KATHMANDU: The government has announced that IT parks will be established in Kathmandu Valley and Butwal.…
KATHMANDU: The government has announced that IT parks will be established in Kathmandu Valley and Butwal.…
KATHMANDU: Finance Minister Barshaman Pun unveiled plans to finalize the investment framework and preparatory work within the next fiscal year to construct the Nijgadh International Airport through a public-private partnership during the budget presentation for the financial year (FY)…
KATHMANDU: A joint meeting of both the houses of the Federal Parliament has started after the government agreed to form a parliamentary probe committee as per the demand of the Nepali Congress, the main opposition party.…
KATHMANDU: The government has allocated Rs 116 billion for social security allowance for the next iscal…
KATHMANDU: The government has allocated Rs 74.5 billion for the development of the energy…
KATHMANDU: The government has allocated a budget of Rs 1.65 billion for subsidy on the premium of agriculture and livestock…
KATHMANDU: The government has allocated a budget of Rs 57.29 billion for the agriculture in the next fiscal…
KATHMANDU: The government has declared the next 10 years as the investment decade in…
KATHMANDU: The government has allocated Rs 2.98 billion for the Prime Minister Agriculture Modernization…
KATHMANDU: The government has set a target of bringing in 1.6 million tourists in the next fiscal…
KATHMANDU: The government is planning to arrange commercial production of marijuana from the next fiscal…
KATHMANDU: A meeting of the National Planning Commission has approved the government's annual development programme and three-year medium-term expenditure…
KATHMANDU: The schedule for presenting the annual budget for the fiscal year 2024-25 has been postponed by two…
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', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">KATHMANDU: The government has announced that IT parks will be established in Kathmandu Valley and Butwal. Presenting FY 2024/25 federal budget at the parliament, Finance Minister Barshaman Pun made such announcement. These parks, according to Pun, will be equipped with essential amenities such as high-speed internet, reliable electricity, and robust security infrastructure.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">To encourage the growth of the domestic IT sector, the government has pledged to offer complimentary access to the park's facilities for a period of three years.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">The government has also said that it has included a provision mandating government agencies to prioritize the utilization of domestically produced software. Furthermore, internships in the IT industry will be facilitated for undergraduate and postgraduate students studying information technology subjects, aiming to bridge the gap between academia and industry.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">In a bid to position Nepal as a prominent hub for information technology, Finance Minister Pun has set a target for the IT industry to achieve Rs 30 trillion in exports over the next decade.</span></span></span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2024-05-28', 'modified' => '2024-05-28', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '20840', 'image' => '20240528054528_20230907105804_internet.jpg', 'article_date' => '2024-05-28 17:45:06', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 1 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '21112', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Investment framework of Nijgadh International Airport to be finalized in next FY', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'KATHMANDU: Finance Minister Barshaman Pun unveiled plans to finalize the investment framework and preparatory work within the next fiscal year to construct the Nijgadh International Airport through a public-private partnership during the budget presentation for the financial year (FY) 2024/25.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">KATHMANDU: Finance Minister Barshaman Pun unveiled plans to finalize the investment framework and preparatory work within the next fiscal year to construct the Nijgadh International Airport through a public-private partnership during the budget presentation for the financial year (FY) 2024/25.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Furthermore, Minister Pun announced in the budget that the construction of the second terminal building of Tribhuvan International Airport will commence. Additionally, it was stated that the Bharatpur Airport will be completed within the upcoming fiscal year, with an allocation of Rs 360 million for this purpose. Moreover, upgrades for airports in Surkhet, Rolpa Barichaur, Dang Tarigaon, Jumla, Dhangadhi, and Nepalgunj have been announced, with a total allocation of Rs 3.77 billion for civil aviation sector.</span></span></span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2024-05-28', 'modified' => '2024-05-28', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '20839', 'image' => '20240528053516_20220919105145_nijgadh.jpg', 'article_date' => '2024-05-28 17:34:47', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 2 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '21103', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Joint Meeting of Federal Parliament Begins, FinMin Pun Presents Budget', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'KATHMANDU: A joint meeting of both the houses of the Federal Parliament has started after the government agreed to form a parliamentary probe committee as per the demand of the Nepali Congress, the main opposition party. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">KATHMANDU: A joint meeting of both the houses of the Federal Parliament has started after the government agreed to form a parliamentary probe committee as per the demand of the Nepali Congress, the main opposition party. During today's parliamentary meeting, Finance Minister Barshman Pun is presenting the budget for the next financial year (FY) 081/82.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The budget speech, which was scheduled to be held at 1 pm today, started two and a half hours late. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The joint meeting of parliament was postponed for two hours at the request of the government.</span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2024-05-28', 'modified' => '2024-05-28', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '20838', 'image' => '20240528035557_budget.jpg', 'article_date' => '2024-05-28 15:55:18', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 3 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '21111', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Govt Allocates Rs 116 Billion for Social Security', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'KATHMANDU: The government has allocated Rs 116 billion for social security allowance for the next iscal year.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">KATHMANDU: The government has allocated Rs </span><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">116</span><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif""> billion for social security allowance for the next iscal year.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">Announcing the budget for the fiscal year </span><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">081/82 </span><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">on Tuesday, Finance Minister Barshman Pun informed that a budget of Rs Rs </span><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">116</span><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif""> billion has been allocated as social security allowance by giving priority to this sector.</span></span></span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2024-05-28', 'modified' => '2024-05-28', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '20837', 'image' => '20240528044503_SSF (1).jpg', 'article_date' => '2024-05-28 16:44:12', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 4 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '21110', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Govt Earmarks Rs 74.5 Billion for Development of Energy Sector', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'KATHMANDU: The government has allocated Rs 74.5 billion for the development of the energy sector.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">KATHMANDU: The government has allocated Rs </span><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">74</span><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">.5 billion for the development of the energy sector.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">Finance Minister Barshman Pun made this announcement while reading the budget for the upcoming fiscal year</span> <span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">on Tuesday. </span></span></span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2024-05-28', 'modified' => '2024-05-28', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '20836', 'image' => '20240528043849_hydro.jpg', 'article_date' => '2024-05-28 16:37:44', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 5 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '21109', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Govt Allocates Rs 1.65 Billion for Agricultural Insurance Subsidy', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'KATHMANDU: The government has allocated a budget of Rs 1.65 billion for subsidy on the premium of agriculture and livestock insurance.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">KATHMANDU: The government has allocated a budget of Rs 1.65 billion for subsidy on the premium of agriculture and livestock insurance. Finance Minister Barshman Pun, while presenting the budget for the next fiscal year in the federal parliament on Tuesday, informed that funds have been allocated for grants under this segment.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">The government has been giving 80 percent subsidy on premiums for agriculture and livestock insurance. But the insurance companies have not been able to get payment from the government due lack of enough budget.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">The insurance companies have stopped the agricultural insurance since last March because the government has not released the subsidies. Insurance companies have yet to receive payment of Rs 2 billion from the government.</span></span></span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2024-05-28', 'modified' => '2024-05-28', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '20835', 'image' => '20240528043443_agriiiii.JPG', 'article_date' => '2024-05-28 16:33:15', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 6 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '21108', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Agriculture Sector gets Budget of Rs 57.29 Billion, Rs 27.95 Billion Allocated for Fertilizer', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'KATHMANDU: The government has allocated a budget of Rs 57.29 billion for the agriculture in the next fiscal year.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">KATHMANDU: The government has allocated a budget of Rs 57.29 billion for the agriculture in the next fiscal year.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">Announcing the budget for the next fiscal year on Tuesday, Finance Minister Barshman Pun said that the government has allocated Rs 57.29 billion for the agriculture sector.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">He added that the government has allocated a subsidized amount of Rs 27.95 billion for timely management of fertilizer for the farmers. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">The government also announced to promote the production and use of organic food and fertilizers and discourage chemical pesticides and promote biological pesticides. </span></span></span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2024-05-28', 'modified' => '2024-05-28', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '20834', 'image' => '20240528042739_Agriculture-Loan_55.jpg', 'article_date' => '2024-05-28 16:24:31', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 7 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '21107', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Govt Declares Next 10 Years as the Decade of Investment in Agriculture', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'KATHMANDU: The government has declared the next 10 years as the investment decade in agriculture.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">KATHMANDU: The government has declared the next </span><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">10</span><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif""> years as the investment decade in agriculture.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">Presenting the budget for the next fiscal year in a joint meeting of both the houses of the Federal Parliament on Tuesday (today), Finance Minister Barshman Pun said that the decade of investment in agriculture will be celebrated from </span><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">2081 </span><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">BS to </span><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">2091</span><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif""> BS</span><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">.