Revenue collection up, but budget spending meagre

The government has collected about Rs. 100.5 billion revenue in the first five weeks of the current Fiscal Year 2021/22. The collection is 8.74 per cent of the total annual target of Rs. 1151.6 billion as estimated in the budget of current fiscal, according to the Daily Budgetary Report of the Financial Comptroller General Office (FCGO). Likewise, total government receipts during the first five weeks of the FY amount to Rs. 113.6 billion – about 9.35 per cent of the annual target of Rs. 1214.9...

Vaccination Drive Gathering Steam

The COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread in the community despite the fact that the country enforced extended restrictions during its first wave and five-month-long prohibitory order during the second wave. On average, around 32 people are dying of virus daily while the number of cases has not gone down significantly. Health experts have stated that the ongoing infections and deaths are the continuation of the second wave and they have warned of the arrival of third wave after mid-October when the...

Foreign Forces Dare Not Return

Curtains are down in Afghanistan as far as the presence of foreign troops is concerned. Only the most novices or someone shameless feigning are surprised over the unfolding events in that devastatingly conflict-ridden poverty-stricken country. The excessively delayed response to demands fo

UML Is What It Is Not

The formation of the Communist Party of Nepal - Unified Marxist-Leninist (CPN-UML) in 1991 marked a turning point in Nepal’s democratic politics. It was not because of the merger of two influential left parties: the CPN - Marxist and the CPN - Marxist-Leninist (ML). Mergers and splits among the parties on the left were so common that they would not even make the headlines, let alone a turning point. This particular merger became extraordinary because of its choreographer: Madan Kumar Bhandari,...

Rein In Arrears

Promoting good governance has always been high on agenda of all the political parties and successive governments in Nepal. But things seem to have mostly gone other way around. The increase in public arrears at an alarming rate has been one of the factors behind the country’s failure to ensure good governance and rule of law.

39 more Nepalis in Afghanistan come into govt contact

Additional 39 Nepali migrants in Afghanistan have come in contact with the Government of Nepal. Three hundred and seventeen Nepalis have updated their whereabouts on the web portal of the Department of Consular Services (DoCS) till Saturday. With this 356 Nepalis have registered their whereabouts in the government portals or informed the government via telephone or social media. Issuing a statement on Sunday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) said that the government was coordinating and...

Gaijatra festival being celebrated today

The Gaijatra or Saparu festival will be marked in three cities of the Kathmandu Valley and other districts on Monday. Considering the risk of COVID-19 infection, District Administration Office, Kathmandu, has already appealed to the general public to celebrate Janaipurnima, Gaijatra and other festivals in a symbolic manner without forming crowds.

Nepalgunj-Pokhara daily flight starts after incre ased tourist flow

Buddha Air has started daily flights in Nepalgunj-Pokhara sector from Sunday. Chief of Buddha Air, Nepalgunj, Binit Bikram Shah, said that the flight has been operated daily from Sunday as it had been operating five days a week so far, especially due to the increasing flow of passengers, including Indian tourists.

CPN (Maoist Center) names chiefs of its provincial committeees

Narayan Kaji Shrestha, spokesperson of the party, said that chiefs of the provincial committees and in-charge of the districts have been fixed by the meeting.

Middle Bhotekoshi hydel project to be complete in a year, claims project manager, 65 per cent works completed so far in nine years

Presently, 70 Nepalis and 189 Chinese workers are working on the project. 415 meters out of a 724-meter long tunnel is yet to be constructed. Only 75 per cent of the powerhouse and 50 per cent of works related to dam construction has been accomplished so far.