KATHMANDU, Aug 15: Nepal Stock Exchange (Nepse) jumped 28.73 points to close at 1,209.73 points (2.43 percent) on Wednesday – the second last trading day of the week.

DOTI, July 21: Three of the four family members who jumped in the Seti River are missing while one has been rescued.

KATHMANDU, July 21: The banking industry continued to grapple with the mismatch of assets and liabilities in the last fiscal year as lending by commercial banks expanded 20.46 percent while their total deposits grew only 16.77 percent.

KATHMANDU, April 29: Lending of bank and financial institutions (BFIs) to service industries jumped by 14 percent in the first eight months of the current Fiscal Year 2017/18.

KATHMANDU, April 3: John Parmak, 52, presumed to be a US citizen, had made two unsuccessful suicide attempts while in immigration detention before finally jumping off the sixth floor of the National Trauma Center of Bir Hospital on Sunday evening, immigration officials said.

KATHMANDU, Feb 21: Credit growth of the BFIs toward agriculture sector nearly doubled in the first half of FY2017/18, a recent data of Nepal Rastra Bank shows.

KATHMANDU, Jan 23: Nepal has inched up five notches to 22nd position in the 2018 Inclusive Development Index (IDI) of World Economic Forum (WEF) among 74 emerging economies.

KATHMANDU, Dec 24: Total trade deficit of the country jumped 11.86 percent in the first quadrimester of the current Fiscal Year 2017/18 as imports continue to climb at a faster rate amid a sluggish growth of exports.

BIRGUNJ, Dec 12: Import of mobile phones has jumped by more than five times via the Birgunj customs point.

KATHMANDU, Dec 2: Nepal Stock Exchange (Nepse) benchmark index climbed 44.38 points this week to close at 1,537.67 points on Thursday -- the last trading day of the week.

KATHMANDU, Sept 5: The price of the Detailed Project Report for the Kathmandu-Tarai Expressway was Rs 600 million (Indian Rs 380 million) in January this year, but  the DPR price is now Rs 1 billion,  an increment of 66 percent.

KATHMANDU, Aug 30: Credit flow of bank and financial institutions (BFIs) to service industries by 23.3 percent in the last Fiscal Year 2016/17 as tourism and hospitality businesses showed signs of recovery.

KATHMANDU, July 18: The government has achieved an impressive growth in tax revenue that increased by 31.54 percent to Rs 553.9 billion in the last fiscal year.

KATHMANDU, July 17:Nepal Stock Exchange (Nepse) benchmark index climbed up 20.58 points, 1.3 percent, on Monday amid rise on the government spending at the end of the fiscal year. The stock market recovered by double digit on the second trading days following a long slump amid shortage of lendable fund and rise in interest rates.

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Students battled tear gas-throwing police officers in demonstrations across Venezuela’s capital Thursday as a two-month-old protest movement that shows no signs of letting up claimed more lives.

KATHMANDU, May 3: A big fire has erupted at one house located at Dhunge Sanghu in Mahalaxmisthan of Lalitpur Metropolitan City early morning today.

KATHMANDU, March 27: Nepal Stock Exchange (Nepse) index climbed up 47.79 points, or 3.22 percent, on the first trading day of the week to close at 1,533.83 points.

KATHMANDU, March 15: In what appears to be an indication of the revival of service sector, credits from bank and financial institutions (BFIs) to this sector in the first half of Fiscal Year 2016/17 jumped by 11.9 percent.

Lahan, Sept 16: A one-year-old baby girl was killed when her mother with jumped with her into a pond at Dhangadhi in Siraha district on Thursday evening.

KATHMANDU, Sept 15: Nepal has climbed two positions up in the latest FIFA World ranking to 186 with 74 points.

KATHMANDU, Sept 6: Chyasal Youth Club took a giant stride in the Martyrs Memorial B Division League football tournament after its 1-0 win over Samajik Youth Club on Tuesday.

KATHMANDU, Sept 6: A renal patient, who was undergoing dialysis at the Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital (TUTH) reportedly committed suicide by jumping off the third floor of the hospital on Monday night.

KATHMANDU, July 2: Nepal Stock Exchange (Nepse) escalated 38 points as compared to the first day this week to close at 1723 points.