</span></span></span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2024-05-28', 'modified' => '2024-05-28', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '20833', 'image' => '20240528041659_agri maize.jpg', 'article_date' => '2024-05-28 16:16:27', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 8 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '21106', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Government Allocates Rs 2.98 Billion for Prime Minister Agriculture Modernization Project', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'KATHMANDU: The government has allocated Rs 2.98 billion for the Prime Minister Agriculture Modernization Project.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">KATHMANDU: The government has allocated Rs </span><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">2.98</span><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif""> billion for the Prime Minister Agriculture Modernization Project.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">Finance Minister Barshman Pun said this while announcing the budget for the next fiscal year </span><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">081-82</span><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif""> on Tuesday.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">The budget statement mentions that the government plans to expand fruit cultivation on </span><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">2</span><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">,</span><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">000 </span><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">hectares of land in the highlands. Finance Minister Pun added that the government also plans to expand </span><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">14 </span><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">government farms to produce at least </span><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">700</span><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">,</span><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">000 </span><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">quality fruit saplings.</span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2024-05-28', 'modified' => '2024-05-28', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '20832', 'image' => '20240528041255_Agri.jpg', 'article_date' => '2024-05-28 16:12:24', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 9 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '21105', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Govt to Bring 1.6 Million Tourists Next Year', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'KATHMANDU: The government has set a target of bringing in 1.6 million tourists in the next fiscal year.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">KATHMANDU: The government has set a target of bringing in 1.6 million tourists in the next fiscal year.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">Announcing the budget for the next fiscal year on Tuesday, Finance Minister Barshman Pun said that the government has set a target to bring 1.6 million tourists to Nepal in the next fiscal year.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">He informed that the government has allocated a budget of Rs 5.46 billion for tourism promotion.</span></span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2024-05-28', 'modified' => '2024-05-28', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '20831', 'image' => '20240528040520_Tourist.jpg', 'article_date' => '2024-05-28 16:04:42', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 10 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '21104', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Commercial Production of Marijuana to Begin from Next FY', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'KATHMANDU: The government is planning to arrange commercial production of marijuana from the next fiscal year.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">KATHMANDU: The government is planning to arrange commercial production of marijuana from the next fiscal year. Finance Minister Barshman Pun made this announced in the budget speech on Tuesday.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Minister Pun said that legal arrangements will be made for the commercial production of marijuana for medicinal purpose within the next fiscal year.</span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2024-05-28', 'modified' => '2024-05-28', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '20830', 'image' => '20240528040050_20231107113426_20230529074926_20190221010550_adsfff.jpg', 'article_date' => '2024-05-28 16:00:10', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 11 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '21102', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'NPC Endorses Govt's Annual Development Programme, Medium Term Expenditure Framework', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'KATHMANDU: A meeting of the National Planning Commission has approved the government's annual development programme and three-year medium-term expenditure framework. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">KATHMANDU: A meeting of the National Planning Commission has approved the government's annual development programme and three-year medium-term expenditure framework. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The full meeting held at the Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers under chairmanship of Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal on Tuesday passed both the documents to be tabled in the parliament along with the budget. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The annual development programme is being tabled in the parliament along with the budget. PM Dahal’s private secretariat said that the government will maintain financial discipline, efficiency in appropriation, and budget allocation according to the spending capacity of the government.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">On the occasion, Prime Minster Pushpa Kamal Dahal said he had directed to make people-oriented budget and Finance Minister Barsha Man Pun has prepared the budget accordangly. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Finance Minister Pun, NPC vice-chair Dr Min Bahadur Shrestha, Chief Secretary Baikuntha Aryal and members and member-secretary were present in the meeting. -- RSS </span></span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2024-05-28', 'modified' => '2024-05-28', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '20829', 'image' => '20240528014241_20240514025910_20240115115317_pm.jpg', 'article_date' => '2024-05-28 13:42:02', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 12 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '21101', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Schedule for Budget Speech Postponed by Two Hours ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'KATHMANDU: The schedule for presenting the annual budget for the fiscal year 2024-25 has been postponed by two hours.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">KATHMANDU: The schedule for presenting the annual budget for the fiscal year 2024-25 has been postponed by two hours. Speaker Devraj Ghimire had initially scheduled the budget speech for 1:00 pm today before a joint sitting of the Federal Parliament. However, it has been rescheduled for 3:00 pm. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Finance Minister Barshaman Pun will be presenting the budget for the upcoming fiscal year in the joint parliamentary session today. -- RSS </span></span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2024-05-28', 'modified' => '2024-05-28', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '20828', 'image' => '20240528013059_Parliament.jpg', 'article_date' => '2024-05-28 13:30:21', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 13 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '21100', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'WHO Chief Urges Countries to Quickly Seal Pandemic Deal ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'GENEVA: The World Health Organization chief on Monday urged countries to nail down a landmark global agreement on handling of future pandemics after they missed a hard deadline. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">GENEVA: The World Health Organization chief on Monday urged countries to nail down a landmark global agreement on handling of future pandemics after they missed a hard deadline. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Scarred by Covid-19 -- which killed millions, shredded economies and crippled health systems -- nations have spent two years trying to forge binding commitments on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Negotiators failed to clinch a deal ahead of this week's World Health Assembly -- the annual gathering of WHO's 194 member states -- the deadline for concluding the talks. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus opened the assembly Monday, saying he was confident that an agreement would be secured. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">"Of course, we all wish that we had been able to reach a consensus on the agreement in time for this health assembly and crossed the finish line," he said. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">"But I remain confident that you still will, because where there is a willquickly seql, there is a way." </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Tedros said the task before negotiators had been "immense, technically, legally, and politically", and that they had been "operating on a very ambitious time line". </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">"You have demonstrated a clear commitment to reaching an agreement," he said, adding that negotiators had "worked long days and nights", closing meetings as late as 4:00 am. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">He hailed their dedication to push forward despite "a torrent of misinformation that was undermining your negotiations". </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">While missing Friday's deadline, countries have voiced a commitment to keep pushing for an accord. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Negotiators are due on Tuesday to present the outcome of the talks to the assembly, which runs until June 1, and the assembly will take stock and decide what to do next. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">"I know that there remains among you a common will to get this done, so, there must always be a way," Tedros said. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">"Meaning the solution is in your hands," he stressed. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Parallel talks have also taken place on revising the International Health Regulations, which were first adopted in 1969 and constitute the existing international legally binding framework for responding to public health emergencies around the world. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The proposed amendments to the IHR, including adding more nuance to a system meant to alert countries to potential health emergencies of global concern, might have a better chance of being adopted during this week's assembly, observers said. – AFP/RSS </span></span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2024-05-28', 'modified' => '2024-05-28', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '20827', 'image' => '20240528111342_20240114110800_WHO.jpg.jpeg', 'article_date' => '2024-05-28 11:13:11', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 14 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '21099', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Beni Adopts Digital House Number System ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'BENI: Beni Municipality of Myagdi has started a digital house numbering system with QR code. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">BENI: Beni Municipality of Myagdi has started a digital house numbering system with QR code. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The digital house number system has been implemented with information and details of all the residents of the municipality. The digital house number system has been implemented to facilitate service delivery, good governance and effective disaster management, said Mayor Surat KC. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The QR code of the digital house number system shares 90 types of information such as the location of the house, the number of floors, color, number of rooms, the type of house structure etc. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The digital numbering campaign began on Friday evening with Mayor KC handing over the digital house number to Lilaram Gautam and Devi KC of New Road in Beni Municipality-8. In the first phase, digital house number plates will be placed in 1,900 houses of Ward No. 7 and 8 of the municipality. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The information and details of 7,200 houses in all 10 wards of the municipality have been recorded in the electronic system. According to the municipality, preparations are being made to print digital number plates to be placed on the houses. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Uttam Karmacharya, the Ward Chairman of Beni Municipality-8, said that the digital house number system has been developed to stop misuse of benefits and avoid duplication while house owners can update their details and seek immediate support for pregnant women, new mothers, sick people, and during the time of disaster. -- RSS</span></span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2024-05-28', 'modified' => '2024-05-28', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '20826', 'image' => '20240528111135_m1.jpg', 'article_date' => '2024-05-28 11:10:56', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ) ) $current_user = null $logged_in = falseinclude - APP/View/Elements/side_bar.ctp, line 60 View::_evaluate() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 971 View::_render() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 933 View::_renderElement() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 1224 View::element() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 418 include - APP/View/Articles/index.ctp, line 157 View::_evaluate() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 971 View::_render() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 933 View::render() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 473 Controller::render() - CORE/Cake/Controller/Controller.php, line 968 Dispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/Cake/Routing/Dispatcher.php, line 200 Dispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/Cake/Routing/Dispatcher.php, line 167 [main] - APP/webroot/index.php, line 117
