March 26: Nepal Police has confiscated counterfeit notes of over Rs 1 million in the last three…
March 26: Nepal Police has confiscated counterfeit notes of over Rs 1 million in the last three…
The Government of Nepal has received commitments for foreign aid amounting to over Rs 138.5 billion in the eight months of the current fiscal year…
March 25: A total of 2,475 foreign tourists visited the Annapurna circuit trek in the first three months of…
March 24: Women’s right to property has pursued a progressive path which is evident from the fact that their ownership of family properties has increased over the past…
March 24: A meeting of the Council of Ministers has decided to promote Additional Inspector General Basanta Bahadur Kunwar to the post of Inspector General of the Nepal…
Following the successful merger, Sanima Life Insurance and Reliance Life Insurance Company have started integrated business transaction from…
March 24: Billions of rupees spent on import of clinker has been saved due to the increase in domestic production of the raw material of…
March 24: With the announcement of “Food Crops Insurance” by the Nepal Insurance Authority, now food crops as well will be insured on the basis of production under the agricultural insurance policy.…
March 24: The government has published the final report of the national census…
March 24: An earthquake measuring 4.5 magnitude in the Richter scale occurred at 9:15 am this morning with its epicenter in Mugu…
March 24: The Securities Board of Nepal (SEBON) has filed a case against Guru Prasad Neupane at the Kathmandu District Court for the offense of insider…
March 24: Nepal has recently witnessed rapid rise in COVID-19 cases, the state-owned RSS reported on Friday.…
The Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN) has grounded a pilot on the charge of hurling offensive words at the air traffic controllers…
Standard Chartered Bank Nepal Limited held a staff fundraising program “Home Run 2023” for its sustainability initiative “Futuremakers by Standard Chartered” on March 18,…
March 23: The number of contributors enlisted in Social Security Fund has reached more than…
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', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">March 26: Nepal Police has confiscated counterfeit notes of over Rs 1 million in the last three months. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Nepal Police Spokesperson DIG Poshraj Pokharel confirmed that the fake currency notes were seized in the last three months. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">According to the police headquarters office data, as many as 22 persons involved in the transactions of counterfeit Nepali notes were arrested during the period. -- RSS </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-03-26', 'modified' => '2023-03-26', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17104', 'image' => '20230326102442_20170427050255_note.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-03-26 10:23:55', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 1 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17368', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Nepal Receives Foreign Aid Commitment of Rs 138 billion In Eight Months', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'The Government of Nepal has received commitments for foreign aid amounting to over Rs 138.5 billion in the eight months of the current fiscal year 2022/23.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px">March 25: The Government of Nepal has received commitments for foreign aid amounting to over Rs 138.5 billion in the eight months of the current fiscal year 2022/23.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">According to the Ministry of Finance (MoF), Nepal received commitments for grants equivalent to Rs 24.56 billion and Rs 114 billion for foreign loan from different bilateral and multilateral development partners in the last eight months.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">The government through its annual budget had set a target to receive foreign loan worth Rs 242.26 billion and foreign grants of Rs 44.46 billion in the eight months. Against the target, the commitment for foreign loan and grants stood at 47 percent and 44.28 percent respectively. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">The government obtained commitment of Rs 350 million for grants from Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) for 'Project for Human Resources Development Scholarship'. Likewise, JICA has expressed Rs 2 billion commitment for grants for 'Tarai Region Irrigation System Strengthening Project'. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">The government received commitments of Rs 1.37 billion and Rs 2 billion for grants for 'Wash for All' and 'Empowered Women, Prosperous Nepal' respectively.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">Swiss government gave grant commitment of Rs 990 million for ‘Technical and Commercial Education Programme’. Likewise, Nepal government received commitment of Rs 1 billion grants each for entrepreneurship development of returnee workers from South Korea and capacity development of Nepal Police’s Cyber Bureau. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">Asian Development Bank expressed commitment of Rs 2.47 billion and Rs 1.57 billion grants for horticulture in hilly parts of the country and for women development programme respectively.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">Nepal government obtained commitments of Rs 5.26 billion grants for the capacity building of security and justice system from British government.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">Likewsie, the government gained loan commitments of Rs 114 billion from World Bank, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), Asian Development Bank(ADB) and others for various projects and programmes in the eight months of the current fiscal year. </span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-03-26', 'modified' => '2023-03-26', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17103', 'image' => '20230326062153_collage (38).jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-03-26 06:08:27', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '42' ) ), (int) 2 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17366', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Less than 2500 Tourists Visit Annapurna Circuit in Three Months ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'March 25: A total of 2,475 foreign tourists visited the Annapurna circuit trek in the first three months of 2023. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">March 25: A total of 2,475 foreign tourists visited the Annapurna circuit trek in the first three months of 2023. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The tourists included 1,678 male and 797 female, according to Tourism Assistant at Annapurna Conservation Area Project (ACAP) Tourist Check Point in Dharapani, Chettra Bahadur Gurung. Around 40 to 50 tourists arrive at the ACAP area every day. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The number of tourists visiting the Annapurna region has not been able to rise significantly, worrying the tourism entrepreneurs. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Even after the end of the COVID-19 pandemic, tourism business has not been able to gain any momentum, said tourism entrepreneur Pancha Bahadur Gurung. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">In the previous year (ie 2022), a total of 15,900 foreign tourists arrived in the Annapurna circuit trek. This included 10,364 men and 5,536 women, said Gurung. In 2021 the number was 2,273 including 1,562 men and 711 women. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif""> Likewise, 1,976 tourists visited in 2020. The number was 36,647 in 2019. The majority of the tourists coming for trekking in the circuit are from neighboring countries China and India and also from Japan, Australia, Britain, etc. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The Annapurna circuit trek starts from Besisahar, Lamjung and ends in Kaski via ManangMustang and Myagdi districts. -- RSS </span></span></span><br /> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-03-25', 'modified' => '2023-03-25', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17101', 'image' => '20230325104606_SG-MYAGDI.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-03-25 22:45:29', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 3 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17365', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Women’s Access to Family Property up by 1.1 Percent', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'March 24: Women’s right to property has pursued a progressive path which is evident from the fact that their ownership of family properties has increased over the past decade.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">March 24: Women’s right to property has pursued a progressive path which is evident from the fact that their ownership of family properties has increased over the past decade. According to the National Census 2021, women’s access to family properties has increased. The final report of the census published by the government on Friday revealed that 23.8 percent households have their land and house in women’s name, a 1.1 percent surge as compared to the 2011 census.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The results of the latest census show that there are a total of 6,666,937 households in the country. Similarly, the number of residential houses stands at 6,660,841. Of them, 31.55 percent households are owned by women, a 5.82 percent increment as opposed to the previous census.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">According to the 2021 census, the population of Nepal has increased to 29.1 million.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Out of the total population of 29,164,578, females make up 14,911,27 (51.02 percent) . Likewise, the number of males is 14,253,551 (48.98 percent). As per the previous census, the total population of the country stood at 26,494,504.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Population density in mountains, hills declining</strong></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">As per the latest census, population density in mountains and hill areas has decreased over the period of last 10 years. The population density is 460 persons per square kilometer in the Terai, while it is 34 per square kilometer in the mountains. It is just 3 per square kilometer in Manang and 5,169 in the Kathmandu Valley.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">According to the census data, Kathmandu district has the highest number of population across the country as the population here is counted at 2,041,587 while 5,658 people reside in Manang. In terms of distribution of population by districts, Morang, Rupandehi, Jhapa and Sunsari are among those districts facing an increased pressure of population. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Similarly, Mustang, Dolpa and Rasuwa have a smaller population.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The Terai region's population is 53.61 percent, out of the total population as 15,634,006 people reside in the Terai and this figure is 40. 31 percent or 11,757,624 in the hills. The mountain region reports the residency of 6.08 percent or 1,772,948 people. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""> Until ten years ago, the Terai's population was 50.27 percent of the total population followed by 43.01 percent in hills and 6.73 percent in the mountains. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""> According to the census report, more than 2.19 million Nepalis are living abroad. It has been found that 2,190,592 people from 1,555,961 families are living abroad.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">This number is 269,098 more than the 2011 census. In the 2011 census, 1,921,494 people were found to be living abroad.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">According to the latest census, as many as 1,799,675 men (82.2 percent) and 390,917 (17.8 percent) women are abroad, as mentioned in the report. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The data shows that 68 percent of the population has not gone through internal migration from one local level to another while 10.8 percent of the total population opted for it. Similarly 18.2 percent of the population has migrated from one district to another while 3.1 percent of the population has migrated abroad. The number of migrated population as a whole is 9,341,408.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""> Employment opportunities, trade-business, study, training, dependency, natural disasters and agriculture have been cited as the major cases of migrations. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Reliance on traditional fuel continues </strong></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Although the government has emphasized development and promotion of clean energy, a large section of the population of the country still relies on traditional means of cooking fuel.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">A total of 51 per cent of the households in the country said that they still use firewood in the kitchen while those using LPG gas cylinders stand at 44.3 per cent.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Similarly, those employing induction stoves to prepare food stand at 0.5 while those using traditional cow dung dry patties is 1.2 percent. Likewise, 0.5 percent of the population still uses kerosene and 0.1 use other fuels.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Ten years ago, 64 percent of the household used firewood in the kitchen to prepare food. It is evident that the reliance on traditional fuel has decreased to some extent over the decade but the number of households relying on traditional energy for cooking is still more than half of the population.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Strides in electrification</strong></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Government's vision to expand electricity in all households is almost close to realization. A total of 92.2 per cent households are under the ambit of electricity as per the latest census. Households using solar energy stand at 6.6 per cent at present.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Only 67.3 percent of the population had access to electricity 10 years ago.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Going by this statistic, 98.8 percent of the population had access to clean energy while those using kerosene and other fuel remain below 1 percent. -- RSS</span></span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-03-24', 'modified' => '2023-03-24', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17100', 'image' => '20230324100942_6F8A2862.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-03-24 22:09:15', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 4 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17364', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'AIG Kunwar Promoted to Nepal Police Chief ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'March 24: A meeting of the Council of Ministers has decided to promote Additional Inspector General Basanta Bahadur Kunwar to the post of Inspector General of the Nepal Police. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">March 24: A meeting of the Council of Ministers has decided to promote Additional Inspector General Basanta Bahadur Kunwar to the post of Inspector General of the Nepal Police. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Surya Kiran Sharma, press coordinator of Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal, told RSS that the cabinet meeting decided to promote AIG Kunwar to the top post. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">He was promoted to AIG as per the decision of March 20. AIGs Tek Prasad Rai, Deepak Thapa, Shyam Lal Gyawali and Kiran Bajracharya along with Kunwar were in the race for IGP. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Sitting IGP Dhiraj Pratap Singh is retiring from today (Friday) after completing his 30-year tenure in the police force. -- RSS</span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-03-24', 'modified' => '2023-03-24', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17099', 'image' => '20230324082456_PRO-KTM-PRACHANDA.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-03-24 20:24:22', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 5 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17363', 'article_category_id' => '218', 'title' => 'Sanima Life and Reliance Life Commence Integrated Transaction ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'Following the successful merger, Sanima Life Insurance and Reliance Life Insurance Company have started integrated business transaction from Thursday. ', 'content' => '<p><br /> <span style="font-size:18px">March 24: Following the successful merger, Sanima Life Insurance and Reliance Life Insurance Company have started integrated business transaction from Thursday. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">After the merger, the joint transaction will be carried out under the name “Sanima Reliance Life Insurance”. The two companies were merged with a swap ratio of 1:1.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">The Nepal Insurance Authority had given final approval to Sanima and Reliance Life Insurance Company for merger on March 2. Likewise, the two companies were granted merger approval by the Office of the Company Registrar for merger on March 13. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">After the merger, the paid-up capital of the merged entity has reached Rs 4.18 billion. Prior to the merger, Sanima Life Insurance Company had the paid-up capital of Rs 2 billion, while the paid-up capital of Reliance Life Insurance Company was Rs 2.10 billion. </span><br /> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-03-24', 'modified' => '2023-03-24', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17098', 'image' => '20230324045818_collage - 2023-03-24T165448.460.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-03-24 16:55:29', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '42' ) ), (int) 6 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17362', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Import of Clinker Almost Comes to a Standstill', 'sub_title' => 'Nepal imported clinker only once in the last eight months', 'summary' => 'March 24: Billions of rupees spent on import of clinker has been saved due to the increase in domestic production of the raw material of cement.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">March 24: Billions of rupees spent on import of clinker has been saved due to the increase in domestic production of the raw material of cement.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Data from the Department of Customs shows that Rs 11 billion was spent for the import of clinker four years ago. The latest data shows that the import of clinker has come almost to a halt.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">According to the department, clinker worth only Rs 19,000 has been imported in the last eight months (July-February) of the current fiscal year. Clinker was imported only once during this period.