KATHMANDU, July 21: Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) has asked the banks and financial institutions (BFIs) to report their financial status of the fourth quarter of every fiscal year within three weeks of the starting of the new fiscal year.

KATHMANDU, Dec 30: A total of 42 local governments have failed to submit the records of their financial settlement of 2020/21 even when almost six months of the following fiscal year have passed.

KATHMANDU, Dec 23: Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) has cut short the report submission timeline for the operators of online payment service in a bid to increase vigilance of transaction settlements amid ongoing liquidity crunch in the country’s banking system.

ROCHESTER, NEW HAMPSHIRE – In 2014, two years after kidnapping my son, James Wright Foley, while he was working as a freelance correspondent in Syria, the Islamic State tortured and killed him. Jim’s murder underscored the extraordinary risks journalists take to report the news in dangerous areas—and the need for stronger action to protect them.

NEW YORK – What does it cost to silence a muckraking reporter? In the Philippines, officials needed just $250 in 2011 to buy the services of a journalist-slaying gunman. In Slovakia, Ján Kuciak and his fiancée were killed in February for about $80,000.

KATHMANDU, March 23: Following directives of the Ministry of Federal Affairs and General Administration (MoFAGA), all ministries and their subordinate units in the Kathmandu Valley have barred "defiant" civil servants from signing attendance sheets.

KATHMANDU, Feb 28: The number of suspicious transaction reporting (STR) by financial and other reporting institutions has declined significantly in the last fiscal year -- FY2016/17.

KATHMANDU, April 19: The number of suspicious transaction reports (STRs) by various bank and financial institutions, insurance companies and securities companies, among other entities that deals with cash transactions, more than tripled in the last fiscal year.

KATHMANDU, Nov 15: Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) is planning to reward informants tipping off NEA offices about power theft.

Media personnel need to change their mindset and start seeing violence as a consequence of poverty, inequality and injustice