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', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">KATHMANDU: The government has announced that IT parks will be established in Kathmandu Valley and Butwal. Presenting FY 2024/25 federal budget at the parliament, Finance Minister Barshaman Pun made such announcement. These parks, according to Pun, will be equipped with essential amenities such as high-speed internet, reliable electricity, and robust security infrastructure.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">To encourage the growth of the domestic IT sector, the government has pledged to offer complimentary access to the park's facilities for a period of three years.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">The government has also said that it has included a provision mandating government agencies to prioritize the utilization of domestically produced software. Furthermore, internships in the IT industry will be facilitated for undergraduate and postgraduate students studying information technology subjects, aiming to bridge the gap between academia and industry.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">In a bid to position Nepal as a prominent hub for information technology, Finance Minister Pun has set a target for the IT industry to achieve Rs 30 trillion in exports over the next decade.</span></span></span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2024-05-28', 'modified' => '2024-05-28', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '20840', 'image' => '20240528054528_20230907105804_internet.jpg', 'article_date' => '2024-05-28 17:45:06', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 1 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '21112', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Investment framework of Nijgadh International Airport to be finalized in next FY', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'KATHMANDU: Finance Minister Barshaman Pun unveiled plans to finalize the investment framework and preparatory work within the next fiscal year to construct the Nijgadh International Airport through a public-private partnership during the budget presentation for the financial year (FY) 2024/25.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">KATHMANDU: Finance Minister Barshaman Pun unveiled plans to finalize the investment framework and preparatory work within the next fiscal year to construct the Nijgadh International Airport through a public-private partnership during the budget presentation for the financial year (FY) 2024/25.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Furthermore, Minister Pun announced in the budget that the construction of the second terminal building of Tribhuvan International Airport will commence. Additionally, it was stated that the Bharatpur Airport will be completed within the upcoming fiscal year, with an allocation of Rs 360 million for this purpose. Moreover, upgrades for airports in Surkhet, Rolpa Barichaur, Dang Tarigaon, Jumla, Dhangadhi, and Nepalgunj have been announced, with a total allocation of Rs 3.77 billion for civil aviation sector.</span></span></span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2024-05-28', 'modified' => '2024-05-28', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '20839', 'image' => '20240528053516_20220919105145_nijgadh.jpg', 'article_date' => '2024-05-28 17:34:47', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 2 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '21103', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Joint Meeting of Federal Parliament Begins, FinMin Pun Presents Budget', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'KATHMANDU: A joint meeting of both the houses of the Federal Parliament has started after the government agreed to form a parliamentary probe committee as per the demand of the Nepali Congress, the main opposition party. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">KATHMANDU: A joint meeting of both the houses of the Federal Parliament has started after the government agreed to form a parliamentary probe committee as per the demand of the Nepali Congress, the main opposition party. During today's parliamentary meeting, Finance Minister Barshman Pun is presenting the budget for the next financial year (FY) 081/82.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The budget speech, which was scheduled to be held at 1 pm today, started two and a half hours late. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The joint meeting of parliament was postponed for two hours at the request of the government.</span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2024-05-28', 'modified' => '2024-05-28', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '20838', 'image' => '20240528035557_budget.jpg', 'article_date' => '2024-05-28 15:55:18', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 3 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '21111', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Govt Allocates Rs 116 Billion for Social Security', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'KATHMANDU: The government has allocated Rs 116 billion for social security allowance for the next iscal year.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">KATHMANDU: The government has allocated Rs </span><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">116</span><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif""> billion for social security allowance for the next iscal year.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">Announcing the budget for the fiscal year </span><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">081/82 </span><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">on Tuesday, Finance Minister Barshman Pun informed that a budget of Rs Rs </span><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">116</span><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif""> billion has been allocated as social security allowance by giving priority to this sector.</span></span></span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2024-05-28', 'modified' => '2024-05-28', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '20837', 'image' => '20240528044503_SSF (1).jpg', 'article_date' => '2024-05-28 16:44:12', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 4 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '21110', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Govt Earmarks Rs 74.5 Billion for Development of Energy Sector', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'KATHMANDU: The government has allocated Rs 74.5 billion for the development of the energy sector.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">KATHMANDU: The government has allocated Rs </span><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">74</span><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">.5 billion for the development of the energy sector.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">Finance Minister Barshman Pun made this announcement while reading the budget for the upcoming fiscal year</span> <span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">on Tuesday. </span></span></span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2024-05-28', 'modified' => '2024-05-28', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '20836', 'image' => '20240528043849_hydro.jpg', 'article_date' => '2024-05-28 16:37:44', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 5 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '21109', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Govt Allocates Rs 1.65 Billion for Agricultural Insurance Subsidy', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'KATHMANDU: The government has allocated a budget of Rs 1.65 billion for subsidy on the premium of agriculture and livestock insurance.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">KATHMANDU: The government has allocated a budget of Rs 1.65 billion for subsidy on the premium of agriculture and livestock insurance. Finance Minister Barshman Pun, while presenting the budget for the next fiscal year in the federal parliament on Tuesday, informed that funds have been allocated for grants under this segment.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">The government has been giving 80 percent subsidy on premiums for agriculture and livestock insurance. But the insurance companies have not been able to get payment from the government due lack of enough budget.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">The insurance companies have stopped the agricultural insurance since last March because the government has not released the subsidies. Insurance companies have yet to receive payment of Rs 2 billion from the government.</span></span></span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2024-05-28', 'modified' => '2024-05-28', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '20835', 'image' => '20240528043443_agriiiii.JPG', 'article_date' => '2024-05-28 16:33:15', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 6 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '21108', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Agriculture Sector gets Budget of Rs 57.29 Billion, Rs 27.95 Billion Allocated for Fertilizer', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'KATHMANDU: The government has allocated a budget of Rs 57.29 billion for the agriculture in the next fiscal year.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">KATHMANDU: The government has allocated a budget of Rs 57.29 billion for the agriculture in the next fiscal year.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">Announcing the budget for the next fiscal year on Tuesday, Finance Minister Barshman Pun said that the government has allocated Rs 57.29 billion for the agriculture sector.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">He added that the government has allocated a subsidized amount of Rs 27.95 billion for timely management of fertilizer for the farmers. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">The government also announced to promote the production and use of organic food and fertilizers and discourage chemical pesticides and promote biological pesticides. </span></span></span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2024-05-28', 'modified' => '2024-05-28', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '20834', 'image' => '20240528042739_Agriculture-Loan_55.jpg', 'article_date' => '2024-05-28 16:24:31', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 7 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '21107', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Govt Declares Next 10 Years as the Decade of Investment in Agriculture', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'KATHMANDU: The government has declared the next 10 years as the investment decade in agriculture.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">KATHMANDU: The government has declared the next </span><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">10</span><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif""> years as the investment decade in agriculture.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">Presenting the budget for the next fiscal year in a joint meeting of both the houses of the Federal Parliament on Tuesday (today), Finance Minister Barshman Pun said that the decade of investment in agriculture will be celebrated from </span><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">2081 </span><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">BS to </span><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">2091</span><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif""> BS</span><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">.</span></span></span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2024-05-28', 'modified' => '2024-05-28', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '20833', 'image' => '20240528041659_agri maize.jpg', 'article_date' => '2024-05-28 16:16:27', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 8 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '21106', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Government Allocates Rs 2.98 Billion for Prime Minister Agriculture Modernization Project', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'KATHMANDU: The government has allocated Rs 2.98 billion for the Prime Minister Agriculture Modernization Project.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">KATHMANDU: The government has allocated Rs </span><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">2.98</span><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif""> billion for the Prime Minister Agriculture Modernization Project.