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">According to the department, in the first month of the last fiscal year, clinker worth Rs 34.3 million was imported in July. In the last fiscal year, clinker worth Rs 321.5 million was imported.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Clinker is the raw material of cement. Now the country has become self-reliant on clinker and cement. Some industries are also exporting both these items to India.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Palpa and Arghakhanchi cement industries are exporting these products as clinker and cement is produced more than the domestic requirement.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Tara Prasad Pokharel, vice president of the Nepal Cement Producers Association, said that there has been a problem in the sale of clinker recently due to the low consumption of cement in the country. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">"In normal conditions, that is during the season of infrastructure construction, clinker consumption used to be about 80 per cent, now it has dropped to about 30 per cent," Pokharel told New Business Age.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">According to the association, there are currently 16 industries that produce clinker. These industries produce 40,000 metric tons of clinker daily. Pokharel said that the production capacity has been reduced after the cement consumption decreased.</span></span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Rajesh Kumar Agarwal, executive director of RMC Group, which produces cement under the Palpa brand, said that the demand for cement has decreased due to the low capital expenditure of the state, which has affected development and construction.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Cement produced by RMC Group has been exported since last June. According to Agarwal, now clinker is also exported.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Pashupati Murarka, the owner of Arghakhanchi Cement Industry, also informed that his industry has started exporting clinker.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">"Clinker import has dropped to zero in a short time," said Murarka, "Arghakhanchi and Palpa cement industries have so far exported 30,000 metric tons of clinker and cement to India."</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">"There was a situation in the past when imported clinker was expensive, but limestone, the raw material in the country, was not used," Murarka said. According to the association, Rs 3 trillion have been invested in the cement industry so far.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">After the earthquake of 2015, when the reconstruction work intensified, the demand for cement increased suddenly. After that, domestic and foreign investment in the cement industry increased. According to the association, there are currently about five dozen cement industries operating in Nepal. The annual production capacity of this industry is 25 million metric tons. As the demand was less than the production capacity, the producers had been demanding the government to facilitate the export to India. With the government implementing the program announced in the budget to give cash subsidies to exports, industrialists have started exporting cement and clinker.</span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-03-24', 'modified' => '2023-03-24', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17097', 'image' => '20230324045005_1679620101.Clipboard11.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-03-24 16:49:06', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 7 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17361', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Insurance Coverage of Food Crops', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'March 24: With the announcement of “Food Crops Insurance” by the Nepal Insurance Authority, now food crops as well will be insured on the basis of production under the agricultural insurance policy. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">March 24: With the announcement of “Food Crops Insurance” by the Nepal Insurance Authority, now food crops as well will be insured on the basis of production under the agricultural insurance policy. According to the authority, crops such as paddy, corn, barley, wheat and millet will be covered under the insurance policy.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">These food crop insurance policies will cover eight different types of damage, including fire, wind, water, weather, land, lightning, disease and insects, and accidental external causes.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">In case of damage to food crops due to the risk covered by the insurance policy, the insured must inform the insurer within 3 days of the loss through telephone, SMS, or email.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Under the additional facility, those who have purchased the insurance policy of crops will also get the facility of accidental insurance up to Rs 200,000. Under this facility, the insured will get a maximum of Rs 200,000 in case of death of insured during the insurance period due to reasons other than suicide, irreparable loss of spinal cord due to spinal injury, loss of function of one or both arms above the wrist, loss of function of one or both legs above the ankle and loss of sight in both eyes.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">However, it is not possible to partially insure food crops planted in the same area. In case of paddy and millet crops, insurance policy must be taken within 30 days of planting. In case of corn, wheat and barley crops, insurance policy must be taken within 30 days after 7 days of sowing.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">According to the insurance policy, the authority has arranged that the insurance fee will be maintained at the rate of 5 percent of the insured amount in the case of rice, corn and wheat crops, and at the rate of 3 percent of the insured amount in the case of barley and millet crops.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Sarthakraj Pandey, assistant manager of Shikhar Insurance's agriculture and small insurance branch says that farmers will benefit from the insurance policy based on the production of food crops.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">He said, “Insurance was issued only on the basis of the cost of food crops, due to which it was not possible for the farmers to recover the lost investment due to crop damage up until recently. Now, with the implementation of the insurance policy, the farmer's production will also be protected.” </span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-03-24', 'modified' => '2023-03-24', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17096', 'image' => '20230324011925_paddyyy-transformed.jpeg', 'article_date' => '2023-03-24 13:18:27', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 8 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17360', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Govt Unveils Final Result of 2021 Census', 'sub_title' => 'Population of Nepal is 29.16 million', 'summary' => 'March 24: The government has published the final report of the national census 2021.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px">March 24: The government has published the final report of the national census 2021.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">According to the National Census of Nepal 2021 conducted by the Central Statistics Department, the population of Nepal has reached 29.16 million (2,91,64,578). As per the previous census, the total population of the country stood at 26,494,504.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal announced the final results of Nepal's latest census at the 'National Census 2078 Results Publiation Program' held in Kathmandu on Friday.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">The census revealed that the male population of Nepal is 1,42,53,551 (48.98 percent) and the female population is 1,49,11,027 (51.02 percent).</span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-03-24', 'modified' => '2023-03-24', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17095', 'image' => '20230324121911_1679637439.collage (63).jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-03-24 12:18:30', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 9 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17359', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Earthquake Jolts Mugu ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'March 24: An earthquake measuring 4.5 magnitude in the Richter scale occurred at 9:15 am this morning with its epicenter in Mugu district.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">March 24: An earthquake measuring 4.5 magnitude in the Richter scale occurred at 9:15 am this morning with its epicenter in Mugu district, the National Earthquake Monitoring and Research Centre, Lainchaur, said. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The earthquake was felt in the districts of Karnali and Sudurpaschim provinces. The eastern and western regions of the country have recorded frequent earthquakes in the recent time. -- RSS </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-03-24', 'modified' => '2023-03-24', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17094', 'image' => '20230324121121_earth.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-03-24 12:10:24', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 10 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17358', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'SEBON Files Case against Neupane for Insider Trading', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'March 24: The Securities Board of Nepal (SEBON) has filed a case against Guru Prasad Neupane at the Kathmandu District Court for the offense of insider trading.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">March 24: The Securities Board of Nepal (SEBON) has filed a case against Guru Prasad Neupane at the Kathmandu District Court for the offense of insider trading. SEBON claims that Neupane did insider trading when he was the chairman of Ridi Hydropower Company while buying and selling shares of the company from March 2021 to July 2022. An investigation conducted by the board found that Neupane had committed an offense amounting to Rs 32.3 million.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">According to the Securities Registration and Issuance Regulations 2079, the provision states that the director, executive head, auditor, company secretary or any person directly involved in the management or accounting of any organized institution cannot buy, sell or transfer the shares of that organization or its subsidiary company as long as they remain in office or for one year after retiring from the office. Likewise, the person holding this position cannot buy and sell shares in the name of the firm or their family members. For violating the securities law, the board has already punished Neupane with a fine of Rs 75,000 and barred him from being a director in a listed organization for 10 years.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">If the case filed by the board in the court is upheld, the punishment can be imprisonment for up to one year or fine equivalent to Rs 32.3 million or both.</span></span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-03-24', 'modified' => '2023-03-24', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17093', 'image' => '20230324114237_Sebonn new.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-03-24 11:19:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 11 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17357', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'COVID-19 Cases Shoot up in Nepal ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'March 24: Nepal has recently witnessed rapid rise in COVID-19 cases, the state-owned RSS reported on Friday. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">March 24: Nepal has recently witnessed rapid rise in COVID-19 cases, the state-owned RSS reported on Friday. According to the national news agency, the country reported 17 infection cases in a single day on Thursday.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The Ministry of Health and Population said that the new cases were confirmed after 1,454 tests. On March 21 and 22, no infection case was reported while undertaking 909 and 1,387 tests respectively, added RSS. Active infection cases stood at 30 on Thursday, the news agency cited the ministry as saying. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Nepal has seen impacts of neighbouring India that has reported increasing number of COVID-19 cases of late, Dr Chuman Lal Das, Director of the Epidemiology and Disease Control Division told RSS. The infection is increasing in India.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">“People who have tested positive for the virus in India are carrying the disease in Nepal. Seven infected people entered Nepal through the open border yesterday (Wednesday) alone,” said Dr Das, adding that tests have been intensified at the border. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">He also urged people to follow the health protocols and receive a booster dose. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Meanwhile, the ministry has also urged all people to receive a booster dose. It has also launched a booster dose campaign across the country in a bid to keep the infection in check. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Last week, the World Health Organisation (WHO) had said that the Covid-19 pandemic could settle down this year to a point where it poses a threat similar to flu.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">According to AFP, the WHO voiced confidence that it will be able to declare an end to the emergency some time in 2023, saying it was increasingly hopeful about the pandemic phase of the virus coming to a close. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">According to media reports, China, where the virus is reported to have originated, has already downgraded Covid-19 to B-grade virus and has eased restrictions from January 8. Japan, on the other hand is considering downgrading Covid-19 to the same level as seasonal influenza.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The virus, which was first detected in China’s Wuhan in December 2019, has infected more than 683 million people worldwide and has claimed 6.8 million lives. The effects of the virus has largely subsided in recent months, especially in countries that have administered vaccine against the virus.</span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-03-24', 'modified' => '2023-03-24', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17092', 'image' => '20230324105953_20210518112229_1621294179.1.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-03-24 10:57:54', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 12 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17356', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Three Nepali Pilots Grounded', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'The Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN) has grounded a pilot on the charge of hurling offensive words at the air traffic controllers (ATC). ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px">March: The Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN) has grounded a pilot on the charge of hurling offensive words at the air traffic controllers (ATC). </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">A pilot of the Annapurna helicopter was grounded after he was found throwing vulgar words at the ATCs while attending to the Kathmandu-Lukla flight, said the CAAN spokesperson Jagannath Niraula.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"> “A pilot of the Annapurna helicopter was grounded for mis-communicating with the ATCs during a Kathmandu-Lukla flight on 21 March, 2023,” he said. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">Similarly, other two pilots of helicopter companies (Air Dynasty and Fishtail Air) have been grounded for violating the aviation safety guidelines, Niraula said. All three pilots in question will be banned from flying until further notice, Niraula informed. ----RSS </span><br /> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-03-24', 'modified' => '2023-03-24', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17091', 'image' => '20230324071402_collage (36).jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-03-24 07:10:46', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '42' ) ), (int) 13 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17355', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Standard Chartered Bank Organizes Fund-raising Programme For Futuremakers', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'Standard Chartered Bank Nepal Limited held a staff fundraising program “Home Run 2023” for its sustainability initiative “Futuremakers by Standard Chartered” on March 18, 2023.', 'content' => '<p> </p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">March 24: Standard Chartered Bank Nepal Limited held a staff fundraising program “Home Run 2023” for its sustainability initiative “Futuremakers by Standard Chartered” on March 18, 2023.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">Around 200 staffers participated in the programme by walking, running and cycling across an 11km route covering the bank’s branches in Naxal, Newroad and Naya Baneshwor.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">Standard Chartered’s Futuremakers is the bank’s global initiative to tackle inequality and promote greater economic inclusion for young people in communities. The funds raised from the event will be used for Futuremakers-related CSR projects in Nepal.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">At the inauguration ceremony of the event, Chief Executive Officer Anirvan Ghosh Dastidar expressed his gratitude to the staff members for coming together for this noble cause which would help empower the next generation to learn, earn and grow. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">“At Standard Chartered, we believe that everyone deserves the opportunity to realise their potential. Home Run is a fantastic initiative by the Bank to help young people from low-income backgrounds by raising funds,” Dastidar added. </span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-03-24', 'modified' => '2023-03-24', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17090', 'image' => '20230324064719_collage (34).jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-03-24 06:43:47', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '42' ) ), (int) 14 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17354', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Social Security Fund has over 400,000 Contributors ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'March 23: The number of contributors enlisted in Social Security Fund has reached more than 400,000. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">March 23: The number of contributors enlisted in Social Security Fund has reached more than 400,000. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Around 430,000 workers have been enlisted in the fund within four years of the launch of the Social Security Scheme. The government had launched the Social Security Scheme on November 27, 2018. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The fund has recorded the highest number of contributors from Bagmati Province with 307,718 contributors. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Similarly, 38,957 workers from Koshi Province are enlisted in the fund while 21,258 are from Madhes Province, 15,241 from Gandaki Province, 14,099 from Lumbini Province, 1,529 from Sudurpaschim Province and 1,228 from Karnali Province. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The fund has set a target to enlist 500,000 workers within the end of the current fiscal year. Around 17,739 employers are associated with the fund. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The fund has collected Rs 30.11 billion so far. It has paid claim of Rs 2.83 billion to the contributors under various schemes. The fund has been expanding social security area in recent period. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The fund, which has been incorporating the workers of informal sector in the scheme, has started enlisting Nepali migrant workers and those who are self-employed in foreign lands in the fund from Wednesday. -- RSS </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-03-23', 'modified' => '2023-03-23', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17089', 'image' => '20230323035158_SSF (1).jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-03-23 15:51:14', '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:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">March 26: Nepal Police has confiscated counterfeit notes of over Rs 1 million in the last three months. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Nepal Police Spokesperson DIG Poshraj Pokharel confirmed that the fake currency notes were seized in the last three months. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">According to the police headquarters office data, as many as 22 persons involved in the transactions of counterfeit Nepali notes were arrested during the period. -- RSS </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-03-26', 'modified' => '2023-03-26', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17104', 'image' => '20230326102442_20170427050255_note.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-03-26 10:23:55', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 1 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17368', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Nepal Receives Foreign Aid Commitment of Rs 138 billion In Eight Months', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'The Government of Nepal has received commitments for foreign aid amounting to over Rs 138.5 billion in the eight months of the current fiscal year 2022/23.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px">March 25: The Government of Nepal has received commitments for foreign aid amounting to over Rs 138.5 billion in the eight months of the current fiscal year 2022/23.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">According to the Ministry of Finance (MoF), Nepal received commitments for grants equivalent to Rs 24.56 billion and Rs 114 billion for foreign loan from different bilateral and multilateral development partners in the last eight months.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">The government through its annual budget had set a target to receive foreign loan worth Rs 242.26 billion and foreign grants of Rs 44.46 billion in the eight months. Against the target, the commitment for foreign loan and grants stood at 47 percent and 44.28 percent respectively. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">The government obtained commitment of Rs 350 million for grants from Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) for 'Project for Human Resources Development Scholarship'. Likewise, JICA has expressed Rs 2 billion commitment for grants for 'Tarai Region Irrigation System Strengthening Project'. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">The government received commitments of Rs 1.37 billion and Rs 2 billion for grants for 'Wash for All' and 'Empowered Women, Prosperous Nepal' respectively.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">Swiss government gave grant commitment of Rs 990 million for ‘Technical and Commercial Education Programme’. Likewise, Nepal government received commitment of Rs 1 billion grants each for entrepreneurship development of returnee workers from South Korea and capacity development of Nepal Police’s Cyber Bureau. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">Asian Development Bank expressed commitment of Rs 2.47 billion and Rs 1.57 billion grants for horticulture in hilly parts of the country and for women development programme respectively.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">Nepal government obtained commitments of Rs 5.26 billion grants for the capacity building of security and justice system from British government.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">Likewsie, the government gained loan commitments of Rs 114 billion from World Bank, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), Asian Development Bank(ADB) and others for various projects and programmes in the eight months of the current fiscal year. </span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-03-26', 'modified' => '2023-03-26', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17103', 'image' => '20230326062153_collage (38).jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-03-26 06:08:27', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '42' ) ), (int) 2 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17366', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Less than 2500 Tourists Visit Annapurna Circuit in Three Months ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'March 25: A total of 2,475 foreign tourists visited the Annapurna circuit trek in the first three months of 2023. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">March 25: A total of 2,475 foreign tourists visited the Annapurna circuit trek in the first three months of 2023. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The tourists included 1,678 male and 797 female, according to Tourism Assistant at Annapurna Conservation Area Project (ACAP) Tourist Check Point in Dharapani, Chettra Bahadur Gurung. Around 40 to 50 tourists arrive at the ACAP area every day. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The number of tourists visiting the Annapurna region has not been able to rise significantly, worrying the tourism entrepreneurs. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Even after the end of the COVID-19 pandemic, tourism business has not been able to gain any momentum, said tourism entrepreneur Pancha Bahadur Gurung. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">In the previous year (ie 2022), a total of 15,900 foreign tourists arrived in the Annapurna circuit trek. This included 10,364 men and 5,536 women, said Gurung. In 2021 the number was 2,273 including 1,562 men and 711 women. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif""> Likewise, 1,976 tourists visited in 2020. The number was 36,647 in 2019. The majority of the tourists coming for trekking in the circuit are from neighboring countries China and India and also from Japan, Australia, Britain, etc. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The Annapurna circuit trek starts from Besisahar, Lamjung and ends in Kaski via ManangMustang and Myagdi districts. -- RSS </span></span></span><br /> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-03-25', 'modified' => '2023-03-25', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17101', 'image' => '20230325104606_SG-MYAGDI.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-03-25 22:45:29', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 3 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17365', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Women’s Access to Family Property up by 1.1 Percent', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'March 24: Women’s right to property has pursued a progressive path which is evident from the fact that their ownership of family properties has increased over the past decade.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">March 24: Women’s right to property has pursued a progressive path which is evident from the fact that their ownership of family properties has increased over the past decade. According to the National Census 2021, women’s access to family properties has increased. The final report of the census published by the government on Friday revealed that 23.8 percent households have their land and house in women’s name, a 1.1 percent surge as compared to the 2011 census.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The results of the latest census show that there are a total of 6,666,937 households in the country. Similarly, the number of residential houses stands at 6,660,841. Of them, 31.55 percent households are owned by women, a 5.82 percent increment as opposed to the previous census.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">According to the 2021 census, the population of Nepal has increased to 29.1 million.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Out of the total population of 29,164,578, females make up 14,911,27 (51.02 percent) . Likewise, the number of males is 14,253,551 (48.98 percent). As per the previous census, the total population of the country stood at 26,494,504.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Population density in mountains, hills declining</strong></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">As per the latest census, population density in mountains and hill areas has decreased over the period of last 10 years. The population density is 460 persons per square kilometer in the Terai, while it is 34 per square kilometer in the mountains. It is just 3 per square kilometer in Manang and 5,169 in the Kathmandu Valley.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">According to the census data, Kathmandu district has the highest number of population across the country as the population here is counted at 2,041,587 while 5,658 people reside in Manang. In terms of distribution of population by districts, Morang, Rupandehi, Jhapa and Sunsari are among those districts facing an increased pressure of population. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Similarly, Mustang, Dolpa and Rasuwa have a smaller population.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The Terai region's population is 53.61 percent, out of the total population as 15,634,006 people reside in the Terai and this figure is 40. 31 percent or 11,757,624 in the hills. The mountain region reports the residency of 6.08 percent or 1,772,948 people. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""> Until ten years ago, the Terai's population was 50.27 percent of the total population followed by 43.01 percent in hills and 6.73 percent in the mountains. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""> According to the census report, more than 2.19 million Nepalis are living abroad. It has been found that 2,190,592 people from 1,555,961 families are living abroad.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">This number is 269,098 more than the 2011 census. In the 2011 census, 1,921,494 people were found to be living abroad.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">According to the latest census, as many as 1,799,675 men (82.2 percent) and 390,917 (17.8 percent) women are abroad, as mentioned in the report. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The data shows that 68 percent of the population has not gone through internal migration from one local level to another while 10.8 percent of the total population opted for it. Similarly 18.2 percent of the population has migrated from one district to another while 3.1 percent of the population has migrated abroad. The number of migrated population as a whole is 9,341,408.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""> Employment opportunities, trade-business, study, training, dependency, natural disasters and agriculture have been cited as the major cases of migrations. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Reliance on traditional fuel continues </strong></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Although the government has emphasized development and promotion of clean energy, a large section of the population of the country still relies on traditional means of cooking fuel.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">A total of 51 per cent of the households in the country said that they still use firewood in the kitchen while those using LPG gas cylinders stand at 44.3 per cent.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Similarly, those employing induction stoves to prepare food stand at 0.5 while those using traditional cow dung dry patties is 1.2 percent. Likewise, 0.5 percent of the population still uses kerosene and 0.1 use other fuels.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Ten years ago, 64 percent of the household used firewood in the kitchen to prepare food. It is evident that the reliance on traditional fuel has decreased to some extent over the decade but the number of households relying on traditional energy for cooking is still more than half of the population.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Strides in electrification</strong></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Government's vision to expand electricity in all households is almost close to realization. A total of 92.2 per cent households are under the ambit of electricity as per the latest census. Households using solar energy stand at 6.6 per cent at present.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Only 67.3 percent of the population had access to electricity 10 years ago.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Going by this statistic, 98.8 percent of the population had access to clean energy while those using kerosene and other fuel remain below 1 percent. -- RSS</span></span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-03-24', 'modified' => '2023-03-24', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17100', 'image' => '20230324100942_6F8A2862.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-03-24 22:09:15', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 4 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17364', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'AIG Kunwar Promoted to Nepal Police Chief ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'March 24: A meeting of the Council of Ministers has decided to promote Additional Inspector General Basanta Bahadur Kunwar to the post of Inspector General of the Nepal Police. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">March 24: A meeting of the Council of Ministers has decided to promote Additional Inspector General Basanta Bahadur Kunwar to the post of Inspector General of the Nepal Police. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Surya Kiran Sharma, press coordinator of Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal, told RSS that the cabinet meeting decided to promote AIG Kunwar to the top post. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">He was promoted to AIG as per the decision of March 20. AIGs Tek Prasad Rai, Deepak Thapa, Shyam Lal Gyawali and Kiran Bajracharya along with Kunwar were in the race for IGP. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Sitting IGP Dhiraj Pratap Singh is retiring from today (Friday) after completing his 30-year tenure in the police force. -- RSS</span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-03-24', 'modified' => '2023-03-24', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17099', 'image' => '20230324082456_PRO-KTM-PRACHANDA.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-03-24 20:24:22', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 5 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17363', 'article_category_id' => '218', 'title' => 'Sanima Life and Reliance Life Commence Integrated Transaction ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'Following the successful merger, Sanima Life Insurance and Reliance Life Insurance Company have started integrated business transaction from Thursday. ', 'content' => '<p><br /> <span style="font-size:18px">March 24: Following the successful merger, Sanima Life Insurance and Reliance Life Insurance Company have started integrated business transaction from Thursday. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">After the merger, the joint transaction will be carried out under the name “Sanima Reliance Life Insurance”. The two companies were merged with a swap ratio of 1:1.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">The Nepal Insurance Authority had given final approval to Sanima and Reliance Life Insurance Company for merger on March 2. Likewise, the two companies were granted merger approval by the Office of the Company Registrar for merger on March 13. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">After the merger, the paid-up capital of the merged entity has reached Rs 4.18 billion. Prior to the merger, Sanima Life Insurance Company had the paid-up capital of Rs 2 billion, while the paid-up capital of Reliance Life Insurance Company was Rs 2.10 billion. </span><br /> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-03-24', 'modified' => '2023-03-24', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17098', 'image' => '20230324045818_collage - 2023-03-24T165448.460.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-03-24 16:55:29', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '42' ) ), (int) 6 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17362', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Import of Clinker Almost Comes to a Standstill', 'sub_title' => 'Nepal imported clinker only once in the last eight months', 'summary' => 'March 24: Billions of rupees spent on import of clinker has been saved due to the increase in domestic production of the raw material of cement.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">March 24: Billions of rupees spent on import of clinker has been saved due to the increase in domestic production of the raw material of cement.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Data from the Department of Customs shows that Rs 11 billion was spent for the import of clinker four years ago. The latest data shows that the import of clinker has come almost to a halt.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">According to the department, clinker worth only Rs 19,000 has been imported in the last eight months (July-February) of the current fiscal year. Clinker was imported only once during this period.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">According to the department, in the first month of the last fiscal year, clinker worth Rs 34.3 million was imported in July. In the last fiscal year, clinker worth Rs 321.5 million was imported.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Clinker is the raw material of cement. Now the country has become self-reliant on clinker and cement. Some industries are also exporting both these items to India.