April 2: Golcha Group, one of the leading business houses of the country which has been operating dozens of manufacturing industries, is now planning to open an organic fertilizer factory.…
April 2: Golcha Group, one of the leading business houses of the country which has been operating dozens of manufacturing industries, is now planning to open an organic fertilizer factory.…
April 2: The Trekking Agencies Association of Nepal (TAAN) is hopeful that the new guideline related to the Trekkers' Information Management System (TIMS) would make trekking and mountaineering tourism in the country be more safe and…
Rasuwagadhi border point, which was closed following the breakout of COVID-19 pandemic, has resumed its operation from…
Government officials and representatives of loan-shark victims signed a five-point agreement on Saturday after the government pledged to form a high-level commission to probe into the woes of usury…
April 1: The Ministry of Finance has prepared a schedule for drafting the policies and programmes and budget for the upcoming fiscal year (FY…
March 31: Every day, hundreds of people are taken into law enforcement custody in New York City. Former President Donald Trump is expected to become one of them as early as next…
March 31: President Ram Chandra Paudel has administered the oath of office and secrecy to the newly-appointed deputy prime minister and ministers at a special ceremony organized at the Office of the President, Sheetal Niwas, on…
March 31: The number of coronavirus infection has increased on Friday as…
March 31: As the economic crisis in the country deepens, the provinces have also started cutting their budgets.…
March 31: The first day of this year's Secondary School Examination (SEE) that started across the country from 8:00 am today concluded…
March 31: Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal on Friday expanded the cabinet by including leaders of the Nepali Congress, Janata Samajwadi Party and other…
March 31: Foreign employment aspirants now can submit their applications for labour permits at the local levels from April…
March 31: The Securities Board of Nepal (SEBON) has prepared regulations for the operation of the Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) platform.…
March 31: Businessman Sanjay Agarwal has been elected as the President of Nepal Italy Chamber of Commerce and Industry.…
March 31: The Government has started negotiations with the victims of loan sharking, who are staging protests in the federal…
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', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">April 2: Golcha Group, one of the leading business houses of the country which has been operating dozens of manufacturing industries, is now planning to open an organic fertilizer factory. Golcha Group said it is preparing to the organic fertilizer factory as a substitute to chemical fertilizers which have caused loss to the soil fertility.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Hitesh Golchha, director of Diwakar Golchha Corp, told New Business Age, said that Nepali farmers have had to face the recurring problem of fertilizer shortage every year during the farming season because of the government’s failure to provide chemical fertilizers on time.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">He said that the soil fertility has been decreasing due to the high use of chemical fertilizers, so the Golcha Group is planning to open an organic fertilizer factory.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">“We have a plan to open a natural fertilizer factory. We are talking to various fertilizer manufacturing companies in India for technical cooperation,'' Golchha told New Business Age.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">“Our main objective is to substitute chemical fertilizers.”</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The problem of fertilizer shortage is becoming the most problematic to the farmers. He said that the problems of the industrialists cannot be solved without solving the problems of the farmers in the current situation. He, however, did not divulge the details about where the factory will be opened, how much investment will be required and how many people will be employed.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Farmers have been facing the problem of fertilizer shortage every year during the main season of planting. According to the data of the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development, about </span></span><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">7</span></span><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">00,000 metric tons of fertilizers are required in Nepal annually. However, the import of fertilizer is not more than </span></span><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">420</span></span><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">,000 metric tons a year.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">In this situation, it is expected that the fertilizer factory that is going to be opened by the Golcha Group will be very helpful for the Nepali farmers. </span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The feasibility study for opening a chemical fertilizer factory in Nepal was first done in </span></span><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">2041</span></span><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> BS</span></span><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">. </span></span><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Since then, more than half a dozen such studies have been conducted but not a single plant has been set up.</span></span></span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-04-02', 'modified' => '2023-04-02', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17166', 'image' => '20230402014836_1680412473.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-04-02 13:47:41', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 1 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17430', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'TAAN Confident of TIMS Making Trekking and Mountaineering Tourism Safer ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'April 2: The Trekking Agencies Association of Nepal (TAAN) is hopeful that the new guideline related to the Trekkers' Information Management System (TIMS) would make trekking and mountaineering tourism in the country be more safe and secure. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">April 2: The Trekking Agencies Association of Nepal (TAAN) is hopeful that the new guideline related to the Trekkers' Information Management System (TIMS) would make trekking and mountaineering tourism in the country be more safe and secure. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Issuing a statement on Saturday, TAAN Chairperson Nilhari Bastola expressed confidence that the new guidelines issued by the government to streamline TIMS would aid in making trekking and mountaineering tourism safer. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">TAAN welcomed the move of the Nepal Tourism Board for issuing the Guidelines on Management of TIMS-2079 BS that came into effect from April 1. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The umbrella association of trekking agencies in the country further said that the new guideline would contribute in making trekking sector more competitive, bolstering confidence of tourism entrepreneurs thereby attracting more investment in mountaineering tourism and increasing employment opportunities. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Furthermore, it said that the mountaineering tourism's contribution to gross domestic product (GDP) of the country would increase with the new guideline introducing Nepal as a safe destination in the world tourism market. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">President Bastola asserted that TAAN has been working for reforms at policy level to make tourism more secured, disciplined, entrepreneurs-friendly, employment generator and sustainable and pledged to continue doing so in the coming days. -- RSS </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-04-02', 'modified' => '2023-04-02', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17165', 'image' => '20230402091731_20220718030551_fishtail-seen-from-mardi-himal-base-camp.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-04-02 09:16:44', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 2 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17429', 'article_category_id' => '268', 'title' => 'Rasuwagadhi Border Point Reopens ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'Rasuwagadhi border point, which was closed following the breakout of COVID-19 pandemic, has resumed its operation from Saturday. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px">April 2: Rasuwagadhi border point, which was closed following the breakout of COVID-19 pandemic, has resumed its operation from Saturday. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">In the presence of Secretary Madhukumar Marasini at the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Supplies and Vice President of the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR)of China Silang Nima, Nepali containers carrying goods made in Nepal left for Kerung via Rasuwagadhi’s Miteri Bridge. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">As per the recent agreement between Nepal and TAR, the Tatopani crossing will also be operational from May 1. The agreement was reached during a bilateral talks held in Lhasa on March 29.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">After holding talks to open the border, a team of government officials including Secretary Marasini and Joint Secretary Jitendra Basnet at the Home Ministry had returned to Rasuwa via Rasuwagadhi border point. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">Secretary Marasini informed that other border points with China will also be opened. “Tatatopani border point will resume from May 1,” said Marasini. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">The resumption of Rasuwagadhi border point with China has made traders and businessmen happy and excited in the area, said Nepal Kerung Business Association Founder Chairman Man Bahadur Tamang. A total of 24 trucks loaded with Nepal-made products left for Kerung on Saturday. </span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-04-02', 'modified' => '2023-04-02', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17164', 'image' => '20230402064249_collage (49).jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-04-02 06:40:17', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '42' ) ), (int) 3 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17428', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Government and Loan Shark Victims Sign Five-Point Deal ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'Government officials and representatives of loan-shark victims signed a five-point agreement on Saturday after the government pledged to form a high-level commission to probe into the woes of usury victims.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"> April 2: Government officials and representatives of loan-shark victims signed a five-point agreement on Saturday after the government pledged to form a high-level commission to probe into the woes of usury victims.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">As per the agreement, the next Cabinet meeting will form such a commission and then the agitating committee will call off its protest programmes. Both sides have agreed to recommend the Nepal government to form a probe commission in a bid to address the problems faced by the victims.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">The illegal money lenders have been found charging high interest rates to the illiterate, poor and economically weaker section of populace by preparing fake document of financial transactions, capturing the wealth of borrowers and exploiting the victims in different pretexts. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">Two sides have agreed to recommend the government for the formation of a district level committee under the coordination of Chief District Officer(CDO) to routinely hear and redress the complaints of loan sharks' victims. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">The committee will comprise representatives of Nepal Police, government attorney, chiefs of land revenue and survey office, bank and financial institutions and loan sharks' victims. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">The committee would be tasked to collect complaints and grievances from the victims and also aid to gather evidences. Similarly, it would also facilitate for legal aid and awareness. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">On behalf of the government talks team, joint secretary Pradeep Kumar Koirala, deputy secretaries Junga Bahadur Dangi, Umakanta Adhikari and Dilkumar Tamang and Superintendent of Police Dinesh Raj Mainali signed the agreement. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">In the same manner, Manoj Paswan, Shyam Kumar Chaudhary, Sangharsha Dahal, Ramrijhan Yadav and Chhedilal Pasman signed the agreement on behalf of the struggle committee. </span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-04-02', 'modified' => '2023-04-02', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17163', 'image' => '20230402062100_collage (48).jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-04-02 06:18:23', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '42' ) ), (int) 4 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17427', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Finance Ministry Prepares Budget Calendar', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'April 1: The Ministry of Finance has prepared a schedule for drafting the policies and programmes and budget for the upcoming fiscal year (FY 2023/24).', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">April 1: The Ministry of Finance has prepared a schedule for drafting the policies and programmes and budget for the upcoming fiscal year (FY 2023/24).</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The ministry has prepared a 'budget calendar' for the upcoming fiscal year as per the provision in financial procedures and fiscal accountability act and budget formulation guidelines. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">As per the schedule, discussion would be held on the budget's policy and programme at the National Planning Commission from April 2-7. Subordinate departments of different ministries have been asked to submit 'policy papers' regarding budget formulation within April 3. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The Revenue Management Division under the Finance Ministry would start activities related to the Revenue Advisory Committee from April 4. The committee will prepare a report incorporating the suggestions received during discussions with different stakeholders and personalities, according to the ministry. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">All the line ministries have been asked to propose a budget and to enter annual plans and programmes in the Ministerial Budget Information System within April 7. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Discussion will be held on objectives, priorities and major programmes with the members of the federal parliament and provincial assemblies from April 9 to 11. The Inter-governmental Fiscal Council meeting will be summoned during this period, said the Ministry of Finance. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Similarly, thematic discussion on the upcoming budget, programme and expenditure will be held from April 3 to May 3. Discussions would be held on conditional grants with the Ministry of Finance. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">As per the schedule, suggestions on the upcoming budget will be solicited from representatives of political parties, former finance ministers, former secretaries of the Ministry of Finance, economists and experts within May 9.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Amount received from foreign sources would be determined and mentioned in the budget within April 15 to May 8. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The ministry plans to send the progress report of the government corporation for print by May 3. The draft of Principle and Priorities of Appropriation Bill will be prepared by May 3 while the Principle and Priorities of Appropriation Bill will be presented in both the Houses of the federal parliament within May 8.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The Ministry of Finance should estimate the technical assistance secured from bilateral or multilateral donor agencies and assistance obtained from other non-government agencies within May 8. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The economic survey report and the progress report of the ministry should be sent to the printing press for print on May 13. The draft of the budget speech would be prepared on May 15, and the Revenue Advisory Committee will submit its report to the finance minister on May 19. The deadline for a briefing to the president has been fixed for May 24. Works like preparing the draft of the annual expenditure estimates along with the tripartite expenditure estimates and tallying the subject-wise expenditure estimates should be done on May 24. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The printing of the books containing expenditure estimates should be completed on May 26. The Finance Ministry will give a final touch to the Finance Bill, the Appropriation Bill and the budget speech on May 27. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Briefing the National Planning Commission and the Council of Ministers on the Finance Bill, the Appropriation Bill, and the loan and collateral bill, and sending them to the printing press for print will take place on May 24. The economic survey report, and the progress reports will be tabled in both Houses of the federal parliament on May 28, and be made public the following day. -- </span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">RSS</span></span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-04-01', 'modified' => '2023-04-01', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17162', 'image' => '20230401051819_finance_ministry_copy1.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-04-01 17:17:31', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 5 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17426', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Donald Trump becomes First US President to Face Criminal Charges', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'March 31: Every day, hundreds of people are taken into law enforcement custody in New York City. Former President Donald Trump is expected to become one of them as early as next week.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">March 31: Every day, hundreds of people are taken into law enforcement custody in New York City. Former President Donald Trump is expected to become one of them as early as next week. Trump was indicted by a Manhattan grand jury, prosecutors and defense lawyers said Thursday, after an investigation into payments made during his 2016 presidential campaign to silence claims of an extramarital sexual encounter. The indictment itself remains sealed for now in the first criminal case ever brought against a former U.S. president. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Trump — a Republican who assailed the case Thursday as a Democratic prosecutor's “political persecution” of “a completely innocent person” — is expected to turn himself in to authorities next week, according to a person familiar with the matter but not authorized to discuss it publicly. The person said the details of a surrender are still being worked out. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office said it had contacted Trump's lawyer to coordinate his surrender and arraignment. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">For any New York defendant, poor or powerful, answering criminal charges means being fingerprinted and photographed, fielding basic questions such as name and birthdate, and getting arraigned. All told, defendants are typically detained for at least several hours. There can be differences in where the different steps happen, how long they take, whether handcuffs come out and other particulars. A lot depends on the severity of the case and whether defendants arrange to turn themselves in. But there is no playbook for booking an ex-president with US Secret Service protection. Agents are tasked with the protection of former presidents unless and until they say they don’t need it. Trump has kept his detail, so agents would need to be by his side at all times. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif""> If Trump indeed turns himself in, expect a carefully choreographed and relatively quick process and release without bail (as is common in New York) — and with a focus on security. A former president isn’t likely to be paraded in cuffs across a sidewalk or through a crowded courthouse hallway, Saland predicts. “It’s a public forum, but safety is also paramount,” he notes. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">If defendants are notified of an indictment or an impending arrest, they often arrange to turn themselves in. Doing so can smooth the process and strengthen arguments for bail by showing that they aren’t evading the case. -- AP/RSS</span><br /> </span></span><br /> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-03-31', 'modified' => '2023-03-31', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17161', 'image' => '20230331115155_7 (1).JPG', 'article_date' => '2023-03-31 23:51:09', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 6 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17425', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Newly-Appointed Ministers take Oath of Office and Secrecy', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'March 31: President Ram Chandra Paudel has administered the oath of office and secrecy to the newly-appointed deputy prime minister and ministers at a special ceremony organized at the Office of the President, Sheetal Niwas, on Friday. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">March 31: President Ram Chandra Paudel has administered the oath of office and secrecy to the newly-appointed deputy prime minister and ministers at a special ceremony organized at the Office of the President, Sheetal Niwas, on Friday. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Vice President Ramsahay Prasad Yadav, Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal, Speaker Dev Raj Ghimire, National Assembly Chairman Ganesh Prasad Timilsina, Acting Chief Justice Hari Krishna Karki, heads of constitutional bodies and senior journalists were present on the occasion. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Prime Minister Dahal expanded the Council of Ministers for the seventh time on Friday. PM Dahal expanded the cabinet by incorporating ministers from the Nepali Congress, the CPN (Unified Socialist), the Janata Samajbadi Party, Lokatantrik Samajbadi Party and Nagarik Unmukti Party. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Among those administered the oath of office and secrecy on Friday are Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence Purna Bahadur Khadka, Finance Minister Dr Prakash Sharan Mahat, Minister for Industry, Commerce and Supplies Ramesh Rijal and Minister for Urban Development Sita Gurung from the Nepali Congress. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Similarly, Shakti Bahadur Basnet of the CPN (Maoist Centre) took oath as the Minister for Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Beduram Bhusal and Prakash Jwala from the CPN (Unified Socialist) were also sworn in as the Minister for Agriculture and Livestock Development and Minister for Physical Infrastructure and Transport respectively. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Ashok Rai of the Janata Samajbadi Party Nepal has taken oath of office and secrecy as the Minister for Education, Science and Technology, Sharat Singh Bhandari of the Loktantrik Samajbadi Party as the Minister for Labour, Employment and Social Security. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Likewise, Chairperson of Nagarik Unmukti Party Ranjita Shrestha Chaudhary was sworn in as the Minister for Land Management, Cooperatives and Poverty Alleviation while Mahindra Raya Yadav of Nepal Samajbadi Party as the Minister for Women, Children and Senior Citizens. -- RSS </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-03-31', 'modified' => '2023-03-31', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17160', 'image' => '20230331103752_PradeeprajOnta_KTM_RSS_17(2).jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-03-31 22:37:20', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 7 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17424', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Surge in Coronavirus Infection as 142 New Cases Recorded on Friday Alone ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'March 31: The number of coronavirus infection has increased on Friday as well.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">March 31: The number of coronavirus infection has increased on Friday as well. The Ministry of Health and Population shared that it recorded a total 142 new cases of infection out of tests conducted among 1,079 people. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">On March 30, the number of infection was 42 while on March 29, it was 34; on March 28, it was 24; and on March 27, it was 69. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">With the rise in number of coronavirus infection, the number of active cases has also increased, thereby reaching 163. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Director at the Epidemiology and Disease Control Division, Dr Chuman Lal Das, said as the coronavirus infection is increasing in India, it had a direct impact on Nepal because of the open border. The infected people have entered Nepal which contributed to coronavirus surge in Nepal too, he added. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The ministry has directed one and all to take booster dose for the prevention and control of coronavirus. The campaign of booster dose is underway in the Kathmandu Valley now. -- RSS </span></span></span><br /> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-03-31', 'modified' => '2023-03-31', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17159', 'image' => '20230331103303_20200423093051_22_111.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-03-31 22:32:24', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 8 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17423', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Provinces Adopt Measures to Downsize Budget', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'March 31: As the economic crisis in the country deepens, the provinces have also started cutting their budgets. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">March 31: As the economic crisis in the country deepens, the provinces have also started cutting their budgets. While the federal government has already adopted austerity measures, the provinces have also followed suit. The provinces have reduced 20 per cent of the amount from the budget of the current fiscal year.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The provinces have reduced the expenses from allowances for office operations under various headings. They have reduced fuel expenses, vehicle maintenance expenses, maintenance and operation of machinery tools, operation and maintenance of the public property, furniture and office supplies, printing and publication of information, and staff training.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Minister of Economic Affairs and Planning of Karnali State Government, Binod Kumar Shah said that the expenditure has been cut under 22 headings of current expenses and five headings of capital expenditure. He said that the government cut spending to maintain austerity measures.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The Madhesh government has also downsized budget of subordinate ministries and offices. A Minister of Madhesh Province informed New Business Age that the government has instructed the subordinate ministries and offices to reduce public expenditure by 20 per cent as economic activity has contracted and revenue cannot be collected as per the target in the current fiscal year.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">An official of the Ministry of Social Development of Madhesh Province said that after the government stopped the budget, the daily work related to health was also affected. The provincial government has instructed to cut expenses on 27 different topics, including furniture and office supplies, office operations, services, information, newspapers and consulting services, building communication improvements, skill development and public awareness training seminars.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Even after eight months of the current fiscal year, the development budget of the state government is weak. Officials shared that budget cuts will reduce expenses even further.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Lumbini province has also cut its budget by 20 per cent. The spokesperson of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Surendra Pandey, said that expenditure on training, fuel, vehicle maintenance, information and publicity has been reduced.</span></span></span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-03-31', 'modified' => '2023-03-31', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17158', 'image' => '20230331070724_budget new.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-03-31 19:06:23', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 9 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17422', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'SEE held Peacefully on First Day', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'March 31: The first day of this year's Secondary School Examination (SEE) that started across the country from 8:00 am today concluded peacefully. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">March 31: The first day of this year's Secondary School Examination (SEE) that started across the country from 8:00 am today concluded peacefully. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">According to Examinations Controller Bishnu Narayan Shrestha, the SEE was held in 2,036 examination centers in all 77 districts in the country and the one centre set up in Japan. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">On the first day, the students attended an exam of compulsory English while the students from the Sanskrit stream took an exam for compulsory Sanskrit language and literature, and compulsory Nepali. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">A student in Bara district has been barred from sitting for the exam because she attempted to leak the question paper. The question paper was prevented from leakage and she was barred from taking the exam while other examinees continued with their exam, shared Examination Controller Shrestha. The concerned authority is looking into the matter, he said. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Similarly, this year's examinee includes a student mourning the demise of his parents at Nawalparasi (Bardaghat Susta East). Ram Bahadur Tharu, a student of Janata Secondary School in Madhyabindu Municipality-6 in the district, appeared in the exam in mourning. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Among the total 484,227 students registered for the SEE, 55 students with visual impairment also sat for the exam. A separate sub-centre was set nearby the main exam center for them to appear in the exam. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Similarly, students who were in prisons and reform houses for various reasons also took the exam from their respective places, informed Shrestha. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The examinees also include 14 students sitting for exams in Japan's center. Shrestha shared that the students in Japan are taking their SEE from an academic institution in Tokyo which teaches Nepali curriculum with the approval from the government of Japan. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">A total of 78,000 human resources have been mobilized at the examination centers. Altogether 5 million sets of question papers were published for this year's SEE. The exam will last through April 12. -- </span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">RSS </span></span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-03-31', 'modified' => '2023-03-31', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17157', 'image' => '20230331050932_VishnuprasadGaudel_Madhyabindu_RSS_17_IMG-20230331-WA0002.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-03-31 17:08:33', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 10 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17421', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'PM Dahal Expands Cabinet for the Seventh Time', 'sub_title' => 'Prakash Sharan Mahat Appointed as New Finance Minister', 'summary' => 'March 31: Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal on Friday expanded the cabinet by including leaders of the Nepali Congress, Janata Samajwadi Party and other parties.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">March 31: Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal on Friday expanded the cabinet by including leaders of the Nepali Congress, Janata Samajwadi Party and other parties.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">This is the seventh time he has expanded the Council of Ministers after being appointed the prime minister on December 25.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Prime Minister Dahal, upon the recommendation of the Nepali Congress, appointed the party’s Vice President Purna Bahadur Khadka as the deputy prime minister and minister for defense. Similarly, Dr Prakash Sharan Mahat has been appointed as Minister for Finance, Ramesh Rijal as Minister for Industry, Commerce and Supplies and Sita Gurung as Minister for Urban Development.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Similarly, upon the recommendation of Janata Samajwadi Party (JSP), Ashok Rai has been appointed the Minister for Education, Science and Technology.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Similarly, Beduram Bhusal, the vice president of the CPN United Socialist Party, has been appointed as the Minister for Agriculture and Livestock Development, and Deputy General Secretary Prakash Jwala has been appointed as the Minister for Physical Infrastructure and Transport.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Deputy General Secretary Shakti Basnet from the Maoist Center has been appointed as the Minister for Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Deputy Prime Minister Narayankaji Shrestha has been handed over the responsibility of the Ministry of Home Affairs at the expense of the Ministry of Physical Infrastructure. </span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Sharat Singh Bhandari of the Democratic Socialist Party has been appointed as the Minister for Labour and Employment and Ranjita Shrestha of Nagarik Unmukti Party has become the Minister for Land Management, Cooperatives and Poverty Alleviation.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mahindra Rai Yadav of Nepal Samajwadi Party has been appointed as the Minister for Women, Children and Senior Citizens. </span></span></span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-03-31', 'modified' => '2023-03-31', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17156', 'image' => '20230331033818_1680249977.mantri parisad.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-03-31 15:37:20', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 11 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17420', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Application for Labour Permits will be Available at All Local Levels ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'March 31: Foreign employment aspirants now can submit their applications for labour permits at the local levels from April 14. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">March 31: Foreign employment aspirants now can submit their applications for labour permits at the local levels from April 14. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Security (MoLESS) is going to put in place the new provision which will facilitate service-seekers from all 753 local levels to submit application from their respective local unit. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Ministry's Spokesperson Danduraj Ghimire shared that the foreign employment aspirants can submit their application through the Employment Service Centre. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal, who also holds the portfolio of the MoLESS, took the decision to this effect in a bid to ease the service seekers. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Application for personal labour permit and its renewal can be submitted from local level for which capacity building of the staffers at the Employment Service Centre will be carried out prior to mid-April, said Spokesperson Ghimire. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The ministry towards the beginning of this year started issuing personal and institutional labour permits from all seven provinces.-- RSS </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-03-31', 'modified' => '2023-03-31', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17155', 'image' => '20230331022954_shram-rojgaar.labour-ministry.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-03-31 14:28:58', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 12 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17419', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'SEBON Prepares Regulations for Operation of SME Platform', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'March 31: The Securities Board of Nepal (SEBON) has prepared regulations for the operation of the Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) platform. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">March 31: The Securities Board of Nepal (SEBON) has prepared regulations for the operation of the Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) platform. The board released the draft of the Regulation on Share Issuance and Transactions of Small and Medium Organizations, 2079, on Thursday.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The board said that it prepared the regulation by using the authority given by section 116 of the Securities Act, 2063, with the approval of the Government of Nepal. According to the regulations, the paid-up capital of the small and medium-scale organization registering through the SME platform should not exceed Rs 250 million. However, it is mentioned that the board can modify the limit of paid-up capital, considering the presence of small and medium-sized organizations and the market conditions.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The board has made arrangements for small and medium-sized organizations to issue shares in a manner that they should not be less than 30 per cent and not more than 49 per cent of the issued capital. Such companies have to fulfil various conditions for the public issue of securities.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">According to the provision in the regulation, small and medium-sized organization that issues shares to the general public must complete one financial year of conducting business as a public company.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">However, in the case of a company that has been registered as a private limited company in the past and has completed at least two financial years of operations and converted into a public limited company, it is not necessary to complete one financial year as a public limited company.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">According to the existing law, the public issuance of securities can be made only when the audit and general meeting have been completed and the amount of the securities accepted by the founders has been fully paid. According to this regulation, it will not be mandatory for organized organizations that issue securities to have a credit rating.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Organizations must obtain approval from SEBON for the public issuance of securities. Share investors must apply a minimum of 250 shares for the purchase of securities issued by small and medium-sized organizations.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Such companies can issue securities to the public even at a premium. To issue an IPO at a premium, organizations must have been in net profit for the last three years, have net worth per share greater than paid-up capital, have decided to issue securities at a premium price in the general meeting of the organization, and have received at least an average or higher credit rating grade.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The premium price can be set up to twice the net worth per share based on the latest audited financial statements. </span></span></span></span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-03-31', 'modified' => '2023-03-31', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17154', 'image' => '20230331011627_1680239720.Sebon 1-1.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-03-31 13:15:46', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 13 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17418', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Nepal-Italy Chamber of Commerce and Industry gets new Leadership', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'March 31: Businessman Sanjay Agarwal has been elected as the President of Nepal Italy Chamber of Commerce and Industry. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">March 31: Businessman Sanjay Agarwal has been elected as the President of Nepal Italy Chamber of Commerce and Industry. The ninth annual general meeting of the chamber held in Kathmandu elected a 28-member working committee unopposed under the leadership of Agarwal.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Araniko Rajbhandari has been elected as the senior vice president of the association. The chamber informed that Niraj Shrestha and Manoj Gyawali were elected as the two vice presidents of the chamber, Tirtha Bahadur Roka as the general secretary, Pawan Aggarwal as the treasurer and Romnath Ghimire and Manoj Shrestha Badel as the two secretaries. Rajeshkaji Shrestha is the patron, Dhruva Kumar Shrestha is the honorary member and Navraj Dhakal is the outgoing president.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Arun KC, Anna Maria, Basumaya Tamang, Bina Pyakurel Shrestha, Bhuvneshwar Faiju, Binod Sagatani and Birendra Shahi have been selected as the members of the working committee. Similarly, Kishan Sunar, Kishore Bhattarai, Samba Lama, Sanjay Aggarwal Sarraf, Sarik Bogati, Shambhu Lama, Sumit Dhanuk, Sushil Jain, Subhas Bikram Shah and Yugesh Bade Shrestha have also been elected as members.</span></span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-03-31', 'modified' => '2023-03-31', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17153', 'image' => '20230331122645_1680217648.Clipboard02.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-03-31 12:25:42', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 14 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17417', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Government Holds Discussion to Address the Problems of Usury Victims ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'March 31: The Government has started negotiations with the victims of loan sharking, who are staging protests in the federal capital.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">March 31: The Government has started negotiations with the victims of loan sharking, who are staging protests in the federal capital. According to the Ministry of Home Affairs, the talks held at Singha Durbar ended on a positive note on Thursday. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The victims presented a nine-point written demand during the negotiation with the government’s talks team, the state-owned RSS reported. Under Secretary at the home ministry and a member of the negotiation team, Dil Kumar Tamang, told RSS that they discussed the demands in a clause-wise manner. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">"During the talks, we informed them about the government's efforts so far including the progress in amending the concerned law, while their demands were also discussed in a point-wise manner," RSS quoted Tamang as saying. "They said that they will discuss the latest development with their friends." </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">During the discussion with the government talks team, the victims of loan sharking put forth demands such as the formation of a competent commission, the resolution of the cases in the court and the cancellation of loan-paper made by the money lenders. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">It may be noted that the government formed talks team led by Joint Secretary at the Ministry of Home Affairs, Rudra Devi Sharma, while the usury victims talks team is led by Manoj Paswan, the coordinator of the struggle committee. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">In an effort to respond to the demands of the victims of illegal money lending, the government has decided to amend the Criminal Code to criminalize the act of usury. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The victims of usury travelled to Kathmandu by foot from different districts of Tarai to draw the attention of the federal government towards their plight, RSS reported. </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-03-31', 'modified' => '2023-03-31', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17152', 'image' => '20230331102512_20230329065714_collage (42).jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-03-31 10:24:24', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ) ) $current_user = null $logged_in = falseinclude - APP/View/Elements/side_bar.ctp, line 60 View::_evaluate() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 971 View::_render() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 933 View::_renderElement() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 1224 View::element() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 418 include - APP/View/Articles/index.ctp, line 157 View::_evaluate() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 971 View::_render() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 933 View::render() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 473 Controller::render() - CORE/Cake/Controller/Controller.php, line 968 Dispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/Cake/Routing/Dispatcher.php, line 200 Dispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/Cake/Routing/Dispatcher.php, line 167 [main] - APP/webroot/index.php, line 117