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">Finance Minister Barshman Pun said this while announcing the budget for the next fiscal year </span><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">081-82</span><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif""> on Tuesday.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">The budget statement mentions that the government plans to expand fruit cultivation on </span><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">2</span><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">,</span><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">000 </span><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">hectares of land in the highlands. Finance Minister Pun added that the government also plans to expand </span><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">14 </span><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">government farms to produce at least </span><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">700</span><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">,</span><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">000 </span><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">quality fruit saplings.</span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2024-05-28', 'modified' => '2024-05-28', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '20832', 'image' => '20240528041255_Agri.jpg', 'article_date' => '2024-05-28 16:12:24', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 9 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '21105', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Govt to Bring 1.6 Million Tourists Next Year', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'KATHMANDU: The government has set a target of bringing in 1.6 million tourists in the next fiscal year.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">KATHMANDU: The government has set a target of bringing in 1.6 million tourists in the next fiscal year.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">Announcing the budget for the next fiscal year on Tuesday, Finance Minister Barshman Pun said that the government has set a target to bring 1.6 million tourists to Nepal in the next fiscal year.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">He informed that the government has allocated a budget of Rs 5.46 billion for tourism promotion.</span></span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2024-05-28', 'modified' => '2024-05-28', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '20831', 'image' => '20240528040520_Tourist.jpg', 'article_date' => '2024-05-28 16:04:42', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 10 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '21104', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Commercial Production of Marijuana to Begin from Next FY', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'KATHMANDU: The government is planning to arrange commercial production of marijuana from the next fiscal year.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">KATHMANDU: The government is planning to arrange commercial production of marijuana from the next fiscal year. Finance Minister Barshman Pun made this announced in the budget speech on Tuesday.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Minister Pun said that legal arrangements will be made for the commercial production of marijuana for medicinal purpose within the next fiscal year.</span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2024-05-28', 'modified' => '2024-05-28', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '20830', 'image' => '20240528040050_20231107113426_20230529074926_20190221010550_adsfff.jpg', 'article_date' => '2024-05-28 16:00:10', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 11 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '21102', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'NPC Endorses Govt's Annual Development Programme, Medium Term Expenditure Framework', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'KATHMANDU: A meeting of the National Planning Commission has approved the government's annual development programme and three-year medium-term expenditure framework. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">KATHMANDU: A meeting of the National Planning Commission has approved the government's annual development programme and three-year medium-term expenditure framework. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The full meeting held at the Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers under chairmanship of Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal on Tuesday passed both the documents to be tabled in the parliament along with the budget. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The annual development programme is being tabled in the parliament along with the budget. PM Dahal’s private secretariat said that the government will maintain financial discipline, efficiency in appropriation, and budget allocation according to the spending capacity of the government.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">On the occasion, Prime Minster Pushpa Kamal Dahal said he had directed to make people-oriented budget and Finance Minister Barsha Man Pun has prepared the budget accordangly. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Finance Minister Pun, NPC vice-chair Dr Min Bahadur Shrestha, Chief Secretary Baikuntha Aryal and members and member-secretary were present in the meeting. -- RSS </span></span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2024-05-28', 'modified' => '2024-05-28', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '20829', 'image' => '20240528014241_20240514025910_20240115115317_pm.jpg', 'article_date' => '2024-05-28 13:42:02', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 12 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '21101', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Schedule for Budget Speech Postponed by Two Hours ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'KATHMANDU: The schedule for presenting the annual budget for the fiscal year 2024-25 has been postponed by two hours.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">KATHMANDU: The schedule for presenting the annual budget for the fiscal year 2024-25 has been postponed by two hours. Speaker Devraj Ghimire had initially scheduled the budget speech for 1:00 pm today before a joint sitting of the Federal Parliament. However, it has been rescheduled for 3:00 pm. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Finance Minister Barshaman Pun will be presenting the budget for the upcoming fiscal year in the joint parliamentary session today. -- RSS </span></span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2024-05-28', 'modified' => '2024-05-28', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '20828', 'image' => '20240528013059_Parliament.jpg', 'article_date' => '2024-05-28 13:30:21', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 13 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '21100', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'WHO Chief Urges Countries to Quickly Seal Pandemic Deal ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'GENEVA: The World Health Organization chief on Monday urged countries to nail down a landmark global agreement on handling of future pandemics after they missed a hard deadline. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">GENEVA: The World Health Organization chief on Monday urged countries to nail down a landmark global agreement on handling of future pandemics after they missed a hard deadline. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Scarred by Covid-19 -- which killed millions, shredded economies and crippled health systems -- nations have spent two years trying to forge binding commitments on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Negotiators failed to clinch a deal ahead of this week's World Health Assembly -- the annual gathering of WHO's 194 member states -- the deadline for concluding the talks. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus opened the assembly Monday, saying he was confident that an agreement would be secured. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">"Of course, we all wish that we had been able to reach a consensus on the agreement in time for this health assembly and crossed the finish line," he said. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">"But I remain confident that you still will, because where there is a willquickly seql, there is a way." </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Tedros said the task before negotiators had been "immense, technically, legally, and politically", and that they had been "operating on a very ambitious time line". </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">"You have demonstrated a clear commitment to reaching an agreement," he said, adding that negotiators had "worked long days and nights", closing meetings as late as 4:00 am. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">He hailed their dedication to push forward despite "a torrent of misinformation that was undermining your negotiations". </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">While missing Friday's deadline, countries have voiced a commitment to keep pushing for an accord. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Negotiators are due on Tuesday to present the outcome of the talks to the assembly, which runs until June 1, and the assembly will take stock and decide what to do next. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">"I know that there remains among you a common will to get this done, so, there must always be a way," Tedros said. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">"Meaning the solution is in your hands," he stressed. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Parallel talks have also taken place on revising the International Health Regulations, which were first adopted in 1969 and constitute the existing international legally binding framework for responding to public health emergencies around the world. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The proposed amendments to the IHR, including adding more nuance to a system meant to alert countries to potential health emergencies of global concern, might have a better chance of being adopted during this week's assembly, observers said. – AFP/RSS </span></span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2024-05-28', 'modified' => '2024-05-28', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '20827', 'image' => '20240528111342_20240114110800_WHO.jpg.jpeg', 'article_date' => '2024-05-28 11:13:11', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 14 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '21099', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Beni Adopts Digital House Number System ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'BENI: Beni Municipality of Myagdi has started a digital house numbering system with QR code. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">BENI: Beni Municipality of Myagdi has started a digital house numbering system with QR code. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The digital house number system has been implemented with information and details of all the residents of the municipality. The digital house number system has been implemented to facilitate service delivery, good governance and effective disaster management, said Mayor Surat KC. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The QR code of the digital house number system shares 90 types of information such as the location of the house, the number of floors, color, number of rooms, the type of house structure etc. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The digital numbering campaign began on Friday evening with Mayor KC handing over the digital house number to Lilaram Gautam and Devi KC of New Road in Beni Municipality-8. In the first phase, digital house number plates will be placed in 1,900 houses of Ward No. 7 and 8 of the municipality. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The information and details of 7,200 houses in all 10 wards of the municipality have been recorded in the electronic system. According to the municipality, preparations are being made to print digital number plates to be placed on the houses. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Uttam Karmacharya, the Ward Chairman of Beni Municipality-8, said that the digital house number system has been developed to stop misuse of benefits and avoid duplication while house owners can update their details and seek immediate support for pregnant women, new mothers, sick people, and during the time of disaster. -- RSS</span></span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2024-05-28', 'modified' => '2024-05-28', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '20826', 'image' => '20240528111135_m1.jpg', 'article_date' => '2024-05-28 11:10:56', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ) ) $current_user = null $logged_in = falsesimplexml_load_file - [internal], line ?? include - APP/View/Elements/side_bar.ctp, line 60 View::_evaluate() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 971 View::_render() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 933 View::_renderElement() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 1224 View::element() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 418 include - APP/View/Articles/index.ctp, line 157 View::_evaluate() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 971 View::_render() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 933 View::render() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 473 Controller::render() - CORE/Cake/Controller/Controller.php, line 968 Dispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/Cake/Routing/Dispatcher.php, line 200 Dispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/Cake/Routing/Dispatcher.php, line 167 [main] - APP/webroot/index.php, line 117
