November 21: Stakeholders during an interaction on Tuesday stressed the need for establishing effective business environment in…
November 21: Stakeholders during an interaction on Tuesday stressed the need for establishing effective business environment in…
November 20: The government of Nepal is planning to increase import tax on bananas.…
November 20: The government of Japan has agreed to provide grant assistance of 350 million yen equivalent to around Rs 356 million to Nepal for carrying out food assistance programme, according to the Rastriya Samachar Samiti…
November 20 : Nepali tanker drivers who had halted fuel supply from Barauni of India since three days called off their strike on Monday evening after the Indian authorities pledged not to mistreat the Nepali…
November 20: Nepal Medicity Hospital has signed an agreement with Advertising Association of Nepal (AAN) to provide health care facilities to the members of AAN at the hospital at affordable…
November 20: The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), the umbrella body of industry associations in India, is all set to organize an exhibition of construction equipment in Nepal later this…
November 19: Hotel Yak and Yeti organised a chimney lighting ceremony at its Chimney Restaurant recently to welcome the…
November 19: Qatar Airways said that its passengers will be able to access more weekly flights to top tourist hot spots in Antalya, Bodrum and Mykonos due to the airline’s strong performance during this…
November 19: The World Health Organisation has said that the access to safe sanitation services, including hygienic toilets that are connected to quality sewage systems, remains a problem in South-East…
November 19: Stakeholders organised a seminar in the capital on Friday to shed light on safe and modern storage facilities for food…
November 19: Textile manufactures of Nepal have called off their protest against the government decision to remove value added tax (VAT) exemption on…
November 18: Multinational company Surya Nepal has become the highest tax payer for the third…
November 18: Textile manufacturers of Nepal shut down their factories across the nation on Saturday to protest against the government decision to remove value added tax (VAT) exemption on…
November 18: Growing fiscal anarchism if shifted to province and local level will be disastrous, experts pointed out during an interaction program held in Kathmandu on November…
November 15: Muktinath Bikas Bank has provided Rs 500,000 to Mukti Area Development Committee for the development and conservation of Muktinath Temple in…
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The country’s established entrepreneurs and policymakers shared such view during the ‘Econ-ity’ discussion on the theme ‘Policy Bottlenecks in Entrepreneurship’ organised by Samriddhi Foundation at Hotel Himalaya on Novemebr 20.</p> <p>The discussions revolved around the intertwining role of government and policy, and business and investment, reads a statement issued by the foundation.</p> <p>One of the panelists, Suman Shakya, said that all categories of businesses need to operate under a single and a generalized policy in Nepal.</p> <p>“On the contrary, there is no separate standard policy for startups or innovative businesses,” he said.</p> <p>In response to these policy hurdles, Om Prakash Mahato from the Ministry of Industry, highlighted that since most of the ministries, at present, are involved in drafting new or reviewing existing policies, this is the right time for entrepreneurs to quote their issues and advocate for changes in the policy regime.</p> <p>The discussion also highlighted the need to create a level-playing field for all kinds of aspiring entrepreneurs. There was a general agreement that there needs to be a greater need for the private sector to collaborate and work together with the government to support and get supported.</p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2018-11-21', 'modified' => '2018-11-21', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '9248', 'image' => '20181121030535_policyy.jpg', 'article_date' => '2018-11-21 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '20' ) ), (int) 1 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '9465', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Govt Mulls Increasing Import Tax on Bananas', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 20: The government of Nepal is planning to increase import tax on bananas. ', 'content' => '<p>November 20: The government of Nepal is planning to increase import tax on bananas. Minister for Agriculture and Livestock Development, Chakra Pani Khanal, shared that the government has been working to increase import tax on bananas in order to discourage the import of bananas from India.</p> <p>According to Rastriya Samachar Samiti (RSS), the national news agency of Nepal, the minister said that the rate and ratio of increasing the tax was under discussion with the Ministry of Finance.</p> <p>The government has been collecting five percent tax while importing bananas while the banana farmers have been demanding up to 30 percent tax.</p> <p>The farmers and entrepreneurs have claimed that they will not be able to continue banana farming if the import tax is not increased, according to RSS.</p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2018-11-20', 'modified' => '2018-11-21', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '9243', 'image' => '20181120025415_aaaa.jpg', 'article_date' => '2018-11-20 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '20' ) ), (int) 2 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '9466', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Japan to provide Rs 356 million for food assistance to Nepal', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 20: The government of Japan has agreed to provide grant assistance of 350 million yen equivalent to around Rs 356 million to Nepal for carrying out food assistance programme, according to the Rastriya Samachar Samiti (RSS).', 'content' => '<p>November 20: The government of Japan has agreed to provide grant assistance of 350 million yen equivalent to around Rs 356 million to Nepal for carrying out food assistance programme, according to the Rastriya Samachar Samiti (RSS).</p> <p>The signing of Exchange of Notes towards this end was held on the witness of the foreign ministers of Nepal and Japan.</p> <p>Nepal’s Ambassador to Japan Prativa Rana and Japanese Ambassador to Nepal Masamichi Saigo signed the memorandum of understanding on behalf of their respective governments on Monday, November 19. The signing ceremony was held at Ikura House, Tokyo after the bilateral meeting between foreign ministers of the two countries--Pradeep Gyawali and Taro Kano, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.</p> <p>According to RSS, the assistance aims to support the Government of Nepal to implement the Food Assistance Program to ensure food security to the Nepali people. The assistance from Japan will enable the Government of Nepal to procure rice and supply it to the people in need.</p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2018-11-20', 'modified' => '2018-11-20', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '9242', 'image' => '20181120031241_jpn.jpg', 'article_date' => '2018-11-20 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '20' ) ), (int) 3 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '9467', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Tanker Drivers call off Protest', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 20 : Nepali tanker drivers who had halted fuel supply from Barauni of India since three days called off their strike on Monday evening after the Indian authorities pledged not to mistreat the Nepali drivers.', 'content' => '<p>November 20 : Nepali tanker drivers who had halted fuel supply from Barauni of India since three days called off their strike on Monday evening after the Indian authorities pledged not to mistreat the Nepali drivers.</p> <p>According to Rastriya Samachar Samiti (RSS), the tanker drivers had resorted to agitation after the Indian security personnel beat Monu Kumar, a driver of tanker (Ko 1 Kha 6009), on the way to Nepal from Barauni at Jogbani border point of India on Saturday.</p> <p>The agitating drivers had halted fuel supply for three days protesting the misbehavior from the Indian security personnel.</p> <p>Among the demands put forth by the agitators include taking action against the Indian security personnel who beat the tanker driver, putting to an end the misbehaviour meted out against Nepali drivers, ensuring security of drivers and seeking alternative route to the existing heavy traffic road.</p> <p>RSS said that the fuel supply has come to normalcy from Monday evening after the Indian side admitted its mistake and pledged to not repeat such misbehavour again. The Indian side realized its mistake at a meeting between the officials of Nepal and India at Jogbani on Monday.</p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2018-11-20', 'modified' => '2018-11-20', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '9241', 'image' => '20181120033103_tanker.jpg', 'article_date' => '2018-11-20 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '20' ) ), (int) 4 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '9464', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Medicity Hospital, AAN Sign Agreement', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 20: Nepal Medicity Hospital has signed an agreement with Advertising Association of Nepal (AAN) to provide health care facilities to the members of AAN at the hospital at affordable rate.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-family:arial sans-serif,serif">November 20: Nepal Medicity Hospital has signed an agreement with Advertising Association of Nepal (AAN) to provide health care facilities to the members of AAN at the hospital at affordable rate.</span></p> <p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in; text-align:start"><span style="color:#333333; font-family:arial sans-serif,serif">Bijay Rimal, managing director of Nepal Medicity Hospital, and Rabindra Kumar Rijal, chairman of AAN, signed the agreement on behalf of their respective organization amid a recent function.</span></p> <p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in; text-align:start"><span style="color:#333333; font-family:arial sans-serif,serif">The hospital has also initiated discussions to organise social awareness campaigns in different parts of the country in collaboration with AAN.</span></p> <p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in"><span style="color:#333333; font-family:arial sans-serif,serif">During the function, GM Rimal said that the members of AAN should stay fit as they play an important role in spreading awareness regarding health through advertisement. Hence, the hospital has decided to provide discount for their treatment. </span></p> <p><span style="font-family:preeti; font-size:18.0pt"> </span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2018-11-20', 'modified' => '2018-11-20', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '9240', 'image' => '20181120021324_Mou.jpg', 'article_date' => '2018-11-20 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '20' ) ), (int) 5 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '9462', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Construction Equipment Expo from Thursday', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 20: The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), the umbrella body of industry associations in India, is all set to organize an exhibition of construction equipment in Nepal later this week.', 'content' => '<p>November 20: The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), the umbrella body of industry associations in India, is all set to organize an exhibition of construction equipment in Nepal later this week.</p> <p>Issuing a statement, CII said that the ConMac 2018 exhibition will be organized at Sallaghari Open Ground, Bhaktapur from November 22 to 24. According to the organiser, more than 150 exhibitors will be participating at the three-day exhibition, to be hosted on a gross display area of 250,000 sq feet. The event is expected to attract over 10,000 business visitors from across the country.</p> <p>“This kind of exhibition has emerged as an imperative platform to bring together leading global and domestic construction equipment players to demonstrate their world-class technological prowess and capabilities. With Nepal facing a large shortage of skilled manpower, this exhibition aims to assist and empower contractors by providing them with the latest in technology and capacity enhancement within the construction sector,” reads the statement.</p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2018-11-20', 'modified' => '2018-11-20', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '9238', 'image' => '20181120012807_english.jpg', 'article_date' => '2018-11-20 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '20' ) ), (int) 6 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '9457', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Chimney Lighting Ceremony to Welcome Winter', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 19: Hotel Yak and Yeti organised a chimney lighting ceremony at its Chimney Restaurant recently to welcome the winter.', 'content' => '<p>November 19: Hotel Yak and Yeti organised a chimney lighting ceremony at its Chimney Restaurant recently to welcome the winter. In a statement, the hotel said it has been lighting the chimney every year in mid-November ever since the establishment of the restaurant.</p> <p>“The lighting of chimney is also perceived as welcoming the winter in Kathmandu. The chimney will be lit until February 15 every year,” the statement said.</p> <p>The chimney was jointly lit by Sri Lankan Ambassador to Nepal Wellage Swarnalatha Perera, Ambassador of the UAE to Nepal Saeed Hamdan Al Naqei and Monika Scheiblauer, general manager of Hotel Yak & Yeti.</p> <p>Seated in the quaint palatial wing of the hotel's edifice, the Chimney Restaurant was re-launched on October 13 this year with a new menu and an ambience with an extended outdoor terrace seating in the beautiful garden.</p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2018-11-19', 'modified' => '2018-11-19', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '9234', 'image' => '20181119035745_chimney.jpg', 'article_date' => '2018-11-19 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '20' ) ), (int) 7 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '9455', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Qatar Airways to add more flights to popular tourist destinations', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 19: Qatar Airways said that its passengers will be able to access more weekly flights to top tourist hot spots in Antalya, Bodrum and Mykonos due to the airline’s strong performance during this summer.', 'content' => '<p>‎November 19: Qatar Airways said that its passengers will be able to access more weekly flights to top tourist hot spots in Antalya, Bodrum and Mykonos due to the airline’s strong performance during this summer.