KATHMANDU; Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) has barred banks from keeping the COVID-19 hit firms in the blacklist if the concerned companies are unable to pay loan dues of up to six months. Unveiling the mid-term review of the Monetary Policy 2020/21, the central bank has asked the banks not to take the assets of such […]
BIRATNAGAR : Province 1 Chief Minister (CM) Sherdhan Rai on Monday claimed that the provincial government has been successful in creating a sense of hope among the people for a better future. He stressed the need for speeding up development programs as expected by the people in the days to come. He was speaking at […]
KATHMANDU : Nepali Congress is staging protests against the dissolution of House of Representatives (HoR) in all 77 districts on Monday. Chairman Sher Bahadur Deuba, Ramchandra Poudel and other key leaders of the party will be addressing the event in various districts today. Deuba is scheduled to address a gathering in Butwal to be hosted […]
BAITADI: Police have claimed that the rape and murder of 17-year-old Bhagrathi Bhatta of Chadepani in Dogadakedar Rural Municipality-7, Baitadi was committed by someone familiar with her. Police have claimed that the investigation has come very close to finding the culprit. Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) Uttam Subedi, who is in charge of the […]
MYANMAR : Thousands of protesters took to the streets in Myanmar’s major cities for a ninth straight day of anti-coup demonstrations on Sunday, after a fearful night as residents formed patrols and the army rolled back laws protecting freedoms. Engineering students marched through downtown Yangon, the biggest city, wearing white and carrying placards demanding the […]
KATHMANDU: The Dahal-Nepal faction of the ruling Nepal Communist Party is announcing its third phase of agitation against the dissolution of the House of Representatives (HoR) on Sunday. Bishnu Rijal, a central committee member of the party faction, said that they are announcing the third phase of agitation against the dissolution of parliament. At a […]
KATHMANDU: Nepal Telecom (NT) has made a profit of Rs 3.28 billion in the first half of the current fiscal year. This is a decline of 33.46 percent in its profit as compared to the same period in the last fiscal year. The financial reports of NT shows that the state-owned telecom giant has been […]
KATHMANDU : The government is preparing to vaccinate common people against Covid-19 from March 7. Senior citizens will get their turn first in the process. It has been over two weeks since the country began its vaccination drive. However, so far, only frontline health workers and sanitation workers, journalists in Kathmandu, and staff of diplomatic agencies have been given […]
PARSA: Two Armed Police Force (APF) personnel were injured in an attack by a group of Indian sand smugglers in the bordering Parsa district on Friday morning. The incident took place after the APF personnel tried to stop the smugglers from extracting sand illegally at Piparadi in Jirabhawani Rural Municipality-9, Parsa. The injured APF men […]
KATHMANDU : The tri-series between Nepal, Oman and the USA, which was scheduled to be held in Oman in March 2021 under ICC Men’s Cricket WC League-2, has been postponed until further notice. The International Cricket Council (ICC) on Friday announced that the three upcoming series including the tri-series in the ICC Men’s Cricket World […]