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', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">KATHMANDU: The government has announced that IT parks will be established in Kathmandu Valley and Butwal. Presenting FY 2024/25 federal budget at the parliament, Finance Minister Barshaman Pun made such announcement. These parks, according to Pun, will be equipped with essential amenities such as high-speed internet, reliable electricity, and robust security infrastructure.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">To encourage the growth of the domestic IT sector, the government has pledged to offer complimentary access to the park's facilities for a period of three years.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">The government has also said that it has included a provision mandating government agencies to prioritize the utilization of domestically produced software. Furthermore, internships in the IT industry will be facilitated for undergraduate and postgraduate students studying information technology subjects, aiming to bridge the gap between academia and industry.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">In a bid to position Nepal as a prominent hub for information technology, Finance Minister Pun has set a target for the IT industry to achieve Rs 30 trillion in exports over the next decade.</span></span></span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2024-05-28', 'modified' => '2024-05-28', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '20840', 'image' => '20240528054528_20230907105804_internet.jpg', 'article_date' => '2024-05-28 17:45:06', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 1 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '21112', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Investment framework of Nijgadh International Airport to be finalized in next FY', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'KATHMANDU: Finance Minister Barshaman Pun unveiled plans to finalize the investment framework and preparatory work within the next fiscal year to construct the Nijgadh International Airport through a public-private partnership during the budget presentation for the financial year (FY) 2024/25.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">KATHMANDU: Finance Minister Barshaman Pun unveiled plans to finalize the investment framework and preparatory work within the next fiscal year to construct the Nijgadh International Airport through a public-private partnership during the budget presentation for the financial year (FY) 2024/25.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Furthermore, Minister Pun announced in the budget that the construction of the second terminal building of Tribhuvan International Airport will commence. Additionally, it was stated that the Bharatpur Airport will be completed within the upcoming fiscal year, with an allocation of Rs 360 million for this purpose. Moreover, upgrades for airports in Surkhet, Rolpa Barichaur, Dang Tarigaon, Jumla, Dhangadhi, and Nepalgunj have been announced, with a total allocation of Rs 3.77 billion for civil aviation sector.</span></span></span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2024-05-28', 'modified' => '2024-05-28', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '20839', 'image' => '20240528053516_20220919105145_nijgadh.jpg', 'article_date' => '2024-05-28 17:34:47', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 2 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '21103', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Joint Meeting of Federal Parliament Begins, FinMin Pun Presents Budget', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'KATHMANDU: A joint meeting of both the houses of the Federal Parliament has started after the government agreed to form a parliamentary probe committee as per the demand of the Nepali Congress, the main opposition party. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">KATHMANDU: A joint meeting of both the houses of the Federal Parliament has started after the government agreed to form a parliamentary probe committee as per the demand of the Nepali Congress, the main opposition party. During today's parliamentary meeting, Finance Minister Barshman Pun is presenting the budget for the next financial year (FY) 081/82.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The budget speech, which was scheduled to be held at 1 pm today, started two and a half hours late. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The joint meeting of parliament was postponed for two hours at the request of the government.</span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2024-05-28', 'modified' => '2024-05-28', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '20838', 'image' => '20240528035557_budget.jpg', 'article_date' => '2024-05-28 15:55:18', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 3 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '21111', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Govt Allocates Rs 116 Billion for Social Security', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'KATHMANDU: The government has allocated Rs 116 billion for social security allowance for the next iscal year.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">KATHMANDU: The government has allocated Rs </span><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">116</span><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif""> billion for social security allowance for the next iscal year.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">Announcing the budget for the fiscal year </span><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">081/82 </span><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">on Tuesday, Finance Minister Barshman Pun informed that a budget of Rs Rs </span><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">116</span><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif""> billion has been allocated as social security allowance by giving priority to this sector.</span></span></span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2024-05-28', 'modified' => '2024-05-28', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '20837', 'image' => '20240528044503_SSF (1).jpg', 'article_date' => '2024-05-28 16:44:12', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 4 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '21110', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Govt Earmarks Rs 74.5 Billion for Development of Energy Sector', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'KATHMANDU: The government has allocated Rs 74.5 billion for the development of the energy sector.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">KATHMANDU: The government has allocated Rs </span><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">74</span><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">.5 billion for the development of the energy sector.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">Finance Minister Barshman Pun made this announcement while reading the budget for the upcoming fiscal year</span> <span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">on Tuesday. </span></span></span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2024-05-28', 'modified' => '2024-05-28', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '20836', 'image' => '20240528043849_hydro.jpg', 'article_date' => '2024-05-28 16:37:44', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 5 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '21109', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Govt Allocates Rs 1.65 Billion for Agricultural Insurance Subsidy', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'KATHMANDU: The government has allocated a budget of Rs 1.65 billion for subsidy on the premium of agriculture and livestock insurance.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">KATHMANDU: The government has allocated a budget of Rs 1.65 billion for subsidy on the premium of agriculture and livestock insurance. Finance Minister Barshman Pun, while presenting the budget for the next fiscal year in the federal parliament on Tuesday, informed that funds have been allocated for grants under this segment.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">The government has been giving 80 percent subsidy on premiums for agriculture and livestock insurance. But the insurance companies have not been able to get payment from the government due lack of enough budget.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">The insurance companies have stopped the agricultural insurance since last March because the government has not released the subsidies. Insurance companies have yet to receive payment of Rs 2 billion from the government.</span></span></span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2024-05-28', 'modified' => '2024-05-28', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '20835', 'image' => '20240528043443_agriiiii.JPG', 'article_date' => '2024-05-28 16:33:15', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 6 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '21108', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Agriculture Sector gets Budget of Rs 57.29 Billion, Rs 27.95 Billion Allocated for Fertilizer', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'KATHMANDU: The government has allocated a budget of Rs 57.29 billion for the agriculture in the next fiscal year.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">KATHMANDU: The government has allocated a budget of Rs 57.29 billion for the agriculture in the next fiscal year.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">Announcing the budget for the next fiscal year on Tuesday, Finance Minister Barshman Pun said that the government has allocated Rs 57.29 billion for the agriculture sector.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">He added that the government has allocated a subsidized amount of Rs 27.95 billion for timely management of fertilizer for the farmers. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">The government also announced to promote the production and use of organic food and fertilizers and discourage chemical pesticides and promote biological pesticides. </span></span></span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2024-05-28', 'modified' => '2024-05-28', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '20834', 'image' => '20240528042739_Agriculture-Loan_55.jpg', 'article_date' => '2024-05-28 16:24:31', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 7 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '21107', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Govt Declares Next 10 Years as the Decade of Investment in Agriculture', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'KATHMANDU: The government has declared the next 10 years as the investment decade in agriculture.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">KATHMANDU: The government has declared the next </span><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">10</span><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif""> years as the investment decade in agriculture.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">Presenting the budget for the next fiscal year in a joint meeting of both the houses of the Federal Parliament on Tuesday (today), Finance Minister Barshman Pun said that the decade of investment in agriculture will be celebrated from </span><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">2081 </span><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">BS to </span><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">2091</span><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif""> BS</span><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">.</span></span></span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2024-05-28', 'modified' => '2024-05-28', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '20833', 'image' => '20240528041659_agri maize.jpg', 'article_date' => '2024-05-28 16:16:27', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 8 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '21106', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Government Allocates Rs 2.98 Billion for Prime Minister Agriculture Modernization Project', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'KATHMANDU: The government has allocated Rs 2.98 billion for the Prime Minister Agriculture Modernization Project.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">KATHMANDU: The government has allocated Rs </span><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">2.98</span><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif""> billion for the Prime Minister Agriculture Modernization Project.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">Finance Minister Barshman Pun said this while announcing the budget for the next fiscal year </span><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">081-82</span><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif""> on Tuesday.