- Wednesday, 5 November 2025
Modnath Dhakal
Nepal stands for sovereignty and territorial integrity
On Tuesday, Nepal voted in favour of 'Advancing a comprehensive, just, and lasting peace in Ukraine' – a United Nations General Assembly resolution – while its two giant neighbours-- China and India-- abstained from voting.
'Once-only-principle' fundamental in e-Governance Blueprint draft
The e-Governance Board of Nepal has published the initial draft of the 'e-Governance Blueprint' with exclusive 'National Data Strategy' and 'once only principle'. According to the draft of the Blueprint published on Monday evening with a one-week window to seek suggestions, legal and structural arrangements will be made for the implementation of the 'Once-Only Principle' so that personally identifiable data will not be collected repeatedly.
Financing gap impacts locally-led adaptation for climate change
Locally led adaptation plans for climate change are facing slow progress and poor implementation in absence of required financial resources across the region in South Asia including Nepal.
Most pride projects behind targets
Of the 27 national pride projects, only five have crossed the 50 per cent benchmark by the first half of the current Fiscal Year 2024/25 in financial progress from the budget earmarked. Among them, Budhigandaki Hydroelectricity Project and Nijgadh International Airport could not spend a penny in the first six months (mid-July 2024 to mid-January 2025), revealed the half-yearly progress report of the budget of FY 2024/25 published recently by the Ministry of Finance (MoF).
Passport Department refutes media reports
The Department of Passport (DoP) informed on Tuesday that it has e-passports in stock enough to maintain supply for a year.
A decade on, VGF still remains limited to rhetoric at expense of development projects
It's been more than one-and-a-half decades since the country started talking about the 'Viability Gap Funding' (VGF) and its application in infrastructure projects especially ones that would be developed throu
Stakeholders push for innovative financing for clean energy growth
Stakeholders have suggested for innovative financing models to achieve ambitious national clean energy target of developing projects with 28,500 Megawatts capacity by 2035 and increase per capita energy consumption to 1500 units.
Breakfast Amidst Wilderness
We were savouring the sundowner on the banks of the Rapti River across the Chitwan National Park (CNP) in Meghauli when the Barahi Jungle Lodge's relationship manager informed us that the breakfast of
Global advocate of Nepali cuisine
With a dream of operating a five-star hotel or a high-end resort in Nepal, Chef Ghanashyam Kandel is now in Kathmandu to intensify his search for partnerships and collaborations with like-minded entrepreneurs, businesses and associations.
Nepal-China connectivity gains traction with BRI Framework
It took seven years for Nepal and China to sign the framework agreement on Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) since the two neighbours inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on it in May 2017. They signed the framework agreemen
Development Cooperation Policy on anvil
The government has prepared a draft of a new Development Cooperation Policy, 2081 with provisions for priority areas, focus on the mitigation of climate change impacts and definition of roles of all levels of government and their concerned agencies.
Hospitality businesses rely on cooperatives for loans
Less than one-third of all hotels and restaurants in Nepal have obtained loans from banks and financial institutions (BFIs), cooperatives and other individuals. Of the total 142,223 i
Agriculture, tourism up, industry down in Karnali
A recent economic analysis of the Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) has found that the agricultural production in Karnali Province has increased by 6.79 per cent in Fiscal Year 2023/24. Agricultural land is in
Karnali Development Bank declared 'troubled institution'
Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) has declared Karnali Development Bank Limited (KDBL) a 'troubled institution' under Section 86(b) of the Nepal Rastra Bank Act, 2058. The NRB informed in a sta
‘Stay wary of traffickers’ promise of good jobs in east Asian nations
The Embassy of Nepal in Bangkok, Thailand repatriated five Nepali nationals to Nepal in a week including one woman who were sent here on Tuesday. They were rescued from Myawaddi in Myanmar and brought to Thailand via the Tak Immigration Office in Mae Sot, and r
