Kathmandu : Germany has agreed to provide assistance of Rs 7.5 billion for the execution of social, economic development projects in Nepal. In a negotiation on Nepal-Germany development assistance held at Berlin on Thursday, Germany has decided to extend assistance as grant for coming two...
Economy
Kathmandu : At a time when there have been increasing voices for keeping environmental conservation at centre, the government is planning to construct the Nijgadh International Airport being sensitive to environment.
Though the airport has total 8,000 hectares of land, only 2,000 hectares will be...
Kathmandu : The number of industrial firms in the country stands at 922 thousand 445, according to the preliminary results of the First National Economic Census 2018. The Census conducted by the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) was launched here today. Three million 408 thousand 746 people are...
Kathmandu : Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) has come into operation for 22 hours a day from today as it extends its opening hour by an hour. The working hours have been set from 5:00 am to 3:00 am of the next day. Earlier, the government had run the TIA for 21 hours daily from 5:00 am to...
Kathmandu : Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) has assured the Parliamentary Committee that eight per cent economic growth rate would be achieved in the current fiscal year 2018/19. In today’s meeting of the Finance Committee of the House of Representatives, NRB Governor Dr Chiranjivi Nepal said that...
Kathmandu :The government has planned to carry out complete repairs of the runway at Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA), the country’s sole airport operating international flights. The Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation has initiated a necessary process to this regard. During...
Kathmandu : Finance Minister Dr Yuba Raj Khatiwada has said a campaign would be started to end the absolute poverty by the coming three to four years. The Finance Minister said this while addressing to the inaugural programme of a workshop on microfinance organised by the Microfinance Association...
Kathmandu : Finance Minister Dr Yubaraj Khatiwada has shared that the World Bank has decided to double the development assistance it has been providing to Nepal. The assistance would be doubled for the implementation of the development projects under the government’s priority, he...
Kathmandu : The Nepal Stock Exchange index continues to be on a downward spiral today. The NEPSE dipped 6.69 points to close at 1,180 to follow previous days that saw a moderate decline. Likewise, the sensitive index, which measures the performance of class ‘A’ stocks, also decreased...
Washington D.C. : The World Bank Group’s Board of Executive Directors has approved a fourth Financial Sector Stability Development Policy Credit (DPC4) of $100 million to Nepal to help it continue to deepen its medium-term reform program in the financial sector.
Nepal’s quest to secure a...