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Palpa and Arghakhanchi cement industries are exporting these products as clinker and cement is produced more than the domestic requirement.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Tara Prasad Pokharel, vice president of the Nepal Cement Producers Association, said that there has been a problem in the sale of clinker recently due to the low consumption of cement in the country. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">"In normal conditions, that is during the season of infrastructure construction, clinker consumption used to be about 80 per cent, now it has dropped to about 30 per cent," Pokharel told New Business Age.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">According to the association, there are currently 16 industries that produce clinker. These industries produce 40,000 metric tons of clinker daily. Pokharel said that the production capacity has been reduced after the cement consumption decreased.</span></span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Rajesh Kumar Agarwal, executive director of RMC Group, which produces cement under the Palpa brand, said that the demand for cement has decreased due to the low capital expenditure of the state, which has affected development and construction.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Cement produced by RMC Group has been exported since last June. According to Agarwal, now clinker is also exported.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Pashupati Murarka, the owner of Arghakhanchi Cement Industry, also informed that his industry has started exporting clinker.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">"Clinker import has dropped to zero in a short time," said Murarka, "Arghakhanchi and Palpa cement industries have so far exported 30,000 metric tons of clinker and cement to India."</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">"There was a situation in the past when imported clinker was expensive, but limestone, the raw material in the country, was not used," Murarka said. According to the association, Rs 3 trillion have been invested in the cement industry so far.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">After the earthquake of 2015, when the reconstruction work intensified, the demand for cement increased suddenly. After that, domestic and foreign investment in the cement industry increased. According to the association, there are currently about five dozen cement industries operating in Nepal. The annual production capacity of this industry is 25 million metric tons. As the demand was less than the production capacity, the producers had been demanding the government to facilitate the export to India. With the government implementing the program announced in the budget to give cash subsidies to exports, industrialists have started exporting cement and clinker.</span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-03-24', 'modified' => '2023-03-24', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17097', 'image' => '20230324045005_1679620101.Clipboard11.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-03-24 16:49:06', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 7 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17361', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Insurance Coverage of Food Crops', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'March 24: With the announcement of “Food Crops Insurance” by the Nepal Insurance Authority, now food crops as well will be insured on the basis of production under the agricultural insurance policy. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">March 24: With the announcement of “Food Crops Insurance” by the Nepal Insurance Authority, now food crops as well will be insured on the basis of production under the agricultural insurance policy. According to the authority, crops such as paddy, corn, barley, wheat and millet will be covered under the insurance policy.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">These food crop insurance policies will cover eight different types of damage, including fire, wind, water, weather, land, lightning, disease and insects, and accidental external causes.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">In case of damage to food crops due to the risk covered by the insurance policy, the insured must inform the insurer within 3 days of the loss through telephone, SMS, or email.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Under the additional facility, those who have purchased the insurance policy of crops will also get the facility of accidental insurance up to Rs 200,000. Under this facility, the insured will get a maximum of Rs 200,000 in case of death of insured during the insurance period due to reasons other than suicide, irreparable loss of spinal cord due to spinal injury, loss of function of one or both arms above the wrist, loss of function of one or both legs above the ankle and loss of sight in both eyes.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">However, it is not possible to partially insure food crops planted in the same area. In case of paddy and millet crops, insurance policy must be taken within 30 days of planting. In case of corn, wheat and barley crops, insurance policy must be taken within 30 days after 7 days of sowing.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">According to the insurance policy, the authority has arranged that the insurance fee will be maintained at the rate of 5 percent of the insured amount in the case of rice, corn and wheat crops, and at the rate of 3 percent of the insured amount in the case of barley and millet crops.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Sarthakraj Pandey, assistant manager of Shikhar Insurance's agriculture and small insurance branch says that farmers will benefit from the insurance policy based on the production of food crops.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">He said, “Insurance was issued only on the basis of the cost of food crops, due to which it was not possible for the farmers to recover the lost investment due to crop damage up until recently. Now, with the implementation of the insurance policy, the farmer's production will also be protected.” </span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-03-24', 'modified' => '2023-03-24', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17096', 'image' => '20230324011925_paddyyy-transformed.jpeg', 'article_date' => '2023-03-24 13:18:27', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 8 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17360', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Govt Unveils Final Result of 2021 Census', 'sub_title' => 'Population of Nepal is 29.16 million', 'summary' => 'March 24: The government has published the final report of the national census 2021.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px">March 24: The government has published the final report of the national census 2021.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">According to the National Census of Nepal 2021 conducted by the Central Statistics Department, the population of Nepal has reached 29.16 million (2,91,64,578). As per the previous census, the total population of the country stood at 26,494,504.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal announced the final results of Nepal's latest census at the 'National Census 2078 Results Publiation Program' held in Kathmandu on Friday.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">The census revealed that the male population of Nepal is 1,42,53,551 (48.98 percent) and the female population is 1,49,11,027 (51.02 percent).</span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-03-24', 'modified' => '2023-03-24', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17095', 'image' => '20230324121911_1679637439.collage (63).jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-03-24 12:18:30', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 9 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17359', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Earthquake Jolts Mugu ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'March 24: An earthquake measuring 4.5 magnitude in the Richter scale occurred at 9:15 am this morning with its epicenter in Mugu district.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">March 24: An earthquake measuring 4.5 magnitude in the Richter scale occurred at 9:15 am this morning with its epicenter in Mugu district, the National Earthquake Monitoring and Research Centre, Lainchaur, said. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The earthquake was felt in the districts of Karnali and Sudurpaschim provinces. The eastern and western regions of the country have recorded frequent earthquakes in the recent time. -- RSS </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-03-24', 'modified' => '2023-03-24', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17094', 'image' => '20230324121121_earth.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-03-24 12:10:24', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 10 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17358', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'SEBON Files Case against Neupane for Insider Trading', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'March 24: The Securities Board of Nepal (SEBON) has filed a case against Guru Prasad Neupane at the Kathmandu District Court for the offense of insider trading.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">March 24: The Securities Board of Nepal (SEBON) has filed a case against Guru Prasad Neupane at the Kathmandu District Court for the offense of insider trading. SEBON claims that Neupane did insider trading when he was the chairman of Ridi Hydropower Company while buying and selling shares of the company from March 2021 to July 2022. An investigation conducted by the board found that Neupane had committed an offense amounting to Rs 32.3 million.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">According to the Securities Registration and Issuance Regulations 2079, the provision states that the director, executive head, auditor, company secretary or any person directly involved in the management or accounting of any organized institution cannot buy, sell or transfer the shares of that organization or its subsidiary company as long as they remain in office or for one year after retiring from the office. Likewise, the person holding this position cannot buy and sell shares in the name of the firm or their family members. For violating the securities law, the board has already punished Neupane with a fine of Rs 75,000 and barred him from being a director in a listed organization for 10 years.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">If the case filed by the board in the court is upheld, the punishment can be imprisonment for up to one year or fine equivalent to Rs 32.3 million or both.</span></span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-03-24', 'modified' => '2023-03-24', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17093', 'image' => '20230324114237_Sebonn new.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-03-24 11:19:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 11 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17357', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'COVID-19 Cases Shoot up in Nepal ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'March 24: Nepal has recently witnessed rapid rise in COVID-19 cases, the state-owned RSS reported on Friday. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">March 24: Nepal has recently witnessed rapid rise in COVID-19 cases, the state-owned RSS reported on Friday. According to the national news agency, the country reported 17 infection cases in a single day on Thursday.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The Ministry of Health and Population said that the new cases were confirmed after 1,454 tests. On March 21 and 22, no infection case was reported while undertaking 909 and 1,387 tests respectively, added RSS. Active infection cases stood at 30 on Thursday, the news agency cited the ministry as saying. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Nepal has seen impacts of neighbouring India that has reported increasing number of COVID-19 cases of late, Dr Chuman Lal Das, Director of the Epidemiology and Disease Control Division told RSS. The infection is increasing in India.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">“People who have tested positive for the virus in India are carrying the disease in Nepal. Seven infected people entered Nepal through the open border yesterday (Wednesday) alone,” said Dr Das, adding that tests have been intensified at the border. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">He also urged people to follow the health protocols and receive a booster dose. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Meanwhile, the ministry has also urged all people to receive a booster dose. It has also launched a booster dose campaign across the country in a bid to keep the infection in check. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Last week, the World Health Organisation (WHO) had said that the Covid-19 pandemic could settle down this year to a point where it poses a threat similar to flu.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">According to AFP, the WHO voiced confidence that it will be able to declare an end to the emergency some time in 2023, saying it was increasingly hopeful about the pandemic phase of the virus coming to a close. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">According to media reports, China, where the virus is reported to have originated, has already downgraded Covid-19 to B-grade virus and has eased restrictions from January 8. Japan, on the other hand is considering downgrading Covid-19 to the same level as seasonal influenza.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The virus, which was first detected in China’s Wuhan in December 2019, has infected more than 683 million people worldwide and has claimed 6.8 million lives. The effects of the virus has largely subsided in recent months, especially in countries that have administered vaccine against the virus.</span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-03-24', 'modified' => '2023-03-24', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17092', 'image' => '20230324105953_20210518112229_1621294179.1.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-03-24 10:57:54', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 12 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17356', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Three Nepali Pilots Grounded', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'The Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN) has grounded a pilot on the charge of hurling offensive words at the air traffic controllers (ATC). ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px">March: The Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN) has grounded a pilot on the charge of hurling offensive words at the air traffic controllers (ATC). </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">A pilot of the Annapurna helicopter was grounded after he was found throwing vulgar words at the ATCs while attending to the Kathmandu-Lukla flight, said the CAAN spokesperson Jagannath Niraula.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"> “A pilot of the Annapurna helicopter was grounded for mis-communicating with the ATCs during a Kathmandu-Lukla flight on 21 March, 2023,” he said. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">Similarly, other two pilots of helicopter companies (Air Dynasty and Fishtail Air) have been grounded for violating the aviation safety guidelines, Niraula said. All three pilots in question will be banned from flying until further notice, Niraula informed. ----RSS </span><br /> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-03-24', 'modified' => '2023-03-24', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17091', 'image' => '20230324071402_collage (36).jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-03-24 07:10:46', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '42' ) ), (int) 13 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17355', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Standard Chartered Bank Organizes Fund-raising Programme For Futuremakers', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'Standard Chartered Bank Nepal Limited held a staff fundraising program “Home Run 2023” for its sustainability initiative “Futuremakers by Standard Chartered” on March 18, 2023.', 'content' => '<p> </p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">March 24: Standard Chartered Bank Nepal Limited held a staff fundraising program “Home Run 2023” for its sustainability initiative “Futuremakers by Standard Chartered” on March 18, 2023.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">Around 200 staffers participated in the programme by walking, running and cycling across an 11km route covering the bank’s branches in Naxal, Newroad and Naya Baneshwor.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">Standard Chartered’s Futuremakers is the bank’s global initiative to tackle inequality and promote greater economic inclusion for young people in communities. The funds raised from the event will be used for Futuremakers-related CSR projects in Nepal.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">At the inauguration ceremony of the event, Chief Executive Officer Anirvan Ghosh Dastidar expressed his gratitude to the staff members for coming together for this noble cause which would help empower the next generation to learn, earn and grow. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">“At Standard Chartered, we believe that everyone deserves the opportunity to realise their potential. Home Run is a fantastic initiative by the Bank to help young people from low-income backgrounds by raising funds,” Dastidar added. </span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-03-24', 'modified' => '2023-03-24', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17090', 'image' => '20230324064719_collage (34).jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-03-24 06:43:47', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '42' ) ), (int) 14 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17354', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Social Security Fund has over 400,000 Contributors ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'March 23: The number of contributors enlisted in Social Security Fund has reached more than 400,000. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">March 23: The number of contributors enlisted in Social Security Fund has reached more than 400,000. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Around 430,000 workers have been enlisted in the fund within four years of the launch of the Social Security Scheme. The government had launched the Social Security Scheme on November 27, 2018. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The fund has recorded the highest number of contributors from Bagmati Province with 307,718 contributors. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Similarly, 38,957 workers from Koshi Province are enlisted in the fund while 21,258 are from Madhes Province, 15,241 from Gandaki Province, 14,099 from Lumbini Province, 1,529 from Sudurpaschim Province and 1,228 from Karnali Province. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The fund has set a target to enlist 500,000 workers within the end of the current fiscal year. Around 17,739 employers are associated with the fund. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The fund has collected Rs 30.11 billion so far. It has paid claim of Rs 2.83 billion to the contributors under various schemes. The fund has been expanding social security area in recent period. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The fund, which has been incorporating the workers of informal sector in the scheme, has started enlisting Nepali migrant workers and those who are self-employed in foreign lands in the fund from Wednesday. -- RSS </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-03-23', 'modified' => '2023-03-23', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17089', 'image' => '20230323035158_SSF (1).jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-03-23 15:51:14', '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:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">March 26: Nepal Police has confiscated counterfeit notes of over Rs 1 million in the last three months. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Nepal Police Spokesperson DIG Poshraj Pokharel confirmed that the fake currency notes were seized in the last three months. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">According to the police headquarters office data, as many as 22 persons involved in the transactions of counterfeit Nepali notes were arrested during the period. -- RSS </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-03-26', 'modified' => '2023-03-26', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17104', 'image' => '20230326102442_20170427050255_note.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-03-26 10:23:55', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 1 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17368', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Nepal Receives Foreign Aid Commitment of Rs 138 billion In Eight Months', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'The Government of Nepal has received commitments for foreign aid amounting to over Rs 138.5 billion in the eight months of the current fiscal year 2022/23.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px">March 25: The Government of Nepal has received commitments for foreign aid amounting to over Rs 138.5 billion in the eight months of the current fiscal year 2022/23.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">According to the Ministry of Finance (MoF), Nepal received commitments for grants equivalent to Rs 24.56 billion and Rs 114 billion for foreign loan from different bilateral and multilateral development partners in the last eight months.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">The government through its annual budget had set a target to receive foreign loan worth Rs 242.26 billion and foreign grants of Rs 44.46 billion in the eight months. Against the target, the commitment for foreign loan and grants stood at 47 percent and 44.28 percent respectively. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">The government obtained commitment of Rs 350 million for grants from Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) for 'Project for Human Resources Development Scholarship'. Likewise, JICA has expressed Rs 2 billion commitment for grants for 'Tarai Region Irrigation System Strengthening Project'. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">The government received commitments of Rs 1.37 billion and Rs 2 billion for grants for 'Wash for All' and 'Empowered Women, Prosperous Nepal' respectively.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">Swiss government gave grant commitment of Rs 990 million for ‘Technical and Commercial Education Programme’. Likewise, Nepal government received commitment of Rs 1 billion grants each for entrepreneurship development of returnee workers from South Korea and capacity development of Nepal Police’s Cyber Bureau. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">Asian Development Bank expressed commitment of Rs 2.47 billion and Rs 1.57 billion grants for horticulture in hilly parts of the country and for women development programme respectively.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">Nepal government obtained commitments of Rs 5.26 billion grants for the capacity building of security and justice system from British government.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">Likewsie, the government gained loan commitments of Rs 114 billion from World Bank, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), Asian Development Bank(ADB) and others for various projects and programmes in the eight months of the current fiscal year. </span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-03-26', 'modified' => '2023-03-26', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17103', 'image' => '20230326062153_collage (38).jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-03-26 06:08:27', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '42' ) ), (int) 2 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17366', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Less than 2500 Tourists Visit Annapurna Circuit in Three Months ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'March 25: A total of 2,475 foreign tourists visited the Annapurna circuit trek in the first three months of 2023. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">March 25: A total of 2,475 foreign tourists visited the Annapurna circuit trek in the first three months of 2023. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The tourists included 1,678 male and 797 female, according to Tourism Assistant at Annapurna Conservation Area Project (ACAP) Tourist Check Point in Dharapani, Chettra Bahadur Gurung. Around 40 to 50 tourists arrive at the ACAP area every day. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The number of tourists visiting the Annapurna region has not been able to rise significantly, worrying the tourism entrepreneurs. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Even after the end of the COVID-19 pandemic, tourism business has not been able to gain any momentum, said tourism entrepreneur Pancha Bahadur Gurung. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">In the previous year (ie 2022), a total of 15,900 foreign tourists arrived in the Annapurna circuit trek. This included 10,364 men and 5,536 women, said Gurung. In 2021 the number was 2,273 including 1,562 men and 711 women. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif""> Likewise, 1,976 tourists visited in 2020. The number was 36,647 in 2019. The majority of the tourists coming for trekking in the circuit are from neighboring countries China and India and also from Japan, Australia, Britain, etc. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The Annapurna circuit trek starts from Besisahar, Lamjung and ends in Kaski via ManangMustang and Myagdi districts. -- RSS </span></span></span><br /> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-03-25', 'modified' => '2023-03-25', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17101', 'image' => '20230325104606_SG-MYAGDI.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-03-25 22:45:29', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 3 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17365', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Women’s Access to Family Property up by 1.1 Percent', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'March 24: Women’s right to property has pursued a progressive path which is evident from the fact that their ownership of family properties has increased over the past decade.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">March 24: Women’s right to property has pursued a progressive path which is evident from the fact that their ownership of family properties has increased over the past decade. According to the National Census 2021, women’s access to family properties has increased. The final report of the census published by the government on Friday revealed that 23.8 percent households have their land and house in women’s name, a 1.1 percent surge as compared to the 2011 census.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The results of the latest census show that there are a total of 6,666,937 households in the country. Similarly, the number of residential houses stands at 6,660,841. Of them, 31.55 percent households are owned by women, a 5.82 percent increment as opposed to the previous census.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">According to the 2021 census, the population of Nepal has increased to 29.1 million.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Out of the total population of 29,164,578, females make up 14,911,27 (51.02 percent) . Likewise, the number of males is 14,253,551 (48.98 percent). As per the previous census, the total population of the country stood at 26,494,504.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Population density in mountains, hills declining</strong></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">As per the latest census, population density in mountains and hill areas has decreased over the period of last 10 years. The population density is 460 persons per square kilometer in the Terai, while it is 34 per square kilometer in the mountains. It is just 3 per square kilometer in Manang and 5,169 in the Kathmandu Valley.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">According to the census data, Kathmandu district has the highest number of population across the country as the population here is counted at 2,041,587 while 5,658 people reside in Manang. In terms of distribution of population by districts, Morang, Rupandehi, Jhapa and Sunsari are among those districts facing an increased pressure of population. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Similarly, Mustang, Dolpa and Rasuwa have a smaller population.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The Terai region's population is 53.61 percent, out of the total population as 15,634,006 people reside in the Terai and this figure is 40. 31 percent or 11,757,624 in the hills. The mountain region reports the residency of 6.08 percent or 1,772,948 people. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""> Until ten years ago, the Terai's population was 50.27 percent of the total population followed by 43.01 percent in hills and 6.73 percent in the mountains. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""> According to the census report, more than 2.19 million Nepalis are living abroad. It has been found that 2,190,592 people from 1,555,961 families are living abroad.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">This number is 269,098 more than the 2011 census. In the 2011 census, 1,921,494 people were found to be living abroad.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">According to the latest census, as many as 1,799,675 men (82.2 percent) and 390,917 (17.8 percent) women are abroad, as mentioned in the report. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The data shows that 68 percent of the population has not gone through internal migration from one local level to another while 10.8 percent of the total population opted for it. Similarly 18.2 percent of the population has migrated from one district to another while 3.1 percent of the population has migrated abroad. The number of migrated population as a whole is 9,341,408.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""> Employment opportunities, trade-business, study, training, dependency, natural disasters and agriculture have been cited as the major cases of migrations. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Reliance on traditional fuel continues </strong></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Although the government has emphasized development and promotion of clean energy, a large section of the population of the country still relies on traditional means of cooking fuel.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">A total of 51 per cent of the households in the country said that they still use firewood in the kitchen while those using LPG gas cylinders stand at 44.3 per cent.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Similarly, those employing induction stoves to prepare food stand at 0.5 while those using traditional cow dung dry patties is 1.2 percent. Likewise, 0.5 percent of the population still uses kerosene and 0.1 use other fuels.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Ten years ago, 64 percent of the household used firewood in the kitchen to prepare food. It is evident that the reliance on traditional fuel has decreased to some extent over the decade but the number of households relying on traditional energy for cooking is still more than half of the population.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Strides in electrification</strong></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Government's vision to expand electricity in all households is almost close to realization. A total of 92.2 per cent households are under the ambit of electricity as per the latest census. Households using solar energy stand at 6.6 per cent at present.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Only 67.3 percent of the population had access to electricity 10 years ago.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Going by this statistic, 98.8 percent of the population had access to clean energy while those using kerosene and other fuel remain below 1 percent. -- RSS</span></span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-03-24', 'modified' => '2023-03-24', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17100', 'image' => '20230324100942_6F8A2862.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-03-24 22:09:15', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 4 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17364', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'AIG Kunwar Promoted to Nepal Police Chief ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'March 24: A meeting of the Council of Ministers has decided to promote Additional Inspector General Basanta Bahadur Kunwar to the post of Inspector General of the Nepal Police. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">March 24: A meeting of the Council of Ministers has decided to promote Additional Inspector General Basanta Bahadur Kunwar to the post of Inspector General of the Nepal Police. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Surya Kiran Sharma, press coordinator of Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal, told RSS that the cabinet meeting decided to promote AIG Kunwar to the top post. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">He was promoted to AIG as per the decision of March 20. AIGs Tek Prasad Rai, Deepak Thapa, Shyam Lal Gyawali and Kiran Bajracharya along with Kunwar were in the race for IGP. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Sitting IGP Dhiraj Pratap Singh is retiring from today (Friday) after completing his 30-year tenure in the police force. -- RSS</span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-03-24', 'modified' => '2023-03-24', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17099', 'image' => '20230324082456_PRO-KTM-PRACHANDA.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-03-24 20:24:22', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 5 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17363', 'article_category_id' => '218', 'title' => 'Sanima Life and Reliance Life Commence Integrated Transaction ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'Following the successful merger, Sanima Life Insurance and Reliance Life Insurance Company have started integrated business transaction from Thursday. ', 'content' => '<p><br /> <span style="font-size:18px">March 24: Following the successful merger, Sanima Life Insurance and Reliance Life Insurance Company have started integrated business transaction from Thursday. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">After the merger, the joint transaction will be carried out under the name “Sanima Reliance Life Insurance”. The two companies were merged with a swap ratio of 1:1.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">The Nepal Insurance Authority had given final approval to Sanima and Reliance Life Insurance Company for merger on March 2. Likewise, the two companies were granted merger approval by the Office of the Company Registrar for merger on March 13. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">After the merger, the paid-up capital of the merged entity has reached Rs 4.18 billion. Prior to the merger, Sanima Life Insurance Company had the paid-up capital of Rs 2 billion, while the paid-up capital of Reliance Life Insurance Company was Rs 2.10 billion. </span><br /> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-03-24', 'modified' => '2023-03-24', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17098', 'image' => '20230324045818_collage - 2023-03-24T165448.460.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-03-24 16:55:29', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '42' ) ), (int) 6 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17362', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Import of Clinker Almost Comes to a Standstill', 'sub_title' => 'Nepal imported clinker only once in the last eight months', 'summary' => 'March 24: Billions of rupees spent on import of clinker has been saved due to the increase in domestic production of the raw material of cement.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">March 24: Billions of rupees spent on import of clinker has been saved due to the increase in domestic production of the raw material of cement.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Data from the Department of Customs shows that Rs 11 billion was spent for the import of clinker four years ago. The latest data shows that the import of clinker has come almost to a halt.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">According to the department, clinker worth only Rs 19,000 has been imported in the last eight months (July-February) of the current fiscal year. Clinker was imported only once during this period.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">According to the department, in the first month of the last fiscal year, clinker worth Rs 34.3 million was imported in July. In the last fiscal year, clinker worth Rs 321.5 million was imported.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Clinker is the raw material of cement. Now the country has become self-reliant on clinker and cement. Some industries are also exporting both these items to India.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Palpa and Arghakhanchi cement industries are exporting these products as clinker and cement is produced more than the domestic requirement.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Tara Prasad Pokharel, vice president of the Nepal Cement Producers Association, said that there has been a problem in the sale of clinker recently due to the low consumption of cement in the country. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">"In normal conditions, that is during the season of infrastructure construction, clinker consumption used to be about 80 per cent, now it has dropped to about 30 per cent," Pokharel told New Business Age.