Government’s financial account is under pressure. Government expenditure exceeding the income has caused imbalance to…
Government’s financial account is under pressure. Government expenditure exceeding the income has caused imbalance to…
Changunarayan Municipality has imposed tax on the production and export of clay bricks. A 12th meeting of the Municipal Assembly took the decision to this effect as part of its strategy to expand tax…
January 19: TVS Raider and TVS Apache RTR 160 4V have bagged the 'Best Commuter' and 'Best Feature' awards respectively organized by the leading tech online portal,…
January 19: Securities Board of Nepal (SEBON) has approved the proposal of Nepal Investment Mega Bank Limited (NIMBL) to increase the size of NIBL Sahabhagita Fund, which the bank claims to be Nepal’s first open-ended mutual fund scheme, to Rs 2…
January 19: Sipradi Trading, the authorized distributor of Tata Motors in Nepal, recently orgagnised the Nexon EV Range Test 2023 Programme from Butwal to Bhairahawa with the objective of promoting electric…
January 18: Coca-Cola has successfully concluded its Saksham training programme which reached over 1000 women entrepreneurs from small and medium scale businesses in retail and restaurants, providing them a platform for empowerment and skill…
CPN-UML leader Devraj Ghimire has been elected as the Speaker of House of Representatives…
January 19: Farmers have not been able to do 'top dressing' on the wheat crop as the urea fertilizer bought by the government from India through the G2G process is stored in the government warehouses.…
January 19: The Nepal Telecom is going to make systemic improvements to prevent the recurrence of mobile and PSTN telephone service…
January 19: The government has fixed the price of sugarcane at Rs 540 per…
January 19: Light rainfall with partial to general changes in weather would occur across the country today (January 19) due to the influence of the westerly low pressure…
January 19: Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Bishnu Prasad Poudel has admitted that the country’s economy is under…
January 19: A team from French aeroplane manufacturing company ATR has started on-site investigation of the Yeti Airlines ATR-72 plane crash in Pokhara that took place on…
Sagarmatha Jalbidhyut Company Ltd is issuing its Initial Public Offerings (IPO) to the locals of project-affected Ilam district and Nepali citizens working in foreign countries in the first phase from…
January 18: The farmers of Solukhumbu, a mountainous district in eastern Nepal, are worried because of the delay in snowfall and rain this…
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Government expenditure exceeding the income has caused imbalance to persist. ', 'content' => '<p> </p> <p><span style="font-size:20px">January 20: Government’s financial account is under pressure. Government expenditure exceeding the income has caused imbalance to persist. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:20px">The government has collected a revenue of Rs 462 billion till January 18 despite its target of collecting 1403 billion revenue in the current fiscal year. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:20px">The government has spent Rs 582 billion till January 18. Out of it, Rs 460 billion is administrative expenditure while Rs 54.42 billion is capital expenses. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:20px">The data shows that revenue is hardly enough to sustain administrative expenses of the government. The government has started off initiative to end imbalance of income and expenditure.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:20px">The first Cabinet meeting of the Pushpa Kamal Dahal led government had decided to cut the unnecessary expenses to balance the government’s income and expenditures.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:20px">In line with same decision, Finance Ministry has issued Guidelines to Reduce current government expenditure-2079 at the initiative of Finance Minister Bishnu Prasad Poudel. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:20px">As per the guidelines released by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance Bishnu Poudel, the administrative and current expenses in the government agencies would be cut by 15 per cent as stated in the national budget of the current fiscal year.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:20px">With the new guidelines in place, non-essential national and foreign trips of government officials will be discouraged. Similarly, engine oil and lubricants would be used only if needed while servicing the two-wheelers and four-wheelers.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:20px"> Likewise, unnecessary hoarding of goods would be discouraged and the ministry's publications would be uploaded in the websites, instead of printing them.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:20px">Furthermore, non-essential seminars, training, symposium and such activities would be discouraged and even if they required to be held the government halls would be used instead of expensive hotels.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:20px">Additional allowances for budget drafting would not be given and only 50 per cent, i. e Rs 300 would be provided in case if it is an obligation.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:20px">Unnecessary use of AC, heater and fan would be discouraged along with bottled water. The toner and cartridge would be refilled as far as practicable.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:20px">The ministry stated that no new workforce would be hired on a contract and daily wage basis, besides for the approved posts.</span></p> <p><br /> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-20', 'modified' => '2023-01-20', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16535', 'image' => '20230120063953_collage (70).jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-20 06:34:11', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '42' ) ), (int) 1 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16793', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Changunarayan Municipality to Tax Manufacturing and Export of Clay Bricks ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'Changunarayan Municipality has imposed tax on the production and export of clay bricks. A 12th meeting of the Municipal Assembly took the decision to this effect as part of its strategy to expand tax coverage/base. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px">January 19: Changunarayan Municipality has imposed tax on the production and export of clay bricks. <br /> A 12th meeting of the Municipal Assembly took the decision to this effect as part of its strategy to expand tax coverage/base. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">While brick kiln entrepreneurs pay a certain amount of annual tax, entrepreneurs involved in manufacturing, sale and export of clay bricks have been operating their businesses without paying tax for a long time. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">The municipal assembly took the decision to tax manufacturing and export of the clay bricks to bring clay brick entrepreneurs under the tax coverage, according to Mayor Jivan Khatri.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">Entrepreneurs have been manufacturing clay bricks in the rented land of the farmers and selling them to kilns. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">The municipality has decided to collect Rs 10,000 per site for operating clay brick business and Rs 500 per ropani of land for the manufacture of clay bricks.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">Citing brick industries as major causes of pollution in Changunarayan Municipality, voices are being raised to remove such industries from the municipality. </span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-19', 'modified' => '2023-01-19', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16534', 'image' => '20230119054046_collage (69).jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-19 17:36:41', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '42' ) ), (int) 2 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16792', 'article_category_id' => '236', 'title' => 'TVS bags Best Feature and Best Commuter Bike Awards', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'January 19: TVS Raider and TVS Apache RTR 160 4V have bagged the 'Best Commuter' and 'Best Feature' awards respectively organized by the leading tech online portal, Techlekh.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">January 19: TVS Raider and TVS Apache RTR 160 4V have bagged the 'Best Commuter' and 'Best Feature' awards respectively organized by the leading tech online portal, Techlekh. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Issuing a statement, TVS said that its Raider model also bagged several prestigious awards last year including IMOTY-2022 and Autocar. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">According to the company, TVS Raider 125 has a stunning muscular look combined with several other amazing characteristics such as adjustable monoshock suspension, USB charging, under-seat storage, and wider tyres. Similarly, attractive all-new LED headlight, angular LED DRLs, and a fender up front enhance its appearance even more. Likewise, it comes with a 3-valve engine and has the quickest acceleration rate with 0-60 KM/H acceleration in only 5.9 seconds, added the company.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">According to the statement issued by Techlekh, TVS Raider managed to conquer the tough competition due to its affordability, stylish look, and other updated features. “These features made the TVS Raider unbeatable.”</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Jagdamba Motors Pvt Ltd is the sole distributor of TVS two-wheelers in Nepal. The company claims to have a strong nationwide distribution network of more than 140 dealers across Nepal.</span></span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-19', 'modified' => '2023-01-19', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16533', 'image' => '20230119051508_TVS Bags Best Feature And Best Commuter Bike Awards.jpeg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-19 17:14:21', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 3 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16791', 'article_category_id' => '218', 'title' => 'SEBON Gives Green Signal to Increase the Size of NIBL Sahabhagita Fund to Rs 2 Billion', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'January 19: Securities Board of Nepal (SEBON) has approved the proposal of Nepal Investment Mega Bank Limited (NIMBL) to increase the size of NIBL Sahabhagita Fund, which the bank claims to be Nepal’s first open-ended mutual fund scheme, to Rs 2 billion.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">January 19: Securities Board of Nepal (SEBON) has approved the proposal of Nepal Investment Mega Bank Limited (NIMBL) to increase the size of NIBL Sahabhagita Fund, which the bank claims to be Nepal’s first open-ended mutual fund scheme, to Rs 2 billion.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The scheme, which is operated under NIBL Mutual Fund, was first launched in 2019 with a size of Rs 200 million and has since grown to a milestone size of Rs 1 billion, NIMBL said in a statement.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Considering the high demand of investors, NIBL Ace Capital approached SEBON to increase the size of the scheme to Rs 2 Billion and gained approval from SEBON on January 1, the bank said in the statement published recently.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">“Considering the developing capital market of Nepal, growing mutual fund industry and increasing investor in mutual fund and being Nepal's first open-ended scheme, this scheme has been successful in giving reasonable returns to its unit holders since the first year of its operation.”</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Under this scheme, a total of 65.45 percent dividends have been distributed in three years of successful operations with an average annual return of 21.81 percent, added the statement.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The bank claimed that this scheme has so far yielded the highest returns compared to other open-ended mutual fund schemes. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Investors who want to invest in this scheme can invest by submitting duly filled forms available at all the branch offices of NIMB and NIBL Ace Capital and distribution agents. They can also apply online by visiting the website (www.niblcapital.com) of NIBL Ace capital.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Investors can participate in a Dividend Re-Investment Plan as well which eliminates constant logistical hassles and ensures investors don’t miss out an investment opportunity. With skilled and experienced fund managers, the scheme that started with a size of Rs 200 million and was able to a gain significant participation of investors due to its lucrative returns, and as of now it is has crossed a size of more than Rs 1 billion, added the statement.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">This has made the scheme the largest ever open-ended scheme in the capital market of Nepal, the statement further said.</span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-19', 'modified' => '2023-01-19', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16532', 'image' => '20230119050140_NIBL_OneBillion.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-19 17:00:07', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 4 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16789', 'article_category_id' => '236', 'title' => 'Sipradi Trading Orgagnises Nexon EV Range Test 2023', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'January 19: Sipradi Trading, the authorized distributor of Tata Motors in Nepal, recently orgagnised the Nexon EV Range Test 2023 Programme from Butwal to Bhairahawa with the objective of promoting electric vehicles.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">January 19: Sipradi Trading, the authorized distributor of Tata Motors in Nepal, recently orgagnised the Nexon EV Range Test 2023 Programme from Butwal to Bhairahawa with the objective of promoting electric vehicles, which the company believes will help protect environment and also ensure sustainable economic development.</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"">Issuing a statement, the company said that there was enthusiastic participation of Nexon EV customers during the programme. Subash Khadka scored 397 Wh/Km along the Butwal-Bhairahawa road section to top the list of participants. Likewise, Gopal Sharma finished second with 387 Wh/Km range and Subodh Bhattarai secured third position with 378 Wh/Km range. Only 22 participants were able to score more than 300 range during the programme, the company said in the statement.</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 top drivers with maximum range for minimum consumption of energy were provided attractive gift hampers by Sipradi Trading. First-placed Khadka bagged an LED TV while second place finisher Sharma was awarded a Samsung oven. </span></span></span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-19', 'modified' => '2023-01-19', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16530', 'image' => '20230119044302_NexonEV Range Test 2023 Butwal.jpeg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-19 16:42:19', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 5 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16788', 'article_category_id' => '266', 'title' => 'Coca-Cola Concludes Saksham Training programme', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'January 18: Coca-Cola has successfully concluded its Saksham training programme which reached over 1000 women entrepreneurs from small and medium scale businesses in retail and restaurants, providing them a platform for empowerment and skill development.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">January 18: Coca-Cola has successfully concluded its Saksham training programme which reached over 1000 women entrepreneurs from small and medium scale businesses in retail and restaurants, providing them a platform for empowerment and skill development.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Issuing a statement on January 17, Coca-Cola said that the ‘Saksham’ training programme was officially launched on 8th March 2022 coinciding with the International Women’s Day. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">According to the statement, the programme was launched by Coca-Cola along with its bottling partner Bottlers Nepal Limited with an aim to provide equal opportunities for women to compete in the marketplace. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">“The Saksham programme was designed to build the capacity of women-retailers and women-owned small restaurant owners on financial literacy, hospitality, sanitation management and use of digital wallet. The one-day training session was conducted across cities in Province 1, 2, 3 and 4.”</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Geeta Shrestha from Sauraha shared her experience, “Saksham training is an inspiring session for young women entrepreneurs. I had started by own business with just Rs 160 about 44 years ago. With my hard work, I have been able to fulfill my dreams where I am now an owner of 2 houses along with a store and proudly able to support my family as a single woman.”</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Similarly, Maya Pandey from Narayanghat expressed, “The Saksham programme provides us with skills to be economically empowered and has helped us build more networks over the years. Skill development programs like Saksham has encouraged me in doing business more efficiently.”