Newly appointed Indian Ambassador to Nepal Naveen Srivastava Thursday paid a courtesy call on Minister for Agriculture and Livestock Development Mrigendra Kumar Singh at the Ministry.
Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba has said that Nepal has a huge potential for investment in public private partnership (PPP) model in the traditional as well as new areas of business, industry and infrastructure.
Long history, centuries-old monuments, cultural and natural diversity have made Nepal a distinct nation in the world. The festivals celebrated across this country are so unsurpassed that every foreign visitor gets amazed to see them.
It is indeed alarming that when even partners in the present coalition government have admitted that arrears are piling up in the financial transactions of the country. According to a report in the TRN, the Office of the Auditor General stated that arrears in this fiscal year have piled up to Rs. 483.6 billion, which a country with a declining economy can ill afford.
Nepal has become one of the youngest countries in the world with 40.3 per cent of the youth population. The state, therefore, should pay attention to maximising the utility of youth potential. The new governance structure warrants the formulation of new legislation in consonance with the spirit of the new constitution promulgated in 2015.
With each passing generation, our experiences related to weather and climate change differ. Our parents and grandparents remember having lived in a very good and well-balanced environment. Climate change and rising temperatures were not much of a concern for them. But it is totally different now. Our experiences are filled with issues of degrading weather conditions and bearing the wrath of climate change and rising temperatures.
In his congratulatory message on twitter, Prime Minister Deuba expressed his confidence that the bilateral ties between the two neighbours, Nepal and India, will "see newer height in the days ahead" during the term of the 15th President of India.
The payment comes as part of NAC's installment to be paid to the EPF and CIT, which was pending for almost one and a half years. An official said the NAC managed to repay the amount thanks to its economic growth.
Siddharaj Neupane, Chief of the Kalikot District Police Office, said that the bus may have collided due to the high speed on the downhill road.
A meeting of the House of Representatives (HoR) held Thursday unanimously passed a motion to extend the committee's timeframe for one more week.
He demanded that the Speaker should issue a ruling to the government to immediately communicate with the US in relation to the SPP as the expressions of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs were against the decision of the Council of Ministers.
Minister for Education, Science and Technology, Devendra Paudel, has said the move to padlocking the universities would not be acceptable.
In 1,667 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests done in the past 24 hours, a total of 317 people were found infected with SARS-CoV-2, informed the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) in its regular update on Thursday. Likewise, the virus infection was detected in 118 people in 1,902 antigen tests performed in the last 24 hours.
In a special hour of today's meeting of the House of Representatives, Gyawali drew the government's attention to control price hikes as the life of the people is becoming difficult due to price hikes in foodstuffs, and petroleum products, and construction materials.
In a meeting of the House of Representatives (HoR) today, lawmaker Bhanubhakta Dhakal, demanded that the collection of voters' name lists by the Election Commission should take place from the local level.