</p> <p>Qatar Airways said in a statement that it will add an extra weekly flight to the Antalya, Bodrum and Mykonos routes from May 2019 as well as upgrade the aircraft.</p> <p>According to Qatar Airways, it will also introduce larger, more modern aircraft in the two routes, with Antalya operated by A330 and Málaga by the spacious Boeing 777-200LR.</p> <p>The popular tourist destinations of Antalya and Bodrum in Turkey, Mykonos, Greece, and Málaga, Spain, have shown a consistently strong performance in the four months since being launched in June this year, the statement further said.</p> <p>Qatar Airways Group Chief Executive Akbar Al Baker, said, “We are delighted with the exceptionally strong performance of these seasonal routes in the four months since they were introduced. The passenger demand for the return of non-stop services to these top tourist hot spots has been very high, so we are thrilled to respond by not only resuming these routes for summer 2019, but also by adding an extra weekly flight to the Antalya, Bodrum and Mykonos schedules.”</p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2018-11-19', 'modified' => '2018-11-19', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '9233', 'image' => '20181119031239_qatar.jpg', 'article_date' => '2018-11-19 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '20' ) ), (int) 8 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '9454', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Access to safe sanitation still a problem in South Asia', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 19: The World Health Organisation has said that the access to safe sanitation services, including hygienic toilets that are connected to quality sewage systems, remains a problem in South-East Asia.', 'content' => '<p>November 19: The World Health Organisation has said that the access to safe sanitation services, including hygienic toilets that are connected to quality sewage systems, remains a problem in South-East Asia with 900 million region-wide lacking basic sanitation, and more than 500 million practicing open defecation.</p> <p>The WHO warned that this leads to increased human-feces contact and the transmission of a range of diseases, from cholera to typhoid and hepatitis A and E to tapeworm. </p> <p>However, the member states have made significant progress in recent years, according to a statement issued by the WHO. Region-wide, urban coverage of basic sanitation is now close to 70 percent. In a majority of countries rural coverage exceeds 50 percent.</p> <p>The share of the region’s population practicing open defecation has meanwhile been reduced from more than 50 percent to less than 30 percent, while several member states have achieved more than 90 percent coverage of basic sanitation services.</p> <p>The return on every dollar invested in safe sanitation is estimated to be nearly six times, due in large part to lower health costs, increased productivity and fewer premature deaths, the statement further said.</p> <p>WHO’s South-East Asia Region comprises the following 11 member states: Bangladesh, Bhutan, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, India, Indonesia, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Timor-Leste.</p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2018-11-19', 'modified' => '2018-11-19', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '9232', 'image' => '20181119030247_who.jpg', 'article_date' => '2018-11-19 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '20' ) ), (int) 9 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '9456', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Modern Storage Facility of Grains Available in Nepal', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 19: Stakeholders organised a seminar in the capital on Friday to shed light on safe and modern storage facilities for food grains.', 'content' => '<p>November 19: Stakeholders organised a seminar in the capital on Friday to shed light on safe and modern storage facilities for food grains.</p> <p>The seminar organised jointly by Spain-based Silos Córdoba and Germany-based FrigorTec in collaboration with their local partner in Nepal –Techsol International – dwelt on imparting knowledge about smart grain storage and solution for cooling grain in a country like Nepal whose chief occupation is agriculture.</p> <p>Aakash Tiwari, managing director of Techsol International, said that they have been involved in promoting modern ways of storage of grains in Nepal since the last two years.</p> <p>He said that such storage facilities are highly relevant in the Nepali society due to its agrarian nature.</p> <p>He further claimed that the technology of these two companies would incur less cost in storage of grains and other food items.</p> <p>It was said in the seminar that food grains like wheat, maize, paddy, mustard among others can be stored safely for a long period using these technologies.</p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2018-11-19', 'modified' => '2018-11-20', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '9231', 'image' => '20181120125414_GrainCloseup.jpg', 'article_date' => '2018-11-19 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '20' ) ), (int) 10 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '9452', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Textile Manufacturers’ Protest Called Off', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 19: Textile manufactures of Nepal have called off their protest against the government decision to remove value added tax (VAT) exemption on textiles.', 'content' => '<p>November 19: Textile manufactures of Nepal have called off their protest against the government decision to remove value added tax (VAT) exemption on textiles. The protest was called off after Finance Minister Yuba Raj Khatiwada requested for 10 days time to resolve the problem.</p> <p>The textile manufacturers had announced of the protest from Saturday saying that they have not been getting positive response from the discussion with the government regarding the Value Added Tax (VAT) debate. The government had announced to cancel the 13 percent VAT refund it had been providing during the budget speech in response to which the manufacturers had claimed that it was hard for them to sustain in the competitive market.</p> <p>The government had called the protestors for discussion on Sunday, November 18. The indefinite protest by textile manufacturers against the government had direct affected 50,000 employees and around 200,000 family members. </p> <p>Sailendra Lal Pradhan, president of Nepal Textile Industries Association (NTIA), informed NBA that the meeting was positive. He said, “The finance minister was positive at the meeting. He has asked for some time to have discussion in the parliament. We are hopeful.”</p> <p>Textile manufacturers of Nepal had shut down their factories across the nation on Saturday to protest against the government decision to remove value added tax (VAT) exemption on textiles.</p> <p>The decision came into effect from the starting of the current fiscal year.</p> <p>The textile manufacturers shut down a total of 250 industries across the nation to pressurize the government to roll back the decision to cancel VAT exemption on textiles.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2018-11-19', 'modified' => '2018-11-19', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '9229', 'image' => '20181119020626_yub raj khatiwada (3).jpg', 'article_date' => '2018-11-19 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '20' ) ), (int) 11 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '9447', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Surya Nepal, Siddhartha Rana highest taxpayers', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 18: Multinational company Surya Nepal has become the highest tax payer for the third time.', 'content' => '<p>November 18: Multinational company Surya Nepal has become the highest tax payer for the third time. Likewise, Siddhartha Shumsher Rana was the highest taxpayer under the individual category for the last fiscal year. Rana, who has hotel, trekking and various other businesses, has been the highest tax payer for the past five years.</p> <p>Surya Nepal and Rana were honoured by the Inland Revenue Department on the occasion of the 7th National Tax Day on Saturday.</p> <p>Finance Minister Dr Yuvraj Khatiwada honoured the taxpayers in various 15 categories.</p> <p>The government said that the highest taxpayers were honoured to promote taxpaying culture.</p> <p>Others companies to be honored during the programme are Dabur Nepal, Himal Power Ltd, Agriculture and Livestock Probiotic Industry, the Chhimek Cooperatives, Nabil Bank, Nepal Punarbeema (Re-Insurance) Company, Nobel Medical College, F1 Soft Information and Taragaon Regency Hotel.</p> <p> </p> <p style="text-align:justify"><strong>List of Winners Category</strong></p> <p style="text-align:justify">Surya Nepal Income Tax</p> <p style="text-align:justify">Ghorahi Cement Excise Duty</p> <p style="text-align:justify">Dabur Nepal Importer</p> <p style="text-align:justify">Himal Power Ltd Industry</p> <p style="text-align:justify">Pro-biotic Industry (Nimbus) Agriculture and Livestock</p> <p style="text-align:justify">Chhimek Cooperatives Finance Company</p> <p style="text-align:justify">Nabil Bank BFI</p> <p style="text-align:justify">Nobel Medical College Health Institution</p> <p style="text-align:justify">Nepal Punarbeema (Re-Insurance) Company Insurance</p> <p style="text-align:justify">F1 Soft Information IT</p> <p style="text-align:justify">Taragaon Regency Hotel Tourism</p> <p style="text-align:justify">Sipradi Trading Business</p> <p style="text-align:justify">Nepal Investment Pvt Ltd Annual transaction of Rs 400 million</p> <p style="text-align:justify">Nepse Annual transaction between Rs 400 to 800 million</p> <p style="text-align:justify">Siddhartha Shumsher Rana Individual</p> <p style="text-align:justify"> </p> <p style="text-align:justify"> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2018-11-18', 'modified' => '2018-11-28', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '9225', 'image' => '20181118041939_Clipboard01-18.jpg', 'article_date' => '2018-11-18 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '20' ) ), (int) 12 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '9446', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Textile Industries Shut Across Nation', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 18: Textile manufacturers of Nepal shut down their factories across the nation on Saturday to protest against the government decision to remove value added tax (VAT) exemption on textiles.', 'content' => '<p>November 18: Textile manufacturers of Nepal shut down their factories across the nation on Saturday to protest against the government decision to remove value added tax (VAT) exemption on textiles.</p> <p>The government had announced to cancel the VAT refund system during the budget speech. The decision came into effect from the starting of the current fiscal year.</p> <p>The textile manufacturers shut down a total of 250 industries across the nation to pressurize the government to roll back the decision to cancel VAT exemption on textiles.</p> <p>A total of 50,000 employees and their families will be directly affected from the indefinite protest by the textile manufactures against the government.</p> <p>Organizing a press meet in Kathmandu on Saturday, textile manufacturers said they will go for stern protest if their demands are not addressed by November 23.</p> <p>Addressing the meet, Sailendra Pradhan, president of Nepal Textile Industries Association (NTIA), said that the textile manufactures had urged the government to roll back its decision.</p> <p>“As the government was reluctant to address our demands, we textile manufacturers had no option left than to shut down the factories,” he said, adding that it has been very difficult to compete with foreign textiles, and the decision has further hit the sector.</p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2018-11-18', 'modified' => '2018-11-18', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '9224', 'image' => '20181118041106_kapada-1.jpg', 'article_date' => '2018-11-18 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '20' ) ), (int) 13 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '9444', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Experts Warn Against Growing Fiscal Anarchism', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 18: Growing fiscal anarchism if shifted to province and local level will be disastrous, experts pointed out during an interaction program held in Kathmandu on November 16.', 'content' => '<p>November 18: Growing fiscal anarchism if shifted to province and local level will be disastrous, experts pointed out during an interaction program held in Kathmandu on November 16.</p> <p>The programme ‘Public Expenditure System in Federal Structure: Opportunities and Challenges’ was jointly organized by Public Expenditure Review Commission (PERC) and South Asia Watch on Trade, Economics and Environment (SAWTEE) to discuss the complexities of public expenditure in the fledgling federal system, especially in the context of agricultural development.</p> <p>Dr Dilli Raj Khanal, chairman of PERC pointed out that one of the biggest reasons for the mismanaged public expenditure was the tendency of starting projects without proper readiness in terms of planning, which created complications during implementation leading to unspent budget allocation.</p> <p>Therefore he emphasized on spending substantial amount of time on planning and preparedness which would then ensure effective implementation.</p> <p>Dr Posh Raj Pandey, executive director of SAWTEE, also cautioned that Nepal’s current expenditure allocation had been growing since some time and increased number of administrative units would further add to it. He pointed out that growing fiscal anarchism were shown by tendency of allocating budget without figuring out the sources of funds and projects being launched without completing necessary pre-requisites. Lack of preparation causes projects to suffer cost and time over-run making the administration inefficient, he said. He cautioned that lack of accountability in maintaining budgetary discipline may lead to provincial and local level governments replicating similar tendencies compromising their absorptive capacity.