</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""> Adarsh Awasthi, country director of Coca-Cola in Nepal shared, “At Coca-Cola, we believe in a better shared future, and women empowerment is core to our values. We launched the Saksham training programme in 2022 where we partnered with a proficient trainer to provide business skills training, mentoring networks, financial services and other assets to help women entrepreneurs improve their livelihoods, families and communities. We are happy that we have crossed our initial target of 1000 women entrepreneurs and will strive to further empower more women in the near future.”</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The initiative also supports the government’s aim to achieve substantial gender equality by ensuring equal and meaningful participation of women as announced in the 15th National Plan (2019-2024), added the statement.</span></span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-19', 'modified' => '2023-01-19', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16529', 'image' => '20230119040859_coke.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-19 16:08:09', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 6 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16787', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'UML’s Devraj Ghimire Elected Speaker of HoR ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'CPN-UML leader Devraj Ghimire has been elected as the Speaker of House of Representatives (HoR). ', 'content' => '<p> </p> <p>January 19: CPN-UML leader Devraj Ghimire has been elected as the Speaker of House of Representatives (HoR). </p> <p>Ghimire, common candidate of the ruling coalition, was elected as the HoR Speaker on Thursday.<br /> Ghimire garnered 167 votes, while his rival Nepali Congress’ Ishwori Devi Neupane received 100 votes. </p> <p>Lawmakers of the CPN-UML, CPN-Maoist Center, Rastriya Swotantra Party, Rastriya Prajatantra Party, Janata Samajwadi Party, Janamat Party, Nagarik Unmukti Party, and independent lawmakers Amresh Kumar Singh, Prabhu Sah and Yogendra Mandal had cast votes for Ghimire. </p> <p>Lawmakers from Nepali Congress, CPN-Unified Socialist, Loktantrik Samajwadi and Rastriya Janamorcha had supported NC’s Neupane for the post of Speaker. </p> <p>Out of the total 275 lawmakers, as many as 268 had participated in the voting process. One lawmaker had stayed neutral in the voting. <br /> Ghimire is the fifth Speaker of the House of Representatives after the establishment of republicanism in the country. </p> <p>Ghimire was elected as a Member of the HoR from Jhapa Constituency-2 in the election held on November 20 last year.</p> <p>Ghimire had registered his candidacy for the Speaker on behalf of the ruling coalition on Wednesday afternoon.</p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-19', 'modified' => '2023-01-19', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16528', 'image' => '20230119042344_collage (67).jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-19 16:00:27', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '42' ) ), (int) 7 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16785', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Farmers yet to Receive Urea Stored in Government Warehouses', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'January 19: Farmers have not been able to do 'top dressing' on the wheat crop as the urea fertilizer bought by the government from India through the G2G process is stored in the government warehouses. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px">January 19: Farmers have not been able to do 'top dressing' on the wheat crop as the urea fertilizer bought by the government from India through the G2G process is stored in the government warehouses. It has been almost a week since three rakes of urea arrived at the warehouse of Agricultural Inputs Company Limited in Birgunj. More fertilizer is on the way. But the farmers are complaining that they have not received fertilizer even though the government has stock of it.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">Out of the 30,000 metric tons of urea supplied by India in the first lot through the G2G process, three rakes have arrived in Birgunj by Monday. Rajendra Bahadur Karki, managing director of Agricultural Inputs Company Limited, informed that the rest of the fertilizers have arrived in Jogbani. According to Karki, it is taking some time to distribute the recently arrived fertilizer as the management team is new to the company. He admitted that the farmers did not get it because of the delay in opening the market.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">Bhuvaneswar Yadav, a representative farmer of Saptari, complained that even though the government has fertilizer, the farmers have not been able to top dress the wheat crop.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">He said, “We have heard the news that the government is importing urea fertilizer, but none of the farmers in the village have been able to apply it to the wheat crop.” Farmers visit the cooperatives every day, but there is no fertilizer in the cooperatives either.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">Nepal had entered into an agreement with India last February during the tenure of the then Agriculture Minister Mahindra Raya Yadav to bring a total of 935,000 tons of chemical fertilizers in five years through G2G. The MoU was signed by Dr Govinda Prasad Sharma, secretary of the ministry on behalf of Nepal and Rajesh Kumar Chaturvedi, secretary of the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers, Government of India on behalf of India.</span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-19', 'modified' => '2023-01-19', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16526', 'image' => '20230119033104_20230119031726_urea.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-19 15:29:53', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 8 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16784', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Nepal Telecom to Resolve Service Interruption', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'January 19: The Nepal Telecom is going to make systemic improvements to prevent the recurrence of mobile and PSTN telephone service interruption.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">January 19: The Nepal Telecom is going to make systemic improvements to prevent the recurrence of mobile and PSTN telephone service interruption. The mobile and PSTN telephone service of the state-owned company suffered interruption since Tuesday noon. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The Nepal Telecom issued a statement on Wednesday stating that the customers had to face difficulties in exchanging calls for some time due to network congestion. NT is committed to providing long-term solutions to prevent the recurrence of such problems in the future, the statement added.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">“The company is always committed to providing uninterrupted quality telecommunication services to the customers.” </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The company has also requested all customers to contact 1498 and 1988 for any problem related to interruption in mobile, telephone and other services of the company. -- RSS </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-19', 'modified' => '2023-01-19', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16525', 'image' => '20230119032937_Nepal-Telecom-(NTC-Building).jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-19 15:29:03', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 9 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16781', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Government Fixes Support Price of Sugarcane', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'January 19: The government has fixed the price of sugarcane at Rs 540 per quintal.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">January 19: The government has fixed the price of sugarcane at Rs 540 per quintal. This price is Rs 20 more per quintal than last year. The cabinet meeting on Wednesday decided that the government will bear the transportation cost of Rs 70 per quintal while fixing the price of sugarcane.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development had failed to set the support price for sugarcane even though the sugarcane crushing season had started. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Due to this, the farmers were forced to sell sugarcane on credit to sugar mills at low prices. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The farmers were forced to deliver sugarcane to the sugar mills without getting proper price, fearing that the sugarcane would dry up in the fields. After the farmers sold off most of their produce, the cabinet determined the price upon the proposal of the Ministry of Agriculture.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">At the moment, the farmers in Terai are in a rush to sell sugarcane.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Farmer Brijmohan Pandey says that the sugarcane after the second week of November becomes juicy and the weight increases. After November, the juice dries up and the weight decreases. He said that it has become easy to sell sugarcane after the government fixed the price. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Bishnu Poudel said that problems related to the crusher industry were discussed in the meeting and a suitable decision would be reached after further study. Poudel said that each ministry has been given five days’ time to make an action plan related to each ministry for the implementation of the minimum common program of the government. Similarly, the cabinet meeting decided to transfer the Secretary of the Ministry of Energy to the Ministry of Physical Infrastructure and the Secretary of Physical Infrastructure Ministry to the Ministry of Energy and to appoint Prof Dr Devraj Adhikari as the chairman of the University Grants Commission.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">It has been decided to give the responsibility of government spokesperson to Communications Minister Rekha Sharma. Until now, Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Bishnu Poudel was in charge of the official spokesperson. Similarly, the Council of Ministers also decided that the staff of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs must be present when ministers meet foreign diplomats. The government took such a decision after it was heavily criticized for letting ministers meet foreign dignitaries alone.</span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-19', 'modified' => '2023-01-19', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16522', 'image' => '20230119023446_HB-KTM-IMG_0180 (1).jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-19 14:33:54', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 10 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16780', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Light Rainfall and Snowfall to Take Place in Western Nepal Today ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'January 19: Light rainfall with partial to general changes in weather would occur across the country today (January 19) due to the influence of the westerly low pressure system. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">January 19: Light rainfall with partial to general changes in weather would occur across the country today (January 19) due to the influence of the westerly low pressure system. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The mountainous belt including that of Sudurpaschim and Karnali provinces would witness partial to general changes and the remaining areas would see partial changes and clear weather. Likewise, light rain is predicted in one or two places of Sudurpaschim and Karnali provinces, according to the Department of Hydrology and Meteorology. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Similarly, there is a chance of light snowfall in some places of high mountainous and hill areas of Sudurpaschim, Karnali and Gandaki provinces and one to two places of high mountainous and hill areas of the remaining provinces. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">According to the department, partial to general changes in weather would occur in mountainous areas of Sudurpaschim and Karnali provinces. Light rain is predicted to take place in a few places of Sudurpaschim and Karnali provinces. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Today, the minimum temperature of the Kathmandu Valley is predicted to be around 4.2 degrees centigrade and maximum temperature at 15 degrees centigrade. </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-19', 'modified' => '2023-01-19', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16521', 'image' => '20230119103350_DB-Simkot-AirUdanb (1).jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-19 10:33:11', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 11 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16779', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Finance Minister Paudel Admits Economic Crisis', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'January 19: Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Bishnu Prasad Poudel has admitted that the country’s economy is under crisis.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">January 19: Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Bishnu Prasad Poudel has admitted that the country’s economy is under crisis.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">He said that the ministry is working to identify the problems faced by the national economy and will prepare concrete plan and programmes after identifying the problems. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Speaking at an interaction on ‘Economy: The Way Forward’ organized by Nepal Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday, Minister Poudel said that we faced the challenge of Indian blockade and Covid-19 but now we are in trouble.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">“Nepal’s economy braved difficult situations line the mega earthquakes, border blockade and Covid-19. We did not face much trouble during the economic blockade or earthquake, but question arises how we reached this disappointing stage of economy now?” he questioned. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">DPM Poudel said that the country’s economy faced much more crisis after onset of Russia-Ukraine war. He further said that the government is studying the reasons behind the economic downfall.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">“The problems are therefore being analysed closely,” said the finance minister. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">He made it clear that the government can resolve the economic crisis only after proper identification of the problems. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">According to him, the government is facing worrying state of capital expenditure and revenue mobilization. The government is making necessary plans to address these problems by widening the tax net and making the tax administration effective. The government is committed to maintaining fiscal discipline, he added. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">DPM Poudel said that increasing the capital expenditure is the current need and the government will encourage spending in productive sector. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">On the occasion, former finance minister Dr Yubraj Khatiwada said that the government needs to do a lot to prevent Nepal’s economy from crumbling.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">He suggested the government that it brought to track the economy along with balance in fiscal policy and monetary policy. “There is no point in rejoicing the increase of foreign currency reserve by reducing the goods that help create capital in the country. Initiatives are essential to scale up the domestic products,” Dr Khatiwada suggested. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The former finance minister also recommended that the government effectively implemented the hedging system to bring in foreign investment. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Moreover, former vice chairperson of the National Planning Commission, Dr Swarnim Wagle, expressed concerns that the country was heavily dependent on remittance.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">At the programme, Nepal Chamber of Commerce President Rajendra Malla demanded concrete actions from the government to resolve economic problems. </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-19', 'modified' => '2023-01-19', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16520', 'image' => '20230119103309_economic crisis.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-19 10:32:32', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 12 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16778', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'French Team Begins Investigation into Yeti Airlines Plane Crash', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'January 19: A team from French aeroplane manufacturing company ATR has started on-site investigation of the Yeti Airlines ATR-72 plane crash in Pokhara that took place on Sunday. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">January 19: A team from French aeroplane manufacturing company ATR has started on-site investigation of the Yeti Airlines ATR-72 plane crash in Pokhara that took place on Sunday. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The team reached the Seti River gorge where the plane with call sign 9N-ANC had fallen deep down and crashed claiming lives of all 72 onboard and inspected the accident site. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The nine-member investigating team is being facilitated by officials from the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN), security personnel as well as the locals. The team also reportedly flew a drone camera to screen the accident site. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The plane with 72 people onboard including 68 passengers and four crew members had flown to Pokhara from Kathmandu at 10:32 am and crashed in the gorge while making a final approach for landing. So far, the dead bodies of 71 victims have already been retrieved while search is underway for one missing person, said Superintendent of Police Ajay KC. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The plane manufacturing company is keenly studying Nepal's first ATR plane crash. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Chief District Officer (CDO) of Kaski, Tek Bahadur KC, said that the security agencies are deployed for search and rescue and management of dead bodies post the disasters. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">“</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The matter of investigation is not related to us," he said. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The government has also formed an investigation committee coordinated by Joint-Secretary at the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation Buddisagar Lamichhane, which is also looking into the case. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Some members of the French team have returned to Kathmandu after the on-site study of the accident while some were still in Pokhara, according to Chief of Pokhara International Airport, Bikram Gautam. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Earlier on Monday, the 'black box' of the crashed aircraft was found. The CAAN is hopeful that the 'black box' would help find out the cause behind the air crash. -- RSS</span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-19', 'modified' => '2023-01-19', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16519', 'image' => '20230119095747_KD_KASKI_ACCIDENT.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-19 09:57:03', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 13 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16777', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Sagarmatha Jalbidhyut Company Ltd Issues IPO to Locals and Migrant Workers ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'Sagarmatha Jalbidhyut Company Ltd is issuing its Initial Public Offerings (IPO) to the locals of project-affected Ilam district and Nepali citizens working in foreign countries in the first phase from Wednesday. ', 'content' => '<p><br /> <span style="font-size:22px">January 19: Sagarmatha Jalbidhyut Company Ltd is issuing its Initial Public Offerings (IPO) to the locals of project-affected Ilam district and Nepali citizens working in foreign countries in the first phase from Wednesday. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:22px">Out of the total issued capital of Rs 1,12,0000000, the hydropower is issuing 10 per cent of the share, i.e. 11,20,000 units of shares worth Rs 11,20,00000 to the project-affected locals of Ilam district at a face value of Rs 100 per unit.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:22px">Ten per cent of the share, which is 4,36,800 units out of the total 43,68,000 kittas of shares allocated for the general public, is being issued to Nepali citizens working in foreign countries by taking labour permission from the Department of Labour. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:22px">Locals of project-affected district and migrant workers can apply for a minimum of 10 units of shares. The maximum units of shares that locals can apply are 10,000, while migrant workers can apply up to 50,000 kittas. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:22px">The sale of IPO will close on February 2. If the IPO issued for locals remains under-subscribed, the deadline will be extended until February 17. The closing date, however, will not be extended for the migrant workers.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:22px">After allotment of the shares to locals and migrant workers, the hydropower company will float the shares to the general public in the second phase. </span><br /> </p> <p><span style="font-size:22px">Prabbhu Capital is the issue and sales manager of the hydropower company. Locals can visit project site, specified branch offices of Prabhu Bank, Century Commercial Bank and Prime Commercial Bank and banks approved by Securities Board of Nepal for CASBA services to apply for the IPO. Migrant workers can apply for the IPO through Mero Share. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:22px">Sagarmatha Jalbidhyut Company Ltd has been producing electricity from Supermai A Hydropower Project(9.6 megawatt) for the last two and a half years. Per megawatt construction cost of the hydropower stands at Rs 19.84 crores.</span></p> <p><br /> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-19', 'modified' => '2023-01-19', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16518', 'image' => '20230119061615_collage (64).jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-19 06:08:44', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '42' ) ), (int) 14 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16776', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Farmers of Solu Worried due to Delay in Snowfall', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'January 18: The farmers of Solukhumbu, a mountainous district in eastern Nepal, are worried because of the delay in snowfall and rain this year.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">January 18: The farmers of Solukhumbu, a mountainous district in eastern Nepal, are worried because of the delay in snowfall and rain this year. The crops in the district have started drying up due to lack of rainfall even after mid-January. The district used to receive snowfall and rainfall by mid-December in previous years.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">In the past, the fields and hills of Solukhumbu used to be covered with snow at around this time of year. But this year, due to the lack of snow, the hills and fields are dry, said Kamichhiri Sherpa of Likhupike Rural Municipality-5.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Khumbu, the upper part of the district, received snow before mid-December last year. Farmers say that since there is no snow even after mid-January this year, the crops like potato, wheat and buckwheat have started drying up in the fields. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Hastakala Rai of Dudhkoshi Rural Municipality-5 said that the fields are becoming dry due to lack of snow. As a result, the crops planted by the farmers are drying up. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Kamingmar Sherpa of Solududhkunda Municipality-3 said that since there is no snowfall and rain this year, it is not as cold as last year.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The local residents here are worried because there is no snow during the winter season and the temperature is also increasing. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Environmentalist Rajan Thapa said that such a change in the environment is the result of rapid deforestation and emission of various harmful gases.</span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-18', 'modified' => '2023-01-18', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16517', 'image' => '20230118065315_242407_218728161484248_2103211_o.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-18 18:52:30', '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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Government expenditure exceeding the income has caused imbalance to persist. ', 'content' => '<p> </p> <p><span style="font-size:20px">January 20: Government’s financial account is under pressure. Government expenditure exceeding the income has caused imbalance to persist. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:20px">The government has collected a revenue of Rs 462 billion till January 18 despite its target of collecting 1403 billion revenue in the current fiscal year. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:20px">The government has spent Rs 582 billion till January 18. Out of it, Rs 460 billion is administrative expenditure while Rs 54.42 billion is capital expenses. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:20px">The data shows that revenue is hardly enough to sustain administrative expenses of the government. The government has started off initiative to end imbalance of income and expenditure.