now turned into a sex trade hub and a shed for cattle.

Collection of ballot boxes starts

November 27, 2017 06:00 am

KATHMANDU, Nov 27: As the security of the ballot boxes remains the main concern of all political parties, the government has made an arrangement to first collect the ballot boxes at nearby collection centers before transporting them to the district headquarters on Monday.

Rainwater collection for our water woes

November 23, 2017 09:34 am

KATHMANDU, Nov 23: Nepal is the second richest country in the world in water resources.  This is a statement that most of the Nepali people know by heart. And yet,most of them don't know where the water is.

KATHMANDU, Oct 30 : Tourism Secretary Maheshwar Neupane on Sunday said that he was hopeful that the issue of tax collection from tourists by local bodies would be resolved soon.

KATHMANDU, Oct 27: The Inland Revenue Department has succeeded in meeting its target of revenue collection in the first quarter of the current fiscal year -- FY2017/18.

Waste collection in Banchari soon

September 26, 2017 11:34 am

KATHMANDU, Sept 26: The Kathmandu Metropolitan City is set to develop Banchari a solid waste collection center near future.

NAWALPARASI, Sept 9: A signature campaign has been launched calling for an end to corruption in the district.

Waste collection resumes after 20 days

August 31, 2017 03:35 am

KATHMANDU, Aug 30: Waste disposal at Sisdole of Okharpauwa has resumed from Wednesday morning after 20 days of obstruction caused by the locals. Locals of Sisdole in Nuwakot district had obstructed the disposal of the Valley's waste at the landfill site since August 10. The locals agreed to let the disposal resume after the municipal authorities assured to fulfill their various demands during several rounds of meeting between the two sides on Monday and Tuesday.

JHAPA, August 29: Revenue collection at Kakarvitta custom point in the eastern Nepal border has dropped as traders have tried to evade tax after the Goods and Services Tax (GST) came into effect in India.

Revenue collection up 26 percent

July 27, 2017 02:00 am

KATHMANDU, July 26: Revenue mobilization increased by 26 percent to Rs 200.58 billion in Fiscal Year 2016/2017.

KATHMANDU, July 17: Anugya Nepal, an eighth-grader at the Ambition Academy in Kathmandu, has come up with an anthology of poetry, titled 'Hami Garna Sakchhau' (we can do).

KATHMANDU, July 12: The Election Commission (EC) has urged the political parties representing the Legislature-Parliament in collecting voters' roll for coming provincial and parliamentary elections.

KATHMANDU, July 11: The central bank's decision to reduce the share of institutional deposits to 45 percent of total deposits has dealt a serious blow to commercial banks which are already facing shortage of lendable funds.

KATHMANDU, May 24: Revenue collection increased by 20 percent year-on-year over the first 10 months of the current fiscal year.

KATHMANDU, May 15: Bad weather has affected collection of ballot boxes in Humla.

KATHMANDU, April 26: Economists and fiscal federalization analysts have warned of conflict between provincial and local governments over exercising exclusive functions in the federal setup.

KATHMANDU, April 26: Economists and fiscal federalization analysts have warned that conflict could break out between provincial and local governments over exercising exclusive functions prescribed in the constitution in the federal setup .

KATHMANDU, April 20: The government mobilized total revenue of Rs 172.17 billion in the third quarter of Fiscal Year 2016/17 -- a jump of 32 percent compared to revenue collection figures of the corresponding period of the last fiscal year.

KATHMANDU – In the year 2073, 86 Nepali movies were released from Baishak 10 to Chaitra 25. The most popular forms of entertainment, is continuously growing with large investment on movie making process in Nepali movie industry.

PARSA, March 27: The major customs point of Nepal, Birgunj Customs Office has witnessed a drop in revenue collection due to the decrease in the import of motor vehicles.

JUMLA, Jan 30: Snow-fed irrigation ponds installed in Jumla district have managed to collect considerable amount of snow due to the recent snowfall. Farmers would be able to use the pond for irrigation purpose.

Tax collection up 42 percent

January 24, 2017 21:05 pm

KATHMANDU, Jan 24: While the government has been failing to spend its development budget, it has excelled in tax collection.

KATHMANDU, Jan 24: Revenue collection until January 17 of the current fiscal year has increased by 42 per cent in the corresponding period of the last fiscal year.

MUMBAI, Dec 24: Superstar Salman Khan might have said that Aamir Khan’s “Dangal” is a much better film than his own blockbuster “Sultan” but the opening day box office collection tells a different story.

KATHMANDU, Sept 26: The revenue collection by the Birgunj Dry Port, country's dry sole port equipped with railway services, in the first two months of the current fiscal, has exceeded targets.

Revenue collection up 29 percent

September 25, 2016 22:20 pm

KATHMANDU, Sept 25: Total revenue collection increased by 29 percent in the first two months of the Fiscal Year 2016/17, compared to the same period in the last fiscal year.

A new collection in the psychiatric hospital of Duffel in the north of Belgium makes for a ghoulish sight: around 3,000 preserved brains that were originally saved by a British doctor.

BHAKTAPUR, July 24: The data collection of the quake-stricken started in Bhaktapur district yesterday.

KATHMANDU, July 16: The process to collect inputs from stakeholders for drafting an education regulation is in its final stage, according to the Ministry of Education (MoE).

KATHMANDU, June 18: The post-quake data collection inside the Kathmandu Valley will take at least a week.

BHIMDATTANAGAR,June 17: Collection of timber from the Shuklaphanta Wildlife Reserve has started for the reconstruction of houses destroyed by the April 25, 2015 earthquake.