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">According to the association, there are currently 16 industries that produce clinker. These industries produce 40,000 metric tons of clinker daily. Pokharel said that the production capacity has been reduced after the cement consumption decreased.</span></span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Rajesh Kumar Agarwal, executive director of RMC Group, which produces cement under the Palpa brand, said that the demand for cement has decreased due to the low capital expenditure of the state, which has affected development and construction.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Cement produced by RMC Group has been exported since last June. According to Agarwal, now clinker is also exported.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Pashupati Murarka, the owner of Arghakhanchi Cement Industry, also informed that his industry has started exporting clinker.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">"Clinker import has dropped to zero in a short time," said Murarka, "Arghakhanchi and Palpa cement industries have so far exported 30,000 metric tons of clinker and cement to India."</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">"There was a situation in the past when imported clinker was expensive, but limestone, the raw material in the country, was not used," Murarka said. According to the association, Rs 3 trillion have been invested in the cement industry so far.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">After the earthquake of 2015, when the reconstruction work intensified, the demand for cement increased suddenly. After that, domestic and foreign investment in the cement industry increased. According to the association, there are currently about five dozen cement industries operating in Nepal. The annual production capacity of this industry is 25 million metric tons. As the demand was less than the production capacity, the producers had been demanding the government to facilitate the export to India. With the government implementing the program announced in the budget to give cash subsidies to exports, industrialists have started exporting cement and clinker.</span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-03-24', 'modified' => '2023-03-24', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17097', 'image' => '20230324045005_1679620101.Clipboard11.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-03-24 16:49:06', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 7 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17361', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Insurance Coverage of Food Crops', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'March 24: With the announcement of “Food Crops Insurance” by the Nepal Insurance Authority, now food crops as well will be insured on the basis of production under the agricultural insurance policy. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">March 24: With the announcement of “Food Crops Insurance” by the Nepal Insurance Authority, now food crops as well will be insured on the basis of production under the agricultural insurance policy. According to the authority, crops such as paddy, corn, barley, wheat and millet will be covered under the insurance policy.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">These food crop insurance policies will cover eight different types of damage, including fire, wind, water, weather, land, lightning, disease and insects, and accidental external causes.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">In case of damage to food crops due to the risk covered by the insurance policy, the insured must inform the insurer within 3 days of the loss through telephone, SMS, or email.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Under the additional facility, those who have purchased the insurance policy of crops will also get the facility of accidental insurance up to Rs 200,000. Under this facility, the insured will get a maximum of Rs 200,000 in case of death of insured during the insurance period due to reasons other than suicide, irreparable loss of spinal cord due to spinal injury, loss of function of one or both arms above the wrist, loss of function of one or both legs above the ankle and loss of sight in both eyes.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">However, it is not possible to partially insure food crops planted in the same area. In case of paddy and millet crops, insurance policy must be taken within 30 days of planting. In case of corn, wheat and barley crops, insurance policy must be taken within 30 days after 7 days of sowing.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">According to the insurance policy, the authority has arranged that the insurance fee will be maintained at the rate of 5 percent of the insured amount in the case of rice, corn and wheat crops, and at the rate of 3 percent of the insured amount in the case of barley and millet crops.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Sarthakraj Pandey, assistant manager of Shikhar Insurance's agriculture and small insurance branch says that farmers will benefit from the insurance policy based on the production of food crops.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">He said, “Insurance was issued only on the basis of the cost of food crops, due to which it was not possible for the farmers to recover the lost investment due to crop damage up until recently. Now, with the implementation of the insurance policy, the farmer's production will also be protected.” </span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-03-24', 'modified' => '2023-03-24', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17096', 'image' => '20230324011925_paddyyy-transformed.jpeg', 'article_date' => '2023-03-24 13:18:27', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 8 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17360', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Govt Unveils Final Result of 2021 Census', 'sub_title' => 'Population of Nepal is 29.16 million', 'summary' => 'March 24: The government has published the final report of the national census 2021.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px">March 24: The government has published the final report of the national census 2021.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">According to the National Census of Nepal 2021 conducted by the Central Statistics Department, the population of Nepal has reached 29.16 million (2,91,64,578). As per the previous census, the total population of the country stood at 26,494,504.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal announced the final results of Nepal's latest census at the 'National Census 2078 Results Publiation Program' held in Kathmandu on Friday.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">The census revealed that the male population of Nepal is 1,42,53,551 (48.98 percent) and the female population is 1,49,11,027 (51.02 percent).</span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-03-24', 'modified' => '2023-03-24', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17095', 'image' => '20230324121911_1679637439.collage (63).jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-03-24 12:18:30', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 9 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17359', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Earthquake Jolts Mugu ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'March 24: An earthquake measuring 4.5 magnitude in the Richter scale occurred at 9:15 am this morning with its epicenter in Mugu district.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">March 24: An earthquake measuring 4.5 magnitude in the Richter scale occurred at 9:15 am this morning with its epicenter in Mugu district, the National Earthquake Monitoring and Research Centre, Lainchaur, said. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The earthquake was felt in the districts of Karnali and Sudurpaschim provinces. The eastern and western regions of the country have recorded frequent earthquakes in the recent time. -- RSS </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-03-24', 'modified' => '2023-03-24', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17094', 'image' => '20230324121121_earth.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-03-24 12:10:24', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 10 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17358', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'SEBON Files Case against Neupane for Insider Trading', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'March 24: The Securities Board of Nepal (SEBON) has filed a case against Guru Prasad Neupane at the Kathmandu District Court for the offense of insider trading.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">March 24: The Securities Board of Nepal (SEBON) has filed a case against Guru Prasad Neupane at the Kathmandu District Court for the offense of insider trading. SEBON claims that Neupane did insider trading when he was the chairman of Ridi Hydropower Company while buying and selling shares of the company from March 2021 to July 2022. An investigation conducted by the board found that Neupane had committed an offense amounting to Rs 32.3 million.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">According to the Securities Registration and Issuance Regulations 2079, the provision states that the director, executive head, auditor, company secretary or any person directly involved in the management or accounting of any organized institution cannot buy, sell or transfer the shares of that organization or its subsidiary company as long as they remain in office or for one year after retiring from the office. Likewise, the person holding this position cannot buy and sell shares in the name of the firm or their family members. For violating the securities law, the board has already punished Neupane with a fine of Rs 75,000 and barred him from being a director in a listed organization for 10 years.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">If the case filed by the board in the court is upheld, the punishment can be imprisonment for up to one year or fine equivalent to Rs 32.3 million or both.</span></span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-03-24', 'modified' => '2023-03-24', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17093', 'image' => '20230324114237_Sebonn new.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-03-24 11:19:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 11 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17357', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'COVID-19 Cases Shoot up in Nepal ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'March 24: Nepal has recently witnessed rapid rise in COVID-19 cases, the state-owned RSS reported on Friday. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">March 24: Nepal has recently witnessed rapid rise in COVID-19 cases, the state-owned RSS reported on Friday. According to the national news agency, the country reported 17 infection cases in a single day on Thursday.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The Ministry of Health and Population said that the new cases were confirmed after 1,454 tests. On March 21 and 22, no infection case was reported while undertaking 909 and 1,387 tests respectively, added RSS. Active infection cases stood at 30 on Thursday, the news agency cited the ministry as saying. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Nepal has seen impacts of neighbouring India that has reported increasing number of COVID-19 cases of late, Dr Chuman Lal Das, Director of the Epidemiology and Disease Control Division told RSS. The infection is increasing in India.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">“People who have tested positive for the virus in India are carrying the disease in Nepal. Seven infected people entered Nepal through the open border yesterday (Wednesday) alone,” said Dr Das, adding that tests have been intensified at the border. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">He also urged people to follow the health protocols and receive a booster dose. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Meanwhile, the ministry has also urged all people to receive a booster dose. It has also launched a booster dose campaign across the country in a bid to keep the infection in check. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Last week, the World Health Organisation (WHO) had said that the Covid-19 pandemic could settle down this year to a point where it poses a threat similar to flu.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">According to AFP, the WHO voiced confidence that it will be able to declare an end to the emergency some time in 2023, saying it was increasingly hopeful about the pandemic phase of the virus coming to a close. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">According to media reports, China, where the virus is reported to have originated, has already downgraded Covid-19 to B-grade virus and has eased restrictions from January 8. Japan, on the other hand is considering downgrading Covid-19 to the same level as seasonal influenza.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The virus, which was first detected in China’s Wuhan in December 2019, has infected more than 683 million people worldwide and has claimed 6.8 million lives. The effects of the virus has largely subsided in recent months, especially in countries that have administered vaccine against the virus.</span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-03-24', 'modified' => '2023-03-24', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17092', 'image' => '20230324105953_20210518112229_1621294179.1.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-03-24 10:57:54', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 12 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17356', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Three Nepali Pilots Grounded', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'The Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN) has grounded a pilot on the charge of hurling offensive words at the air traffic controllers (ATC). ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px">March: The Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN) has grounded a pilot on the charge of hurling offensive words at the air traffic controllers (ATC). </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">A pilot of the Annapurna helicopter was grounded after he was found throwing vulgar words at the ATCs while attending to the Kathmandu-Lukla flight, said the CAAN spokesperson Jagannath Niraula.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"> “A pilot of the Annapurna helicopter was grounded for mis-communicating with the ATCs during a Kathmandu-Lukla flight on 21 March, 2023,” he said. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">Similarly, other two pilots of helicopter companies (Air Dynasty and Fishtail Air) have been grounded for violating the aviation safety guidelines, Niraula said. All three pilots in question will be banned from flying until further notice, Niraula informed. ----RSS </span><br /> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-03-24', 'modified' => '2023-03-24', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17091', 'image' => '20230324071402_collage (36).jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-03-24 07:10:46', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '42' ) ), (int) 13 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17355', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Standard Chartered Bank Organizes Fund-raising Programme For Futuremakers', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'Standard Chartered Bank Nepal Limited held a staff fundraising program “Home Run 2023” for its sustainability initiative “Futuremakers by Standard Chartered” on March 18, 2023.', 'content' => '<p> </p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">March 24: Standard Chartered Bank Nepal Limited held a staff fundraising program “Home Run 2023” for its sustainability initiative “Futuremakers by Standard Chartered” on March 18, 2023.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">Around 200 staffers participated in the programme by walking, running and cycling across an 11km route covering the bank’s branches in Naxal, Newroad and Naya Baneshwor.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">Standard Chartered’s Futuremakers is the bank’s global initiative to tackle inequality and promote greater economic inclusion for young people in communities. The funds raised from the event will be used for Futuremakers-related CSR projects in Nepal.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">At the inauguration ceremony of the event, Chief Executive Officer Anirvan Ghosh Dastidar expressed his gratitude to the staff members for coming together for this noble cause which would help empower the next generation to learn, earn and grow. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">“At Standard Chartered, we believe that everyone deserves the opportunity to realise their potential. Home Run is a fantastic initiative by the Bank to help young people from low-income backgrounds by raising funds,” Dastidar added. </span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-03-24', 'modified' => '2023-03-24', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17090', 'image' => '20230324064719_collage (34).jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-03-24 06:43:47', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '42' ) ), (int) 14 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17354', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Social Security Fund has over 400,000 Contributors ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'March 23: The number of contributors enlisted in Social Security Fund has reached more than 400,000. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">March 23: The number of contributors enlisted in Social Security Fund has reached more than 400,000. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Around 430,000 workers have been enlisted in the fund within four years of the launch of the Social Security Scheme. The government had launched the Social Security Scheme on November 27, 2018. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The fund has recorded the highest number of contributors from Bagmati Province with 307,718 contributors. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Similarly, 38,957 workers from Koshi Province are enlisted in the fund while 21,258 are from Madhes Province, 15,241 from Gandaki Province, 14,099 from Lumbini Province, 1,529 from Sudurpaschim Province and 1,228 from Karnali Province. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The fund has set a target to enlist 500,000 workers within the end of the current fiscal year. Around 17,739 employers are associated with the fund. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The fund has collected Rs 30.11 billion so far. It has paid claim of Rs 2.83 billion to the contributors under various schemes. The fund has been expanding social security area in recent period. