TULSIPUR, July 25: Speaker Krishna Bahadur Mahara has spoken of the need of carrying out a feasibility study to develop the country into a sports hub.

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DARCHULA, Feb 9: Construction task of 30-MW Chameliya hydropower project has been completed. The 30-Megawatt-capacity project is constructed at a cost of Rs 16 billion with government investment.

KATHMANDU, Sept 12: Two sugar mills have signed initial agreements with the government to produce electricity. If it goes as planned, Indu Shankar Chini Udyoug Ltd will generate three megawatts of electricity from December by rotating an additional turbine by the steam of existing boiler. The mills use bagasse, a residue of sugar cane crushing, to heat the boiler.

KATHMANDU, July 17: Ruling coalition partner CPN (Maoist Center) has proposed to request Chinese government to build hydropower projects having combined capacity of 5,000 MW in any river basin in Built and Transfer (BT) model.

LAMABAGAR(Dolakha), Dec 21: Works to develop the 456-Megawatt Upper Tamakoshi Hydropower Project based in Dolakha are going on in full swing with a target of taking it to the power production phase within one and half years.

KATHMANDU, Dec 16: Power Summit 2016 concluded in Kathmandu on Friday with a commitment to generate 10,000 MW of hydropower in the next ten years.

CHAUTARA, Aug 12: The 10.05 MW Sunkoshi Hydropower, which has remained shut after the flood-fed Bhotekoshi River caused damages to the project on July 15, is to resume its operation within some days.

CHITWAN, July 21: Bharatpur Hospital has installed a biogas plant to convert wastes into energy to manage municipal wastes.