</p> <p>He further added that the constitutional provisions of creating overlap between the responsibilities of different tiers of government may be a potential source of conflict. Similarly the imposition of export or business taxes in agricultural produce and the tendency to use agriculture related conditional grants to other sectors may hinder agricultural development. </p> <p>Referring to mismatched project prioritization and budget allocation, Balananda Poudel, former secretary and chairman of Local Bodies Restructuring Commission said that government needed to effectively implement medium-term expenditure framework even at provincial and local levels. He urged PERC to become proactive in questioning government and its entities at all levels on their expenditure policy and patterns to instill a sense of accountability. </p> <p>Participants included representatives of federal and provincial governments, including secretaries, joint secretaries; representatives of municipal and rural councils also shared their experiences. They emphasized that the lack of sufficient personnel and procedural confusion had created problem in service delivery thus creating inefficiency. Similarly, they also urged the federal government to set up a centralized and uniform accounting and reporting information technology for efficient and integrated system.</p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2018-11-18', 'modified' => '2018-11-18', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '9223', 'image' => '20181118103416_sawtee public expenditure.jpg', 'article_date' => '2018-11-18 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '20' ) ), (int) 14 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '9430', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Muktinath Bikas Bank Supports Conservation of Muktinath Temple', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 15: Muktinath Bikas Bank has provided Rs 500,000 to Mukti Area Development Committee for the development and conservation of Muktinath Temple in Mustang.', 'content' => '<p>November 15: Muktinath Bikas Bank has provided Rs 500,000 to Mukti Area Development Committee for the development and conservation of Muktinath Temple in Mustang. 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The country’s established entrepreneurs and policymakers shared such view during the ‘Econ-ity’ discussion on the theme ‘Policy Bottlenecks in Entrepreneurship’ organised by Samriddhi Foundation at Hotel Himalaya on Novemebr 20.</p> <p>The discussions revolved around the intertwining role of government and policy, and business and investment, reads a statement issued by the foundation.</p> <p>One of the panelists, Suman Shakya, said that all categories of businesses need to operate under a single and a generalized policy in Nepal.</p> <p>“On the contrary, there is no separate standard policy for startups or innovative businesses,” he said.</p> <p>In response to these policy hurdles, Om Prakash Mahato from the Ministry of Industry, highlighted that since most of the ministries, at present, are involved in drafting new or reviewing existing policies, this is the right time for entrepreneurs to quote their issues and advocate for changes in the policy regime.</p> <p>The discussion also highlighted the need to create a level-playing field for all kinds of aspiring entrepreneurs. There was a general agreement that there needs to be a greater need for the private sector to collaborate and work together with the government to support and get supported.</p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2018-11-21', 'modified' => '2018-11-21', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '9248', 'image' => '20181121030535_policyy.jpg', 'article_date' => '2018-11-21 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '20' ) ), (int) 1 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '9465', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Govt Mulls Increasing Import Tax on Bananas', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 20: The government of Nepal is planning to increase import tax on bananas. ', 'content' => '<p>November 20: The government of Nepal is planning to increase import tax on bananas. Minister for Agriculture and Livestock Development, Chakra Pani Khanal, shared that the government has been working to increase import tax on bananas in order to discourage the import of bananas from India.</p> <p>According to Rastriya Samachar Samiti (RSS), the national news agency of Nepal, the minister said that the rate and ratio of increasing the tax was under discussion with the Ministry of Finance.</p> <p>The government has been collecting five percent tax while importing bananas while the banana farmers have been demanding up to 30 percent tax.</p> <p>The farmers and entrepreneurs have claimed that they will not be able to continue banana farming if the import tax is not increased, according to RSS.</p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2018-11-20', 'modified' => '2018-11-21', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '9243', 'image' => '20181120025415_aaaa.jpg', 'article_date' => '2018-11-20 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '20' ) ), (int) 2 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '9466', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Japan to provide Rs 356 million for food assistance to Nepal', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 20: The government of Japan has agreed to provide grant assistance of 350 million yen equivalent to around Rs 356 million to Nepal for carrying out food assistance programme, according to the Rastriya Samachar Samiti (RSS).', 'content' => '<p>November 20: The government of Japan has agreed to provide grant assistance of 350 million yen equivalent to around Rs 356 million to Nepal for carrying out food assistance programme, according to the Rastriya Samachar Samiti (RSS).</p> <p>The signing of Exchange of Notes towards this end was held on the witness of the foreign ministers of Nepal and Japan.</p> <p>Nepal’s Ambassador to Japan Prativa Rana and Japanese Ambassador to Nepal Masamichi Saigo signed the memorandum of understanding on behalf of their respective governments on Monday, November 19. The signing ceremony was held at Ikura House, Tokyo after the bilateral meeting between foreign ministers of the two countries--Pradeep Gyawali and Taro Kano, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.</p> <p>According to RSS, the assistance aims to support the Government of Nepal to implement the Food Assistance Program to ensure food security to the Nepali people. The assistance from Japan will enable the Government of Nepal to procure rice and supply it to the people in need.</p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2018-11-20', 'modified' => '2018-11-20', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '9242', 'image' => '20181120031241_jpn.jpg', 'article_date' => '2018-11-20 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '20' ) ), (int) 3 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '9467', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Tanker Drivers call off Protest', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 20 : Nepali tanker drivers who had halted fuel supply from Barauni of India since three days called off their strike on Monday evening after the Indian authorities pledged not to mistreat the Nepali drivers.', 'content' => '<p>November 20 : Nepali tanker drivers who had halted fuel supply from Barauni of India since three days called off their strike on Monday evening after the Indian authorities pledged not to mistreat the Nepali drivers.</p> <p>According to Rastriya Samachar Samiti (RSS), the tanker drivers had resorted to agitation after the Indian security personnel beat Monu Kumar, a driver of tanker (Ko 1 Kha 6009), on the way to Nepal from Barauni at Jogbani border point of India on Saturday.</p> <p>The agitating drivers had halted fuel supply for three days protesting the misbehavior from the Indian security personnel.</p> <p>Among the demands put forth by the agitators include taking action against the Indian security personnel who beat the tanker driver, putting to an end the misbehaviour meted out against Nepali drivers, ensuring security of drivers and seeking alternative route to the existing heavy traffic road.</p> <p>RSS said that the fuel supply has come to normalcy from Monday evening after the Indian side admitted its mistake and pledged to not repeat such misbehavour again. The Indian side realized its mistake at a meeting between the officials of Nepal and India at Jogbani on Monday.</p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2018-11-20', 'modified' => '2018-11-20', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '9241', 'image' => '20181120033103_tanker.jpg', 'article_date' => '2018-11-20 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '20' ) ), (int) 4 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '9464', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Medicity Hospital, AAN Sign Agreement', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 20: Nepal Medicity Hospital has signed an agreement with Advertising Association of Nepal (AAN) to provide health care facilities to the members of AAN at the hospital at affordable rate.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-family:arial sans-serif,serif">November 20: Nepal Medicity Hospital has signed an agreement with Advertising Association of Nepal (AAN) to provide health care facilities to the members of AAN at the hospital at affordable rate.</span></p> <p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in; text-align:start"><span style="color:#333333; font-family:arial sans-serif,serif">Bijay Rimal, managing director of Nepal Medicity Hospital, and Rabindra Kumar Rijal, chairman of AAN, signed the agreement on behalf of their respective organization amid a recent function.</span></p> <p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in; text-align:start"><span style="color:#333333; font-family:arial sans-serif,serif">The hospital has also initiated discussions to organise social awareness campaigns in different parts of the country in collaboration with AAN.</span></p> <p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in"><span style="color:#333333; font-family:arial sans-serif,serif">During the function, GM Rimal said that the members of AAN should stay fit as they play an important role in spreading awareness regarding health through advertisement. Hence, the hospital has decided to provide discount for their treatment. </span></p> <p><span style="font-family:preeti; font-size:18.0pt"> </span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2018-11-20', 'modified' => '2018-11-20', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '9240', 'image' => '20181120021324_Mou.jpg', 'article_date' => '2018-11-20 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '20' ) ), (int) 5 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '9462', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Construction Equipment Expo from Thursday', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 20: The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), the umbrella body of industry associations in India, is all set to organize an exhibition of construction equipment in Nepal later this week.', 'content' => '<p>November 20: The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), the umbrella body of industry associations in India, is all set to organize an exhibition of construction equipment in Nepal later this week.</p> <p>Issuing a statement, CII said that the ConMac 2018 exhibition will be organized at Sallaghari Open Ground, Bhaktapur from November 22 to 24. According to the organiser, more than 150 exhibitors will be participating at the three-day exhibition, to be hosted on a gross display area of 250,000 sq feet. The event is expected to attract over 10,000 business visitors from across the country.</p> <p>“This kind of exhibition has emerged as an imperative platform to bring together leading global and domestic construction equipment players to demonstrate their world-class technological prowess and capabilities. With Nepal facing a large shortage of skilled manpower, this exhibition aims to assist and empower contractors by providing them with the latest in technology and capacity enhancement within the construction sector,” reads the statement.</p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2018-11-20', 'modified' => '2018-11-20', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '9238', 'image' => '20181120012807_english.jpg', 'article_date' => '2018-11-20 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '20' ) ), (int) 6 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '9457', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Chimney Lighting Ceremony to Welcome Winter', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 19: Hotel Yak and Yeti organised a chimney lighting ceremony at its Chimney Restaurant recently to welcome the winter.', 'content' => '<p>November 19: Hotel Yak and Yeti organised a chimney lighting ceremony at its Chimney Restaurant recently to welcome the winter. In a statement, the hotel said it has been lighting the chimney every year in mid-November ever since the establishment of the restaurant.</p> <p>“The lighting of chimney is also perceived as welcoming the winter in Kathmandu. The chimney will be lit until February 15 every year,” the statement said.</p> <p>The chimney was jointly lit by Sri Lankan Ambassador to Nepal Wellage Swarnalatha Perera, Ambassador of the UAE to Nepal Saeed Hamdan Al Naqei and Monika Scheiblauer, general manager of Hotel Yak & Yeti.</p> <p>Seated in the quaint palatial wing of the hotel's edifice, the Chimney Restaurant was re-launched on October 13 this year with a new menu and an ambience with an extended outdoor terrace seating in the beautiful garden.</p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2018-11-19', 'modified' => '2018-11-19', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '9234', 'image' => '20181119035745_chimney.jpg', 'article_date' => '2018-11-19 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '20' ) ), (int) 7 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '9455', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Qatar Airways to add more flights to popular tourist destinations', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 19: Qatar Airways said that its passengers will be able to access more weekly flights to top tourist hot spots in Antalya, Bodrum and Mykonos due to the airline’s strong performance during this summer.', 'content' => '<p>‎November 19: Qatar Airways said that its passengers will be able to access more weekly flights to top tourist hot spots in Antalya, Bodrum and Mykonos due to the airline’s strong performance during this summer.</p> <p>Qatar Airways said in a statement that it will add an extra weekly flight to the Antalya, Bodrum and Mykonos routes from May 2019 as well as upgrade the aircraft.</p> <p>According to Qatar Airways, it will also introduce larger, more modern aircraft in the two routes, with Antalya operated by A330 and Málaga by the spacious Boeing 777-200LR.</p> <p>The popular tourist destinations of Antalya and Bodrum in Turkey, Mykonos, Greece, and Málaga, Spain, have shown a consistently strong performance in the four months since being launched in June this year, the statement further said.</p> <p>Qatar Airways Group Chief Executive Akbar Al Baker, said, “We are delighted with the exceptionally strong performance of these seasonal routes in the four months since they were introduced. The passenger demand for the return of non-stop services to these top tourist hot spots has been very high, so we are thrilled to respond by not only resuming these routes for summer 2019, but also by adding an extra weekly flight to the Antalya, Bodrum and Mykonos schedules.”