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The fund, which has been incorporating the workers of informal sector in the scheme, has started enlisting Nepali migrant workers and those who are self-employed in foreign lands in the fund from Wednesday. -- RSS </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-03-23', 'modified' => '2023-03-23', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17089', 'image' => '20230323035158_SSF (1).jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-03-23 15:51:14', '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:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">March 26: Nepal Police has confiscated counterfeit notes of over Rs 1 million in the last three months. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Nepal Police Spokesperson DIG Poshraj Pokharel confirmed that the fake currency notes were seized in the last three months. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">According to the police headquarters office data, as many as 22 persons involved in the transactions of counterfeit Nepali notes were arrested during the period. -- RSS </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-03-26', 'modified' => '2023-03-26', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17104', 'image' => '20230326102442_20170427050255_note.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-03-26 10:23:55', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 1 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17368', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Nepal Receives Foreign Aid Commitment of Rs 138 billion In Eight Months', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'The Government of Nepal has received commitments for foreign aid amounting to over Rs 138.5 billion in the eight months of the current fiscal year 2022/23.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px">March 25: The Government of Nepal has received commitments for foreign aid amounting to over Rs 138.5 billion in the eight months of the current fiscal year 2022/23.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">According to the Ministry of Finance (MoF), Nepal received commitments for grants equivalent to Rs 24.56 billion and Rs 114 billion for foreign loan from different bilateral and multilateral development partners in the last eight months.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">The government through its annual budget had set a target to receive foreign loan worth Rs 242.26 billion and foreign grants of Rs 44.46 billion in the eight months. Against the target, the commitment for foreign loan and grants stood at 47 percent and 44.28 percent respectively. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">The government obtained commitment of Rs 350 million for grants from Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) for 'Project for Human Resources Development Scholarship'. Likewise, JICA has expressed Rs 2 billion commitment for grants for 'Tarai Region Irrigation System Strengthening Project'. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">The government received commitments of Rs 1.37 billion and Rs 2 billion for grants for 'Wash for All' and 'Empowered Women, Prosperous Nepal' respectively.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">Swiss government gave grant commitment of Rs 990 million for ‘Technical and Commercial Education Programme’. Likewise, Nepal government received commitment of Rs 1 billion grants each for entrepreneurship development of returnee workers from South Korea and capacity development of Nepal Police’s Cyber Bureau. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">Asian Development Bank expressed commitment of Rs 2.47 billion and Rs 1.57 billion grants for horticulture in hilly parts of the country and for women development programme respectively.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">Nepal government obtained commitments of Rs 5.26 billion grants for the capacity building of security and justice system from British government.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">Likewsie, the government gained loan commitments of Rs 114 billion from World Bank, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), Asian Development Bank(ADB) and others for various projects and programmes in the eight months of the current fiscal year. </span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-03-26', 'modified' => '2023-03-26', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17103', 'image' => '20230326062153_collage (38).jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-03-26 06:08:27', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '42' ) ), (int) 2 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17366', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Less than 2500 Tourists Visit Annapurna Circuit in Three Months ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'March 25: A total of 2,475 foreign tourists visited the Annapurna circuit trek in the first three months of 2023. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">March 25: A total of 2,475 foreign tourists visited the Annapurna circuit trek in the first three months of 2023. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The tourists included 1,678 male and 797 female, according to Tourism Assistant at Annapurna Conservation Area Project (ACAP) Tourist Check Point in Dharapani, Chettra Bahadur Gurung. Around 40 to 50 tourists arrive at the ACAP area every day. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The number of tourists visiting the Annapurna region has not been able to rise significantly, worrying the tourism entrepreneurs. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Even after the end of the COVID-19 pandemic, tourism business has not been able to gain any momentum, said tourism entrepreneur Pancha Bahadur Gurung. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">In the previous year (ie 2022), a total of 15,900 foreign tourists arrived in the Annapurna circuit trek. This included 10,364 men and 5,536 women, said Gurung. In 2021 the number was 2,273 including 1,562 men and 711 women. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif""> Likewise, 1,976 tourists visited in 2020. The number was 36,647 in 2019. The majority of the tourists coming for trekking in the circuit are from neighboring countries China and India and also from Japan, Australia, Britain, etc. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The Annapurna circuit trek starts from Besisahar, Lamjung and ends in Kaski via ManangMustang and Myagdi districts. -- RSS </span></span></span><br /> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-03-25', 'modified' => '2023-03-25', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17101', 'image' => '20230325104606_SG-MYAGDI.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-03-25 22:45:29', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 3 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17365', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Women’s Access to Family Property up by 1.1 Percent', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'March 24: Women’s right to property has pursued a progressive path which is evident from the fact that their ownership of family properties has increased over the past decade.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">March 24: Women’s right to property has pursued a progressive path which is evident from the fact that their ownership of family properties has increased over the past decade. According to the National Census 2021, women’s access to family properties has increased. The final report of the census published by the government on Friday revealed that 23.8 percent households have their land and house in women’s name, a 1.1 percent surge as compared to the 2011 census.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The results of the latest census show that there are a total of 6,666,937 households in the country. Similarly, the number of residential houses stands at 6,660,841. Of them, 31.55 percent households are owned by women, a 5.82 percent increment as opposed to the previous census.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">According to the 2021 census, the population of Nepal has increased to 29.1 million.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Out of the total population of 29,164,578, females make up 14,911,27 (51.02 percent) . Likewise, the number of males is 14,253,551 (48.98 percent). As per the previous census, the total population of the country stood at 26,494,504.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Population density in mountains, hills declining</strong></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">As per the latest census, population density in mountains and hill areas has decreased over the period of last 10 years. The population density is 460 persons per square kilometer in the Terai, while it is 34 per square kilometer in the mountains. It is just 3 per square kilometer in Manang and 5,169 in the Kathmandu Valley.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">According to the census data, Kathmandu district has the highest number of population across the country as the population here is counted at 2,041,587 while 5,658 people reside in Manang. In terms of distribution of population by districts, Morang, Rupandehi, Jhapa and Sunsari are among those districts facing an increased pressure of population. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Similarly, Mustang, Dolpa and Rasuwa have a smaller population.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The Terai region's population is 53.61 percent, out of the total population as 15,634,006 people reside in the Terai and this figure is 40. 31 percent or 11,757,624 in the hills. The mountain region reports the residency of 6.08 percent or 1,772,948 people. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""> Until ten years ago, the Terai's population was 50.27 percent of the total population followed by 43.01 percent in hills and 6.73 percent in the mountains. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""> According to the census report, more than 2.19 million Nepalis are living abroad. It has been found that 2,190,592 people from 1,555,961 families are living abroad.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">This number is 269,098 more than the 2011 census. In the 2011 census, 1,921,494 people were found to be living abroad.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">According to the latest census, as many as 1,799,675 men (82.2 percent) and 390,917 (17.8 percent) women are abroad, as mentioned in the report. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The data shows that 68 percent of the population has not gone through internal migration from one local level to another while 10.8 percent of the total population opted for it. Similarly 18.2 percent of the population has migrated from one district to another while 3.1 percent of the population has migrated abroad. The number of migrated population as a whole is 9,341,408.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""> Employment opportunities, trade-business, study, training, dependency, natural disasters and agriculture have been cited as the major cases of migrations. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Reliance on traditional fuel continues </strong></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Although the government has emphasized development and promotion of clean energy, a large section of the population of the country still relies on traditional means of cooking fuel.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">A total of 51 per cent of the households in the country said that they still use firewood in the kitchen while those using LPG gas cylinders stand at 44.3 per cent.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Similarly, those employing induction stoves to prepare food stand at 0.5 while those using traditional cow dung dry patties is 1.2 percent. Likewise, 0.5 percent of the population still uses kerosene and 0.1 use other fuels.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Ten years ago, 64 percent of the household used firewood in the kitchen to prepare food. It is evident that the reliance on traditional fuel has decreased to some extent over the decade but the number of households relying on traditional energy for cooking is still more than half of the population.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Strides in electrification</strong></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Government's vision to expand electricity in all households is almost close to realization. A total of 92.2 per cent households are under the ambit of electricity as per the latest census. Households using solar energy stand at 6.6 per cent at present.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Only 67.3 percent of the population had access to electricity 10 years ago.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Going by this statistic, 98.8 percent of the population had access to clean energy while those using kerosene and other fuel remain below 1 percent. -- RSS</span></span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-03-24', 'modified' => '2023-03-24', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17100', 'image' => '20230324100942_6F8A2862.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-03-24 22:09:15', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 4 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17364', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'AIG Kunwar Promoted to Nepal Police Chief ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'March 24: A meeting of the Council of Ministers has decided to promote Additional Inspector General Basanta Bahadur Kunwar to the post of Inspector General of the Nepal Police. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">March 24: A meeting of the Council of Ministers has decided to promote Additional Inspector General Basanta Bahadur Kunwar to the post of Inspector General of the Nepal Police. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Surya Kiran Sharma, press coordinator of Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal, told RSS that the cabinet meeting decided to promote AIG Kunwar to the top post. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">He was promoted to AIG as per the decision of March 20. AIGs Tek Prasad Rai, Deepak Thapa, Shyam Lal Gyawali and Kiran Bajracharya along with Kunwar were in the race for IGP. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Sitting IGP Dhiraj Pratap Singh is retiring from today (Friday) after completing his 30-year tenure in the police force. -- RSS</span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-03-24', 'modified' => '2023-03-24', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17099', 'image' => '20230324082456_PRO-KTM-PRACHANDA.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-03-24 20:24:22', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 5 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17363', 'article_category_id' => '218', 'title' => 'Sanima Life and Reliance Life Commence Integrated Transaction ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'Following the successful merger, Sanima Life Insurance and Reliance Life Insurance Company have started integrated business transaction from Thursday. ', 'content' => '<p><br /> <span style="font-size:18px">March 24: Following the successful merger, Sanima Life Insurance and Reliance Life Insurance Company have started integrated business transaction from Thursday. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">After the merger, the joint transaction will be carried out under the name “Sanima Reliance Life Insurance”. The two companies were merged with a swap ratio of 1:1.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">The Nepal Insurance Authority had given final approval to Sanima and Reliance Life Insurance Company for merger on March 2. Likewise, the two companies were granted merger approval by the Office of the Company Registrar for merger on March 13. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">After the merger, the paid-up capital of the merged entity has reached Rs 4.18 billion. Prior to the merger, Sanima Life Insurance Company had the paid-up capital of Rs 2 billion, while the paid-up capital of Reliance Life Insurance Company was Rs 2.10 billion. </span><br /> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-03-24', 'modified' => '2023-03-24', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17098', 'image' => '20230324045818_collage - 2023-03-24T165448.460.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-03-24 16:55:29', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '42' ) ), (int) 6 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17362', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Import of Clinker Almost Comes to a Standstill', 'sub_title' => 'Nepal imported clinker only once in the last eight months', 'summary' => 'March 24: Billions of rupees spent on import of clinker has been saved due to the increase in domestic production of the raw material of cement.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">March 24: Billions of rupees spent on import of clinker has been saved due to the increase in domestic production of the raw material of cement.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Data from the Department of Customs shows that Rs 11 billion was spent for the import of clinker four years ago. The latest data shows that the import of clinker has come almost to a halt.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">According to the department, clinker worth only Rs 19,000 has been imported in the last eight months (July-February) of the current fiscal year. Clinker was imported only once during this period.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">According to the department, in the first month of the last fiscal year, clinker worth Rs 34.3 million was imported in July. In the last fiscal year, clinker worth Rs 321.5 million was imported.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Clinker is the raw material of cement. Now the country has become self-reliant on clinker and cement. Some industries are also exporting both these items to India.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Palpa and Arghakhanchi cement industries are exporting these products as clinker and cement is produced more than the domestic requirement.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Tara Prasad Pokharel, vice president of the Nepal Cement Producers Association, said that there has been a problem in the sale of clinker recently due to the low consumption of cement in the country. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">"In normal conditions, that is during the season of infrastructure construction, clinker consumption used to be about 80 per cent, now it has dropped to about 30 per cent," Pokharel told New Business Age.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">According to the association, there are currently 16 industries that produce clinker. These industries produce 40,000 metric tons of clinker daily. Pokharel said that the production capacity has been reduced after the cement consumption decreased.