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">The budget statement mentions that the government plans to expand fruit cultivation on </span><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">2</span><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">,</span><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">000 </span><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">hectares of land in the highlands. Finance Minister Pun added that the government also plans to expand </span><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">14 </span><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">government farms to produce at least </span><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">700</span><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">,</span><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">000 </span><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">quality fruit saplings.</span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2024-05-28', 'modified' => '2024-05-28', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '20832', 'image' => '20240528041255_Agri.jpg', 'article_date' => '2024-05-28 16:12:24', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 9 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '21105', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Govt to Bring 1.6 Million Tourists Next Year', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'KATHMANDU: The government has set a target of bringing in 1.6 million tourists in the next fiscal year.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">KATHMANDU: The government has set a target of bringing in 1.6 million tourists in the next fiscal year.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">Announcing the budget for the next fiscal year on Tuesday, Finance Minister Barshman Pun said that the government has set a target to bring 1.6 million tourists to Nepal in the next fiscal year.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">He informed that the government has allocated a budget of Rs 5.46 billion for tourism promotion.</span></span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2024-05-28', 'modified' => '2024-05-28', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '20831', 'image' => '20240528040520_Tourist.jpg', 'article_date' => '2024-05-28 16:04:42', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 10 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '21104', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Commercial Production of Marijuana to Begin from Next FY', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'KATHMANDU: The government is planning to arrange commercial production of marijuana from the next fiscal year.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">KATHMANDU: The government is planning to arrange commercial production of marijuana from the next fiscal year. Finance Minister Barshman Pun made this announced in the budget speech on Tuesday.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Minister Pun said that legal arrangements will be made for the commercial production of marijuana for medicinal purpose within the next fiscal year.</span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2024-05-28', 'modified' => '2024-05-28', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '20830', 'image' => '20240528040050_20231107113426_20230529074926_20190221010550_adsfff.jpg', 'article_date' => '2024-05-28 16:00:10', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 11 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '21102', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'NPC Endorses Govt's Annual Development Programme, Medium Term Expenditure Framework', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'KATHMANDU: A meeting of the National Planning Commission has approved the government's annual development programme and three-year medium-term expenditure framework. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">KATHMANDU: A meeting of the National Planning Commission has approved the government's annual development programme and three-year medium-term expenditure framework. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The full meeting held at the Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers under chairmanship of Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal on Tuesday passed both the documents to be tabled in the parliament along with the budget. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The annual development programme is being tabled in the parliament along with the budget. PM Dahal’s private secretariat said that the government will maintain financial discipline, efficiency in appropriation, and budget allocation according to the spending capacity of the government.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">On the occasion, Prime Minster Pushpa Kamal Dahal said he had directed to make people-oriented budget and Finance Minister Barsha Man Pun has prepared the budget accordangly. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Finance Minister Pun, NPC vice-chair Dr Min Bahadur Shrestha, Chief Secretary Baikuntha Aryal and members and member-secretary were present in the meeting. -- RSS </span></span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2024-05-28', 'modified' => '2024-05-28', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '20829', 'image' => '20240528014241_20240514025910_20240115115317_pm.jpg', 'article_date' => '2024-05-28 13:42:02', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 12 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '21101', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Schedule for Budget Speech Postponed by Two Hours ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'KATHMANDU: The schedule for presenting the annual budget for the fiscal year 2024-25 has been postponed by two hours.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">KATHMANDU: The schedule for presenting the annual budget for the fiscal year 2024-25 has been postponed by two hours. Speaker Devraj Ghimire had initially scheduled the budget speech for 1:00 pm today before a joint sitting of the Federal Parliament. However, it has been rescheduled for 3:00 pm. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Finance Minister Barshaman Pun will be presenting the budget for the upcoming fiscal year in the joint parliamentary session today. -- RSS </span></span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2024-05-28', 'modified' => '2024-05-28', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '20828', 'image' => '20240528013059_Parliament.jpg', 'article_date' => '2024-05-28 13:30:21', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 13 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '21100', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'WHO Chief Urges Countries to Quickly Seal Pandemic Deal ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'GENEVA: The World Health Organization chief on Monday urged countries to nail down a landmark global agreement on handling of future pandemics after they missed a hard deadline. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">GENEVA: The World Health Organization chief on Monday urged countries to nail down a landmark global agreement on handling of future pandemics after they missed a hard deadline. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Scarred by Covid-19 -- which killed millions, shredded economies and crippled health systems -- nations have spent two years trying to forge binding commitments on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Negotiators failed to clinch a deal ahead of this week's World Health Assembly -- the annual gathering of WHO's 194 member states -- the deadline for concluding the talks. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus opened the assembly Monday, saying he was confident that an agreement would be secured. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">"Of course, we all wish that we had been able to reach a consensus on the agreement in time for this health assembly and crossed the finish line," he said. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">"But I remain confident that you still will, because where there is a willquickly seql, there is a way." </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Tedros said the task before negotiators had been "immense, technically, legally, and politically", and that they had been "operating on a very ambitious time line". </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">"You have demonstrated a clear commitment to reaching an agreement," he said, adding that negotiators had "worked long days and nights", closing meetings as late as 4:00 am. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">He hailed their dedication to push forward despite "a torrent of misinformation that was undermining your negotiations". </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">While missing Friday's deadline, countries have voiced a commitment to keep pushing for an accord. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Negotiators are due on Tuesday to present the outcome of the talks to the assembly, which runs until June 1, and the assembly will take stock and decide what to do next. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">"I know that there remains among you a common will to get this done, so, there must always be a way," Tedros said. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">"Meaning the solution is in your hands," he stressed. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Parallel talks have also taken place on revising the International Health Regulations, which were first adopted in 1969 and constitute the existing international legally binding framework for responding to public health emergencies around the world. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The proposed amendments to the IHR, including adding more nuance to a system meant to alert countries to potential health emergencies of global concern, might have a better chance of being adopted during this week's assembly, observers said. – AFP/RSS </span></span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2024-05-28', 'modified' => '2024-05-28', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '20827', 'image' => '20240528111342_20240114110800_WHO.jpg.jpeg', 'article_date' => '2024-05-28 11:13:11', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 14 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '21099', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Beni Adopts Digital House Number System ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'BENI: Beni Municipality of Myagdi has started a digital house numbering system with QR code. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">BENI: Beni Municipality of Myagdi has started a digital house numbering system with QR code. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The digital house number system has been implemented with information and details of all the residents of the municipality. The digital house number system has been implemented to facilitate service delivery, good governance and effective disaster management, said Mayor Surat KC. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The QR code of the digital house number system shares 90 types of information such as the location of the house, the number of floors, color, number of rooms, the type of house structure etc. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The digital numbering campaign began on Friday evening with Mayor KC handing over the digital house number to Lilaram Gautam and Devi KC of New Road in Beni Municipality-8. In the first phase, digital house number plates will be placed in 1,900 houses of Ward No. 7 and 8 of the municipality. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The information and details of 7,200 houses in all 10 wards of the municipality have been recorded in the electronic system. According to the municipality, preparations are being made to print digital number plates to be placed on the houses. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Uttam Karmacharya, the Ward Chairman of Beni Municipality-8, said that the digital house number system has been developed to stop misuse of benefits and avoid duplication while house owners can update their details and seek immediate support for pregnant women, new mothers, sick people, and during the time of disaster. -- RSS</span></span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2024-05-28', 'modified' => '2024-05-28', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '20826', 'image' => '20240528111135_m1.jpg', 'article_date' => '2024-05-28 11:10:56', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ) ) $current_user = null $logged_in = false $xml = falseinclude - APP/View/Elements/side_bar.ctp, line 133 View::_evaluate() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 971 View::_render() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 933 View::_renderElement() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 1224 View::element() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 418 include - APP/View/Articles/index.ctp, line 157 View::_evaluate() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 971 View::_render() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 933 View::render() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 473 Controller::render() - CORE/Cake/Controller/Controller.php, line 968 Dispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/Cake/Routing/Dispatcher.php, line 200 Dispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/Cake/Routing/Dispatcher.php, line 167 [main] - APP/webroot/index.php, line 117