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', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">April 2: Golcha Group, one of the leading business houses of the country which has been operating dozens of manufacturing industries, is now planning to open an organic fertilizer factory. Golcha Group said it is preparing to the organic fertilizer factory as a substitute to chemical fertilizers which have caused loss to the soil fertility.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Hitesh Golchha, director of Diwakar Golchha Corp, told New Business Age, said that Nepali farmers have had to face the recurring problem of fertilizer shortage every year during the farming season because of the government’s failure to provide chemical fertilizers on time.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">He said that the soil fertility has been decreasing due to the high use of chemical fertilizers, so the Golcha Group is planning to open an organic fertilizer factory.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">“We have a plan to open a natural fertilizer factory. We are talking to various fertilizer manufacturing companies in India for technical cooperation,'' Golchha told New Business Age.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">“Our main objective is to substitute chemical fertilizers.”</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The problem of fertilizer shortage is becoming the most problematic to the farmers. He said that the problems of the industrialists cannot be solved without solving the problems of the farmers in the current situation. He, however, did not divulge the details about where the factory will be opened, how much investment will be required and how many people will be employed.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Farmers have been facing the problem of fertilizer shortage every year during the main season of planting. According to the data of the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development, about </span></span><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">7</span></span><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">00,000 metric tons of fertilizers are required in Nepal annually. However, the import of fertilizer is not more than </span></span><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">420</span></span><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">,000 metric tons a year.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">In this situation, it is expected that the fertilizer factory that is going to be opened by the Golcha Group will be very helpful for the Nepali farmers. </span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The feasibility study for opening a chemical fertilizer factory in Nepal was first done in </span></span><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">2041</span></span><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> BS</span></span><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">. </span></span><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Since then, more than half a dozen such studies have been conducted but not a single plant has been set up.</span></span></span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-04-02', 'modified' => '2023-04-02', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17166', 'image' => '20230402014836_1680412473.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-04-02 13:47:41', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 1 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17430', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'TAAN Confident of TIMS Making Trekking and Mountaineering Tourism Safer ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'April 2: The Trekking Agencies Association of Nepal (TAAN) is hopeful that the new guideline related to the Trekkers' Information Management System (TIMS) would make trekking and mountaineering tourism in the country be more safe and secure. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">April 2: The Trekking Agencies Association of Nepal (TAAN) is hopeful that the new guideline related to the Trekkers' Information Management System (TIMS) would make trekking and mountaineering tourism in the country be more safe and secure. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Issuing a statement on Saturday, TAAN Chairperson Nilhari Bastola expressed confidence that the new guidelines issued by the government to streamline TIMS would aid in making trekking and mountaineering tourism safer. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">TAAN welcomed the move of the Nepal Tourism Board for issuing the Guidelines on Management of TIMS-2079 BS that came into effect from April 1. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The umbrella association of trekking agencies in the country further said that the new guideline would contribute in making trekking sector more competitive, bolstering confidence of tourism entrepreneurs thereby attracting more investment in mountaineering tourism and increasing employment opportunities. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Furthermore, it said that the mountaineering tourism's contribution to gross domestic product (GDP) of the country would increase with the new guideline introducing Nepal as a safe destination in the world tourism market. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">President Bastola asserted that TAAN has been working for reforms at policy level to make tourism more secured, disciplined, entrepreneurs-friendly, employment generator and sustainable and pledged to continue doing so in the coming days. -- RSS </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-04-02', 'modified' => '2023-04-02', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17165', 'image' => '20230402091731_20220718030551_fishtail-seen-from-mardi-himal-base-camp.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-04-02 09:16:44', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 2 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17429', 'article_category_id' => '268', 'title' => 'Rasuwagadhi Border Point Reopens ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'Rasuwagadhi border point, which was closed following the breakout of COVID-19 pandemic, has resumed its operation from Saturday. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px">April 2: Rasuwagadhi border point, which was closed following the breakout of COVID-19 pandemic, has resumed its operation from Saturday. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">In the presence of Secretary Madhukumar Marasini at the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Supplies and Vice President of the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR)of China Silang Nima, Nepali containers carrying goods made in Nepal left for Kerung via Rasuwagadhi’s Miteri Bridge. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">As per the recent agreement between Nepal and TAR, the Tatopani crossing will also be operational from May 1. The agreement was reached during a bilateral talks held in Lhasa on March 29.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">After holding talks to open the border, a team of government officials including Secretary Marasini and Joint Secretary Jitendra Basnet at the Home Ministry had returned to Rasuwa via Rasuwagadhi border point. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">Secretary Marasini informed that other border points with China will also be opened. “Tatatopani border point will resume from May 1,” said Marasini. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">The resumption of Rasuwagadhi border point with China has made traders and businessmen happy and excited in the area, said Nepal Kerung Business Association Founder Chairman Man Bahadur Tamang. A total of 24 trucks loaded with Nepal-made products left for Kerung on Saturday. </span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-04-02', 'modified' => '2023-04-02', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17164', 'image' => '20230402064249_collage (49).jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-04-02 06:40:17', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '42' ) ), (int) 3 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17428', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Government and Loan Shark Victims Sign Five-Point Deal ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'Government officials and representatives of loan-shark victims signed a five-point agreement on Saturday after the government pledged to form a high-level commission to probe into the woes of usury victims.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"> April 2: Government officials and representatives of loan-shark victims signed a five-point agreement on Saturday after the government pledged to form a high-level commission to probe into the woes of usury victims.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">As per the agreement, the next Cabinet meeting will form such a commission and then the agitating committee will call off its protest programmes. Both sides have agreed to recommend the Nepal government to form a probe commission in a bid to address the problems faced by the victims.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">The illegal money lenders have been found charging high interest rates to the illiterate, poor and economically weaker section of populace by preparing fake document of financial transactions, capturing the wealth of borrowers and exploiting the victims in different pretexts. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">Two sides have agreed to recommend the government for the formation of a district level committee under the coordination of Chief District Officer(CDO) to routinely hear and redress the complaints of loan sharks' victims. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">The committee will comprise representatives of Nepal Police, government attorney, chiefs of land revenue and survey office, bank and financial institutions and loan sharks' victims. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">The committee would be tasked to collect complaints and grievances from the victims and also aid to gather evidences. Similarly, it would also facilitate for legal aid and awareness. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">On behalf of the government talks team, joint secretary Pradeep Kumar Koirala, deputy secretaries Junga Bahadur Dangi, Umakanta Adhikari and Dilkumar Tamang and Superintendent of Police Dinesh Raj Mainali signed the agreement. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">In the same manner, Manoj Paswan, Shyam Kumar Chaudhary, Sangharsha Dahal, Ramrijhan Yadav and Chhedilal Pasman signed the agreement on behalf of the struggle committee. </span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-04-02', 'modified' => '2023-04-02', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17163', 'image' => '20230402062100_collage (48).jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-04-02 06:18:23', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '42' ) ), (int) 4 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17427', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Finance Ministry Prepares Budget Calendar', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'April 1: The Ministry of Finance has prepared a schedule for drafting the policies and programmes and budget for the upcoming fiscal year (FY 2023/24).', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">April 1: The Ministry of Finance has prepared a schedule for drafting the policies and programmes and budget for the upcoming fiscal year (FY 2023/24).</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The ministry has prepared a 'budget calendar' for the upcoming fiscal year as per the provision in financial procedures and fiscal accountability act and budget formulation guidelines. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">As per the schedule, discussion would be held on the budget's policy and programme at the National Planning Commission from April 2-7. Subordinate departments of different ministries have been asked to submit 'policy papers' regarding budget formulation within April 3. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The Revenue Management Division under the Finance Ministry would start activities related to the Revenue Advisory Committee from April 4. The committee will prepare a report incorporating the suggestions received during discussions with different stakeholders and personalities, according to the ministry. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">All the line ministries have been asked to propose a budget and to enter annual plans and programmes in the Ministerial Budget Information System within April 7. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Discussion will be held on objectives, priorities and major programmes with the members of the federal parliament and provincial assemblies from April 9 to 11. The Inter-governmental Fiscal Council meeting will be summoned during this period, said the Ministry of Finance. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Similarly, thematic discussion on the upcoming budget, programme and expenditure will be held from April 3 to May 3. Discussions would be held on conditional grants with the Ministry of Finance. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">As per the schedule, suggestions on the upcoming budget will be solicited from representatives of political parties, former finance ministers, former secretaries of the Ministry of Finance, economists and experts within May 9.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Amount received from foreign sources would be determined and mentioned in the budget within April 15 to May 8. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The ministry plans to send the progress report of the government corporation for print by May 3. The draft of Principle and Priorities of Appropriation Bill will be prepared by May 3 while the Principle and Priorities of Appropriation Bill will be presented in both the Houses of the federal parliament within May 8.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The Ministry of Finance should estimate the technical assistance secured from bilateral or multilateral donor agencies and assistance obtained from other non-government agencies within May 8. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The economic survey report and the progress report of the ministry should be sent to the printing press for print on May 13. The draft of the budget speech would be prepared on May 15, and the Revenue Advisory Committee will submit its report to the finance minister on May 19. The deadline for a briefing to the president has been fixed for May 24. Works like preparing the draft of the annual expenditure estimates along with the tripartite expenditure estimates and tallying the subject-wise expenditure estimates should be done on May 24. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The printing of the books containing expenditure estimates should be completed on May 26. The Finance Ministry will give a final touch to the Finance Bill, the Appropriation Bill and the budget speech on May 27. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Briefing the National Planning Commission and the Council of Ministers on the Finance Bill, the Appropriation Bill, and the loan and collateral bill, and sending them to the printing press for print will take place on May 24. The economic survey report, and the progress reports will be tabled in both Houses of the federal parliament on May 28, and be made public the following day. -- </span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">RSS</span></span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-04-01', 'modified' => '2023-04-01', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17162', 'image' => '20230401051819_finance_ministry_copy1.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-04-01 17:17:31', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 5 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17426', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Donald Trump becomes First US President to Face Criminal Charges', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'March 31: Every day, hundreds of people are taken into law enforcement custody in New York City. Former President Donald Trump is expected to become one of them as early as next week.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">March 31: Every day, hundreds of people are taken into law enforcement custody in New York City. Former President Donald Trump is expected to become one of them as early as next week. Trump was indicted by a Manhattan grand jury, prosecutors and defense lawyers said Thursday, after an investigation into payments made during his 2016 presidential campaign to silence claims of an extramarital sexual encounter. The indictment itself remains sealed for now in the first criminal case ever brought against a former U.S. president. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Trump — a Republican who assailed the case Thursday as a Democratic prosecutor's “political persecution” of “a completely innocent person” — is expected to turn himself in to authorities next week, according to a person familiar with the matter but not authorized to discuss it publicly. The person said the details of a surrender are still being worked out. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office said it had contacted Trump's lawyer to coordinate his surrender and arraignment. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">For any New York defendant, poor or powerful, answering criminal charges means being fingerprinted and photographed, fielding basic questions such as name and birthdate, and getting arraigned. All told, defendants are typically detained for at least several hours. There can be differences in where the different steps happen, how long they take, whether handcuffs come out and other particulars. A lot depends on the severity of the case and whether defendants arrange to turn themselves in. But there is no playbook for booking an ex-president with US Secret Service protection. Agents are tasked with the protection of former presidents unless and until they say they don’t need it. Trump has kept his detail, so agents would need to be by his side at all times. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif""> If Trump indeed turns himself in, expect a carefully choreographed and relatively quick process and release without bail (as is common in New York) — and with a focus on security. A former president isn’t likely to be paraded in cuffs across a sidewalk or through a crowded courthouse hallway, Saland predicts. “It’s a public forum, but safety is also paramount,” he notes. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">If defendants are notified of an indictment or an impending arrest, they often arrange to turn themselves in. Doing so can smooth the process and strengthen arguments for bail by showing that they aren’t evading the case. -- AP/RSS</span><br /> </span></span><br /> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-03-31', 'modified' => '2023-03-31', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17161', 'image' => '20230331115155_7 (1).JPG', 'article_date' => '2023-03-31 23:51:09', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 6 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17425', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Newly-Appointed Ministers take Oath of Office and Secrecy', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'March 31: President Ram Chandra Paudel has administered the oath of office and secrecy to the newly-appointed deputy prime minister and ministers at a special ceremony organized at the Office of the President, Sheetal Niwas, on Friday. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">March 31: President Ram Chandra Paudel has administered the oath of office and secrecy to the newly-appointed deputy prime minister and ministers at a special ceremony organized at the Office of the President, Sheetal Niwas, on Friday. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Vice President Ramsahay Prasad Yadav, Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal, Speaker Dev Raj Ghimire, National Assembly Chairman Ganesh Prasad Timilsina, Acting Chief Justice Hari Krishna Karki, heads of constitutional bodies and senior journalists were present on the occasion. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Prime Minister Dahal expanded the Council of Ministers for the seventh time on Friday. PM Dahal expanded the cabinet by incorporating ministers from the Nepali Congress, the CPN (Unified Socialist), the Janata Samajbadi Party, Lokatantrik Samajbadi Party and Nagarik Unmukti Party. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Among those administered the oath of office and secrecy on Friday are Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence Purna Bahadur Khadka, Finance Minister Dr Prakash Sharan Mahat, Minister for Industry, Commerce and Supplies Ramesh Rijal and Minister for Urban Development Sita Gurung from the Nepali Congress. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Similarly, Shakti Bahadur Basnet of the CPN (Maoist Centre) took oath as the Minister for Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Beduram Bhusal and Prakash Jwala from the CPN (Unified Socialist) were also sworn in as the Minister for Agriculture and Livestock Development and Minister for Physical Infrastructure and Transport respectively. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Ashok Rai of the Janata Samajbadi Party Nepal has taken oath of office and secrecy as the Minister for Education, Science and Technology, Sharat Singh Bhandari of the Loktantrik Samajbadi Party as the Minister for Labour, Employment and Social Security. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Likewise, Chairperson of Nagarik Unmukti Party Ranjita Shrestha Chaudhary was sworn in as the Minister for Land Management, Cooperatives and Poverty Alleviation while Mahindra Raya Yadav of Nepal Samajbadi Party as the Minister for Women, Children and Senior Citizens. -- RSS </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-03-31', 'modified' => '2023-03-31', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17160', 'image' => '20230331103752_PradeeprajOnta_KTM_RSS_17(2).jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-03-31 22:37:20', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 7 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17424', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Surge in Coronavirus Infection as 142 New Cases Recorded on Friday Alone ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'March 31: The number of coronavirus infection has increased on Friday as well.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">March 31: The number of coronavirus infection has increased on Friday as well. The Ministry of Health and Population shared that it recorded a total 142 new cases of infection out of tests conducted among 1,079 people. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">On March 30, the number of infection was 42 while on March 29, it was 34; on March 28, it was 24; and on March 27, it was 69. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">With the rise in number of coronavirus infection, the number of active cases has also increased, thereby reaching 163. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Director at the Epidemiology and Disease Control Division, Dr Chuman Lal Das, said as the coronavirus infection is increasing in India, it had a direct impact on Nepal because of the open border. The infected people have entered Nepal which contributed to coronavirus surge in Nepal too, he added. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The ministry has directed one and all to take booster dose for the prevention and control of coronavirus. The campaign of booster dose is underway in the Kathmandu Valley now. -- RSS </span></span></span><br /> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-03-31', 'modified' => '2023-03-31', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17159', 'image' => '20230331103303_20200423093051_22_111.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-03-31 22:32:24', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 8 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17423', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Provinces Adopt Measures to Downsize Budget', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'March 31: As the economic crisis in the country deepens, the provinces have also started cutting their budgets. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">March 31: As the economic crisis in the country deepens, the provinces have also started cutting their budgets. While the federal government has already adopted austerity measures, the provinces have also followed suit. The provinces have reduced 20 per cent of the amount from the budget of the current fiscal year.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The provinces have reduced the expenses from allowances for office operations under various headings. They have reduced fuel expenses, vehicle maintenance expenses, maintenance and operation of machinery tools, operation and maintenance of the public property, furniture and office supplies, printing and publication of information, and staff training.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Minister of Economic Affairs and Planning of Karnali State Government, Binod Kumar Shah said that the expenditure has been cut under 22 headings of current expenses and five headings of capital expenditure. He said that the government cut spending to maintain austerity measures.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The Madhesh government has also downsized budget of subordinate ministries and offices. A Minister of Madhesh Province informed New Business Age that the government has instructed the subordinate ministries and offices to reduce public expenditure by 20 per cent as economic activity has contracted and revenue cannot be collected as per the target in the current fiscal year.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">An official of the Ministry of Social Development of Madhesh Province said that after the government stopped the budget, the daily work related to health was also affected. The provincial government has instructed to cut expenses on 27 different topics, including furniture and office supplies, office operations, services, information, newspapers and consulting services, building communication improvements, skill development and public awareness training seminars.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Even after eight months of the current fiscal year, the development budget of the state government is weak. Officials shared that budget cuts will reduce expenses even further.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Lumbini province has also cut its budget by 20 per cent. The spokesperson of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Surendra Pandey, said that expenditure on training, fuel, vehicle maintenance, information and publicity has been reduced.</span></span></span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-03-31', 'modified' => '2023-03-31', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17158', 'image' => '20230331070724_budget new.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-03-31 19:06:23', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 9 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17422', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'SEE held Peacefully on First Day', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'March 31: The first day of this year's Secondary School Examination (SEE) that started across the country from 8:00 am today concluded peacefully. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">March 31: The first day of this year's Secondary School Examination (SEE) that started across the country from 8:00 am today concluded peacefully. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">According to Examinations Controller Bishnu Narayan Shrestha, the SEE was held in 2,036 examination centers in all 77 districts in the country and the one centre set up in Japan. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">On the first day, the students attended an exam of compulsory English while the students from the Sanskrit stream took an exam for compulsory Sanskrit language and literature, and compulsory Nepali. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">A student in Bara district has been barred from sitting for the exam because she attempted to leak the question paper. The question paper was prevented from leakage and she was barred from taking the exam while other examinees continued with their exam, shared Examination Controller Shrestha. The concerned authority is looking into the matter, he said. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Similarly, this year's examinee includes a student mourning the demise of his parents at Nawalparasi (Bardaghat Susta East). Ram Bahadur Tharu, a student of Janata Secondary School in Madhyabindu Municipality-6 in the district, appeared in the exam in mourning. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Among the total 484,227 students registered for the SEE, 55 students with visual impairment also sat for the exam. A separate sub-centre was set nearby the main exam center for them to appear in the exam. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Similarly, students who were in prisons and reform houses for various reasons also took the exam from their respective places, informed Shrestha. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The examinees also include 14 students sitting for exams in Japan's center. Shrestha shared that the students in Japan are taking their SEE from an academic institution in Tokyo which teaches Nepali curriculum with the approval from the government of Japan. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">A total of 78,000 human resources have been mobilized at the examination centers. Altogether 5 million sets of question papers were published for this year's SEE. The exam will last through April 12. -- </span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">RSS </span></span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-03-31', 'modified' => '2023-03-31', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17157', 'image' => '20230331050932_VishnuprasadGaudel_Madhyabindu_RSS_17_IMG-20230331-WA0002.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-03-31 17:08:33', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 10 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17421', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'PM Dahal Expands Cabinet for the Seventh Time', 'sub_title' => 'Prakash Sharan Mahat Appointed as New Finance Minister', 'summary' => 'March 31: Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal on Friday expanded the cabinet by including leaders of the Nepali Congress, Janata Samajwadi Party and other parties.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">March 31: Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal on Friday expanded the cabinet by including leaders of the Nepali Congress, Janata Samajwadi Party and other parties.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">This is the seventh time he has expanded the Council of Ministers after being appointed the prime minister on December 25.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Prime Minister Dahal, upon the recommendation of the Nepali Congress, appointed the party’s Vice President Purna Bahadur Khadka as the deputy prime minister and minister for defense. Similarly, Dr Prakash Sharan Mahat has been appointed as Minister for Finance, Ramesh Rijal as Minister for Industry, Commerce and Supplies and Sita Gurung as Minister for Urban Development.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Similarly, upon the recommendation of Janata Samajwadi Party (JSP), Ashok Rai has been appointed the Minister for Education, Science and Technology.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Similarly, Beduram Bhusal, the vice president of the CPN United Socialist Party, has been appointed as the Minister for Agriculture and Livestock Development, and Deputy General Secretary Prakash Jwala has been appointed as the Minister for Physical Infrastructure and Transport.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Deputy General Secretary Shakti Basnet from the Maoist Center has been appointed as the Minister for Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Deputy Prime Minister Narayankaji Shrestha has been handed over the responsibility of the Ministry of Home Affairs at the expense of the Ministry of Physical Infrastructure. </span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Sharat Singh Bhandari of the Democratic Socialist Party has been appointed as the Minister for Labour and Employment and Ranjita Shrestha of Nagarik Unmukti Party has become the Minister for Land Management, Cooperatives and Poverty Alleviation.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mahindra Rai Yadav of Nepal Samajwadi Party has been appointed as the Minister for Women, Children and Senior Citizens. </span></span></span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-03-31', 'modified' => '2023-03-31', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17156', 'image' => '20230331033818_1680249977.mantri parisad.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-03-31 15:37:20', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 11 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17420', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Application for Labour Permits will be Available at All Local Levels ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'March 31: Foreign employment aspirants now can submit their applications for labour permits at the local levels from April 14. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">March 31: Foreign employment aspirants now can submit their applications for labour permits at the local levels from April 14. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Security (MoLESS) is going to put in place the new provision which will facilitate service-seekers from all 753 local levels to submit application from their respective local unit. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Ministry's Spokesperson Danduraj Ghimire shared that the foreign employment aspirants can submit their application through the Employment Service Centre. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal, who also holds the portfolio of the MoLESS, took the decision to this effect in a bid to ease the service seekers. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Application for personal labour permit and its renewal can be submitted from local level for which capacity building of the staffers at the Employment Service Centre will be carried out prior to mid-April, said Spokesperson Ghimire. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The ministry towards the beginning of this year started issuing personal and institutional labour permits from all seven provinces.-- RSS </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-03-31', 'modified' => '2023-03-31', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17155', 'image' => '20230331022954_shram-rojgaar.labour-ministry.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-03-31 14:28:58', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 12 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17419', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'SEBON Prepares Regulations for Operation of SME Platform', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'March 31: The Securities Board of Nepal (SEBON) has prepared regulations for the operation of the Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) platform. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">March 31: The Securities Board of Nepal (SEBON) has prepared regulations for the operation of the Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) platform. The board released the draft of the Regulation on Share Issuance and Transactions of Small and Medium Organizations, 2079, on Thursday.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The board said that it prepared the regulation by using the authority given by section 116 of the Securities Act, 2063, with the approval of the Government of Nepal. According to the regulations, the paid-up capital of the small and medium-scale organization registering through the SME platform should not exceed Rs 250 million. However, it is mentioned that the board can modify the limit of paid-up capital, considering the presence of small and medium-sized organizations and the market conditions.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The board has made arrangements for small and medium-sized organizations to issue shares in a manner that they should not be less than 30 per cent and not more than 49 per cent of the issued capital. Such companies have to fulfil various conditions for the public issue of securities.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">According to the provision in the regulation, small and medium-sized organization that issues shares to the general public must complete one financial year of conducting business as a public company.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">However, in the case of a company that has been registered as a private limited company in the past and has completed at least two financial years of operations and converted into a public limited company, it is not necessary to complete one financial year as a public limited company.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">According to the existing law, the public issuance of securities can be made only when the audit and general meeting have been completed and the amount of the securities accepted by the founders has been fully paid. According to this regulation, it will not be mandatory for organized organizations that issue securities to have a credit rating.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Organizations must obtain approval from SEBON for the public issuance of securities. Share investors must apply a minimum of 250 shares for the purchase of securities issued by small and medium-sized organizations.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Such companies can issue securities to the public even at a premium. To issue an IPO at a premium, organizations must have been in net profit for the last three years, have net worth per share greater than paid-up capital, have decided to issue securities at a premium price in the general meeting of the organization, and have received at least an average or higher credit rating grade.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The premium price can be set up to twice the net worth per share based on the latest audited financial statements. </span></span></span></span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-03-31', 'modified' => '2023-03-31', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17154', 'image' => '20230331011627_1680239720.Sebon 1-1.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-03-31 13:15:46', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 13 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17418', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Nepal-Italy Chamber of Commerce and Industry gets new Leadership', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'March 31: Businessman Sanjay Agarwal has been elected as the President of Nepal Italy Chamber of Commerce and Industry. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">March 31: Businessman Sanjay Agarwal has been elected as the President of Nepal Italy Chamber of Commerce and Industry. The ninth annual general meeting of the chamber held in Kathmandu elected a 28-member working committee unopposed under the leadership of Agarwal.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Araniko Rajbhandari has been elected as the senior vice president of the association. The chamber informed that Niraj Shrestha and Manoj Gyawali were elected as the two vice presidents of the chamber, Tirtha Bahadur Roka as the general secretary, Pawan Aggarwal as the treasurer and Romnath Ghimire and Manoj Shrestha Badel as the two secretaries. Rajeshkaji Shrestha is the patron, Dhruva Kumar Shrestha is the honorary member and Navraj Dhakal is the outgoing president.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Arun KC, Anna Maria, Basumaya Tamang, Bina Pyakurel Shrestha, Bhuvneshwar Faiju, Binod Sagatani and Birendra Shahi have been selected as the members of the working committee. Similarly, Kishan Sunar, Kishore Bhattarai, Samba Lama, Sanjay Aggarwal Sarraf, Sarik Bogati, Shambhu Lama, Sumit Dhanuk, Sushil Jain, Subhas Bikram Shah and Yugesh Bade Shrestha have also been elected as members.</span></span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-03-31', 'modified' => '2023-03-31', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17153', 'image' => '20230331122645_1680217648.Clipboard02.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-03-31 12:25:42', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 14 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17417', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Government Holds Discussion to Address the Problems of Usury Victims ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'March 31: The Government has started negotiations with the victims of loan sharking, who are staging protests in the federal capital.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">March 31: The Government has started negotiations with the victims of loan sharking, who are staging protests in the federal capital. According to the Ministry of Home Affairs, the talks held at Singha Durbar ended on a positive note on Thursday. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The victims presented a nine-point written demand during the negotiation with the government’s talks team, the state-owned RSS reported. Under Secretary at the home ministry and a member of the negotiation team, Dil Kumar Tamang, told RSS that they discussed the demands in a clause-wise manner. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">"During the talks, we informed them about the government's efforts so far including the progress in amending the concerned law, while their demands were also discussed in a point-wise manner," RSS quoted Tamang as saying. "They said that they will discuss the latest development with their friends." </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">During the discussion with the government talks team, the victims of loan sharking put forth demands such as the formation of a competent commission, the resolution of the cases in the court and the cancellation of loan-paper made by the money lenders. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">It may be noted that the government formed talks team led by Joint Secretary at the Ministry of Home Affairs, Rudra Devi Sharma, while the usury victims talks team is led by Manoj Paswan, the coordinator of the struggle committee. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">In an effort to respond to the demands of the victims of illegal money lending, the government has decided to amend the Criminal Code to criminalize the act of usury. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The victims of usury travelled to Kathmandu by foot from different districts of Tarai to draw the attention of the federal government towards their plight, RSS reported. </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-03-31', 'modified' => '2023-03-31', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17152', 'image' => '20230331102512_20230329065714_collage (42).jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-03-31 10:24:24', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ) ) $current_user = null $logged_in = falsesimplexml_load_file - [internal], line ?? include - APP/View/Elements/side_bar.ctp, line 60 View::_evaluate() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 971 View::_render() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 933 View::_renderElement() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 1224 View::element() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 418 include - APP/View/Articles/index.ctp, line 157 View::_evaluate() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 971 View::_render() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 933 View::render() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 473 Controller::render() - CORE/Cake/Controller/Controller.php, line 968 Dispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/Cake/Routing/Dispatcher.php, line 200 Dispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/Cake/Routing/Dispatcher.php, line 167 [main] - APP/webroot/index.php, line 117
