KATHMANDU, July 14: The Investment Board of Nepal (IBN) has initiated a process to establish a chemical fertilizer company in the country.

The Tale of the Honey Bees

March 2, 2022 15:56 pm

One day the company trailed off for the meadow to collect their business booster: beehives, bees, and their honey. This Company would never stop. One of the members, Emmet, was carefully picking off a beehive out of a tree. The bees inside felt something. The bees realized they were being taken away from their home and they quickly acted even though they couldn’t do much. Bees are small but they can annoy people very easily. The bees wouldn’t want to sting people because their stinger would be stuck but they could buzz around faster and faster to annoy people.

Vivek Oberoi says the kind of lobbying and constant dis-empowerment he faced in his career is stuff for a tell-all biography, where people have written him off time and again, but he has survived them all.

BRUSSELS, Sept 4: China’s Huawei Technologies [HWT.UL] on Tuesday said the U.S. government had instructed law enforcement to “coerce” and “entice” its employees to turn against the company, as it steps up its pushback against a U.S. campaign that could threaten its survival.

KATHMANDU, Aug 18: An Infrastructure Construction Company has been set up in the country.

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.

It’s finally complete. Disney closed its $71 billion acquisition of Fox’s entertainment assets on Wednesday, more than a year after the mega merger was proposed . Disney gets far ranging properties ranging from Fox’s film studios, including “Avatar” and X-Men, to its TV productions such as “The Simpsons” and networks including National Geographic. The acquisition comes as Disney plans to launch its streaming service Disney Plus later this year.

Juggling work and family life

March 8, 2019 12:59 pm

KATHMANDU, March 8: Sheetal Rijal is a woman of varied skills. A chartered account-turned-finance analyst who later became a finance consultant at her own firm, Sheetal is now the chief operation director and director of her own company.

Going solo

December 14, 2018 11:25 am

Don’t you just wish for a stranger to be seated next to you on your travels at least once in your life? Or to be at a hilltop, all on your own, with the company of no one else but just your extraordinary self? Solo traveling is a fantasy most people harbor but very few actually go on a trip alone.

KATHMANDU, Oct 4: An Indian company with foreign direct investment has been found in trading activities, which is listed as negative by the law for foreign investors.

BIRATNAGAR, Sept 3: Minister for Physical Infrastructure and Transport Raghubir Mahaseth has reaffirmed that action would be taken against the Pappu Construction Company for its negligence in building the bridge on time.

The government of Nepal has barred its workers from coming to Malaysia with immediate effect.

KATHMANDU, July 27: Tanahu Hydropower Company Ltd (THCL) has selected Cooperativa Muratori & Cementisti (CMC) as the contractor to construct head works of its 140-megawatt hydropower plant. Issuing a statement, the hydropower company said the Italian contractor will be awarded Rs 20.64 billion (including provisional sum and value added tax) worth of contract to build cofferdam and construction of dam as part of the first package of head works.

TOKYO, July 26:  A large white and blue truck pulls up outside a stadium in central Japan and slowly expands into a place of worship.

BIRATNAGAR, June 28: Locals of Buddhanagar of Biratnagar-18 have been successful in stopping an Indian company from digging the no man's land by using a bulldozer.

Gets Sebon nod to issue 5.28 million units of shares

Kathmandu: Citizens Bank International Ltd was established in the year 2007 as the 20th commercial bank of Nepal. The bank's ownership structure indicates 51.29 percent promoters and 48.71 percent public shareholding.

KATHMANDU, April 28: A Chinese Company has submitted a proposal for the construction of infrastructure required for the operation of monorail in Kathmandu Metropolis.

KATHMANDU, April 21: The government has informed transport entrepreneurs that there is no option for them but to come under the Company Act as required by a cabinet decision, and claimed that the decision is aimed at ending  syndication in public transport.

KATHMANDU, Feb 11: Five foreigners have been found to be working as senior management officials in five-star Tiger Palace Resort being developed in Nepal with foreign investment without taking work permit.

Valley's transport company in limbo

January 21, 2018 01:24 am

KATHMANDU, Jan 21: The preparation to establish public Transport Company so as to provide cheap, reliable and convenient city transport services to passengers of Kathmandu Valley has faltered.

KATHMANDU, Dec 28:Investment Board Nepal (IBN) has signed a preliminary agreement with Chinese company Huaxin Cement Company to bring foreign investment of Rs 15 billion in a cement factory.

KATHMANDU, Nov 21: Kathmandu Sustainable Urban Transport Project (KSUTP) and a group of microbus and three-wheeler operators have entered into series of agreements to replace microbuses and three-wheelers with larger buses.

KATHMANDU, Nov 19: Non-Resident Nepali Association (NRNA) has decided to set up an investment company to make significant investment in the infrastructure sector of Nepal.

KATHMANDU, Nov 17: Surya Nepal P. Ltd has been declared as the highest tax paying company of the fiscal year 2016/17. Inland Revenue Department has feted the company as the highest tax paying company at a program organized in the capital on the occasion of Sixth National Tax Day on Friday.