</p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2018-11-19', 'modified' => '2018-11-19', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '9233', 'image' => '20181119031239_qatar.jpg', 'article_date' => '2018-11-19 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '20' ) ), (int) 8 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '9454', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Access to safe sanitation still a problem in South Asia', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 19: The World Health Organisation has said that the access to safe sanitation services, including hygienic toilets that are connected to quality sewage systems, remains a problem in South-East Asia.', 'content' => '<p>November 19: The World Health Organisation has said that the access to safe sanitation services, including hygienic toilets that are connected to quality sewage systems, remains a problem in South-East Asia with 900 million region-wide lacking basic sanitation, and more than 500 million practicing open defecation.</p> <p>The WHO warned that this leads to increased human-feces contact and the transmission of a range of diseases, from cholera to typhoid and hepatitis A and E to tapeworm. </p> <p>However, the member states have made significant progress in recent years, according to a statement issued by the WHO. Region-wide, urban coverage of basic sanitation is now close to 70 percent. In a majority of countries rural coverage exceeds 50 percent.</p> <p>The share of the region’s population practicing open defecation has meanwhile been reduced from more than 50 percent to less than 30 percent, while several member states have achieved more than 90 percent coverage of basic sanitation services.</p> <p>The return on every dollar invested in safe sanitation is estimated to be nearly six times, due in large part to lower health costs, increased productivity and fewer premature deaths, the statement further said.</p> <p>WHO’s South-East Asia Region comprises the following 11 member states: Bangladesh, Bhutan, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, India, Indonesia, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Timor-Leste.</p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2018-11-19', 'modified' => '2018-11-19', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '9232', 'image' => '20181119030247_who.jpg', 'article_date' => '2018-11-19 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '20' ) ), (int) 9 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '9456', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Modern Storage Facility of Grains Available in Nepal', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 19: Stakeholders organised a seminar in the capital on Friday to shed light on safe and modern storage facilities for food grains.', 'content' => '<p>November 19: Stakeholders organised a seminar in the capital on Friday to shed light on safe and modern storage facilities for food grains.</p> <p>The seminar organised jointly by Spain-based Silos Córdoba and Germany-based FrigorTec in collaboration with their local partner in Nepal –Techsol International – dwelt on imparting knowledge about smart grain storage and solution for cooling grain in a country like Nepal whose chief occupation is agriculture.</p> <p>Aakash Tiwari, managing director of Techsol International, said that they have been involved in promoting modern ways of storage of grains in Nepal since the last two years.</p> <p>He said that such storage facilities are highly relevant in the Nepali society due to its agrarian nature.</p> <p>He further claimed that the technology of these two companies would incur less cost in storage of grains and other food items.</p> <p>It was said in the seminar that food grains like wheat, maize, paddy, mustard among others can be stored safely for a long period using these technologies.</p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2018-11-19', 'modified' => '2018-11-20', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '9231', 'image' => '20181120125414_GrainCloseup.jpg', 'article_date' => '2018-11-19 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '20' ) ), (int) 10 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '9452', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Textile Manufacturers’ Protest Called Off', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 19: Textile manufactures of Nepal have called off their protest against the government decision to remove value added tax (VAT) exemption on textiles.', 'content' => '<p>November 19: Textile manufactures of Nepal have called off their protest against the government decision to remove value added tax (VAT) exemption on textiles. The protest was called off after Finance Minister Yuba Raj Khatiwada requested for 10 days time to resolve the problem.</p> <p>The textile manufacturers had announced of the protest from Saturday saying that they have not been getting positive response from the discussion with the government regarding the Value Added Tax (VAT) debate. The government had announced to cancel the 13 percent VAT refund it had been providing during the budget speech in response to which the manufacturers had claimed that it was hard for them to sustain in the competitive market.</p> <p>The government had called the protestors for discussion on Sunday, November 18. The indefinite protest by textile manufacturers against the government had direct affected 50,000 employees and around 200,000 family members. </p> <p>Sailendra Lal Pradhan, president of Nepal Textile Industries Association (NTIA), informed NBA that the meeting was positive. He said, “The finance minister was positive at the meeting. He has asked for some time to have discussion in the parliament. We are hopeful.”</p> <p>Textile manufacturers of Nepal had shut down their factories across the nation on Saturday to protest against the government decision to remove value added tax (VAT) exemption on textiles.</p> <p>The decision came into effect from the starting of the current fiscal year.</p> <p>The textile manufacturers shut down a total of 250 industries across the nation to pressurize the government to roll back the decision to cancel VAT exemption on textiles.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2018-11-19', 'modified' => '2018-11-19', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '9229', 'image' => '20181119020626_yub raj khatiwada (3).jpg', 'article_date' => '2018-11-19 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '20' ) ), (int) 11 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '9447', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Surya Nepal, Siddhartha Rana highest taxpayers', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 18: Multinational company Surya Nepal has become the highest tax payer for the third time.', 'content' => '<p>November 18: Multinational company Surya Nepal has become the highest tax payer for the third time. Likewise, Siddhartha Shumsher Rana was the highest taxpayer under the individual category for the last fiscal year. Rana, who has hotel, trekking and various other businesses, has been the highest tax payer for the past five years.</p> <p>Surya Nepal and Rana were honoured by the Inland Revenue Department on the occasion of the 7th National Tax Day on Saturday.</p> <p>Finance Minister Dr Yuvraj Khatiwada honoured the taxpayers in various 15 categories.</p> <p>The government said that the highest taxpayers were honoured to promote taxpaying culture.</p> <p>Others companies to be honored during the programme are Dabur Nepal, Himal Power Ltd, Agriculture and Livestock Probiotic Industry, the Chhimek Cooperatives, Nabil Bank, Nepal Punarbeema (Re-Insurance) Company, Nobel Medical College, F1 Soft Information and Taragaon Regency Hotel.</p> <p> </p> <p style="text-align:justify"><strong>List of Winners Category</strong></p> <p style="text-align:justify">Surya Nepal Income Tax</p> <p style="text-align:justify">Ghorahi Cement Excise Duty</p> <p style="text-align:justify">Dabur Nepal Importer</p> <p style="text-align:justify">Himal Power Ltd Industry</p> <p style="text-align:justify">Pro-biotic Industry (Nimbus) Agriculture and Livestock</p> <p style="text-align:justify">Chhimek Cooperatives Finance Company</p> <p style="text-align:justify">Nabil Bank BFI</p> <p style="text-align:justify">Nobel Medical College Health Institution</p> <p style="text-align:justify">Nepal Punarbeema (Re-Insurance) Company Insurance</p> <p style="text-align:justify">F1 Soft Information IT</p> <p style="text-align:justify">Taragaon Regency Hotel Tourism</p> <p style="text-align:justify">Sipradi Trading Business</p> <p style="text-align:justify">Nepal Investment Pvt Ltd Annual transaction of Rs 400 million</p> <p style="text-align:justify">Nepse Annual transaction between Rs 400 to 800 million</p> <p style="text-align:justify">Siddhartha Shumsher Rana Individual</p> <p style="text-align:justify"> </p> <p style="text-align:justify"> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2018-11-18', 'modified' => '2018-11-28', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '9225', 'image' => '20181118041939_Clipboard01-18.jpg', 'article_date' => '2018-11-18 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '20' ) ), (int) 12 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '9446', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Textile Industries Shut Across Nation', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 18: Textile manufacturers of Nepal shut down their factories across the nation on Saturday to protest against the government decision to remove value added tax (VAT) exemption on textiles.', 'content' => '<p>November 18: Textile manufacturers of Nepal shut down their factories across the nation on Saturday to protest against the government decision to remove value added tax (VAT) exemption on textiles.</p> <p>The government had announced to cancel the VAT refund system during the budget speech. The decision came into effect from the starting of the current fiscal year.</p> <p>The textile manufacturers shut down a total of 250 industries across the nation to pressurize the government to roll back the decision to cancel VAT exemption on textiles.</p> <p>A total of 50,000 employees and their families will be directly affected from the indefinite protest by the textile manufactures against the government.</p> <p>Organizing a press meet in Kathmandu on Saturday, textile manufacturers said they will go for stern protest if their demands are not addressed by November 23.</p> <p>Addressing the meet, Sailendra Pradhan, president of Nepal Textile Industries Association (NTIA), said that the textile manufactures had urged the government to roll back its decision.</p> <p>“As the government was reluctant to address our demands, we textile manufacturers had no option left than to shut down the factories,” he said, adding that it has been very difficult to compete with foreign textiles, and the decision has further hit the sector.</p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2018-11-18', 'modified' => '2018-11-18', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '9224', 'image' => '20181118041106_kapada-1.jpg', 'article_date' => '2018-11-18 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '20' ) ), (int) 13 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '9444', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Experts Warn Against Growing Fiscal Anarchism', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 18: Growing fiscal anarchism if shifted to province and local level will be disastrous, experts pointed out during an interaction program held in Kathmandu on November 16.', 'content' => '<p>November 18: Growing fiscal anarchism if shifted to province and local level will be disastrous, experts pointed out during an interaction program held in Kathmandu on November 16.</p> <p>The programme ‘Public Expenditure System in Federal Structure: Opportunities and Challenges’ was jointly organized by Public Expenditure Review Commission (PERC) and South Asia Watch on Trade, Economics and Environment (SAWTEE) to discuss the complexities of public expenditure in the fledgling federal system, especially in the context of agricultural development.</p> <p>Dr Dilli Raj Khanal, chairman of PERC pointed out that one of the biggest reasons for the mismanaged public expenditure was the tendency of starting projects without proper readiness in terms of planning, which created complications during implementation leading to unspent budget allocation.</p> <p>Therefore he emphasized on spending substantial amount of time on planning and preparedness which would then ensure effective implementation.</p> <p>Dr Posh Raj Pandey, executive director of SAWTEE, also cautioned that Nepal’s current expenditure allocation had been growing since some time and increased number of administrative units would further add to it. He pointed out that growing fiscal anarchism were shown by tendency of allocating budget without figuring out the sources of funds and projects being launched without completing necessary pre-requisites. Lack of preparation causes projects to suffer cost and time over-run making the administration inefficient, he said. He cautioned that lack of accountability in maintaining budgetary discipline may lead to provincial and local level governments replicating similar tendencies compromising their absorptive capacity.</p> <p>He further added that the constitutional provisions of creating overlap between the responsibilities of different tiers of government may be a potential source of conflict. Similarly the imposition of export or business taxes in agricultural produce and the tendency to use agriculture related conditional grants to other sectors may hinder agricultural development. </p> <p>Referring to mismatched project prioritization and budget allocation, Balananda Poudel, former secretary and chairman of Local Bodies Restructuring Commission said that government needed to effectively implement medium-term expenditure framework even at provincial and local levels. He urged PERC to become proactive in questioning government and its entities at all levels on their expenditure policy and patterns to instill a sense of accountability. </p> <p>Participants included representatives of federal and provincial governments, including secretaries, joint secretaries; representatives of municipal and rural councils also shared their experiences. They emphasized that the lack of sufficient personnel and procedural confusion had created problem in service delivery thus creating inefficiency. Similarly, they also urged the federal government to set up a centralized and uniform accounting and reporting information technology for efficient and integrated system.