Rupee slumps to record low against dollar

September 7, 2018 05:30 am

KATHMANDU, Sept 7: The value of Nepali currency has plummeted to a record low against the US dollar in line with the Indian currency rout.

SURKET, July 8: Province minister for industry, tourism, forest and environment Nanda Singh Budha has said that the government of Karnali has allocated Rs. 980 million for tourism development in the province.

SURKHET, April 12: The Karnali provincial government has endorsed a budget of Rs. 3.9 million for the inaugural program of the Rara Karnali Tourism Year 2075.

KATHMANDU, March 3: A total of 4.5 million shares worth Rs 1.96 billion were traded in the share market this week.

KATHMANDU, Feb 10: Shares worth Rs. 1.55 billion rupees were traded in the share market this week.

Transaction worth 1.55 billion rupees

February 10, 2018 17:23 pm

KATHMANDU, Feb 10: Shares worth Rs. 1.55 billion rupees were traded in the share market this week.

SOLUKHUMBU, Feb 10: The Mahakulung rural municipality is providing an additional Rs. 2,000 incentive to mothers going to a recognized health institute for delivery.

RUPANDEHI, Jan 24: Rupandehi police on Wednesday made public a group of people arrested on charges of fleecing people by promising them a job in networking business amid a press meet in Lumbini.

KATHMANDU, Jan 10: The National Reconstruction Authority (NRA) has allocated over a billion rupees to the Ministry of Home Affairs (MoHA) for the rehabilitation and relief of flood-affected households. The money will be spent to distribute warm clothes and rebuild houses of the people who were rendered homeless due to the devastating floods.

Demanding their rupees’ worth

December 15, 2017 09:35 am

Nepal is South Asia’s third most expensive country as noted by The Economist Group earlier this year. Inflation has long become a part and parcel of the capital dweller’s life.

BAGLUNG, Nov 28: Hospitality industry of Baglung is attracting new investments buoyed by the increment in number of visitors. The district has around 200 hotels where more than Rs 1 billion has been invested.

JHAPA, Oct 28: The Home Ministry is to be requested to immediately provide cash compensation of Rs one million to the family of Naresh Thapa of Arjundhara-11 Jhapa who was killed in police firing Friday.

BIRATNAGAR, Oct 12: Traders in Morang alone have imported apples worth fifty million rupees targeting the upcoming Tihar and Chhat festivals.

FY2016/17 imports near trillion rupees

August 22, 2017 02:51 am

KATHMANDU, Aug 21: The gap between import and export figures is widening with each fiscal year even though import substitution is stated as a priority program in every fiscal policy and periodic plan of the government.

1.28 trillion rupees

May 30, 2017 07:02 am

KATHMANDU, May 29: The government has tabled a budget of Rs 1.278 trillion for the Fiscal Year 2017/18, and this budget is  different from past ones as it has allocated sizable resources to the federal units for the first time. As part of implementation of the new constitution, the central government has allotted Rs 225 billion to 744 local units and another Rs 1.02 billion for each of the seven provinces.

GAUSHALA, May 16: Ten individuals of Bardibas, Mahottarai have donated two kattha 10 dhur of land jointly for the purpose of constructing a new building of the Bardibas Municipality.

TERHATHUM, Feb 9: The Randal community school in Iwa VDC of Terhathum has set up a fund of Rs. 4 million to run classes in English medium and provide computer education to the students.

BARA, Dec 13: Despite allocation of a huge amount of budget for the upgradation of rural roads in the district annually, their condition has not improved yet.

DADELDHURA, Dec 11: Property worth tens of millions of rupees was destroyed by fire at Gaibandhe bazaar of Parashuram Municipality in Dadeldhura district on Saturday mid-night.

PARSA, Sept 10: Property worth Rs. 10 million was destroyed in a fire that broke out all of a sudden this morning at the Triveni Feed Industries at Chatapipar on the Birgunj-Pathalaiya road section.

KATHMANDU, July 12: Nepal Reinsurance Company Ltd today donated Rs 10 million for the 'I will build my Dharahara Trust'.

KATHMANDU, June 25: The Nepal Rastra Bank is issuing NRB bond worth Rs 10 billion in the market on Sunday.