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', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">KATHMANDU: The government has announced that IT parks will be established in Kathmandu Valley and Butwal. Presenting FY 2024/25 federal budget at the parliament, Finance Minister Barshaman Pun made such announcement. These parks, according to Pun, will be equipped with essential amenities such as high-speed internet, reliable electricity, and robust security infrastructure.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">To encourage the growth of the domestic IT sector, the government has pledged to offer complimentary access to the park's facilities for a period of three years.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">The government has also said that it has included a provision mandating government agencies to prioritize the utilization of domestically produced software. Furthermore, internships in the IT industry will be facilitated for undergraduate and postgraduate students studying information technology subjects, aiming to bridge the gap between academia and industry.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">In a bid to position Nepal as a prominent hub for information technology, Finance Minister Pun has set a target for the IT industry to achieve Rs 30 trillion in exports over the next decade.</span></span></span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2024-05-28', 'modified' => '2024-05-28', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '20840', 'image' => '20240528054528_20230907105804_internet.jpg', 'article_date' => '2024-05-28 17:45:06', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 1 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '21112', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Investment framework of Nijgadh International Airport to be finalized in next FY', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'KATHMANDU: Finance Minister Barshaman Pun unveiled plans to finalize the investment framework and preparatory work within the next fiscal year to construct the Nijgadh International Airport through a public-private partnership during the budget presentation for the financial year (FY) 2024/25.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">KATHMANDU: Finance Minister Barshaman Pun unveiled plans to finalize the investment framework and preparatory work within the next fiscal year to construct the Nijgadh International Airport through a public-private partnership during the budget presentation for the financial year (FY) 2024/25.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Furthermore, Minister Pun announced in the budget that the construction of the second terminal building of Tribhuvan International Airport will commence. Additionally, it was stated that the Bharatpur Airport will be completed within the upcoming fiscal year, with an allocation of Rs 360 million for this purpose. Moreover, upgrades for airports in Surkhet, Rolpa Barichaur, Dang Tarigaon, Jumla, Dhangadhi, and Nepalgunj have been announced, with a total allocation of Rs 3.77 billion for civil aviation sector.</span></span></span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2024-05-28', 'modified' => '2024-05-28', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '20839', 'image' => '20240528053516_20220919105145_nijgadh.jpg', 'article_date' => '2024-05-28 17:34:47', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 2 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '21103', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Joint Meeting of Federal Parliament Begins, FinMin Pun Presents Budget', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'KATHMANDU: A joint meeting of both the houses of the Federal Parliament has started after the government agreed to form a parliamentary probe committee as per the demand of the Nepali Congress, the main opposition party. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">KATHMANDU: A joint meeting of both the houses of the Federal Parliament has started after the government agreed to form a parliamentary probe committee as per the demand of the Nepali Congress, the main opposition party. During today's parliamentary meeting, Finance Minister Barshman Pun is presenting the budget for the next financial year (FY) 081/82.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The budget speech, which was scheduled to be held at 1 pm today, started two and a half hours late. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The joint meeting of parliament was postponed for two hours at the request of the government.</span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2024-05-28', 'modified' => '2024-05-28', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '20838', 'image' => '20240528035557_budget.jpg', 'article_date' => '2024-05-28 15:55:18', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 3 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '21111', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Govt Allocates Rs 116 Billion for Social Security', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'KATHMANDU: The government has allocated Rs 116 billion for social security allowance for the next iscal year.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">KATHMANDU: The government has allocated Rs </span><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">116</span><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif""> billion for social security allowance for the next iscal year.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">Announcing the budget for the fiscal year </span><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">081/82 </span><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">on Tuesday, Finance Minister Barshman Pun informed that a budget of Rs Rs </span><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">116</span><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif""> billion has been allocated as social security allowance by giving priority to this sector.</span></span></span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2024-05-28', 'modified' => '2024-05-28', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '20837', 'image' => '20240528044503_SSF (1).jpg', 'article_date' => '2024-05-28 16:44:12', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 4 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '21110', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Govt Earmarks Rs 74.5 Billion for Development of Energy Sector', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'KATHMANDU: The government has allocated Rs 74.5 billion for the development of the energy sector.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">KATHMANDU: The government has allocated Rs </span><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">74</span><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">.5 billion for the development of the energy sector.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">Finance Minister Barshman Pun made this announcement while reading the budget for the upcoming fiscal year</span> <span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">on Tuesday. </span></span></span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2024-05-28', 'modified' => '2024-05-28', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '20836', 'image' => '20240528043849_hydro.jpg', 'article_date' => '2024-05-28 16:37:44', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 5 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '21109', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Govt Allocates Rs 1.65 Billion for Agricultural Insurance Subsidy', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'KATHMANDU: The government has allocated a budget of Rs 1.65 billion for subsidy on the premium of agriculture and livestock insurance.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">KATHMANDU: The government has allocated a budget of Rs 1.65 billion for subsidy on the premium of agriculture and livestock insurance. Finance Minister Barshman Pun, while presenting the budget for the next fiscal year in the federal parliament on Tuesday, informed that funds have been allocated for grants under this segment.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">The government has been giving 80 percent subsidy on premiums for agriculture and livestock insurance. But the insurance companies have not been able to get payment from the government due lack of enough budget.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">The insurance companies have stopped the agricultural insurance since last March because the government has not released the subsidies. Insurance companies have yet to receive payment of Rs 2 billion from the government.</span></span></span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2024-05-28', 'modified' => '2024-05-28', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '20835', 'image' => '20240528043443_agriiiii.JPG', 'article_date' => '2024-05-28 16:33:15', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 6 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '21108', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Agriculture Sector gets Budget of Rs 57.29 Billion, Rs 27.95 Billion Allocated for Fertilizer', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'KATHMANDU: The government has allocated a budget of Rs 57.29 billion for the agriculture in the next fiscal year.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">KATHMANDU: The government has allocated a budget of Rs 57.29 billion for the agriculture in the next fiscal year.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">Announcing the budget for the next fiscal year on Tuesday, Finance Minister Barshman Pun said that the government has allocated Rs 57.29 billion for the agriculture sector.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">He added that the government has allocated a subsidized amount of Rs 27.95 billion for timely management of fertilizer for the farmers. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">The government also announced to promote the production and use of organic food and fertilizers and discourage chemical pesticides and promote biological pesticides. </span></span></span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2024-05-28', 'modified' => '2024-05-28', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '20834', 'image' => '20240528042739_Agriculture-Loan_55.jpg', 'article_date' => '2024-05-28 16:24:31', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 7 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '21107', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Govt Declares Next 10 Years as the Decade of Investment in Agriculture', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'KATHMANDU: The government has declared the next 10 years as the investment decade in agriculture.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">KATHMANDU: The government has declared the next </span><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">10</span><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif""> years as the investment decade in agriculture.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">Presenting the budget for the next fiscal year in a joint meeting of both the houses of the Federal Parliament on Tuesday (today), Finance Minister Barshman Pun said that the decade of investment in agriculture will be celebrated from </span><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">2081 </span><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">BS to </span><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">2091</span><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif""> BS</span><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">.</span></span></span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2024-05-28', 'modified' => '2024-05-28', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '20833', 'image' => '20240528041659_agri maize.jpg', 'article_date' => '2024-05-28 16:16:27', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 8 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '21106', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Government Allocates Rs 2.98 Billion for Prime Minister Agriculture Modernization Project', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'KATHMANDU: The government has allocated Rs 2.98 billion for the Prime Minister Agriculture Modernization Project.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">KATHMANDU: The government has allocated Rs </span><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">2.98</span><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif""> billion for the Prime Minister Agriculture Modernization Project.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">Finance Minister Barshman Pun said this while announcing the budget for the next fiscal year </span><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">081-82</span><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif""> on Tuesday.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">The budget statement mentions that the government plans to expand fruit cultivation on </span><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">2</span><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">,</span><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">000 </span><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">hectares of land in the highlands. Finance Minister Pun added that the government also plans to expand </span><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">14 </span><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">government farms to produce at least </span><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">700</span><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">,</span><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">000 </span><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">quality fruit saplings.