</p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2018-11-18', 'modified' => '2018-11-18', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '9223', 'image' => '20181118103416_sawtee public expenditure.jpg', 'article_date' => '2018-11-18 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '20' ) ), (int) 14 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '9430', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Muktinath Bikas Bank Supports Conservation of Muktinath Temple', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 15: Muktinath Bikas Bank has provided Rs 500,000 to Mukti Area Development Committee for the development and conservation of Muktinath Temple in Mustang.', 'content' => '<p>November 15: Muktinath Bikas Bank has provided Rs 500,000 to Mukti Area Development Committee for the development and conservation of Muktinath Temple in Mustang. The bank said in a statement that it decided to provide the amount under its corporate social responsibility.</p> <p>The bank’s CEO Praduman Pokharel handed over the cheque to the chief Lama of the committee Wangyal Lama amid a recent function.</p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2018-11-15', 'modified' => '2018-11-15', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '9208', 'image' => '20181115033407_20181115_124945.jpg', 'article_date' => '2018-11-15 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '20' ) ) ) $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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The country’s established entrepreneurs and policymakers shared such view during the ‘Econ-ity’ discussion on the theme ‘Policy Bottlenecks in Entrepreneurship’ organised by Samriddhi Foundation at Hotel Himalaya on Novemebr 20.</p> <p>The discussions revolved around the intertwining role of government and policy, and business and investment, reads a statement issued by the foundation.</p> <p>One of the panelists, Suman Shakya, said that all categories of businesses need to operate under a single and a generalized policy in Nepal.</p> <p>“On the contrary, there is no separate standard policy for startups or innovative businesses,” he said.</p> <p>In response to these policy hurdles, Om Prakash Mahato from the Ministry of Industry, highlighted that since most of the ministries, at present, are involved in drafting new or reviewing existing policies, this is the right time for entrepreneurs to quote their issues and advocate for changes in the policy regime.</p> <p>The discussion also highlighted the need to create a level-playing field for all kinds of aspiring entrepreneurs. There was a general agreement that there needs to be a greater need for the private sector to collaborate and work together with the government to support and get supported.</p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2018-11-21', 'modified' => '2018-11-21', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '9248', 'image' => '20181121030535_policyy.jpg', 'article_date' => '2018-11-21 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '20' ) ), (int) 1 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '9465', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Govt Mulls Increasing Import Tax on Bananas', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 20: The government of Nepal is planning to increase import tax on bananas. ', 'content' => '<p>November 20: The government of Nepal is planning to increase import tax on bananas. Minister for Agriculture and Livestock Development, Chakra Pani Khanal, shared that the government has been working to increase import tax on bananas in order to discourage the import of bananas from India.</p> <p>According to Rastriya Samachar Samiti (RSS), the national news agency of Nepal, the minister said that the rate and ratio of increasing the tax was under discussion with the Ministry of Finance.</p> <p>The government has been collecting five percent tax while importing bananas while the banana farmers have been demanding up to 30 percent tax.</p> <p>The farmers and entrepreneurs have claimed that they will not be able to continue banana farming if the import tax is not increased, according to RSS.</p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2018-11-20', 'modified' => '2018-11-21', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '9243', 'image' => '20181120025415_aaaa.jpg', 'article_date' => '2018-11-20 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '20' ) ), (int) 2 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '9466', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Japan to provide Rs 356 million for food assistance to Nepal', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 20: The government of Japan has agreed to provide grant assistance of 350 million yen equivalent to around Rs 356 million to Nepal for carrying out food assistance programme, according to the Rastriya Samachar Samiti (RSS).', 'content' => '<p>November 20: The government of Japan has agreed to provide grant assistance of 350 million yen equivalent to around Rs 356 million to Nepal for carrying out food assistance programme, according to the Rastriya Samachar Samiti (RSS).</p> <p>The signing of Exchange of Notes towards this end was held on the witness of the foreign ministers of Nepal and Japan.</p> <p>Nepal’s Ambassador to Japan Prativa Rana and Japanese Ambassador to Nepal Masamichi Saigo signed the memorandum of understanding on behalf of their respective governments on Monday, November 19. The signing ceremony was held at Ikura House, Tokyo after the bilateral meeting between foreign ministers of the two countries--Pradeep Gyawali and Taro Kano, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.</p> <p>According to RSS, the assistance aims to support the Government of Nepal to implement the Food Assistance Program to ensure food security to the Nepali people. The assistance from Japan will enable the Government of Nepal to procure rice and supply it to the people in need.</p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2018-11-20', 'modified' => '2018-11-20', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '9242', 'image' => '20181120031241_jpn.jpg', 'article_date' => '2018-11-20 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '20' ) ), (int) 3 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '9467', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Tanker Drivers call off Protest', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 20 : Nepali tanker drivers who had halted fuel supply from Barauni of India since three days called off their strike on Monday evening after the Indian authorities pledged not to mistreat the Nepali drivers.', 'content' => '<p>November 20 : Nepali tanker drivers who had halted fuel supply from Barauni of India since three days called off their strike on Monday evening after the Indian authorities pledged not to mistreat the Nepali drivers.</p> <p>According to Rastriya Samachar Samiti (RSS), the tanker drivers had resorted to agitation after the Indian security personnel beat Monu Kumar, a driver of tanker (Ko 1 Kha 6009), on the way to Nepal from Barauni at Jogbani border point of India on Saturday.</p> <p>The agitating drivers had halted fuel supply for three days protesting the misbehavior from the Indian security personnel.</p> <p>Among the demands put forth by the agitators include taking action against the Indian security personnel who beat the tanker driver, putting to an end the misbehaviour meted out against Nepali drivers, ensuring security of drivers and seeking alternative route to the existing heavy traffic road.</p> <p>RSS said that the fuel supply has come to normalcy from Monday evening after the Indian side admitted its mistake and pledged to not repeat such misbehavour again. The Indian side realized its mistake at a meeting between the officials of Nepal and India at Jogbani on Monday.</p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2018-11-20', 'modified' => '2018-11-20', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '9241', 'image' => '20181120033103_tanker.jpg', 'article_date' => '2018-11-20 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '20' ) ), (int) 4 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '9464', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Medicity Hospital, AAN Sign Agreement', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 20: Nepal Medicity Hospital has signed an agreement with Advertising Association of Nepal (AAN) to provide health care facilities to the members of AAN at the hospital at affordable rate.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-family:arial sans-serif,serif">November 20: Nepal Medicity Hospital has signed an agreement with Advertising Association of Nepal (AAN) to provide health care facilities to the members of AAN at the hospital at affordable rate.</span></p> <p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in; text-align:start"><span style="color:#333333; font-family:arial sans-serif,serif">Bijay Rimal, managing director of Nepal Medicity Hospital, and Rabindra Kumar Rijal, chairman of AAN, signed the agreement on behalf of their respective organization amid a recent function.</span></p> <p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in; text-align:start"><span style="color:#333333; font-family:arial sans-serif,serif">The hospital has also initiated discussions to organise social awareness campaigns in different parts of the country in collaboration with AAN.</span></p> <p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in"><span style="color:#333333; font-family:arial sans-serif,serif">During the function, GM Rimal said that the members of AAN should stay fit as they play an important role in spreading awareness regarding health through advertisement. Hence, the hospital has decided to provide discount for their treatment. </span></p> <p><span style="font-family:preeti; font-size:18.0pt"> </span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2018-11-20', 'modified' => '2018-11-20', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '9240', 'image' => '20181120021324_Mou.jpg', 'article_date' => '2018-11-20 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '20' ) ), (int) 5 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '9462', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Construction Equipment Expo from Thursday', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 20: The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), the umbrella body of industry associations in India, is all set to organize an exhibition of construction equipment in Nepal later this week.', 'content' => '<p>November 20: The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), the umbrella body of industry associations in India, is all set to organize an exhibition of construction equipment in Nepal later this week.</p> <p>Issuing a statement, CII said that the ConMac 2018 exhibition will be organized at Sallaghari Open Ground, Bhaktapur from November 22 to 24. According to the organiser, more than 150 exhibitors will be participating at the three-day exhibition, to be hosted on a gross display area of 250,000 sq feet. The event is expected to attract over 10,000 business visitors from across the country.</p> <p>“This kind of exhibition has emerged as an imperative platform to bring together leading global and domestic construction equipment players to demonstrate their world-class technological prowess and capabilities. With Nepal facing a large shortage of skilled manpower, this exhibition aims to assist and empower contractors by providing them with the latest in technology and capacity enhancement within the construction sector,” reads the statement.</p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2018-11-20', 'modified' => '2018-11-20', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '9238', 'image' => '20181120012807_english.jpg', 'article_date' => '2018-11-20 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '20' ) ), (int) 6 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '9457', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Chimney Lighting Ceremony to Welcome Winter', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 19: Hotel Yak and Yeti organised a chimney lighting ceremony at its Chimney Restaurant recently to welcome the winter.', 'content' => '<p>November 19: Hotel Yak and Yeti organised a chimney lighting ceremony at its Chimney Restaurant recently to welcome the winter. In a statement, the hotel said it has been lighting the chimney every year in mid-November ever since the establishment of the restaurant.</p> <p>“The lighting of chimney is also perceived as welcoming the winter in Kathmandu. The chimney will be lit until February 15 every year,” the statement said.</p> <p>The chimney was jointly lit by Sri Lankan Ambassador to Nepal Wellage Swarnalatha Perera, Ambassador of the UAE to Nepal Saeed Hamdan Al Naqei and Monika Scheiblauer, general manager of Hotel Yak & Yeti.</p> <p>Seated in the quaint palatial wing of the hotel's edifice, the Chimney Restaurant was re-launched on October 13 this year with a new menu and an ambience with an extended outdoor terrace seating in the beautiful garden.</p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2018-11-19', 'modified' => '2018-11-19', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '9234', 'image' => '20181119035745_chimney.jpg', 'article_date' => '2018-11-19 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '20' ) ), (int) 7 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '9455', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Qatar Airways to add more flights to popular tourist destinations', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 19: Qatar Airways said that its passengers will be able to access more weekly flights to top tourist hot spots in Antalya, Bodrum and Mykonos due to the airline’s strong performance during this summer.', 'content' => '<p>‎November 19: Qatar Airways said that its passengers will be able to access more weekly flights to top tourist hot spots in Antalya, Bodrum and Mykonos due to the airline’s strong performance during this summer.</p> <p>Qatar Airways said in a statement that it will add an extra weekly flight to the Antalya, Bodrum and Mykonos routes from May 2019 as well as upgrade the aircraft.</p> <p>According to Qatar Airways, it will also introduce larger, more modern aircraft in the two routes, with Antalya operated by A330 and Málaga by the spacious Boeing 777-200LR.</p> <p>The popular tourist destinations of Antalya and Bodrum in Turkey, Mykonos, Greece, and Málaga, Spain, have shown a consistently strong performance in the four months since being launched in June this year, the statement further said.</p> <p>Qatar Airways Group Chief Executive Akbar Al Baker, said, “We are delighted with the exceptionally strong performance of these seasonal routes in the four months since they were introduced. The passenger demand for the return of non-stop services to these top tourist hot spots has been very high, so we are thrilled to respond by not only resuming these routes for summer 2019, but also by adding an extra weekly flight to the Antalya, Bodrum and Mykonos schedules.”