CHITWAN, Nov 16: CPN (Maoist Center) Chairman and former prime minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal has taken strong exception to the decision of the government to scrap the agreement signed with China's state-owned company Gezhouba Group Co Ltd (CGGC) regarding the Budhigandaki Hydroelectricity Project.

KATHMANDU, Nov 13: The government on Monday rolled back from its earlier decision to award Budhigandaki Hydropower Project to a Chinese company nearly after six months.

One Direction's company sued

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LOS ANGELES, Sept 11: A songwriter has claimed that band One Direction's hit ‘Drag Me Down’ is a rip-off of one of his tracks.

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.

KATHMANDU, June 19: The preparation of the Securities Board of Nepal (Sebon) to license a new stock exchange company has divided investors, analysts, experts and other stakeholders over the need and rationale of another bourse.

KATHMANDU, May 23: The government has decided to award Budhi Gandaki hydro project to a Chinese company.

KATHMANDU, March 23: Sagoon Inc., a US-based social commerce startup founded by a Nepali, has said that it has become second largest company in terms of number of retail investors.

KATHMANDU, March 14: The Company Act Amendment Bill has finally been endorsed by the parliament.

KATHMANDU, March 6: On the occasion of 50th anniversary of FNCCI, ‘Mangament Mantras : Creating excellence at workplace,’ a talk program by Sri Sri Ravi Shankhar was held at Hotel Annapurna on Sunday.

“Innovation not necessarily comprises a scientific breakthrough but seeks the immediacy of needs to be acknowledged,” asserts Rabindra Mohan Sapkota, 43, who is the chairman of Shikhar Biotech established in 2000. In conversation with Republica’s Sonam Lama, he shares some of his insights on initiating the first biotechnological company in Nepal, followed by its different setbacks.

Techrise is a coding boot camp and an initiative that teaches young people to code and help them learn a set of marketable skills that will enable them to write web applications.  Techrise was set up six months ago to bridge the gap between educational opportunities and an individual’s competency. In conversation with Republica, Takehiro Mouri and Natsuko Robyn Shinozaki, the Japanese founders, share the reason behind establishing the company in Nepal, the challenges and prospects of IT worldwide.

KATHMANDU, Feb 4: The government has initiated efforts to develop Upper Arun Hydropower Project on 'company model' with the project registered with the Office of Company Registrar recently.

KATHMANDU, Jan 13: As per the government's instruction, municipalities of the Kathmandu valley have made preparations to register a new public transport company 'Upatyaka Nagar Yatayat Sewa Limited' next week to operate large buses in various routes of the Valley.

A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday refused to hold KBR Inc (KBR.N) liable for alleged human trafficking, in connection with the 2004 kidnapping and murder by insurgents of 12 Nepali men being transported in Iraq to work for a subcontractor at a U.S. military base.

KATHMANDU, Jan 3: Four months after Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal announced in the parliament to operate 100 city buses in major cities of the country, the Ministry of Federal Affairs and Local Development (MoFALD) has asked four municipalities based in the Kathmandu Valley to register a joint company to operate large buses across Kathmandu, Lalitpur and Bhaktapur.

Infographics: Best company name changes

December 17, 2016 00:05 am

Google wasn’t always “Google.” It once went by the name “BackRub.” Best Buy went by the name, “Sound of Music.”​Check out AustralianHelp.com’s infographic below to find out which major companies underwent name changes.

KATHMADNU, Dec 16 : The 28th annual general meeting (AGM) of National  Life Insurance Company has approved a proposal to distribute 30 percent bonus shares and 1.58 percent cash dividend to its shareholders from its profits of Fiscal Year 2015/16.

Alphabet Inc’s Google self-driving car project will become an independent entity within the technology company called Waymo, executives said on Tuesday, signaling a willingness to finally monetize its valuable research amid fierce competition from rivals.

KAWASOTI, Dec 12: The District Monitoring Committee has taken a decision to slap a fine against Savriddhi Nirman Sewa for illegally dredging materials from the Kerung river at Kawasoti of Nawalparasi district.

Ahead of her upcoming release Befikre, actor Vaani Kapoor is all praises for her co-star Ranveer Singh. According to her, he is very supportive and brings to life all that he does.

KATHMANDU, Nov 21: The government has formally set up the Hydropower Production Company with the provision of allowing the Nepali citizens to investment in the hydropower projects.

KATHMANDU, Nov 20: The Legislature-Parliament has unanimously approved the proposal seeking consideration on the Company Act (first amendment) Bill-2073.

KATHMANDU, Nov 19: Minister for Industry Nabindra Raj Joshi tabled the Company Act (First Amendment) Bill 2016 at the parliament on Friday.

KATHMANDU, Nov 18: The Company Act (First Amendment) Bill, 2073 has been presented in the meeting of the Legislature-Parliament today.

KATHMANDU, Nov 13: Nepal Life Insurance Company (NLIC) has bagged 'Financial  Institution of the year- Insurance Company' in the 'Best Practices Award 2016' segment.