</span></span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Rajesh Kumar Agarwal, executive director of RMC Group, which produces cement under the Palpa brand, said that the demand for cement has decreased due to the low capital expenditure of the state, which has affected development and construction.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Cement produced by RMC Group has been exported since last June. According to Agarwal, now clinker is also exported.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Pashupati Murarka, the owner of Arghakhanchi Cement Industry, also informed that his industry has started exporting clinker.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">"Clinker import has dropped to zero in a short time," said Murarka, "Arghakhanchi and Palpa cement industries have so far exported 30,000 metric tons of clinker and cement to India."</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">"There was a situation in the past when imported clinker was expensive, but limestone, the raw material in the country, was not used," Murarka said. According to the association, Rs 3 trillion have been invested in the cement industry so far.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">After the earthquake of 2015, when the reconstruction work intensified, the demand for cement increased suddenly. After that, domestic and foreign investment in the cement industry increased. According to the association, there are currently about five dozen cement industries operating in Nepal. The annual production capacity of this industry is 25 million metric tons. As the demand was less than the production capacity, the producers had been demanding the government to facilitate the export to India. With the government implementing the program announced in the budget to give cash subsidies to exports, industrialists have started exporting cement and clinker.</span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-03-24', 'modified' => '2023-03-24', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17097', 'image' => '20230324045005_1679620101.Clipboard11.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-03-24 16:49:06', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 7 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17361', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Insurance Coverage of Food Crops', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'March 24: With the announcement of “Food Crops Insurance” by the Nepal Insurance Authority, now food crops as well will be insured on the basis of production under the agricultural insurance policy. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">March 24: With the announcement of “Food Crops Insurance” by the Nepal Insurance Authority, now food crops as well will be insured on the basis of production under the agricultural insurance policy. According to the authority, crops such as paddy, corn, barley, wheat and millet will be covered under the insurance policy.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">These food crop insurance policies will cover eight different types of damage, including fire, wind, water, weather, land, lightning, disease and insects, and accidental external causes.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">In case of damage to food crops due to the risk covered by the insurance policy, the insured must inform the insurer within 3 days of the loss through telephone, SMS, or email.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Under the additional facility, those who have purchased the insurance policy of crops will also get the facility of accidental insurance up to Rs 200,000. Under this facility, the insured will get a maximum of Rs 200,000 in case of death of insured during the insurance period due to reasons other than suicide, irreparable loss of spinal cord due to spinal injury, loss of function of one or both arms above the wrist, loss of function of one or both legs above the ankle and loss of sight in both eyes.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">However, it is not possible to partially insure food crops planted in the same area. In case of paddy and millet crops, insurance policy must be taken within 30 days of planting. In case of corn, wheat and barley crops, insurance policy must be taken within 30 days after 7 days of sowing.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">According to the insurance policy, the authority has arranged that the insurance fee will be maintained at the rate of 5 percent of the insured amount in the case of rice, corn and wheat crops, and at the rate of 3 percent of the insured amount in the case of barley and millet crops.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Sarthakraj Pandey, assistant manager of Shikhar Insurance's agriculture and small insurance branch says that farmers will benefit from the insurance policy based on the production of food crops.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">He said, “Insurance was issued only on the basis of the cost of food crops, due to which it was not possible for the farmers to recover the lost investment due to crop damage up until recently. Now, with the implementation of the insurance policy, the farmer's production will also be protected.” </span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-03-24', 'modified' => '2023-03-24', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17096', 'image' => '20230324011925_paddyyy-transformed.jpeg', 'article_date' => '2023-03-24 13:18:27', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 8 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17360', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Govt Unveils Final Result of 2021 Census', 'sub_title' => 'Population of Nepal is 29.16 million', 'summary' => 'March 24: The government has published the final report of the national census 2021.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px">March 24: The government has published the final report of the national census 2021.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">According to the National Census of Nepal 2021 conducted by the Central Statistics Department, the population of Nepal has reached 29.16 million (2,91,64,578). As per the previous census, the total population of the country stood at 26,494,504.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal announced the final results of Nepal's latest census at the 'National Census 2078 Results Publiation Program' held in Kathmandu on Friday.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">The census revealed that the male population of Nepal is 1,42,53,551 (48.98 percent) and the female population is 1,49,11,027 (51.02 percent).</span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-03-24', 'modified' => '2023-03-24', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17095', 'image' => '20230324121911_1679637439.collage (63).jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-03-24 12:18:30', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 9 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17359', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Earthquake Jolts Mugu ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'March 24: An earthquake measuring 4.5 magnitude in the Richter scale occurred at 9:15 am this morning with its epicenter in Mugu district.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">March 24: An earthquake measuring 4.5 magnitude in the Richter scale occurred at 9:15 am this morning with its epicenter in Mugu district, the National Earthquake Monitoring and Research Centre, Lainchaur, said. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The earthquake was felt in the districts of Karnali and Sudurpaschim provinces. The eastern and western regions of the country have recorded frequent earthquakes in the recent time. -- RSS </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-03-24', 'modified' => '2023-03-24', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17094', 'image' => '20230324121121_earth.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-03-24 12:10:24', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 10 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17358', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'SEBON Files Case against Neupane for Insider Trading', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'March 24: The Securities Board of Nepal (SEBON) has filed a case against Guru Prasad Neupane at the Kathmandu District Court for the offense of insider trading.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">March 24: The Securities Board of Nepal (SEBON) has filed a case against Guru Prasad Neupane at the Kathmandu District Court for the offense of insider trading. SEBON claims that Neupane did insider trading when he was the chairman of Ridi Hydropower Company while buying and selling shares of the company from March 2021 to July 2022. An investigation conducted by the board found that Neupane had committed an offense amounting to Rs 32.3 million.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">According to the Securities Registration and Issuance Regulations 2079, the provision states that the director, executive head, auditor, company secretary or any person directly involved in the management or accounting of any organized institution cannot buy, sell or transfer the shares of that organization or its subsidiary company as long as they remain in office or for one year after retiring from the office. Likewise, the person holding this position cannot buy and sell shares in the name of the firm or their family members. For violating the securities law, the board has already punished Neupane with a fine of Rs 75,000 and barred him from being a director in a listed organization for 10 years.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">If the case filed by the board in the court is upheld, the punishment can be imprisonment for up to one year or fine equivalent to Rs 32.3 million or both.</span></span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-03-24', 'modified' => '2023-03-24', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17093', 'image' => '20230324114237_Sebonn new.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-03-24 11:19:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 11 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17357', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'COVID-19 Cases Shoot up in Nepal ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'March 24: Nepal has recently witnessed rapid rise in COVID-19 cases, the state-owned RSS reported on Friday. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">March 24: Nepal has recently witnessed rapid rise in COVID-19 cases, the state-owned RSS reported on Friday. According to the national news agency, the country reported 17 infection cases in a single day on Thursday.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The Ministry of Health and Population said that the new cases were confirmed after 1,454 tests. On March 21 and 22, no infection case was reported while undertaking 909 and 1,387 tests respectively, added RSS. Active infection cases stood at 30 on Thursday, the news agency cited the ministry as saying. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Nepal has seen impacts of neighbouring India that has reported increasing number of COVID-19 cases of late, Dr Chuman Lal Das, Director of the Epidemiology and Disease Control Division told RSS. The infection is increasing in India.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">“People who have tested positive for the virus in India are carrying the disease in Nepal. Seven infected people entered Nepal through the open border yesterday (Wednesday) alone,” said Dr Das, adding that tests have been intensified at the border. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">He also urged people to follow the health protocols and receive a booster dose. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Meanwhile, the ministry has also urged all people to receive a booster dose. It has also launched a booster dose campaign across the country in a bid to keep the infection in check. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Last week, the World Health Organisation (WHO) had said that the Covid-19 pandemic could settle down this year to a point where it poses a threat similar to flu.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">According to AFP, the WHO voiced confidence that it will be able to declare an end to the emergency some time in 2023, saying it was increasingly hopeful about the pandemic phase of the virus coming to a close. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">According to media reports, China, where the virus is reported to have originated, has already downgraded Covid-19 to B-grade virus and has eased restrictions from January 8. Japan, on the other hand is considering downgrading Covid-19 to the same level as seasonal influenza.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The virus, which was first detected in China’s Wuhan in December 2019, has infected more than 683 million people worldwide and has claimed 6.8 million lives. The effects of the virus has largely subsided in recent months, especially in countries that have administered vaccine against the virus.</span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-03-24', 'modified' => '2023-03-24', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17092', 'image' => '20230324105953_20210518112229_1621294179.1.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-03-24 10:57:54', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 12 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17356', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Three Nepali Pilots Grounded', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'The Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN) has grounded a pilot on the charge of hurling offensive words at the air traffic controllers (ATC). ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px">March: The Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN) has grounded a pilot on the charge of hurling offensive words at the air traffic controllers (ATC). </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">A pilot of the Annapurna helicopter was grounded after he was found throwing vulgar words at the ATCs while attending to the Kathmandu-Lukla flight, said the CAAN spokesperson Jagannath Niraula.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"> “A pilot of the Annapurna helicopter was grounded for mis-communicating with the ATCs during a Kathmandu-Lukla flight on 21 March, 2023,” he said. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">Similarly, other two pilots of helicopter companies (Air Dynasty and Fishtail Air) have been grounded for violating the aviation safety guidelines, Niraula said. All three pilots in question will be banned from flying until further notice, Niraula informed. ----RSS </span><br /> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-03-24', 'modified' => '2023-03-24', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17091', 'image' => '20230324071402_collage (36).jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-03-24 07:10:46', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '42' ) ), (int) 13 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17355', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Standard Chartered Bank Organizes Fund-raising Programme For Futuremakers', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'Standard Chartered Bank Nepal Limited held a staff fundraising program “Home Run 2023” for its sustainability initiative “Futuremakers by Standard Chartered” on March 18, 2023.', 'content' => '<p> </p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">March 24: Standard Chartered Bank Nepal Limited held a staff fundraising program “Home Run 2023” for its sustainability initiative “Futuremakers by Standard Chartered” on March 18, 2023.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">Around 200 staffers participated in the programme by walking, running and cycling across an 11km route covering the bank’s branches in Naxal, Newroad and Naya Baneshwor.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">Standard Chartered’s Futuremakers is the bank’s global initiative to tackle inequality and promote greater economic inclusion for young people in communities. The funds raised from the event will be used for Futuremakers-related CSR projects in Nepal.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">At the inauguration ceremony of the event, Chief Executive Officer Anirvan Ghosh Dastidar expressed his gratitude to the staff members for coming together for this noble cause which would help empower the next generation to learn, earn and grow. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">“At Standard Chartered, we believe that everyone deserves the opportunity to realise their potential. Home Run is a fantastic initiative by the Bank to help young people from low-income backgrounds by raising funds,” Dastidar added. </span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-03-24', 'modified' => '2023-03-24', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17090', 'image' => '20230324064719_collage (34).jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-03-24 06:43:47', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '42' ) ), (int) 14 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '17354', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Social Security Fund has over 400,000 Contributors ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'March 23: The number of contributors enlisted in Social Security Fund has reached more than 400,000. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">March 23: The number of contributors enlisted in Social Security Fund has reached more than 400,000. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Around 430,000 workers have been enlisted in the fund within four years of the launch of the Social Security Scheme. The government had launched the Social Security Scheme on November 27, 2018. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The fund has recorded the highest number of contributors from Bagmati Province with 307,718 contributors. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Similarly, 38,957 workers from Koshi Province are enlisted in the fund while 21,258 are from Madhes Province, 15,241 from Gandaki Province, 14,099 from Lumbini Province, 1,529 from Sudurpaschim Province and 1,228 from Karnali Province. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The fund has set a target to enlist 500,000 workers within the end of the current fiscal year. Around 17,739 employers are associated with the fund. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The fund has collected Rs 30.11 billion so far. It has paid claim of Rs 2.83 billion to the contributors under various schemes. The fund has been expanding social security area in recent period. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The fund, which has been incorporating the workers of informal sector in the scheme, has started enlisting Nepali migrant workers and those who are self-employed in foreign lands in the fund from Wednesday. -- RSS </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-03-23', 'modified' => '2023-03-23', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '17089', 'image' => '20230323035158_SSF (1).jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-03-23 15:51:14', '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