</p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2018-11-19', 'modified' => '2018-11-19', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '9233', 'image' => '20181119031239_qatar.jpg', 'article_date' => '2018-11-19 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '20' ) ), (int) 8 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '9454', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Access to safe sanitation still a problem in South Asia', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 19: The World Health Organisation has said that the access to safe sanitation services, including hygienic toilets that are connected to quality sewage systems, remains a problem in South-East Asia.', 'content' => '<p>November 19: The World Health Organisation has said that the access to safe sanitation services, including hygienic toilets that are connected to quality sewage systems, remains a problem in South-East Asia with 900 million region-wide lacking basic sanitation, and more than 500 million practicing open defecation.</p> <p>The WHO warned that this leads to increased human-feces contact and the transmission of a range of diseases, from cholera to typhoid and hepatitis A and E to tapeworm. </p> <p>However, the member states have made significant progress in recent years, according to a statement issued by the WHO. Region-wide, urban coverage of basic sanitation is now close to 70 percent. In a majority of countries rural coverage exceeds 50 percent.</p> <p>The share of the region’s population practicing open defecation has meanwhile been reduced from more than 50 percent to less than 30 percent, while several member states have achieved more than 90 percent coverage of basic sanitation services.</p> <p>The return on every dollar invested in safe sanitation is estimated to be nearly six times, due in large part to lower health costs, increased productivity and fewer premature deaths, the statement further said.</p> <p>WHO’s South-East Asia Region comprises the following 11 member states: Bangladesh, Bhutan, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, India, Indonesia, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Timor-Leste.</p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2018-11-19', 'modified' => '2018-11-19', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '9232', 'image' => '20181119030247_who.jpg', 'article_date' => '2018-11-19 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '20' ) ), (int) 9 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '9456', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Modern Storage Facility of Grains Available in Nepal', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 19: Stakeholders organised a seminar in the capital on Friday to shed light on safe and modern storage facilities for food grains.', 'content' => '<p>November 19: Stakeholders organised a seminar in the capital on Friday to shed light on safe and modern storage facilities for food grains.</p> <p>The seminar organised jointly by Spain-based Silos Córdoba and Germany-based FrigorTec in collaboration with their local partner in Nepal –Techsol International – dwelt on imparting knowledge about smart grain storage and solution for cooling grain in a country like Nepal whose chief occupation is agriculture.</p> <p>Aakash Tiwari, managing director of Techsol International, said that they have been involved in promoting modern ways of storage of grains in Nepal since the last two years.</p> <p>He said that such storage facilities are highly relevant in the Nepali society due to its agrarian nature.</p> <p>He further claimed that the technology of these two companies would incur less cost in storage of grains and other food items.</p> <p>It was said in the seminar that food grains like wheat, maize, paddy, mustard among others can be stored safely for a long period using these technologies.</p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2018-11-19', 'modified' => '2018-11-20', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '9231', 'image' => '20181120125414_GrainCloseup.jpg', 'article_date' => '2018-11-19 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '20' ) ), (int) 10 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '9452', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Textile Manufacturers’ Protest Called Off', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 19: Textile manufactures of Nepal have called off their protest against the government decision to remove value added tax (VAT) exemption on textiles.', 'content' => '<p>November 19: Textile manufactures of Nepal have called off their protest against the government decision to remove value added tax (VAT) exemption on textiles. The protest was called off after Finance Minister Yuba Raj Khatiwada requested for 10 days time to resolve the problem.</p> <p>The textile manufacturers had announced of the protest from Saturday saying that they have not been getting positive response from the discussion with the government regarding the Value Added Tax (VAT) debate. The government had announced to cancel the 13 percent VAT refund it had been providing during the budget speech in response to which the manufacturers had claimed that it was hard for them to sustain in the competitive market.</p> <p>The government had called the protestors for discussion on Sunday, November 18. The indefinite protest by textile manufacturers against the government had direct affected 50,000 employees and around 200,000 family members. </p> <p>Sailendra Lal Pradhan, president of Nepal Textile Industries Association (NTIA), informed NBA that the meeting was positive. He said, “The finance minister was positive at the meeting. He has asked for some time to have discussion in the parliament. We are hopeful.”</p> <p>Textile manufacturers of Nepal had shut down their factories across the nation on Saturday to protest against the government decision to remove value added tax (VAT) exemption on textiles.</p> <p>The decision came into effect from the starting of the current fiscal year.</p> <p>The textile manufacturers shut down a total of 250 industries across the nation to pressurize the government to roll back the decision to cancel VAT exemption on textiles.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2018-11-19', 'modified' => '2018-11-19', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '9229', 'image' => '20181119020626_yub raj khatiwada (3).jpg', 'article_date' => '2018-11-19 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '20' ) ), (int) 11 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '9447', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Surya Nepal, Siddhartha Rana highest taxpayers', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 18: Multinational company Surya Nepal has become the highest tax payer for the third time.', 'content' => '<p>November 18: Multinational company Surya Nepal has become the highest tax payer for the third time. Likewise, Siddhartha Shumsher Rana was the highest taxpayer under the individual category for the last fiscal year. Rana, who has hotel, trekking and various other businesses, has been the highest tax payer for the past five years.</p> <p>Surya Nepal and Rana were honoured by the Inland Revenue Department on the occasion of the 7th National Tax Day on Saturday.</p> <p>Finance Minister Dr Yuvraj Khatiwada honoured the taxpayers in various 15 categories.</p> <p>The government said that the highest taxpayers were honoured to promote taxpaying culture.</p> <p>Others companies to be honored during the programme are Dabur Nepal, Himal Power Ltd, Agriculture and Livestock Probiotic Industry, the Chhimek Cooperatives, Nabil Bank, Nepal Punarbeema (Re-Insurance) Company, Nobel Medical College, F1 Soft Information and Taragaon Regency Hotel.</p> <p> </p> <p style="text-align:justify"><strong>List of Winners Category</strong></p> <p style="text-align:justify">Surya Nepal Income Tax</p> <p style="text-align:justify">Ghorahi Cement Excise Duty</p> <p style="text-align:justify">Dabur Nepal Importer</p> <p style="text-align:justify">Himal Power Ltd Industry</p> <p style="text-align:justify">Pro-biotic Industry (Nimbus) Agriculture and Livestock</p> <p style="text-align:justify">Chhimek Cooperatives Finance Company</p> <p style="text-align:justify">Nabil Bank BFI</p> <p style="text-align:justify">Nobel Medical College Health Institution</p> <p style="text-align:justify">Nepal Punarbeema (Re-Insurance) Company Insurance</p> <p style="text-align:justify">F1 Soft Information IT</p> <p style="text-align:justify">Taragaon Regency Hotel Tourism</p> <p style="text-align:justify">Sipradi Trading Business</p> <p style="text-align:justify">Nepal Investment Pvt Ltd Annual transaction of Rs 400 million</p> <p style="text-align:justify">Nepse Annual transaction between Rs 400 to 800 million</p> <p style="text-align:justify">Siddhartha Shumsher Rana Individual</p> <p style="text-align:justify"> </p> <p style="text-align:justify"> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2018-11-18', 'modified' => '2018-11-28', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '9225', 'image' => '20181118041939_Clipboard01-18.jpg', 'article_date' => '2018-11-18 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '20' ) ), (int) 12 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '9446', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Textile Industries Shut Across Nation', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 18: Textile manufacturers of Nepal shut down their factories across the nation on Saturday to protest against the government decision to remove value added tax (VAT) exemption on textiles.', 'content' => '<p>November 18: Textile manufacturers of Nepal shut down their factories across the nation on Saturday to protest against the government decision to remove value added tax (VAT) exemption on textiles.</p> <p>The government had announced to cancel the VAT refund system during the budget speech. The decision came into effect from the starting of the current fiscal year.</p> <p>The textile manufacturers shut down a total of 250 industries across the nation to pressurize the government to roll back the decision to cancel VAT exemption on textiles.</p> <p>A total of 50,000 employees and their families will be directly affected from the indefinite protest by the textile manufactures against the government.</p> <p>Organizing a press meet in Kathmandu on Saturday, textile manufacturers said they will go for stern protest if their demands are not addressed by November 23.</p> <p>Addressing the meet, Sailendra Pradhan, president of Nepal Textile Industries Association (NTIA), said that the textile manufactures had urged the government to roll back its decision.</p> <p>“As the government was reluctant to address our demands, we textile manufacturers had no option left than to shut down the factories,” he said, adding that it has been very difficult to compete with foreign textiles, and the decision has further hit the sector.</p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2018-11-18', 'modified' => '2018-11-18', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '9224', 'image' => '20181118041106_kapada-1.jpg', 'article_date' => '2018-11-18 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '20' ) ), (int) 13 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '9444', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Experts Warn Against Growing Fiscal Anarchism', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 18: Growing fiscal anarchism if shifted to province and local level will be disastrous, experts pointed out during an interaction program held in Kathmandu on November 16.', 'content' => '<p>November 18: Growing fiscal anarchism if shifted to province and local level will be disastrous, experts pointed out during an interaction program held in Kathmandu on November 16.</p> <p>The programme ‘Public Expenditure System in Federal Structure: Opportunities and Challenges’ was jointly organized by Public Expenditure Review Commission (PERC) and South Asia Watch on Trade, Economics and Environment (SAWTEE) to discuss the complexities of public expenditure in the fledgling federal system, especially in the context of agricultural development.</p> <p>Dr Dilli Raj Khanal, chairman of PERC pointed out that one of the biggest reasons for the mismanaged public expenditure was the tendency of starting projects without proper readiness in terms of planning, which created complications during implementation leading to unspent budget allocation.</p> <p>Therefore he emphasized on spending substantial amount of time on planning and preparedness which would then ensure effective implementation.</p> <p>Dr Posh Raj Pandey, executive director of SAWTEE, also cautioned that Nepal’s current expenditure allocation had been growing since some time and increased number of administrative units would further add to it. He pointed out that growing fiscal anarchism were shown by tendency of allocating budget without figuring out the sources of funds and projects being launched without completing necessary pre-requisites. Lack of preparation causes projects to suffer cost and time over-run making the administration inefficient, he said. He cautioned that lack of accountability in maintaining budgetary discipline may lead to provincial and local level governments replicating similar tendencies compromising their absorptive capacity.</p> <p>He further added that the constitutional provisions of creating overlap between the responsibilities of different tiers of government may be a potential source of conflict. Similarly the imposition of export or business taxes in agricultural produce and the tendency to use agriculture related conditional grants to other sectors may hinder agricultural development. </p> <p>Referring to mismatched project prioritization and budget allocation, Balananda Poudel, former secretary and chairman of Local Bodies Restructuring Commission said that government needed to effectively implement medium-term expenditure framework even at provincial and local levels. He urged PERC to become proactive in questioning government and its entities at all levels on their expenditure policy and patterns to instill a sense of accountability. </p> <p>Participants included representatives of federal and provincial governments, including secretaries, joint secretaries; representatives of municipal and rural councils also shared their experiences. They emphasized that the lack of sufficient personnel and procedural confusion had created problem in service delivery thus creating inefficiency. Similarly, they also urged the federal government to set up a centralized and uniform accounting and reporting information technology for efficient and integrated system.</p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2018-11-18', 'modified' => '2018-11-18', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '9223', 'image' => '20181118103416_sawtee public expenditure.jpg', 'article_date' => '2018-11-18 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '20' ) ), (int) 14 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '9430', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Muktinath Bikas Bank Supports Conservation of Muktinath Temple', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 15: Muktinath Bikas Bank has provided Rs 500,000 to Mukti Area Development Committee for the development and conservation of Muktinath Temple in Mustang.', 'content' => '<p>November 15: Muktinath Bikas Bank has provided Rs 500,000 to Mukti Area Development Committee for the development and conservation of Muktinath Temple in Mustang. 