- Wednesday, 10 August 2022
Poultry farmers rue over chicken smuggling from India
The price of chicken has, of late, decreased in the country. The illegal import of chicken from India has reduced the demand for local chicken, which has resulted in a drop in prices.
NOC in no mood to cut fuel prices
Price of crude oil has been declining in the international market for the last couple of weeks. The price of crude oil which climbed to USD 123.58 per barrel on March 8 dropped to USD 94 per barrel on Monday. The Nepal Oil Corporation (NOC) has received a new price list from the Indian Oil Corporation twice after the significant fall in the prices. The IOC has reduced the price of diesel and petrol supplied to Nepal by Rs. 30 per litre in a month.
Jumla farmers told not to pick, sell unripe apples
The Agricultural Development Office of Jumla has launched an awareness programme at the local level to stop the export of unripe apples from the district. It has initiated the programme to educate and aware the farmers and other concerned stakeholders as unripe fruits started arriving in the market. Ganesh Adhikari, Acting Head of the office, said that in the third week of July, the heads of the agriculture departments of all the eight local levels of Jumla, large farmers and traders held a meeting for the marketing and export of apples. The meeting had decided not to pick apples until they ripe.
Finally, fertiliser begins arriving into country
The fertilisers imported by Agriculture Inputs Company Limited (AICL) through different global tenders have started arriving in Nepal. Some of the 100,000 tonnes of fertilisers that AICL is purchasing through various tenders have started entering Nepal since last week. Almost 18,000 tonnes of urea imported through the global tender by the AICL has entered Nepal.
Pokhara Regional Int'l Airport to operate on 1 January 2023
The approximately 22 billion project has seen the completion of a 98 percent construction works so far, he said, adding that a flight calibration would take place in coming October.
NUSACCI holds meeting with PM Deuba, discuss ways to boost export
A delegation of the Nepal-United States of America (USA) Chamber of Commerce & Industry (NUSACCI) has held a meeting with Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba and discussed the ways to boost the export of Nepali products to the USA.
vivo slashes price of its products, V21e priced at Rs 37,999
This new price is applicable across all Vivo retail stores and e-commerce websites starting 3rd August 2022.
'Profit to NOC, Consumers bear brunt of loss'
The parliamentarian urged the government to be serious about the Taiwan incident and appealed to stay firm in the One-China Policy.
China's foreign trade of goods up 10.4 pct in first 7 months
China's foreign trade of goods jumped 10.4 per cent year on year to 23.6 trillion yuan (about 3.5 trillion U.S. dollars) during the first seven months of the year, official data showed Sunday.
Chapagain re-elected president of NBCCI
Businessman Akhil Kumar Chapagain has been re-elected as the president of the Nepal-Brazil Chamber of Commerce and Industries (NBCCI).
BFIs getting bigger, but have they got any better?
After the introduction of merger and acquisition policy for strengthening financial stability, number of Banks and Financial Institutions (BFIs) involved in this process had reached 245 as of mid-July 2022. Of them, license of 178 BFIs have been revoked, leaving only 67. Of the total 303 BFIs, including 32 commercial banks, 92 development banks, 78 finance companies and 101 microfinance companies, only 245 have been involved in the merger and acquisition in a decade of the implementation of merger and acquisition policy.
Confusion prevails on operating bus park in Sarlahi
Despite the construction of a bus park with modern facilities in Malangwa, district headquarters of Sarlahi, there is a confusion about its operation. The bus park, which was constructed at a cost of nearly Rs. 60 million through the Department of Urban Development and Building Construction of the Federal Government in Janakpurdham, has become unusable. It has been more than five months since the construction of the bus park completed. The municipal office in Malangwa has not shown any interest in bringing the fully-equipped bus park with the terminal building into operation.
Top priority on Bheri and Karnali Corridors: CM Shahi
Chief Minister of Karnali Province Jeevan Bahadur Shahi has said that the Bheri and Karnali corridors will get top priority.