</span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2024-05-28', 'modified' => '2024-05-28', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '20832', 'image' => '20240528041255_Agri.jpg', 'article_date' => '2024-05-28 16:12:24', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 9 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '21105', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Govt to Bring 1.6 Million Tourists Next Year', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'KATHMANDU: The government has set a target of bringing in 1.6 million tourists in the next fiscal year.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">KATHMANDU: The government has set a target of bringing in 1.6 million tourists in the next fiscal year.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">Announcing the budget for the next fiscal year on Tuesday, Finance Minister Barshman Pun said that the government has set a target to bring 1.6 million tourists to Nepal in the next fiscal year.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:"ekmukta","serif"">He informed that the government has allocated a budget of Rs 5.46 billion for tourism promotion.</span></span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2024-05-28', 'modified' => '2024-05-28', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '20831', 'image' => '20240528040520_Tourist.jpg', 'article_date' => '2024-05-28 16:04:42', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 10 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '21104', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Commercial Production of Marijuana to Begin from Next FY', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'KATHMANDU: The government is planning to arrange commercial production of marijuana from the next fiscal year.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">KATHMANDU: The government is planning to arrange commercial production of marijuana from the next fiscal year. Finance Minister Barshman Pun made this announced in the budget speech on Tuesday.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Minister Pun said that legal arrangements will be made for the commercial production of marijuana for medicinal purpose within the next fiscal year.</span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2024-05-28', 'modified' => '2024-05-28', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '20830', 'image' => '20240528040050_20231107113426_20230529074926_20190221010550_adsfff.jpg', 'article_date' => '2024-05-28 16:00:10', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 11 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '21102', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'NPC Endorses Govt's Annual Development Programme, Medium Term Expenditure Framework', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'KATHMANDU: A meeting of the National Planning Commission has approved the government's annual development programme and three-year medium-term expenditure framework. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">KATHMANDU: A meeting of the National Planning Commission has approved the government's annual development programme and three-year medium-term expenditure framework. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The full meeting held at the Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers under chairmanship of Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal on Tuesday passed both the documents to be tabled in the parliament along with the budget. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The annual development programme is being tabled in the parliament along with the budget. PM Dahal’s private secretariat said that the government will maintain financial discipline, efficiency in appropriation, and budget allocation according to the spending capacity of the government.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">On the occasion, Prime Minster Pushpa Kamal Dahal said he had directed to make people-oriented budget and Finance Minister Barsha Man Pun has prepared the budget accordangly. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Finance Minister Pun, NPC vice-chair Dr Min Bahadur Shrestha, Chief Secretary Baikuntha Aryal and members and member-secretary were present in the meeting. -- RSS </span></span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2024-05-28', 'modified' => '2024-05-28', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '20829', 'image' => '20240528014241_20240514025910_20240115115317_pm.jpg', 'article_date' => '2024-05-28 13:42:02', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 12 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '21101', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Schedule for Budget Speech Postponed by Two Hours ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'KATHMANDU: The schedule for presenting the annual budget for the fiscal year 2024-25 has been postponed by two hours.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">KATHMANDU: The schedule for presenting the annual budget for the fiscal year 2024-25 has been postponed by two hours. Speaker Devraj Ghimire had initially scheduled the budget speech for 1:00 pm today before a joint sitting of the Federal Parliament. However, it has been rescheduled for 3:00 pm. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Finance Minister Barshaman Pun will be presenting the budget for the upcoming fiscal year in the joint parliamentary session today. -- RSS </span></span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2024-05-28', 'modified' => '2024-05-28', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '20828', 'image' => '20240528013059_Parliament.jpg', 'article_date' => '2024-05-28 13:30:21', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 13 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '21100', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'WHO Chief Urges Countries to Quickly Seal Pandemic Deal ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'GENEVA: The World Health Organization chief on Monday urged countries to nail down a landmark global agreement on handling of future pandemics after they missed a hard deadline. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">GENEVA: The World Health Organization chief on Monday urged countries to nail down a landmark global agreement on handling of future pandemics after they missed a hard deadline. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Scarred by Covid-19 -- which killed millions, shredded economies and crippled health systems -- nations have spent two years trying to forge binding commitments on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Negotiators failed to clinch a deal ahead of this week's World Health Assembly -- the annual gathering of WHO's 194 member states -- the deadline for concluding the talks. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus opened the assembly Monday, saying he was confident that an agreement would be secured. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">"Of course, we all wish that we had been able to reach a consensus on the agreement in time for this health assembly and crossed the finish line," he said. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">"But I remain confident that you still will, because where there is a willquickly seql, there is a way." </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Tedros said the task before negotiators had been "immense, technically, legally, and politically", and that they had been "operating on a very ambitious time line". </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">"You have demonstrated a clear commitment to reaching an agreement," he said, adding that negotiators had "worked long days and nights", closing meetings as late as 4:00 am. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">He hailed their dedication to push forward despite "a torrent of misinformation that was undermining your negotiations". </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">While missing Friday's deadline, countries have voiced a commitment to keep pushing for an accord. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Negotiators are due on Tuesday to present the outcome of the talks to the assembly, which runs until June 1, and the assembly will take stock and decide what to do next. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">"I know that there remains among you a common will to get this done, so, there must always be a way," Tedros said. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">"Meaning the solution is in your hands," he stressed. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Parallel talks have also taken place on revising the International Health Regulations, which were first adopted in 1969 and constitute the existing international legally binding framework for responding to public health emergencies around the world. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The proposed amendments to the IHR, including adding more nuance to a system meant to alert countries to potential health emergencies of global concern, might have a better chance of being adopted during this week's assembly, observers said. – AFP/RSS </span></span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2024-05-28', 'modified' => '2024-05-28', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '20827', 'image' => '20240528111342_20240114110800_WHO.jpg.jpeg', 'article_date' => '2024-05-28 11:13:11', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 14 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '21099', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Beni Adopts Digital House Number System ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'BENI: Beni Municipality of Myagdi has started a digital house numbering system with QR code. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">BENI: Beni Municipality of Myagdi has started a digital house numbering system with QR code. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The digital house number system has been implemented with information and details of all the residents of the municipality. The digital house number system has been implemented to facilitate service delivery, good governance and effective disaster management, said Mayor Surat KC. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The QR code of the digital house number system shares 90 types of information such as the location of the house, the number of floors, color, number of rooms, the type of house structure etc. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The digital numbering campaign began on Friday evening with Mayor KC handing over the digital house number to Lilaram Gautam and Devi KC of New Road in Beni Municipality-8. In the first phase, digital house number plates will be placed in 1,900 houses of Ward No. 7 and 8 of the municipality. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The information and details of 7,200 houses in all 10 wards of the municipality have been recorded in the electronic system. According to the municipality, preparations are being made to print digital number plates to be placed on the houses. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Uttam Karmacharya, the Ward Chairman of Beni Municipality-8, said that the digital house number system has been developed to stop misuse of benefits and avoid duplication while house owners can update their details and seek immediate support for pregnant women, new mothers, sick people, and during the time of disaster. -- RSS</span></span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2024-05-28', 'modified' => '2024-05-28', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '20826', 'image' => '20240528111135_m1.jpg', 'article_date' => '2024-05-28 11:10:56', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ) ) $current_user = null $logged_in = false $xml = falsesimplexml_load_file - [internal], line ?? include - APP/View/Elements/side_bar.ctp, line 133 View::_evaluate() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 971 View::_render() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 933 View::_renderElement() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 1224 View::element() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 418 include - APP/View/Articles/index.ctp, line 157 View::_evaluate() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 971 View::_render() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 933 View::render() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 473 Controller::render() - CORE/Cake/Controller/Controller.php, line 968 Dispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/Cake/Routing/Dispatcher.php, line 200 Dispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/Cake/Routing/Dispatcher.php, line 167 [main] - APP/webroot/index.php, line 117
| Currency | Unit |
Buy | Sell |
| U.S. Dollar | 1 | 121.23 | 121.83 |
| European Euro | 1 | 131.65 | 132.31 |
| UK Pound Sterling | 1 | 142.47 | 143.18 |
| Swiss Franc | 1 | 124.29 | 124.90 |
| Australian Dollar | 1 | 71.69 | 72.05 |
| Canadian Dollar | 1 | 83.90 | 84.32 |
| Japanese Yen | 10 | 10.94 | 11.00 |
| Chinese Yuan | 1 | 17.17 | 17.26 |
| Saudi Arabian Riyal | 1 | 32.27 | 32.43 |
| UAE Dirham | 1 | 33.01 | 33.17 |
| Malaysian Ringgit | 1 | 27.36 | 27.50 |
| South Korean Won | 100 | 9.77 | 9.82 |
Update: 2020-03-25 | Source: Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB)
| Fine Gold | 1 tola | 77000.00 |
| Tejabi Gold | 1 tola | 76700.00 |
| Silver | 1 tola | 720.00 |
Update : 2020-03-25
Source: Federation of Nepal Gold and Silver Dealers' Association
| Petrol | 1 Liter | 106.00 |
| Diesel | 1 Liter | 95.00 |
| Kerosene | 1 Liter | 95.00 |
| LP Gas | 1 Cylinder | 1375.00 |
Update : 2020-03-25