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The country’s established entrepreneurs and policymakers shared such view during the ‘Econ-ity’ discussion on the theme ‘Policy Bottlenecks in Entrepreneurship’ organised by Samriddhi Foundation at Hotel Himalaya on Novemebr 20.</p> <p>The discussions revolved around the intertwining role of government and policy, and business and investment, reads a statement issued by the foundation.</p> <p>One of the panelists, Suman Shakya, said that all categories of businesses need to operate under a single and a generalized policy in Nepal.</p> <p>“On the contrary, there is no separate standard policy for startups or innovative businesses,” he said.</p> <p>In response to these policy hurdles, Om Prakash Mahato from the Ministry of Industry, highlighted that since most of the ministries, at present, are involved in drafting new or reviewing existing policies, this is the right time for entrepreneurs to quote their issues and advocate for changes in the policy regime.</p> <p>The discussion also highlighted the need to create a level-playing field for all kinds of aspiring entrepreneurs. There was a general agreement that there needs to be a greater need for the private sector to collaborate and work together with the government to support and get supported.</p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2018-11-21', 'modified' => '2018-11-21', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '9248', 'image' => '20181121030535_policyy.jpg', 'article_date' => '2018-11-21 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '20' ) ), (int) 1 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '9465', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Govt Mulls Increasing Import Tax on Bananas', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 20: The government of Nepal is planning to increase import tax on bananas. ', 'content' => '<p>November 20: The government of Nepal is planning to increase import tax on bananas. Minister for Agriculture and Livestock Development, Chakra Pani Khanal, shared that the government has been working to increase import tax on bananas in order to discourage the import of bananas from India.</p> <p>According to Rastriya Samachar Samiti (RSS), the national news agency of Nepal, the minister said that the rate and ratio of increasing the tax was under discussion with the Ministry of Finance.</p> <p>The government has been collecting five percent tax while importing bananas while the banana farmers have been demanding up to 30 percent tax.</p> <p>The farmers and entrepreneurs have claimed that they will not be able to continue banana farming if the import tax is not increased, according to RSS.</p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2018-11-20', 'modified' => '2018-11-21', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '9243', 'image' => '20181120025415_aaaa.jpg', 'article_date' => '2018-11-20 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '20' ) ), (int) 2 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '9466', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Japan to provide Rs 356 million for food assistance to Nepal', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 20: The government of Japan has agreed to provide grant assistance of 350 million yen equivalent to around Rs 356 million to Nepal for carrying out food assistance programme, according to the Rastriya Samachar Samiti (RSS).', 'content' => '<p>November 20: The government of Japan has agreed to provide grant assistance of 350 million yen equivalent to around Rs 356 million to Nepal for carrying out food assistance programme, according to the Rastriya Samachar Samiti (RSS).</p> <p>The signing of Exchange of Notes towards this end was held on the witness of the foreign ministers of Nepal and Japan.</p> <p>Nepal’s Ambassador to Japan Prativa Rana and Japanese Ambassador to Nepal Masamichi Saigo signed the memorandum of understanding on behalf of their respective governments on Monday, November 19. The signing ceremony was held at Ikura House, Tokyo after the bilateral meeting between foreign ministers of the two countries--Pradeep Gyawali and Taro Kano, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.</p> <p>According to RSS, the assistance aims to support the Government of Nepal to implement the Food Assistance Program to ensure food security to the Nepali people. The assistance from Japan will enable the Government of Nepal to procure rice and supply it to the people in need.</p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2018-11-20', 'modified' => '2018-11-20', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '9242', 'image' => '20181120031241_jpn.jpg', 'article_date' => '2018-11-20 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '20' ) ), (int) 3 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '9467', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Tanker Drivers call off Protest', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 20 : Nepali tanker drivers who had halted fuel supply from Barauni of India since three days called off their strike on Monday evening after the Indian authorities pledged not to mistreat the Nepali drivers.', 'content' => '<p>November 20 : Nepali tanker drivers who had halted fuel supply from Barauni of India since three days called off their strike on Monday evening after the Indian authorities pledged not to mistreat the Nepali drivers.</p> <p>According to Rastriya Samachar Samiti (RSS), the tanker drivers had resorted to agitation after the Indian security personnel beat Monu Kumar, a driver of tanker (Ko 1 Kha 6009), on the way to Nepal from Barauni at Jogbani border point of India on Saturday.</p> <p>The agitating drivers had halted fuel supply for three days protesting the misbehavior from the Indian security personnel.</p> <p>Among the demands put forth by the agitators include taking action against the Indian security personnel who beat the tanker driver, putting to an end the misbehaviour meted out against Nepali drivers, ensuring security of drivers and seeking alternative route to the existing heavy traffic road.</p> <p>RSS said that the fuel supply has come to normalcy from Monday evening after the Indian side admitted its mistake and pledged to not repeat such misbehavour again. The Indian side realized its mistake at a meeting between the officials of Nepal and India at Jogbani on Monday.</p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2018-11-20', 'modified' => '2018-11-20', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '9241', 'image' => '20181120033103_tanker.jpg', 'article_date' => '2018-11-20 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '20' ) ), (int) 4 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '9464', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Medicity Hospital, AAN Sign Agreement', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 20: Nepal Medicity Hospital has signed an agreement with Advertising Association of Nepal (AAN) to provide health care facilities to the members of AAN at the hospital at affordable rate.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-family:arial sans-serif,serif">November 20: Nepal Medicity Hospital has signed an agreement with Advertising Association of Nepal (AAN) to provide health care facilities to the members of AAN at the hospital at affordable rate.</span></p> <p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in; text-align:start"><span style="color:#333333; font-family:arial sans-serif,serif">Bijay Rimal, managing director of Nepal Medicity Hospital, and Rabindra Kumar Rijal, chairman of AAN, signed the agreement on behalf of their respective organization amid a recent function.</span></p> <p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in; text-align:start"><span style="color:#333333; font-family:arial sans-serif,serif">The hospital has also initiated discussions to organise social awareness campaigns in different parts of the country in collaboration with AAN.</span></p> <p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in"><span style="color:#333333; font-family:arial sans-serif,serif">During the function, GM Rimal said that the members of AAN should stay fit as they play an important role in spreading awareness regarding health through advertisement. Hence, the hospital has decided to provide discount for their treatment. </span></p> <p><span style="font-family:preeti; font-size:18.0pt"> </span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2018-11-20', 'modified' => '2018-11-20', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '9240', 'image' => '20181120021324_Mou.jpg', 'article_date' => '2018-11-20 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '20' ) ), (int) 5 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '9462', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Construction Equipment Expo from Thursday', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 20: The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), the umbrella body of industry associations in India, is all set to organize an exhibition of construction equipment in Nepal later this week.', 'content' => '<p>November 20: The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), the umbrella body of industry associations in India, is all set to organize an exhibition of construction equipment in Nepal later this week.</p> <p>Issuing a statement, CII said that the ConMac 2018 exhibition will be organized at Sallaghari Open Ground, Bhaktapur from November 22 to 24. According to the organiser, more than 150 exhibitors will be participating at the three-day exhibition, to be hosted on a gross display area of 250,000 sq feet. The event is expected to attract over 10,000 business visitors from across the country.</p> <p>“This kind of exhibition has emerged as an imperative platform to bring together leading global and domestic construction equipment players to demonstrate their world-class technological prowess and capabilities. With Nepal facing a large shortage of skilled manpower, this exhibition aims to assist and empower contractors by providing them with the latest in technology and capacity enhancement within the construction sector,” reads the statement.</p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2018-11-20', 'modified' => '2018-11-20', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '9238', 'image' => '20181120012807_english.jpg', 'article_date' => '2018-11-20 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '20' ) ), (int) 6 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '9457', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Chimney Lighting Ceremony to Welcome Winter', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 19: Hotel Yak and Yeti organised a chimney lighting ceremony at its Chimney Restaurant recently to welcome the winter.', 'content' => '<p>November 19: Hotel Yak and Yeti organised a chimney lighting ceremony at its Chimney Restaurant recently to welcome the winter. In a statement, the hotel said it has been lighting the chimney every year in mid-November ever since the establishment of the restaurant.</p> <p>“The lighting of chimney is also perceived as welcoming the winter in Kathmandu. The chimney will be lit until February 15 every year,” the statement said.</p> <p>The chimney was jointly lit by Sri Lankan Ambassador to Nepal Wellage Swarnalatha Perera, Ambassador of the UAE to Nepal Saeed Hamdan Al Naqei and Monika Scheiblauer, general manager of Hotel Yak & Yeti.</p> <p>Seated in the quaint palatial wing of the hotel's edifice, the Chimney Restaurant was re-launched on October 13 this year with a new menu and an ambience with an extended outdoor terrace seating in the beautiful garden.</p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2018-11-19', 'modified' => '2018-11-19', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '9234', 'image' => '20181119035745_chimney.jpg', 'article_date' => '2018-11-19 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '20' ) ), (int) 7 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '9455', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Qatar Airways to add more flights to popular tourist destinations', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 19: Qatar Airways said that its passengers will be able to access more weekly flights to top tourist hot spots in Antalya, Bodrum and Mykonos due to the airline’s strong performance during this summer.', 'content' => '<p>‎November 19: Qatar Airways said that its passengers will be able to access more weekly flights to top tourist hot spots in Antalya, Bodrum and Mykonos due to the airline’s strong performance during this summer.</p> <p>Qatar Airways said in a statement that it will add an extra weekly flight to the Antalya, Bodrum and Mykonos routes from May 2019 as well as upgrade the aircraft.</p> <p>According to Qatar Airways, it will also introduce larger, more modern aircraft in the two routes, with Antalya operated by A330 and Málaga by the spacious Boeing 777-200LR.</p> <p>The popular tourist destinations of Antalya and Bodrum in Turkey, Mykonos, Greece, and Málaga, Spain, have shown a consistently strong performance in the four months since being launched in June this year, the statement further said.</p> <p>Qatar Airways Group Chief Executive Akbar Al Baker, said, “We are delighted with the exceptionally strong performance of these seasonal routes in the four months since they were introduced. The passenger demand for the return of non-stop services to these top tourist hot spots has been very high, so we are thrilled to respond by not only resuming these routes for summer 2019, but also by adding an extra weekly flight to the Antalya, Bodrum and Mykonos schedules.”</p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2018-11-19', 'modified' => '2018-11-19', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '9233', 'image' => '20181119031239_qatar.jpg', 'article_date' => '2018-11-19 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '20' ) ), (int) 8 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '9454', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Access to safe sanitation still a problem in South Asia', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 19: The World Health Organisation has said that the access to safe sanitation services, including hygienic toilets that are connected to quality sewage systems, remains a problem in South-East Asia.', 'content' => '<p>November 19: The World Health Organisation has said that the access to safe sanitation services, including hygienic toilets that are connected to quality sewage systems, remains a problem in South-East Asia with 900 million region-wide lacking basic sanitation, and more than 500 million practicing open defecation.