Foreign Ministry requests Nepalis to return from Ukraine

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) has requested Nepalis living in Ukraine to return via available commercial flights by analysing the situation there. Issuing a notice on Wednesday, the MoFA urged Nepalis with no important works there to return.

Control Trade Deficit

Nepal is now facing an export conundrum. In the fiscal year 2020/21, the country exported goods worth Rs 141 billion that is highest amount the country earned from export trade. Even in the first six months of the current fiscal, export trade doubled compared to the same period last year. It grew by 95.48 per cent to Rs. 118 billion. However, the dramatic rise in the export can hardly conceal another bitter fact – the soaring import that has 89.37 per cent share in foreign trade against the meagre...

Successful Mayors Make It To The Top

The dynamics of both globalisation and localisation operating simultaneously in the contemporary world has wrought upon the structural changes in the distribution framework of the state authority. As a result, the state authority has been diffused and restructured substantively as a consequence of which locus of governance has made a shift and hence moved, among others, downwards to the local level. With this change, local governments in several unitary and federal countries have become resourceful...

Post-COVID Approaches To Nepal’s Tourism

Every cloud has a silver lining. There is always another hope in life. Waiting for the next tide in journey of humanity is life, but time and tide wait for none. The COVID-19 pandemic seems to be receding gradually and the risk of danger zone is almost ended. However, a high level of awareness is necessary as the risk is still high. With a high level of health precaution, maintaining sufficient physical distance, it is the best time to restart the tourism industry. The most sensitive industry in...

Shaping A Shared Future

Societies and economic systems must be transformed towards greater sustainability and resource efficiency. That is the single biggest challenge humanity faces. Experts are proposing various solutions. The German political economist Maja Göpel is one of them. She has been working on related issues for years. She questions established mindsets and wants to change attitudes.

UAE dash Nepal’s T20 World Cup hope

Nepal’s dream of playing the T20 World Cup for the second time got dashed after suffering a 68-run loss at the hand of the UAE in the semifinal of the ICC men’s T20 World Cup Global Qualifiers A in Muscat, Oman, Tuesday. 

EC seeks Rs. 8.95 billion to hold local elections

The Election Commission has asked the Ministry of Finance for a budget of Rs 8.952 billion for holding the local level election scheduled for May 13. The Commission has written to the Ministry of Finance to release the budget. Issuing a statement on Tuesday, EC Spokesperson Saligram Sharma Poudel said that a letter has been sent to the Ministry of Finance as per the EC’s decision.

Parliament sovereign body to debate on MCC clauses: Thapa

General Secretary of the ruling Nepali Congress Gagan Kumar Thapa has said that the parliament is the only place to debate on the clauses of the Millennium Challenge Corporation’s Nepal Compact Project. Speaking with the journalists at Bharatpur Airport on Tuesday, he said that the parliament is the sovereign body to make changes to the project document. “We have opted the way of amendment. The parliament will make the explanations to the required amendments,” he said, adding that all the...

Better coordination of security bodies helping in conservation

Apart from the primary duty of safeguarding national security and defence, the Nepali Army (NA) Tuesday said that it has been giving an utmost priority to the protection and conservation of national parks, wildlife and maintenance of mountain ecology.

Buddha to offer direct flights from Pokhara to Dhangadhi and Janakpur

Buddha Air will offer direct flights from Pokhara to Dhangadhi and Janakpurdham from March 1. According to the airlines, it will fly to the destinations alternatively with flights to Dhangadhi operating on Sunday, Wednesday and Friday and to Janakpurdham operating on Monday, Thursday and Saturday.