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', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">April 2: Golcha Group, one of the leading business houses of the country which has been operating dozens of manufacturing industries, is now planning to open an organic fertilizer factory. Golcha Group said it is preparing to the organic fertilizer factory as a substitute to chemical fertilizers which have caused loss to the soil fertility.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Hitesh Golchha, director of Diwakar Golchha Corp, told New Business Age, said that Nepali farmers have had to face the recurring problem of fertilizer shortage every year during the farming season because of the government’s failure to provide chemical fertilizers on time.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">He said that the soil fertility has been decreasing due to the high use of chemical fertilizers, so the Golcha Group is planning to open an organic fertilizer factory.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">“We have a plan to open a natural fertilizer factory. We are talking to various fertilizer manufacturing companies in India for technical cooperation,'' Golchha told New Business Age.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">“Our main objective is to substitute chemical fertilizers.”</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The problem of fertilizer shortage is becoming the most problematic to the farmers. He said that the problems of the industrialists cannot be solved without solving the problems of the farmers in the current situation. He, however, did not divulge the details about where the factory will be opened, how much investment will be required and how many people will be employed.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Farmers have been facing the problem of fertilizer shortage every year during the main season of planting. According to the data of the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development, about </span></span><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">7</span></span><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">00,000 metric tons of fertilizers are required in Nepal annually. However, the import of fertilizer is not more than </span></span><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">420</span></span><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">,000 metric tons a year.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">In this situation, it is expected that the fertilizer factory that is going to be opened by the Golcha Group will be very helpful for the Nepali farmers. </span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The feasibility study for opening a chemical fertilizer factory in Nepal was first done in </span></span><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">2041</span></span><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> BS</span></span><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">. </span></span><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Since then, more than half a dozen such studies have been conducted but not a single plant has been set up.</span></span></span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-04-02', 'modified' => '2023-04-02', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17166', 'image' => '20230402014836_1680412473.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-04-02 13:47:41', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 1 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17430', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'TAAN Confident of TIMS Making Trekking and Mountaineering Tourism Safer ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'April 2: The Trekking Agencies Association of Nepal (TAAN) is hopeful that the new guideline related to the Trekkers' Information Management System (TIMS) would make trekking and mountaineering tourism in the country be more safe and secure. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">April 2: The Trekking Agencies Association of Nepal (TAAN) is hopeful that the new guideline related to the Trekkers' Information Management System (TIMS) would make trekking and mountaineering tourism in the country be more safe and secure. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Issuing a statement on Saturday, TAAN Chairperson Nilhari Bastola expressed confidence that the new guidelines issued by the government to streamline TIMS would aid in making trekking and mountaineering tourism safer. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">TAAN welcomed the move of the Nepal Tourism Board for issuing the Guidelines on Management of TIMS-2079 BS that came into effect from April 1. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The umbrella association of trekking agencies in the country further said that the new guideline would contribute in making trekking sector more competitive, bolstering confidence of tourism entrepreneurs thereby attracting more investment in mountaineering tourism and increasing employment opportunities. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Furthermore, it said that the mountaineering tourism's contribution to gross domestic product (GDP) of the country would increase with the new guideline introducing Nepal as a safe destination in the world tourism market. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">President Bastola asserted that TAAN has been working for reforms at policy level to make tourism more secured, disciplined, entrepreneurs-friendly, employment generator and sustainable and pledged to continue doing so in the coming days. -- RSS </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-04-02', 'modified' => '2023-04-02', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17165', 'image' => '20230402091731_20220718030551_fishtail-seen-from-mardi-himal-base-camp.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-04-02 09:16:44', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 2 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17429', 'article_category_id' => '268', 'title' => 'Rasuwagadhi Border Point Reopens ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'Rasuwagadhi border point, which was closed following the breakout of COVID-19 pandemic, has resumed its operation from Saturday. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px">April 2: Rasuwagadhi border point, which was closed following the breakout of COVID-19 pandemic, has resumed its operation from Saturday. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">In the presence of Secretary Madhukumar Marasini at the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Supplies and Vice President of the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR)of China Silang Nima, Nepali containers carrying goods made in Nepal left for Kerung via Rasuwagadhi’s Miteri Bridge. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">As per the recent agreement between Nepal and TAR, the Tatopani crossing will also be operational from May 1. The agreement was reached during a bilateral talks held in Lhasa on March 29.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">After holding talks to open the border, a team of government officials including Secretary Marasini and Joint Secretary Jitendra Basnet at the Home Ministry had returned to Rasuwa via Rasuwagadhi border point. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">Secretary Marasini informed that other border points with China will also be opened. “Tatatopani border point will resume from May 1,” said Marasini. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">The resumption of Rasuwagadhi border point with China has made traders and businessmen happy and excited in the area, said Nepal Kerung Business Association Founder Chairman Man Bahadur Tamang. A total of 24 trucks loaded with Nepal-made products left for Kerung on Saturday. </span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-04-02', 'modified' => '2023-04-02', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17164', 'image' => '20230402064249_collage (49).jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-04-02 06:40:17', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '42' ) ), (int) 3 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17428', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Government and Loan Shark Victims Sign Five-Point Deal ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'Government officials and representatives of loan-shark victims signed a five-point agreement on Saturday after the government pledged to form a high-level commission to probe into the woes of usury victims.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"> April 2: Government officials and representatives of loan-shark victims signed a five-point agreement on Saturday after the government pledged to form a high-level commission to probe into the woes of usury victims.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">As per the agreement, the next Cabinet meeting will form such a commission and then the agitating committee will call off its protest programmes. Both sides have agreed to recommend the Nepal government to form a probe commission in a bid to address the problems faced by the victims.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">The illegal money lenders have been found charging high interest rates to the illiterate, poor and economically weaker section of populace by preparing fake document of financial transactions, capturing the wealth of borrowers and exploiting the victims in different pretexts. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">Two sides have agreed to recommend the government for the formation of a district level committee under the coordination of Chief District Officer(CDO) to routinely hear and redress the complaints of loan sharks' victims. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">The committee will comprise representatives of Nepal Police, government attorney, chiefs of land revenue and survey office, bank and financial institutions and loan sharks' victims. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">The committee would be tasked to collect complaints and grievances from the victims and also aid to gather evidences. Similarly, it would also facilitate for legal aid and awareness. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">On behalf of the government talks team, joint secretary Pradeep Kumar Koirala, deputy secretaries Junga Bahadur Dangi, Umakanta Adhikari and Dilkumar Tamang and Superintendent of Police Dinesh Raj Mainali signed the agreement. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">In the same manner, Manoj Paswan, Shyam Kumar Chaudhary, Sangharsha Dahal, Ramrijhan Yadav and Chhedilal Pasman signed the agreement on behalf of the struggle committee. </span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-04-02', 'modified' => '2023-04-02', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17163', 'image' => '20230402062100_collage (48).jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-04-02 06:18:23', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '42' ) ), (int) 4 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17427', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Finance Ministry Prepares Budget Calendar', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'April 1: The Ministry of Finance has prepared a schedule for drafting the policies and programmes and budget for the upcoming fiscal year (FY 2023/24).', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">April 1: The Ministry of Finance has prepared a schedule for drafting the policies and programmes and budget for the upcoming fiscal year (FY 2023/24).</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The ministry has prepared a 'budget calendar' for the upcoming fiscal year as per the provision in financial procedures and fiscal accountability act and budget formulation guidelines. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">As per the schedule, discussion would be held on the budget's policy and programme at the National Planning Commission from April 2-7. Subordinate departments of different ministries have been asked to submit 'policy papers' regarding budget formulation within April 3. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The Revenue Management Division under the Finance Ministry would start activities related to the Revenue Advisory Committee from April 4. The committee will prepare a report incorporating the suggestions received during discussions with different stakeholders and personalities, according to the ministry. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">All the line ministries have been asked to propose a budget and to enter annual plans and programmes in the Ministerial Budget Information System within April 7. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Discussion will be held on objectives, priorities and major programmes with the members of the federal parliament and provincial assemblies from April 9 to 11. The Inter-governmental Fiscal Council meeting will be summoned during this period, said the Ministry of Finance. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Similarly, thematic discussion on the upcoming budget, programme and expenditure will be held from April 3 to May 3. Discussions would be held on conditional grants with the Ministry of Finance. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">As per the schedule, suggestions on the upcoming budget will be solicited from representatives of political parties, former finance ministers, former secretaries of the Ministry of Finance, economists and experts within May 9.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Amount received from foreign sources would be determined and mentioned in the budget within April 15 to May 8. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The ministry plans to send the progress report of the government corporation for print by May 3. The draft of Principle and Priorities of Appropriation Bill will be prepared by May 3 while the Principle and Priorities of Appropriation Bill will be presented in both the Houses of the federal parliament within May 8.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The Ministry of Finance should estimate the technical assistance secured from bilateral or multilateral donor agencies and assistance obtained from other non-government agencies within May 8. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The economic survey report and the progress report of the ministry should be sent to the printing press for print on May 13. The draft of the budget speech would be prepared on May 15, and the Revenue Advisory Committee will submit its report to the finance minister on May 19. The deadline for a briefing to the president has been fixed for May 24. Works like preparing the draft of the annual expenditure estimates along with the tripartite expenditure estimates and tallying the subject-wise expenditure estimates should be done on May 24. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The printing of the books containing expenditure estimates should be completed on May 26. The Finance Ministry will give a final touch to the Finance Bill, the Appropriation Bill and the budget speech on May 27. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Briefing the National Planning Commission and the Council of Ministers on the Finance Bill, the Appropriation Bill, and the loan and collateral bill, and sending them to the printing press for print will take place on May 24. The economic survey report, and the progress reports will be tabled in both Houses of the federal parliament on May 28, and be made public the following day. -- </span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">RSS</span></span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-04-01', 'modified' => '2023-04-01', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17162', 'image' => '20230401051819_finance_ministry_copy1.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-04-01 17:17:31', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 5 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17426', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Donald Trump becomes First US President to Face Criminal Charges', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'March 31: Every day, hundreds of people are taken into law enforcement custody in New York City. Former President Donald Trump is expected to become one of them as early as next week.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">March 31: Every day, hundreds of people are taken into law enforcement custody in New York City. Former President Donald Trump is expected to become one of them as early as next week. Trump was indicted by a Manhattan grand jury, prosecutors and defense lawyers said Thursday, after an investigation into payments made during his 2016 presidential campaign to silence claims of an extramarital sexual encounter. The indictment itself remains sealed for now in the first criminal case ever brought against a former U.S. president. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Trump — a Republican who assailed the case Thursday as a Democratic prosecutor's “political persecution” of “a completely innocent person” — is expected to turn himself in to authorities next week, according to a person familiar with the matter but not authorized to discuss it publicly. The person said the details of a surrender are still being worked out. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office said it had contacted Trump's lawyer to coordinate his surrender and arraignment. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">For any New York defendant, poor or powerful, answering criminal charges means being fingerprinted and photographed, fielding basic questions such as name and birthdate, and getting arraigned. All told, defendants are typically detained for at least several hours. There can be differences in where the different steps happen, how long they take, whether handcuffs come out and other particulars. A lot depends on the severity of the case and whether defendants arrange to turn themselves in. But there is no playbook for booking an ex-president with US Secret Service protection. Agents are tasked with the protection of former presidents unless and until they say they don’t need it. Trump has kept his detail, so agents would need to be by his side at all times. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif""> If Trump indeed turns himself in, expect a carefully choreographed and relatively quick process and release without bail (as is common in New York) — and with a focus on security. A former president isn’t likely to be paraded in cuffs across a sidewalk or through a crowded courthouse hallway, Saland predicts. “It’s a public forum, but safety is also paramount,” he notes. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">If defendants are notified of an indictment or an impending arrest, they often arrange to turn themselves in. Doing so can smooth the process and strengthen arguments for bail by showing that they aren’t evading the case. -- AP/RSS</span><br /> </span></span><br /> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-03-31', 'modified' => '2023-03-31', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17161', 'image' => '20230331115155_7 (1).JPG', 'article_date' => '2023-03-31 23:51:09', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 6 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17425', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Newly-Appointed Ministers take Oath of Office and Secrecy', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'March 31: President Ram Chandra Paudel has administered the oath of office and secrecy to the newly-appointed deputy prime minister and ministers at a special ceremony organized at the Office of the President, Sheetal Niwas, on Friday. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">March 31: President Ram Chandra Paudel has administered the oath of office and secrecy to the newly-appointed deputy prime minister and ministers at a special ceremony organized at the Office of the President, Sheetal Niwas, on Friday. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Vice President Ramsahay Prasad Yadav, Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal, Speaker Dev Raj Ghimire, National Assembly Chairman Ganesh Prasad Timilsina, Acting Chief Justice Hari Krishna Karki, heads of constitutional bodies and senior journalists were present on the occasion. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Prime Minister Dahal expanded the Council of Ministers for the seventh time on Friday. PM Dahal expanded the cabinet by incorporating ministers from the Nepali Congress, the CPN (Unified Socialist), the Janata Samajbadi Party, Lokatantrik Samajbadi Party and Nagarik Unmukti Party. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Among those administered the oath of office and secrecy on Friday are Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence Purna Bahadur Khadka, Finance Minister Dr Prakash Sharan Mahat, Minister for Industry, Commerce and Supplies Ramesh Rijal and Minister for Urban Development Sita Gurung from the Nepali Congress. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Similarly, Shakti Bahadur Basnet of the CPN (Maoist Centre) took oath as the Minister for Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Beduram Bhusal and Prakash Jwala from the CPN (Unified Socialist) were also sworn in as the Minister for Agriculture and Livestock Development and Minister for Physical Infrastructure and Transport respectively. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Ashok Rai of the Janata Samajbadi Party Nepal has taken oath of office and secrecy as the Minister for Education, Science and Technology, Sharat Singh Bhandari of the Loktantrik Samajbadi Party as the Minister for Labour, Employment and Social Security. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Likewise, Chairperson of Nagarik Unmukti Party Ranjita Shrestha Chaudhary was sworn in as the Minister for Land Management, Cooperatives and Poverty Alleviation while Mahindra Raya Yadav of Nepal Samajbadi Party as the Minister for Women, Children and Senior Citizens. -- RSS </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-03-31', 'modified' => '2023-03-31', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17160', 'image' => '20230331103752_PradeeprajOnta_KTM_RSS_17(2).jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-03-31 22:37:20', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 7 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17424', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Surge in Coronavirus Infection as 142 New Cases Recorded on Friday Alone ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'March 31: The number of coronavirus infection has increased on Friday as well.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">March 31: The number of coronavirus infection has increased on Friday as well. The Ministry of Health and Population shared that it recorded a total 142 new cases of infection out of tests conducted among 1,079 people. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">On March 30, the number of infection was 42 while on March 29, it was 34; on March 28, it was 24; and on March 27, it was 69. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">With the rise in number of coronavirus infection, the number of active cases has also increased, thereby reaching 163. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Director at the Epidemiology and Disease Control Division, Dr Chuman Lal Das, said as the coronavirus infection is increasing in India, it had a direct impact on Nepal because of the open border. The infected people have entered Nepal which contributed to coronavirus surge in Nepal too, he added. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The ministry has directed one and all to take booster dose for the prevention and control of coronavirus. The campaign of booster dose is underway in the Kathmandu Valley now. -- RSS </span></span></span><br /> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-03-31', 'modified' => '2023-03-31', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17159', 'image' => '20230331103303_20200423093051_22_111.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-03-31 22:32:24', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 8 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17423', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Provinces Adopt Measures to Downsize Budget', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'March 31: As the economic crisis in the country deepens, the provinces have also started cutting their budgets. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">March 31: As the economic crisis in the country deepens, the provinces have also started cutting their budgets. While the federal government has already adopted austerity measures, the provinces have also followed suit. The provinces have reduced 20 per cent of the amount from the budget of the current fiscal year.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The provinces have reduced the expenses from allowances for office operations under various headings. They have reduced fuel expenses, vehicle maintenance expenses, maintenance and operation of machinery tools, operation and maintenance of the public property, furniture and office supplies, printing and publication of information, and staff training.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Minister of Economic Affairs and Planning of Karnali State Government, Binod Kumar Shah said that the expenditure has been cut under 22 headings of current expenses and five headings of capital expenditure. He said that the government cut spending to maintain austerity measures.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The Madhesh government has also downsized budget of subordinate ministries and offices. A Minister of Madhesh Province informed New Business Age that the government has instructed the subordinate ministries and offices to reduce public expenditure by 20 per cent as economic activity has contracted and revenue cannot be collected as per the target in the current fiscal year.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">An official of the Ministry of Social Development of Madhesh Province said that after the government stopped the budget, the daily work related to health was also affected. The provincial government has instructed to cut expenses on 27 different topics, including furniture and office supplies, office operations, services, information, newspapers and consulting services, building communication improvements, skill development and public awareness training seminars.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Even after eight months of the current fiscal year, the development budget of the state government is weak. Officials shared that budget cuts will reduce expenses even further.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Lumbini province has also cut its budget by 20 per cent. The spokesperson of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Surendra Pandey, said that expenditure on training, fuel, vehicle maintenance, information and publicity has been reduced.</span></span></span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-03-31', 'modified' => '2023-03-31', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17158', 'image' => '20230331070724_budget new.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-03-31 19:06:23', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 9 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17422', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'SEE held Peacefully on First Day', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'March 31: The first day of this year's Secondary School Examination (SEE) that started across the country from 8:00 am today concluded peacefully. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">March 31: The first day of this year's Secondary School Examination (SEE) that started across the country from 8:00 am today concluded peacefully. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">According to Examinations Controller Bishnu Narayan Shrestha, the SEE was held in 2,036 examination centers in all 77 districts in the country and the one centre set up in Japan. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">On the first day, the students attended an exam of compulsory English while the students from the Sanskrit stream took an exam for compulsory Sanskrit language and literature, and compulsory Nepali. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">A student in Bara district has been barred from sitting for the exam because she attempted to leak the question paper. The question paper was prevented from leakage and she was barred from taking the exam while other examinees continued with their exam, shared Examination Controller Shrestha. The concerned authority is looking into the matter, he said. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Similarly, this year's examinee includes a student mourning the demise of his parents at Nawalparasi (Bardaghat Susta East). Ram Bahadur Tharu, a student of Janata Secondary School in Madhyabindu Municipality-6 in the district, appeared in the exam in mourning. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Among the total 484,227 students registered for the SEE, 55 students with visual impairment also sat for the exam. A separate sub-centre was set nearby the main exam center for them to appear in the exam. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Similarly, students who were in prisons and reform houses for various reasons also took the exam from their respective places, informed Shrestha. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The examinees also include 14 students sitting for exams in Japan's center. Shrestha shared that the students in Japan are taking their SEE from an academic institution in Tokyo which teaches Nepali curriculum with the approval from the government of Japan. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">A total of 78,000 human resources have been mobilized at the examination centers. Altogether 5 million sets of question papers were published for this year's SEE. The exam will last through April 12. -- </span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">RSS </span></span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-03-31', 'modified' => '2023-03-31', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17157', 'image' => '20230331050932_VishnuprasadGaudel_Madhyabindu_RSS_17_IMG-20230331-WA0002.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-03-31 17:08:33', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 10 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17421', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'PM Dahal Expands Cabinet for the Seventh Time', 'sub_title' => 'Prakash Sharan Mahat Appointed as New Finance Minister', 'summary' => 'March 31: Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal on Friday expanded the cabinet by including leaders of the Nepali Congress, Janata Samajwadi Party and other parties.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">March 31: Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal on Friday expanded the cabinet by including leaders of the Nepali Congress, Janata Samajwadi Party and other parties.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">This is the seventh time he has expanded the Council of Ministers after being appointed the prime minister on December 25.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Prime Minister Dahal, upon the recommendation of the Nepali Congress, appointed the party’s Vice President Purna Bahadur Khadka as the deputy prime minister and minister for defense. Similarly, Dr Prakash Sharan Mahat has been appointed as Minister for Finance, Ramesh Rijal as Minister for Industry, Commerce and Supplies and Sita Gurung as Minister for Urban Development.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Similarly, upon the recommendation of Janata Samajwadi Party (JSP), Ashok Rai has been appointed the Minister for Education, Science and Technology.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Similarly, Beduram Bhusal, the vice president of the CPN United Socialist Party, has been appointed as the Minister for Agriculture and Livestock Development, and Deputy General Secretary Prakash Jwala has been appointed as the Minister for Physical Infrastructure and Transport.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Deputy General Secretary Shakti Basnet from the Maoist Center has been appointed as the Minister for Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Deputy Prime Minister Narayankaji Shrestha has been handed over the responsibility of the Ministry of Home Affairs at the expense of the Ministry of Physical Infrastructure. </span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Sharat Singh Bhandari of the Democratic Socialist Party has been appointed as the Minister for Labour and Employment and Ranjita Shrestha of Nagarik Unmukti Party has become the Minister for Land Management, Cooperatives and Poverty Alleviation.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mahindra Rai Yadav of Nepal Samajwadi Party has been appointed as the Minister for Women, Children and Senior Citizens. </span></span></span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-03-31', 'modified' => '2023-03-31', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17156', 'image' => '20230331033818_1680249977.mantri parisad.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-03-31 15:37:20', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 11 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17420', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Application for Labour Permits will be Available at All Local Levels ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'March 31: Foreign employment aspirants now can submit their applications for labour permits at the local levels from April 14. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">March 31: Foreign employment aspirants now can submit their applications for labour permits at the local levels from April 14. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Security (MoLESS) is going to put in place the new provision which will facilitate service-seekers from all 753 local levels to submit application from their respective local unit. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Ministry's Spokesperson Danduraj Ghimire shared that the foreign employment aspirants can submit their application through the Employment Service Centre. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal, who also holds the portfolio of the MoLESS, took the decision to this effect in a bid to ease the service seekers. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Application for personal labour permit and its renewal can be submitted from local level for which capacity building of the staffers at the Employment Service Centre will be carried out prior to mid-April, said Spokesperson Ghimire. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The ministry towards the beginning of this year started issuing personal and institutional labour permits from all seven provinces.-- RSS </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-03-31', 'modified' => '2023-03-31', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17155', 'image' => '20230331022954_shram-rojgaar.labour-ministry.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-03-31 14:28:58', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 12 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17419', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'SEBON Prepares Regulations for Operation of SME Platform', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'March 31: The Securities Board of Nepal (SEBON) has prepared regulations for the operation of the Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) platform. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">March 31: The Securities Board of Nepal (SEBON) has prepared regulations for the operation of the Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) platform. The board released the draft of the Regulation on Share Issuance and Transactions of Small and Medium Organizations, 2079, on Thursday.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The board said that it prepared the regulation by using the authority given by section 116 of the Securities Act, 2063, with the approval of the Government of Nepal. According to the regulations, the paid-up capital of the small and medium-scale organization registering through the SME platform should not exceed Rs 250 million. However, it is mentioned that the board can modify the limit of paid-up capital, considering the presence of small and medium-sized organizations and the market conditions.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The board has made arrangements for small and medium-sized organizations to issue shares in a manner that they should not be less than 30 per cent and not more than 49 per cent of the issued capital. Such companies have to fulfil various conditions for the public issue of securities.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">According to the provision in the regulation, small and medium-sized organization that issues shares to the general public must complete one financial year of conducting business as a public company.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">However, in the case of a company that has been registered as a private limited company in the past and has completed at least two financial years of operations and converted into a public limited company, it is not necessary to complete one financial year as a public limited company.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">According to the existing law, the public issuance of securities can be made only when the audit and general meeting have been completed and the amount of the securities accepted by the founders has been fully paid. According to this regulation, it will not be mandatory for organized organizations that issue securities to have a credit rating.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Organizations must obtain approval from SEBON for the public issuance of securities. Share investors must apply a minimum of 250 shares for the purchase of securities issued by small and medium-sized organizations.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Such companies can issue securities to the public even at a premium. To issue an IPO at a premium, organizations must have been in net profit for the last three years, have net worth per share greater than paid-up capital, have decided to issue securities at a premium price in the general meeting of the organization, and have received at least an average or higher credit rating grade.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The premium price can be set up to twice the net worth per share based on the latest audited financial statements. </span></span></span></span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-03-31', 'modified' => '2023-03-31', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17154', 'image' => '20230331011627_1680239720.Sebon 1-1.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-03-31 13:15:46', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 13 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17418', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Nepal-Italy Chamber of Commerce and Industry gets new Leadership', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'March 31: Businessman Sanjay Agarwal has been elected as the President of Nepal Italy Chamber of Commerce and Industry. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">March 31: Businessman Sanjay Agarwal has been elected as the President of Nepal Italy Chamber of Commerce and Industry. The ninth annual general meeting of the chamber held in Kathmandu elected a 28-member working committee unopposed under the leadership of Agarwal.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Araniko Rajbhandari has been elected as the senior vice president of the association. The chamber informed that Niraj Shrestha and Manoj Gyawali were elected as the two vice presidents of the chamber, Tirtha Bahadur Roka as the general secretary, Pawan Aggarwal as the treasurer and Romnath Ghimire and Manoj Shrestha Badel as the two secretaries. Rajeshkaji Shrestha is the patron, Dhruva Kumar Shrestha is the honorary member and Navraj Dhakal is the outgoing president.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Arun KC, Anna Maria, Basumaya Tamang, Bina Pyakurel Shrestha, Bhuvneshwar Faiju, Binod Sagatani and Birendra Shahi have been selected as the members of the working committee. Similarly, Kishan Sunar, Kishore Bhattarai, Samba Lama, Sanjay Aggarwal Sarraf, Sarik Bogati, Shambhu Lama, Sumit Dhanuk, Sushil Jain, Subhas Bikram Shah and Yugesh Bade Shrestha have also been elected as members.</span></span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-03-31', 'modified' => '2023-03-31', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17153', 'image' => '20230331122645_1680217648.Clipboard02.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-03-31 12:25:42', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 14 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17417', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Government Holds Discussion to Address the Problems of Usury Victims ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'March 31: The Government has started negotiations with the victims of loan sharking, who are staging protests in the federal capital.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">March 31: The Government has started negotiations with the victims of loan sharking, who are staging protests in the federal capital. According to the Ministry of Home Affairs, the talks held at Singha Durbar ended on a positive note on Thursday. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The victims presented a nine-point written demand during the negotiation with the government’s talks team, the state-owned RSS reported. Under Secretary at the home ministry and a member of the negotiation team, Dil Kumar Tamang, told RSS that they discussed the demands in a clause-wise manner. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">"During the talks, we informed them about the government's efforts so far including the progress in amending the concerned law, while their demands were also discussed in a point-wise manner," RSS quoted Tamang as saying. "They said that they will discuss the latest development with their friends." </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">During the discussion with the government talks team, the victims of loan sharking put forth demands such as the formation of a competent commission, the resolution of the cases in the court and the cancellation of loan-paper made by the money lenders. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">It may be noted that the government formed talks team led by Joint Secretary at the Ministry of Home Affairs, Rudra Devi Sharma, while the usury victims talks team is led by Manoj Paswan, the coordinator of the struggle committee. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">In an effort to respond to the demands of the victims of illegal money lending, the government has decided to amend the Criminal Code to criminalize the act of usury. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The victims of usury travelled to Kathmandu by foot from different districts of Tarai to draw the attention of the federal government towards their plight, RSS reported. </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-03-31', 'modified' => '2023-03-31', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17152', 'image' => '20230331102512_20230329065714_collage (42).jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-03-31 10:24:24', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ) ) $current_user = null $logged_in = false $xml = falseinclude - APP/View/Elements/side_bar.ctp, line 133 View::_evaluate() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 971 View::_render() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 933 View::_renderElement() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 1224 View::element() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 418 include - APP/View/Articles/index.ctp, line 157 View::_evaluate() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 971 View::_render() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 933 View::render() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 473 Controller::render() - CORE/Cake/Controller/Controller.php, line 968 Dispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/Cake/Routing/Dispatcher.php, line 200 Dispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/Cake/Routing/Dispatcher.php, line 167 [main] - APP/webroot/index.php, line 117