</p> <p>The WHO warned that this leads to increased human-feces contact and the transmission of a range of diseases, from cholera to typhoid and hepatitis A and E to tapeworm. </p> <p>However, the member states have made significant progress in recent years, according to a statement issued by the WHO. Region-wide, urban coverage of basic sanitation is now close to 70 percent. In a majority of countries rural coverage exceeds 50 percent.</p> <p>The share of the region’s population practicing open defecation has meanwhile been reduced from more than 50 percent to less than 30 percent, while several member states have achieved more than 90 percent coverage of basic sanitation services.</p> <p>The return on every dollar invested in safe sanitation is estimated to be nearly six times, due in large part to lower health costs, increased productivity and fewer premature deaths, the statement further said.</p> <p>WHO’s South-East Asia Region comprises the following 11 member states: Bangladesh, Bhutan, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, India, Indonesia, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Timor-Leste.</p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2018-11-19', 'modified' => '2018-11-19', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '9232', 'image' => '20181119030247_who.jpg', 'article_date' => '2018-11-19 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '20' ) ), (int) 9 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '9456', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Modern Storage Facility of Grains Available in Nepal', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 19: Stakeholders organised a seminar in the capital on Friday to shed light on safe and modern storage facilities for food grains.', 'content' => '<p>November 19: Stakeholders organised a seminar in the capital on Friday to shed light on safe and modern storage facilities for food grains.</p> <p>The seminar organised jointly by Spain-based Silos Córdoba and Germany-based FrigorTec in collaboration with their local partner in Nepal –Techsol International – dwelt on imparting knowledge about smart grain storage and solution for cooling grain in a country like Nepal whose chief occupation is agriculture.</p> <p>Aakash Tiwari, managing director of Techsol International, said that they have been involved in promoting modern ways of storage of grains in Nepal since the last two years.</p> <p>He said that such storage facilities are highly relevant in the Nepali society due to its agrarian nature.</p> <p>He further claimed that the technology of these two companies would incur less cost in storage of grains and other food items.</p> <p>It was said in the seminar that food grains like wheat, maize, paddy, mustard among others can be stored safely for a long period using these technologies.</p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2018-11-19', 'modified' => '2018-11-20', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '9231', 'image' => '20181120125414_GrainCloseup.jpg', 'article_date' => '2018-11-19 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '20' ) ), (int) 10 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '9452', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Textile Manufacturers’ Protest Called Off', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 19: Textile manufactures of Nepal have called off their protest against the government decision to remove value added tax (VAT) exemption on textiles.', 'content' => '<p>November 19: Textile manufactures of Nepal have called off their protest against the government decision to remove value added tax (VAT) exemption on textiles. The protest was called off after Finance Minister Yuba Raj Khatiwada requested for 10 days time to resolve the problem.</p> <p>The textile manufacturers had announced of the protest from Saturday saying that they have not been getting positive response from the discussion with the government regarding the Value Added Tax (VAT) debate. The government had announced to cancel the 13 percent VAT refund it had been providing during the budget speech in response to which the manufacturers had claimed that it was hard for them to sustain in the competitive market.</p> <p>The government had called the protestors for discussion on Sunday, November 18. The indefinite protest by textile manufacturers against the government had direct affected 50,000 employees and around 200,000 family members. </p> <p>Sailendra Lal Pradhan, president of Nepal Textile Industries Association (NTIA), informed NBA that the meeting was positive. He said, “The finance minister was positive at the meeting. He has asked for some time to have discussion in the parliament. We are hopeful.”</p> <p>Textile manufacturers of Nepal had shut down their factories across the nation on Saturday to protest against the government decision to remove value added tax (VAT) exemption on textiles.</p> <p>The decision came into effect from the starting of the current fiscal year.</p> <p>The textile manufacturers shut down a total of 250 industries across the nation to pressurize the government to roll back the decision to cancel VAT exemption on textiles.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2018-11-19', 'modified' => '2018-11-19', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '9229', 'image' => '20181119020626_yub raj khatiwada (3).jpg', 'article_date' => '2018-11-19 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '20' ) ), (int) 11 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '9447', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Surya Nepal, Siddhartha Rana highest taxpayers', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 18: Multinational company Surya Nepal has become the highest tax payer for the third time.', 'content' => '<p>November 18: Multinational company Surya Nepal has become the highest tax payer for the third time. Likewise, Siddhartha Shumsher Rana was the highest taxpayer under the individual category for the last fiscal year. Rana, who has hotel, trekking and various other businesses, has been the highest tax payer for the past five years.</p> <p>Surya Nepal and Rana were honoured by the Inland Revenue Department on the occasion of the 7th National Tax Day on Saturday.</p> <p>Finance Minister Dr Yuvraj Khatiwada honoured the taxpayers in various 15 categories.</p> <p>The government said that the highest taxpayers were honoured to promote taxpaying culture.</p> <p>Others companies to be honored during the programme are Dabur Nepal, Himal Power Ltd, Agriculture and Livestock Probiotic Industry, the Chhimek Cooperatives, Nabil Bank, Nepal Punarbeema (Re-Insurance) Company, Nobel Medical College, F1 Soft Information and Taragaon Regency Hotel.</p> <p> </p> <p style="text-align:justify"><strong>List of Winners Category</strong></p> <p style="text-align:justify">Surya Nepal Income Tax</p> <p style="text-align:justify">Ghorahi Cement Excise Duty</p> <p style="text-align:justify">Dabur Nepal Importer</p> <p style="text-align:justify">Himal Power Ltd Industry</p> <p style="text-align:justify">Pro-biotic Industry (Nimbus) Agriculture and Livestock</p> <p style="text-align:justify">Chhimek Cooperatives Finance Company</p> <p style="text-align:justify">Nabil Bank BFI</p> <p style="text-align:justify">Nobel Medical College Health Institution</p> <p style="text-align:justify">Nepal Punarbeema (Re-Insurance) Company Insurance</p> <p style="text-align:justify">F1 Soft Information IT</p> <p style="text-align:justify">Taragaon Regency Hotel Tourism</p> <p style="text-align:justify">Sipradi Trading Business</p> <p style="text-align:justify">Nepal Investment Pvt Ltd Annual transaction of Rs 400 million</p> <p style="text-align:justify">Nepse Annual transaction between Rs 400 to 800 million</p> <p style="text-align:justify">Siddhartha Shumsher Rana Individual</p> <p style="text-align:justify"> </p> <p style="text-align:justify"> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2018-11-18', 'modified' => '2018-11-28', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '9225', 'image' => '20181118041939_Clipboard01-18.jpg', 'article_date' => '2018-11-18 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '20' ) ), (int) 12 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '9446', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Textile Industries Shut Across Nation', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 18: Textile manufacturers of Nepal shut down their factories across the nation on Saturday to protest against the government decision to remove value added tax (VAT) exemption on textiles.', 'content' => '<p>November 18: Textile manufacturers of Nepal shut down their factories across the nation on Saturday to protest against the government decision to remove value added tax (VAT) exemption on textiles.</p> <p>The government had announced to cancel the VAT refund system during the budget speech. The decision came into effect from the starting of the current fiscal year.</p> <p>The textile manufacturers shut down a total of 250 industries across the nation to pressurize the government to roll back the decision to cancel VAT exemption on textiles.</p> <p>A total of 50,000 employees and their families will be directly affected from the indefinite protest by the textile manufactures against the government.</p> <p>Organizing a press meet in Kathmandu on Saturday, textile manufacturers said they will go for stern protest if their demands are not addressed by November 23.</p> <p>Addressing the meet, Sailendra Pradhan, president of Nepal Textile Industries Association (NTIA), said that the textile manufactures had urged the government to roll back its decision.</p> <p>“As the government was reluctant to address our demands, we textile manufacturers had no option left than to shut down the factories,” he said, adding that it has been very difficult to compete with foreign textiles, and the decision has further hit the sector.</p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2018-11-18', 'modified' => '2018-11-18', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '9224', 'image' => '20181118041106_kapada-1.jpg', 'article_date' => '2018-11-18 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '20' ) ), (int) 13 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '9444', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Experts Warn Against Growing Fiscal Anarchism', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 18: Growing fiscal anarchism if shifted to province and local level will be disastrous, experts pointed out during an interaction program held in Kathmandu on November 16.', 'content' => '<p>November 18: Growing fiscal anarchism if shifted to province and local level will be disastrous, experts pointed out during an interaction program held in Kathmandu on November 16.</p> <p>The programme ‘Public Expenditure System in Federal Structure: Opportunities and Challenges’ was jointly organized by Public Expenditure Review Commission (PERC) and South Asia Watch on Trade, Economics and Environment (SAWTEE) to discuss the complexities of public expenditure in the fledgling federal system, especially in the context of agricultural development.</p> <p>Dr Dilli Raj Khanal, chairman of PERC pointed out that one of the biggest reasons for the mismanaged public expenditure was the tendency of starting projects without proper readiness in terms of planning, which created complications during implementation leading to unspent budget allocation.</p> <p>Therefore he emphasized on spending substantial amount of time on planning and preparedness which would then ensure effective implementation.</p> <p>Dr Posh Raj Pandey, executive director of SAWTEE, also cautioned that Nepal’s current expenditure allocation had been growing since some time and increased number of administrative units would further add to it. He pointed out that growing fiscal anarchism were shown by tendency of allocating budget without figuring out the sources of funds and projects being launched without completing necessary pre-requisites. Lack of preparation causes projects to suffer cost and time over-run making the administration inefficient, he said. He cautioned that lack of accountability in maintaining budgetary discipline may lead to provincial and local level governments replicating similar tendencies compromising their absorptive capacity.</p> <p>He further added that the constitutional provisions of creating overlap between the responsibilities of different tiers of government may be a potential source of conflict. Similarly the imposition of export or business taxes in agricultural produce and the tendency to use agriculture related conditional grants to other sectors may hinder agricultural development. </p> <p>Referring to mismatched project prioritization and budget allocation, Balananda Poudel, former secretary and chairman of Local Bodies Restructuring Commission said that government needed to effectively implement medium-term expenditure framework even at provincial and local levels. He urged PERC to become proactive in questioning government and its entities at all levels on their expenditure policy and patterns to instill a sense of accountability. </p> <p>Participants included representatives of federal and provincial governments, including secretaries, joint secretaries; representatives of municipal and rural councils also shared their experiences. They emphasized that the lack of sufficient personnel and procedural confusion had created problem in service delivery thus creating inefficiency. Similarly, they also urged the federal government to set up a centralized and uniform accounting and reporting information technology for efficient and integrated system.</p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2018-11-18', 'modified' => '2018-11-18', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '9223', 'image' => '20181118103416_sawtee public expenditure.jpg', 'article_date' => '2018-11-18 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '20' ) ), (int) 14 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '9430', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Muktinath Bikas Bank Supports Conservation of Muktinath Temple', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 15: Muktinath Bikas Bank has provided Rs 500,000 to Mukti Area Development Committee for the development and conservation of Muktinath Temple in Mustang.', 'content' => '<p>November 15: Muktinath Bikas Bank has provided Rs 500,000 to Mukti Area Development Committee for the development and conservation of Muktinath Temple in Mustang. The bank said in a statement that it decided to provide the amount under its corporate social responsibility.</p> <p>The bank’s CEO Praduman Pokharel handed over the cheque to the chief Lama of the committee Wangyal Lama amid a recent function.</p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2018-11-15', 'modified' => '2018-11-15', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '9208', 'image' => '20181115033407_20181115_124945.jpg', 'article_date' => '2018-11-15 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '20' ) ) ) $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