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', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">April 2: Golcha Group, one of the leading business houses of the country which has been operating dozens of manufacturing industries, is now planning to open an organic fertilizer factory. Golcha Group said it is preparing to the organic fertilizer factory as a substitute to chemical fertilizers which have caused loss to the soil fertility.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Hitesh Golchha, director of Diwakar Golchha Corp, told New Business Age, said that Nepali farmers have had to face the recurring problem of fertilizer shortage every year during the farming season because of the government’s failure to provide chemical fertilizers on time.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">He said that the soil fertility has been decreasing due to the high use of chemical fertilizers, so the Golcha Group is planning to open an organic fertilizer factory.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">“We have a plan to open a natural fertilizer factory. We are talking to various fertilizer manufacturing companies in India for technical cooperation,'' Golchha told New Business Age.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">“Our main objective is to substitute chemical fertilizers.”</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The problem of fertilizer shortage is becoming the most problematic to the farmers. He said that the problems of the industrialists cannot be solved without solving the problems of the farmers in the current situation. He, however, did not divulge the details about where the factory will be opened, how much investment will be required and how many people will be employed.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Farmers have been facing the problem of fertilizer shortage every year during the main season of planting. According to the data of the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development, about </span></span><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">7</span></span><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">00,000 metric tons of fertilizers are required in Nepal annually. However, the import of fertilizer is not more than </span></span><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">420</span></span><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">,000 metric tons a year.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">In this situation, it is expected that the fertilizer factory that is going to be opened by the Golcha Group will be very helpful for the Nepali farmers. </span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The feasibility study for opening a chemical fertilizer factory in Nepal was first done in </span></span><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">2041</span></span><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> BS</span></span><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">. </span></span><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Since then, more than half a dozen such studies have been conducted but not a single plant has been set up.</span></span></span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-04-02', 'modified' => '2023-04-02', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17166', 'image' => '20230402014836_1680412473.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-04-02 13:47:41', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 1 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17430', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'TAAN Confident of TIMS Making Trekking and Mountaineering Tourism Safer ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'April 2: The Trekking Agencies Association of Nepal (TAAN) is hopeful that the new guideline related to the Trekkers' Information Management System (TIMS) would make trekking and mountaineering tourism in the country be more safe and secure. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">April 2: The Trekking Agencies Association of Nepal (TAAN) is hopeful that the new guideline related to the Trekkers' Information Management System (TIMS) would make trekking and mountaineering tourism in the country be more safe and secure. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Issuing a statement on Saturday, TAAN Chairperson Nilhari Bastola expressed confidence that the new guidelines issued by the government to streamline TIMS would aid in making trekking and mountaineering tourism safer. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">TAAN welcomed the move of the Nepal Tourism Board for issuing the Guidelines on Management of TIMS-2079 BS that came into effect from April 1. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The umbrella association of trekking agencies in the country further said that the new guideline would contribute in making trekking sector more competitive, bolstering confidence of tourism entrepreneurs thereby attracting more investment in mountaineering tourism and increasing employment opportunities. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Furthermore, it said that the mountaineering tourism's contribution to gross domestic product (GDP) of the country would increase with the new guideline introducing Nepal as a safe destination in the world tourism market. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">President Bastola asserted that TAAN has been working for reforms at policy level to make tourism more secured, disciplined, entrepreneurs-friendly, employment generator and sustainable and pledged to continue doing so in the coming days. -- RSS </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-04-02', 'modified' => '2023-04-02', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17165', 'image' => '20230402091731_20220718030551_fishtail-seen-from-mardi-himal-base-camp.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-04-02 09:16:44', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 2 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17429', 'article_category_id' => '268', 'title' => 'Rasuwagadhi Border Point Reopens ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'Rasuwagadhi border point, which was closed following the breakout of COVID-19 pandemic, has resumed its operation from Saturday. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px">April 2: Rasuwagadhi border point, which was closed following the breakout of COVID-19 pandemic, has resumed its operation from Saturday. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">In the presence of Secretary Madhukumar Marasini at the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Supplies and Vice President of the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR)of China Silang Nima, Nepali containers carrying goods made in Nepal left for Kerung via Rasuwagadhi’s Miteri Bridge. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">As per the recent agreement between Nepal and TAR, the Tatopani crossing will also be operational from May 1. The agreement was reached during a bilateral talks held in Lhasa on March 29.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">After holding talks to open the border, a team of government officials including Secretary Marasini and Joint Secretary Jitendra Basnet at the Home Ministry had returned to Rasuwa via Rasuwagadhi border point. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">Secretary Marasini informed that other border points with China will also be opened. “Tatatopani border point will resume from May 1,” said Marasini. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">The resumption of Rasuwagadhi border point with China has made traders and businessmen happy and excited in the area, said Nepal Kerung Business Association Founder Chairman Man Bahadur Tamang. A total of 24 trucks loaded with Nepal-made products left for Kerung on Saturday. </span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-04-02', 'modified' => '2023-04-02', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17164', 'image' => '20230402064249_collage (49).jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-04-02 06:40:17', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '42' ) ), (int) 3 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17428', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Government and Loan Shark Victims Sign Five-Point Deal ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'Government officials and representatives of loan-shark victims signed a five-point agreement on Saturday after the government pledged to form a high-level commission to probe into the woes of usury victims.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"> April 2: Government officials and representatives of loan-shark victims signed a five-point agreement on Saturday after the government pledged to form a high-level commission to probe into the woes of usury victims.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">As per the agreement, the next Cabinet meeting will form such a commission and then the agitating committee will call off its protest programmes. Both sides have agreed to recommend the Nepal government to form a probe commission in a bid to address the problems faced by the victims.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">The illegal money lenders have been found charging high interest rates to the illiterate, poor and economically weaker section of populace by preparing fake document of financial transactions, capturing the wealth of borrowers and exploiting the victims in different pretexts. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">Two sides have agreed to recommend the government for the formation of a district level committee under the coordination of Chief District Officer(CDO) to routinely hear and redress the complaints of loan sharks' victims. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">The committee will comprise representatives of Nepal Police, government attorney, chiefs of land revenue and survey office, bank and financial institutions and loan sharks' victims. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">The committee would be tasked to collect complaints and grievances from the victims and also aid to gather evidences. Similarly, it would also facilitate for legal aid and awareness. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">On behalf of the government talks team, joint secretary Pradeep Kumar Koirala, deputy secretaries Junga Bahadur Dangi, Umakanta Adhikari and Dilkumar Tamang and Superintendent of Police Dinesh Raj Mainali signed the agreement. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">In the same manner, Manoj Paswan, Shyam Kumar Chaudhary, Sangharsha Dahal, Ramrijhan Yadav and Chhedilal Pasman signed the agreement on behalf of the struggle committee. </span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-04-02', 'modified' => '2023-04-02', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17163', 'image' => '20230402062100_collage (48).jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-04-02 06:18:23', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '42' ) ), (int) 4 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17427', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Finance Ministry Prepares Budget Calendar', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'April 1: The Ministry of Finance has prepared a schedule for drafting the policies and programmes and budget for the upcoming fiscal year (FY 2023/24).', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">April 1: The Ministry of Finance has prepared a schedule for drafting the policies and programmes and budget for the upcoming fiscal year (FY 2023/24).</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The ministry has prepared a 'budget calendar' for the upcoming fiscal year as per the provision in financial procedures and fiscal accountability act and budget formulation guidelines. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">As per the schedule, discussion would be held on the budget's policy and programme at the National Planning Commission from April 2-7. Subordinate departments of different ministries have been asked to submit 'policy papers' regarding budget formulation within April 3. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The Revenue Management Division under the Finance Ministry would start activities related to the Revenue Advisory Committee from April 4. The committee will prepare a report incorporating the suggestions received during discussions with different stakeholders and personalities, according to the ministry. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">All the line ministries have been asked to propose a budget and to enter annual plans and programmes in the Ministerial Budget Information System within April 7. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Discussion will be held on objectives, priorities and major programmes with the members of the federal parliament and provincial assemblies from April 9 to 11. The Inter-governmental Fiscal Council meeting will be summoned during this period, said the Ministry of Finance. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Similarly, thematic discussion on the upcoming budget, programme and expenditure will be held from April 3 to May 3. Discussions would be held on conditional grants with the Ministry of Finance. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">As per the schedule, suggestions on the upcoming budget will be solicited from representatives of political parties, former finance ministers, former secretaries of the Ministry of Finance, economists and experts within May 9.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Amount received from foreign sources would be determined and mentioned in the budget within April 15 to May 8. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The ministry plans to send the progress report of the government corporation for print by May 3. The draft of Principle and Priorities of Appropriation Bill will be prepared by May 3 while the Principle and Priorities of Appropriation Bill will be presented in both the Houses of the federal parliament within May 8.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The Ministry of Finance should estimate the technical assistance secured from bilateral or multilateral donor agencies and assistance obtained from other non-government agencies within May 8. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The economic survey report and the progress report of the ministry should be sent to the printing press for print on May 13. The draft of the budget speech would be prepared on May 15, and the Revenue Advisory Committee will submit its report to the finance minister on May 19. The deadline for a briefing to the president has been fixed for May 24. Works like preparing the draft of the annual expenditure estimates along with the tripartite expenditure estimates and tallying the subject-wise expenditure estimates should be done on May 24. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The printing of the books containing expenditure estimates should be completed on May 26. The Finance Ministry will give a final touch to the Finance Bill, the Appropriation Bill and the budget speech on May 27. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Briefing the National Planning Commission and the Council of Ministers on the Finance Bill, the Appropriation Bill, and the loan and collateral bill, and sending them to the printing press for print will take place on May 24. The economic survey report, and the progress reports will be tabled in both Houses of the federal parliament on May 28, and be made public the following day. -- </span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">RSS</span></span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-04-01', 'modified' => '2023-04-01', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17162', 'image' => '20230401051819_finance_ministry_copy1.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-04-01 17:17:31', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 5 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17426', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Donald Trump becomes First US President to Face Criminal Charges', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'March 31: Every day, hundreds of people are taken into law enforcement custody in New York City. Former President Donald Trump is expected to become one of them as early as next week.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">March 31: Every day, hundreds of people are taken into law enforcement custody in New York City. Former President Donald Trump is expected to become one of them as early as next week. Trump was indicted by a Manhattan grand jury, prosecutors and defense lawyers said Thursday, after an investigation into payments made during his 2016 presidential campaign to silence claims of an extramarital sexual encounter. The indictment itself remains sealed for now in the first criminal case ever brought against a former U.S. president. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Trump — a Republican who assailed the case Thursday as a Democratic prosecutor's “political persecution” of “a completely innocent person” — is expected to turn himself in to authorities next week, according to a person familiar with the matter but not authorized to discuss it publicly. The person said the details of a surrender are still being worked out. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office said it had contacted Trump's lawyer to coordinate his surrender and arraignment. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">For any New York defendant, poor or powerful, answering criminal charges means being fingerprinted and photographed, fielding basic questions such as name and birthdate, and getting arraigned. All told, defendants are typically detained for at least several hours. There can be differences in where the different steps happen, how long they take, whether handcuffs come out and other particulars. A lot depends on the severity of the case and whether defendants arrange to turn themselves in. But there is no playbook for booking an ex-president with US Secret Service protection. Agents are tasked with the protection of former presidents unless and until they say they don’t need it. Trump has kept his detail, so agents would need to be by his side at all times. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif""> If Trump indeed turns himself in, expect a carefully choreographed and relatively quick process and release without bail (as is common in New York) — and with a focus on security. A former president isn’t likely to be paraded in cuffs across a sidewalk or through a crowded courthouse hallway, Saland predicts. “It’s a public forum, but safety is also paramount,” he notes. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">If defendants are notified of an indictment or an impending arrest, they often arrange to turn themselves in. Doing so can smooth the process and strengthen arguments for bail by showing that they aren’t evading the case. -- AP/RSS</span><br /> </span></span><br /> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-03-31', 'modified' => '2023-03-31', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17161', 'image' => '20230331115155_7 (1).JPG', 'article_date' => '2023-03-31 23:51:09', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 6 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17425', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Newly-Appointed Ministers take Oath of Office and Secrecy', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'March 31: President Ram Chandra Paudel has administered the oath of office and secrecy to the newly-appointed deputy prime minister and ministers at a special ceremony organized at the Office of the President, Sheetal Niwas, on Friday. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">March 31: President Ram Chandra Paudel has administered the oath of office and secrecy to the newly-appointed deputy prime minister and ministers at a special ceremony organized at the Office of the President, Sheetal Niwas, on Friday. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Vice President Ramsahay Prasad Yadav, Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal, Speaker Dev Raj Ghimire, National Assembly Chairman Ganesh Prasad Timilsina, Acting Chief Justice Hari Krishna Karki, heads of constitutional bodies and senior journalists were present on the occasion. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Prime Minister Dahal expanded the Council of Ministers for the seventh time on Friday. PM Dahal expanded the cabinet by incorporating ministers from the Nepali Congress, the CPN (Unified Socialist), the Janata Samajbadi Party, Lokatantrik Samajbadi Party and Nagarik Unmukti Party. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Among those administered the oath of office and secrecy on Friday are Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence Purna Bahadur Khadka, Finance Minister Dr Prakash Sharan Mahat, Minister for Industry, Commerce and Supplies Ramesh Rijal and Minister for Urban Development Sita Gurung from the Nepali Congress. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Similarly, Shakti Bahadur Basnet of the CPN (Maoist Centre) took oath as the Minister for Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Beduram Bhusal and Prakash Jwala from the CPN (Unified Socialist) were also sworn in as the Minister for Agriculture and Livestock Development and Minister for Physical Infrastructure and Transport respectively. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Ashok Rai of the Janata Samajbadi Party Nepal has taken oath of office and secrecy as the Minister for Education, Science and Technology, Sharat Singh Bhandari of the Loktantrik Samajbadi Party as the Minister for Labour, Employment and Social Security. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Likewise, Chairperson of Nagarik Unmukti Party Ranjita Shrestha Chaudhary was sworn in as the Minister for Land Management, Cooperatives and Poverty Alleviation while Mahindra Raya Yadav of Nepal Samajbadi Party as the Minister for Women, Children and Senior Citizens. -- RSS </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-03-31', 'modified' => '2023-03-31', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17160', 'image' => '20230331103752_PradeeprajOnta_KTM_RSS_17(2).jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-03-31 22:37:20', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 7 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17424', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Surge in Coronavirus Infection as 142 New Cases Recorded on Friday Alone ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'March 31: The number of coronavirus infection has increased on Friday as well.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">March 31: The number of coronavirus infection has increased on Friday as well. The Ministry of Health and Population shared that it recorded a total 142 new cases of infection out of tests conducted among 1,079 people. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">On March 30, the number of infection was 42 while on March 29, it was 34; on March 28, it was 24; and on March 27, it was 69. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">With the rise in number of coronavirus infection, the number of active cases has also increased, thereby reaching 163. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Director at the Epidemiology and Disease Control Division, Dr Chuman Lal Das, said as the coronavirus infection is increasing in India, it had a direct impact on Nepal because of the open border. The infected people have entered Nepal which contributed to coronavirus surge in Nepal too, he added. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The ministry has directed one and all to take booster dose for the prevention and control of coronavirus. The campaign of booster dose is underway in the Kathmandu Valley now. -- RSS </span></span></span><br /> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-03-31', 'modified' => '2023-03-31', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17159', 'image' => '20230331103303_20200423093051_22_111.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-03-31 22:32:24', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 8 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17423', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Provinces Adopt Measures to Downsize Budget', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'March 31: As the economic crisis in the country deepens, the provinces have also started cutting their budgets. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">March 31: As the economic crisis in the country deepens, the provinces have also started cutting their budgets. While the federal government has already adopted austerity measures, the provinces have also followed suit. The provinces have reduced 20 per cent of the amount from the budget of the current fiscal year.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The provinces have reduced the expenses from allowances for office operations under various headings. They have reduced fuel expenses, vehicle maintenance expenses, maintenance and operation of machinery tools, operation and maintenance of the public property, furniture and office supplies, printing and publication of information, and staff training.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Minister of Economic Affairs and Planning of Karnali State Government, Binod Kumar Shah said that the expenditure has been cut under 22 headings of current expenses and five headings of capital expenditure. He said that the government cut spending to maintain austerity measures.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The Madhesh government has also downsized budget of subordinate ministries and offices. A Minister of Madhesh Province informed New Business Age that the government has instructed the subordinate ministries and offices to reduce public expenditure by 20 per cent as economic activity has contracted and revenue cannot be collected as per the target in the current fiscal year.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">An official of the Ministry of Social Development of Madhesh Province said that after the government stopped the budget, the daily work related to health was also affected. The provincial government has instructed to cut expenses on 27 different topics, including furniture and office supplies, office operations, services, information, newspapers and consulting services, building communication improvements, skill development and public awareness training seminars.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Even after eight months of the current fiscal year, the development budget of the state government is weak. Officials shared that budget cuts will reduce expenses even further.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Lumbini province has also cut its budget by 20 per cent. The spokesperson of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Surendra Pandey, said that expenditure on training, fuel, vehicle maintenance, information and publicity has been reduced.</span></span></span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-03-31', 'modified' => '2023-03-31', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17158', 'image' => '20230331070724_budget new.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-03-31 19:06:23', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 9 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17422', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'SEE held Peacefully on First Day', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'March 31: The first day of this year's Secondary School Examination (SEE) that started across the country from 8:00 am today concluded peacefully. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">March 31: The first day of this year's Secondary School Examination (SEE) that started across the country from 8:00 am today concluded peacefully. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">According to Examinations Controller Bishnu Narayan Shrestha, the SEE was held in 2,036 examination centers in all 77 districts in the country and the one centre set up in Japan. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">On the first day, the students attended an exam of compulsory English while the students from the Sanskrit stream took an exam for compulsory Sanskrit language and literature, and compulsory Nepali. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">A student in Bara district has been barred from sitting for the exam because she attempted to leak the question paper. The question paper was prevented from leakage and she was barred from taking the exam while other examinees continued with their exam, shared Examination Controller Shrestha. The concerned authority is looking into the matter, he said. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Similarly, this year's examinee includes a student mourning the demise of his parents at Nawalparasi (Bardaghat Susta East). Ram Bahadur Tharu, a student of Janata Secondary School in Madhyabindu Municipality-6 in the district, appeared in the exam in mourning. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Among the total 484,227 students registered for the SEE, 55 students with visual impairment also sat for the exam. A separate sub-centre was set nearby the main exam center for them to appear in the exam. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Similarly, students who were in prisons and reform houses for various reasons also took the exam from their respective places, informed Shrestha. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The examinees also include 14 students sitting for exams in Japan's center. Shrestha shared that the students in Japan are taking their SEE from an academic institution in Tokyo which teaches Nepali curriculum with the approval from the government of Japan. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">A total of 78,000 human resources have been mobilized at the examination centers. Altogether 5 million sets of question papers were published for this year's SEE. The exam will last through April 12. -- </span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">RSS </span></span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-03-31', 'modified' => '2023-03-31', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17157', 'image' => '20230331050932_VishnuprasadGaudel_Madhyabindu_RSS_17_IMG-20230331-WA0002.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-03-31 17:08:33', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 10 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17421', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'PM Dahal Expands Cabinet for the Seventh Time', 'sub_title' => 'Prakash Sharan Mahat Appointed as New Finance Minister', 'summary' => 'March 31: Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal on Friday expanded the cabinet by including leaders of the Nepali Congress, Janata Samajwadi Party and other parties.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">March 31: Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal on Friday expanded the cabinet by including leaders of the Nepali Congress, Janata Samajwadi Party and other parties.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">This is the seventh time he has expanded the Council of Ministers after being appointed the prime minister on December 25.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Prime Minister Dahal, upon the recommendation of the Nepali Congress, appointed the party’s Vice President Purna Bahadur Khadka as the deputy prime minister and minister for defense. Similarly, Dr Prakash Sharan Mahat has been appointed as Minister for Finance, Ramesh Rijal as Minister for Industry, Commerce and Supplies and Sita Gurung as Minister for Urban Development.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Similarly, upon the recommendation of Janata Samajwadi Party (JSP), Ashok Rai has been appointed the Minister for Education, Science and Technology.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Similarly, Beduram Bhusal, the vice president of the CPN United Socialist Party, has been appointed as the Minister for Agriculture and Livestock Development, and Deputy General Secretary Prakash Jwala has been appointed as the Minister for Physical Infrastructure and Transport.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Deputy General Secretary Shakti Basnet from the Maoist Center has been appointed as the Minister for Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Deputy Prime Minister Narayankaji Shrestha has been handed over the responsibility of the Ministry of Home Affairs at the expense of the Ministry of Physical Infrastructure. </span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Sharat Singh Bhandari of the Democratic Socialist Party has been appointed as the Minister for Labour and Employment and Ranjita Shrestha of Nagarik Unmukti Party has become the Minister for Land Management, Cooperatives and Poverty Alleviation.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mahindra Rai Yadav of Nepal Samajwadi Party has been appointed as the Minister for Women, Children and Senior Citizens. </span></span></span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-03-31', 'modified' => '2023-03-31', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17156', 'image' => '20230331033818_1680249977.mantri parisad.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-03-31 15:37:20', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 11 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17420', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Application for Labour Permits will be Available at All Local Levels ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'March 31: Foreign employment aspirants now can submit their applications for labour permits at the local levels from April 14. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">March 31: Foreign employment aspirants now can submit their applications for labour permits at the local levels from April 14. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Security (MoLESS) is going to put in place the new provision which will facilitate service-seekers from all 753 local levels to submit application from their respective local unit. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Ministry's Spokesperson Danduraj Ghimire shared that the foreign employment aspirants can submit their application through the Employment Service Centre. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal, who also holds the portfolio of the MoLESS, took the decision to this effect in a bid to ease the service seekers. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Application for personal labour permit and its renewal can be submitted from local level for which capacity building of the staffers at the Employment Service Centre will be carried out prior to mid-April, said Spokesperson Ghimire. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The ministry towards the beginning of this year started issuing personal and institutional labour permits from all seven provinces.-- RSS </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-03-31', 'modified' => '2023-03-31', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17155', 'image' => '20230331022954_shram-rojgaar.labour-ministry.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-03-31 14:28:58', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 12 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17419', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'SEBON Prepares Regulations for Operation of SME Platform', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'March 31: The Securities Board of Nepal (SEBON) has prepared regulations for the operation of the Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) platform. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">March 31: The Securities Board of Nepal (SEBON) has prepared regulations for the operation of the Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) platform. The board released the draft of the Regulation on Share Issuance and Transactions of Small and Medium Organizations, 2079, on Thursday.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The board said that it prepared the regulation by using the authority given by section 116 of the Securities Act, 2063, with the approval of the Government of Nepal. According to the regulations, the paid-up capital of the small and medium-scale organization registering through the SME platform should not exceed Rs 250 million. However, it is mentioned that the board can modify the limit of paid-up capital, considering the presence of small and medium-sized organizations and the market conditions.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The board has made arrangements for small and medium-sized organizations to issue shares in a manner that they should not be less than 30 per cent and not more than 49 per cent of the issued capital. Such companies have to fulfil various conditions for the public issue of securities.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">According to the provision in the regulation, small and medium-sized organization that issues shares to the general public must complete one financial year of conducting business as a public company.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">However, in the case of a company that has been registered as a private limited company in the past and has completed at least two financial years of operations and converted into a public limited company, it is not necessary to complete one financial year as a public limited company.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">According to the existing law, the public issuance of securities can be made only when the audit and general meeting have been completed and the amount of the securities accepted by the founders has been fully paid. According to this regulation, it will not be mandatory for organized organizations that issue securities to have a credit rating.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Organizations must obtain approval from SEBON for the public issuance of securities. Share investors must apply a minimum of 250 shares for the purchase of securities issued by small and medium-sized organizations.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Such companies can issue securities to the public even at a premium. To issue an IPO at a premium, organizations must have been in net profit for the last three years, have net worth per share greater than paid-up capital, have decided to issue securities at a premium price in the general meeting of the organization, and have received at least an average or higher credit rating grade.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The premium price can be set up to twice the net worth per share based on the latest audited financial statements. </span></span></span></span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-03-31', 'modified' => '2023-03-31', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17154', 'image' => '20230331011627_1680239720.Sebon 1-1.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-03-31 13:15:46', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 13 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17418', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Nepal-Italy Chamber of Commerce and Industry gets new Leadership', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'March 31: Businessman Sanjay Agarwal has been elected as the President of Nepal Italy Chamber of Commerce and Industry. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">March 31: Businessman Sanjay Agarwal has been elected as the President of Nepal Italy Chamber of Commerce and Industry. The ninth annual general meeting of the chamber held in Kathmandu elected a 28-member working committee unopposed under the leadership of Agarwal.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Araniko Rajbhandari has been elected as the senior vice president of the association. The chamber informed that Niraj Shrestha and Manoj Gyawali were elected as the two vice presidents of the chamber, Tirtha Bahadur Roka as the general secretary, Pawan Aggarwal as the treasurer and Romnath Ghimire and Manoj Shrestha Badel as the two secretaries. Rajeshkaji Shrestha is the patron, Dhruva Kumar Shrestha is the honorary member and Navraj Dhakal is the outgoing president.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Arun KC, Anna Maria, Basumaya Tamang, Bina Pyakurel Shrestha, Bhuvneshwar Faiju, Binod Sagatani and Birendra Shahi have been selected as the members of the working committee. Similarly, Kishan Sunar, Kishore Bhattarai, Samba Lama, Sanjay Aggarwal Sarraf, Sarik Bogati, Shambhu Lama, Sumit Dhanuk, Sushil Jain, Subhas Bikram Shah and Yugesh Bade Shrestha have also been elected as members.</span></span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-03-31', 'modified' => '2023-03-31', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17153', 'image' => '20230331122645_1680217648.Clipboard02.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-03-31 12:25:42', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 14 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17417', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Government Holds Discussion to Address the Problems of Usury Victims ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'March 31: The Government has started negotiations with the victims of loan sharking, who are staging protests in the federal capital.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">March 31: The Government has started negotiations with the victims of loan sharking, who are staging protests in the federal capital. According to the Ministry of Home Affairs, the talks held at Singha Durbar ended on a positive note on Thursday. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The victims presented a nine-point written demand during the negotiation with the government’s talks team, the state-owned RSS reported. Under Secretary at the home ministry and a member of the negotiation team, Dil Kumar Tamang, told RSS that they discussed the demands in a clause-wise manner. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">"During the talks, we informed them about the government's efforts so far including the progress in amending the concerned law, while their demands were also discussed in a point-wise manner," RSS quoted Tamang as saying. "They said that they will discuss the latest development with their friends." </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">During the discussion with the government talks team, the victims of loan sharking put forth demands such as the formation of a competent commission, the resolution of the cases in the court and the cancellation of loan-paper made by the money lenders. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">It may be noted that the government formed talks team led by Joint Secretary at the Ministry of Home Affairs, Rudra Devi Sharma, while the usury victims talks team is led by Manoj Paswan, the coordinator of the struggle committee. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">In an effort to respond to the demands of the victims of illegal money lending, the government has decided to amend the Criminal Code to criminalize the act of usury. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The victims of usury travelled to Kathmandu by foot from different districts of Tarai to draw the attention of the federal government towards their plight, RSS reported. </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-03-31', 'modified' => '2023-03-31', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17152', 'image' => '20230331102512_20230329065714_collage (42).jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-03-31 10:24:24', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ) ) $current_user = null $logged_in = false $xml = falsesimplexml_load_file - [internal], line ?? include - APP/View/Elements/side_bar.ctp, line 133 View::_evaluate() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 971 View::_render() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 933 View::_renderElement() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 1224 View::element() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 418 include - APP/View/Articles/index.ctp, line 157 View::_evaluate() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 971 View::_render() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 933 View::render() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 473 Controller::render() - CORE/Cake/Controller/Controller.php, line 968 Dispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/Cake/Routing/Dispatcher.php, line 200 Dispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/Cake/Routing/Dispatcher.php, line 167 [main] - APP/webroot/index.php, line 117
| Currency | Unit |
Buy | Sell |
| U.S. Dollar | 1 | 121.23 | 121.83 |
| European Euro | 1 | 131.65 | 132.31 |
| UK Pound Sterling | 1 | 142.47 | 143.18 |
| Swiss Franc | 1 | 124.29 | 124.90 |
| Australian Dollar | 1 | 71.69 | 72.05 |
| Canadian Dollar | 1 | 83.90 | 84.32 |
| Japanese Yen | 10 | 10.94 | 11.00 |
| Chinese Yuan | 1 | 17.17 | 17.26 |
| Saudi Arabian Riyal | 1 | 32.27 | 32.43 |
| UAE Dirham | 1 | 33.01 | 33.17 |
| Malaysian Ringgit | 1 | 27.36 | 27.50 |
| South Korean Won | 100 | 9.77 | 9.82 |
Update: 2020-03-25 | Source: Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB)
| Fine Gold | 1 tola | 77000.00 |
| Tejabi Gold | 1 tola | 76700.00 |
| Silver | 1 tola | 720.00 |
Update : 2020-03-25
Source: Federation of Nepal Gold and Silver Dealers' Association
| Petrol | 1 Liter | 106.00 |
| Diesel | 1 Liter | 95.00 |
| Kerosene | 1 Liter | 95.00 |
| LP Gas | 1 Cylinder | 1375.00 |
Update : 2020-03-25