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:20px">The first Cabinet meeting of the Pushpa Kamal Dahal led government had decided to cut the unnecessary expenses to balance the government’s income and expenditures.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:20px">In line with same decision, Finance Ministry has issued Guidelines to Reduce current government expenditure-2079 at the initiative of Finance Minister Bishnu Prasad Poudel. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:20px">As per the guidelines released by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance Bishnu Poudel, the administrative and current expenses in the government agencies would be cut by 15 per cent as stated in the national budget of the current fiscal year.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:20px">With the new guidelines in place, non-essential national and foreign trips of government officials will be discouraged. Similarly, engine oil and lubricants would be used only if needed while servicing the two-wheelers and four-wheelers.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:20px"> Likewise, unnecessary hoarding of goods would be discouraged and the ministry's publications would be uploaded in the websites, instead of printing them.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:20px">Furthermore, non-essential seminars, training, symposium and such activities would be discouraged and even if they required to be held the government halls would be used instead of expensive hotels.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:20px">Additional allowances for budget drafting would not be given and only 50 per cent, i. e Rs 300 would be provided in case if it is an obligation.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:20px">Unnecessary use of AC, heater and fan would be discouraged along with bottled water. The toner and cartridge would be refilled as far as practicable.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:20px">The ministry stated that no new workforce would be hired on a contract and daily wage basis, besides for the approved posts.</span></p> <p><br /> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-20', 'modified' => '2023-01-20', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16535', 'image' => '20230120063953_collage (70).jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-20 06:34:11', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '42' ) ), (int) 1 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16793', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Changunarayan Municipality to Tax Manufacturing and Export of Clay Bricks ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'Changunarayan Municipality has imposed tax on the production and export of clay bricks. A 12th meeting of the Municipal Assembly took the decision to this effect as part of its strategy to expand tax coverage/base. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px">January 19: Changunarayan Municipality has imposed tax on the production and export of clay bricks. <br /> A 12th meeting of the Municipal Assembly took the decision to this effect as part of its strategy to expand tax coverage/base. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">While brick kiln entrepreneurs pay a certain amount of annual tax, entrepreneurs involved in manufacturing, sale and export of clay bricks have been operating their businesses without paying tax for a long time. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">The municipal assembly took the decision to tax manufacturing and export of the clay bricks to bring clay brick entrepreneurs under the tax coverage, according to Mayor Jivan Khatri.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">Entrepreneurs have been manufacturing clay bricks in the rented land of the farmers and selling them to kilns. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">The municipality has decided to collect Rs 10,000 per site for operating clay brick business and Rs 500 per ropani of land for the manufacture of clay bricks.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">Citing brick industries as major causes of pollution in Changunarayan Municipality, voices are being raised to remove such industries from the municipality. </span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-19', 'modified' => '2023-01-19', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16534', 'image' => '20230119054046_collage (69).jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-19 17:36:41', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '42' ) ), (int) 2 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16792', 'article_category_id' => '236', 'title' => 'TVS bags Best Feature and Best Commuter Bike Awards', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'January 19: TVS Raider and TVS Apache RTR 160 4V have bagged the 'Best Commuter' and 'Best Feature' awards respectively organized by the leading tech online portal, Techlekh.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">January 19: TVS Raider and TVS Apache RTR 160 4V have bagged the 'Best Commuter' and 'Best Feature' awards respectively organized by the leading tech online portal, Techlekh. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Issuing a statement, TVS said that its Raider model also bagged several prestigious awards last year including IMOTY-2022 and Autocar. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">According to the company, TVS Raider 125 has a stunning muscular look combined with several other amazing characteristics such as adjustable monoshock suspension, USB charging, under-seat storage, and wider tyres. Similarly, attractive all-new LED headlight, angular LED DRLs, and a fender up front enhance its appearance even more. Likewise, it comes with a 3-valve engine and has the quickest acceleration rate with 0-60 KM/H acceleration in only 5.9 seconds, added the company.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">According to the statement issued by Techlekh, TVS Raider managed to conquer the tough competition due to its affordability, stylish look, and other updated features. “These features made the TVS Raider unbeatable.”</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Jagdamba Motors Pvt Ltd is the sole distributor of TVS two-wheelers in Nepal. The company claims to have a strong nationwide distribution network of more than 140 dealers across Nepal.</span></span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-19', 'modified' => '2023-01-19', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16533', 'image' => '20230119051508_TVS Bags Best Feature And Best Commuter Bike Awards.jpeg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-19 17:14:21', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 3 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16791', 'article_category_id' => '218', 'title' => 'SEBON Gives Green Signal to Increase the Size of NIBL Sahabhagita Fund to Rs 2 Billion', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'January 19: Securities Board of Nepal (SEBON) has approved the proposal of Nepal Investment Mega Bank Limited (NIMBL) to increase the size of NIBL Sahabhagita Fund, which the bank claims to be Nepal’s first open-ended mutual fund scheme, to Rs 2 billion.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">January 19: Securities Board of Nepal (SEBON) has approved the proposal of Nepal Investment Mega Bank Limited (NIMBL) to increase the size of NIBL Sahabhagita Fund, which the bank claims to be Nepal’s first open-ended mutual fund scheme, to Rs 2 billion.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The scheme, which is operated under NIBL Mutual Fund, was first launched in 2019 with a size of Rs 200 million and has since grown to a milestone size of Rs 1 billion, NIMBL said in a statement.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Considering the high demand of investors, NIBL Ace Capital approached SEBON to increase the size of the scheme to Rs 2 Billion and gained approval from SEBON on January 1, the bank said in the statement published recently.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">“Considering the developing capital market of Nepal, growing mutual fund industry and increasing investor in mutual fund and being Nepal's first open-ended scheme, this scheme has been successful in giving reasonable returns to its unit holders since the first year of its operation.”</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Under this scheme, a total of 65.45 percent dividends have been distributed in three years of successful operations with an average annual return of 21.81 percent, added the statement.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The bank claimed that this scheme has so far yielded the highest returns compared to other open-ended mutual fund schemes. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Investors who want to invest in this scheme can invest by submitting duly filled forms available at all the branch offices of NIMB and NIBL Ace Capital and distribution agents. They can also apply online by visiting the website (www.niblcapital.com) of NIBL Ace capital.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Investors can participate in a Dividend Re-Investment Plan as well which eliminates constant logistical hassles and ensures investors don’t miss out an investment opportunity. With skilled and experienced fund managers, the scheme that started with a size of Rs 200 million and was able to a gain significant participation of investors due to its lucrative returns, and as of now it is has crossed a size of more than Rs 1 billion, added the statement.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">This has made the scheme the largest ever open-ended scheme in the capital market of Nepal, the statement further said.</span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-19', 'modified' => '2023-01-19', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16532', 'image' => '20230119050140_NIBL_OneBillion.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-19 17:00:07', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 4 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16789', 'article_category_id' => '236', 'title' => 'Sipradi Trading Orgagnises Nexon EV Range Test 2023', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'January 19: Sipradi Trading, the authorized distributor of Tata Motors in Nepal, recently orgagnised the Nexon EV Range Test 2023 Programme from Butwal to Bhairahawa with the objective of promoting electric vehicles.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">January 19: Sipradi Trading, the authorized distributor of Tata Motors in Nepal, recently orgagnised the Nexon EV Range Test 2023 Programme from Butwal to Bhairahawa with the objective of promoting electric vehicles, which the company believes will help protect environment and also ensure sustainable economic development.</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"">Issuing a statement, the company said that there was enthusiastic participation of Nexon EV customers during the programme. Subash Khadka scored 397 Wh/Km along the Butwal-Bhairahawa road section to top the list of participants. Likewise, Gopal Sharma finished second with 387 Wh/Km range and Subodh Bhattarai secured third position with 378 Wh/Km range. Only 22 participants were able to score more than 300 range during the programme, the company said in the statement.</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 top drivers with maximum range for minimum consumption of energy were provided attractive gift hampers by Sipradi Trading. First-placed Khadka bagged an LED TV while second place finisher Sharma was awarded a Samsung oven. </span></span></span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-19', 'modified' => '2023-01-19', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16530', 'image' => '20230119044302_NexonEV Range Test 2023 Butwal.jpeg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-19 16:42:19', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 5 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16788', 'article_category_id' => '266', 'title' => 'Coca-Cola Concludes Saksham Training programme', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'January 18: Coca-Cola has successfully concluded its Saksham training programme which reached over 1000 women entrepreneurs from small and medium scale businesses in retail and restaurants, providing them a platform for empowerment and skill development.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">January 18: Coca-Cola has successfully concluded its Saksham training programme which reached over 1000 women entrepreneurs from small and medium scale businesses in retail and restaurants, providing them a platform for empowerment and skill development.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Issuing a statement on January 17, Coca-Cola said that the ‘Saksham’ training programme was officially launched on 8th March 2022 coinciding with the International Women’s Day. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">According to the statement, the programme was launched by Coca-Cola along with its bottling partner Bottlers Nepal Limited with an aim to provide equal opportunities for women to compete in the marketplace. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">“The Saksham programme was designed to build the capacity of women-retailers and women-owned small restaurant owners on financial literacy, hospitality, sanitation management and use of digital wallet. The one-day training session was conducted across cities in Province 1, 2, 3 and 4.”</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Geeta Shrestha from Sauraha shared her experience, “Saksham training is an inspiring session for young women entrepreneurs. I had started by own business with just Rs 160 about 44 years ago. With my hard work, I have been able to fulfill my dreams where I am now an owner of 2 houses along with a store and proudly able to support my family as a single woman.”</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Similarly, Maya Pandey from Narayanghat expressed, “The Saksham programme provides us with skills to be economically empowered and has helped us build more networks over the years. Skill development programs like Saksham has encouraged me in doing business more efficiently.”</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""> Adarsh Awasthi, country director of Coca-Cola in Nepal shared, “At Coca-Cola, we believe in a better shared future, and women empowerment is core to our values. We launched the Saksham training programme in 2022 where we partnered with a proficient trainer to provide business skills training, mentoring networks, financial services and other assets to help women entrepreneurs improve their livelihoods, families and communities. We are happy that we have crossed our initial target of 1000 women entrepreneurs and will strive to further empower more women in the near future.”</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The initiative also supports the government’s aim to achieve substantial gender equality by ensuring equal and meaningful participation of women as announced in the 15th National Plan (2019-2024), added the statement.</span></span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-19', 'modified' => '2023-01-19', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16529', 'image' => '20230119040859_coke.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-19 16:08:09', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 6 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16787', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'UML’s Devraj Ghimire Elected Speaker of HoR ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'CPN-UML leader Devraj Ghimire has been elected as the Speaker of House of Representatives (HoR). ', 'content' => '<p> </p> <p>January 19: CPN-UML leader Devraj Ghimire has been elected as the Speaker of House of Representatives (HoR). </p> <p>Ghimire, common candidate of the ruling coalition, was elected as the HoR Speaker on Thursday.<br /> Ghimire garnered 167 votes, while his rival Nepali Congress’ Ishwori Devi Neupane received 100 votes. </p> <p>Lawmakers of the CPN-UML, CPN-Maoist Center, Rastriya Swotantra Party, Rastriya Prajatantra Party, Janata Samajwadi Party, Janamat Party, Nagarik Unmukti Party, and independent lawmakers Amresh Kumar Singh, Prabhu Sah and Yogendra Mandal had cast votes for Ghimire. </p> <p>Lawmakers from Nepali Congress, CPN-Unified Socialist, Loktantrik Samajwadi and Rastriya Janamorcha had supported NC’s Neupane for the post of Speaker. </p> <p>Out of the total 275 lawmakers, as many as 268 had participated in the voting process. One lawmaker had stayed neutral in the voting. <br /> Ghimire is the fifth Speaker of the House of Representatives after the establishment of republicanism in the country. </p> <p>Ghimire was elected as a Member of the HoR from Jhapa Constituency-2 in the election held on November 20 last year.</p> <p>Ghimire had registered his candidacy for the Speaker on behalf of the ruling coalition on Wednesday afternoon.</p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-19', 'modified' => '2023-01-19', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16528', 'image' => '20230119042344_collage (67).jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-19 16:00:27', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '42' ) ), (int) 7 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16785', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Farmers yet to Receive Urea Stored in Government Warehouses', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'January 19: Farmers have not been able to do 'top dressing' on the wheat crop as the urea fertilizer bought by the government from India through the G2G process is stored in the government warehouses. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px">January 19: Farmers have not been able to do 'top dressing' on the wheat crop as the urea fertilizer bought by the government from India through the G2G process is stored in the government warehouses. It has been almost a week since three rakes of urea arrived at the warehouse of Agricultural Inputs Company Limited in Birgunj. More fertilizer is on the way. But the farmers are complaining that they have not received fertilizer even though the government has stock of it.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">Out of the 30,000 metric tons of urea supplied by India in the first lot through the G2G process, three rakes have arrived in Birgunj by Monday. Rajendra Bahadur Karki, managing director of Agricultural Inputs Company Limited, informed that the rest of the fertilizers have arrived in Jogbani. According to Karki, it is taking some time to distribute the recently arrived fertilizer as the management team is new to the company. He admitted that the farmers did not get it because of the delay in opening the market.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">Bhuvaneswar Yadav, a representative farmer of Saptari, complained that even though the government has fertilizer, the farmers have not been able to top dress the wheat crop.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">He said, “We have heard the news that the government is importing urea fertilizer, but none of the farmers in the village have been able to apply it to the wheat crop.” Farmers visit the cooperatives every day, but there is no fertilizer in the cooperatives either.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">Nepal had entered into an agreement with India last February during the tenure of the then Agriculture Minister Mahindra Raya Yadav to bring a total of 935,000 tons of chemical fertilizers in five years through G2G. The MoU was signed by Dr Govinda Prasad Sharma, secretary of the ministry on behalf of Nepal and Rajesh Kumar Chaturvedi, secretary of the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers, Government of India on behalf of India.</span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-19', 'modified' => '2023-01-19', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16526', 'image' => '20230119033104_20230119031726_urea.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-19 15:29:53', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 8 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16784', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Nepal Telecom to Resolve Service Interruption', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'January 19: The Nepal Telecom is going to make systemic improvements to prevent the recurrence of mobile and PSTN telephone service interruption.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">January 19: The Nepal Telecom is going to make systemic improvements to prevent the recurrence of mobile and PSTN telephone service interruption. The mobile and PSTN telephone service of the state-owned company suffered interruption since Tuesday noon. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The Nepal Telecom issued a statement on Wednesday stating that the customers had to face difficulties in exchanging calls for some time due to network congestion. NT is committed to providing long-term solutions to prevent the recurrence of such problems in the future, the statement added.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">“The company is always committed to providing uninterrupted quality telecommunication services to the customers.” </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The company has also requested all customers to contact 1498 and 1988 for any problem related to interruption in mobile, telephone and other services of the company. -- RSS </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-19', 'modified' => '2023-01-19', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16525', 'image' => '20230119032937_Nepal-Telecom-(NTC-Building).jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-19 15:29:03', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 9 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16781', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Government Fixes Support Price of Sugarcane', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'January 19: The government has fixed the price of sugarcane at Rs 540 per quintal.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">January 19: The government has fixed the price of sugarcane at Rs 540 per quintal. This price is Rs 20 more per quintal than last year. The cabinet meeting on Wednesday decided that the government will bear the transportation cost of Rs 70 per quintal while fixing the price of sugarcane.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development had failed to set the support price for sugarcane even though the sugarcane crushing season had started. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Due to this, the farmers were forced to sell sugarcane on credit to sugar mills at low prices. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The farmers were forced to deliver sugarcane to the sugar mills without getting proper price, fearing that the sugarcane would dry up in the fields. After the farmers sold off most of their produce, the cabinet determined the price upon the proposal of the Ministry of Agriculture.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">At the moment, the farmers in Terai are in a rush to sell sugarcane.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Farmer Brijmohan Pandey says that the sugarcane after the second week of November becomes juicy and the weight increases. After November, the juice dries up and the weight decreases. He said that it has become easy to sell sugarcane after the government fixed the price. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Bishnu Poudel said that problems related to the crusher industry were discussed in the meeting and a suitable decision would be reached after further study. Poudel said that each ministry has been given five days’ time to make an action plan related to each ministry for the implementation of the minimum common program of the government. Similarly, the cabinet meeting decided to transfer the Secretary of the Ministry of Energy to the Ministry of Physical Infrastructure and the Secretary of Physical Infrastructure Ministry to the Ministry of Energy and to appoint Prof Dr Devraj Adhikari as the chairman of the University Grants Commission.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">It has been decided to give the responsibility of government spokesperson to Communications Minister Rekha Sharma. Until now, Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Bishnu Poudel was in charge of the official spokesperson. Similarly, the Council of Ministers also decided that the staff of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs must be present when ministers meet foreign diplomats. The government took such a decision after it was heavily criticized for letting ministers meet foreign dignitaries alone.</span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-19', 'modified' => '2023-01-19', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16522', 'image' => '20230119023446_HB-KTM-IMG_0180 (1).jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-19 14:33:54', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 10 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16780', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Light Rainfall and Snowfall to Take Place in Western Nepal Today ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'January 19: Light rainfall with partial to general changes in weather would occur across the country today (January 19) due to the influence of the westerly low pressure system. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">January 19: Light rainfall with partial to general changes in weather would occur across the country today (January 19) due to the influence of the westerly low pressure system. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The mountainous belt including that of Sudurpaschim and Karnali provinces would witness partial to general changes and the remaining areas would see partial changes and clear weather. Likewise, light rain is predicted in one or two places of Sudurpaschim and Karnali provinces, according to the Department of Hydrology and Meteorology. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Similarly, there is a chance of light snowfall in some places of high mountainous and hill areas of Sudurpaschim, Karnali and Gandaki provinces and one to two places of high mountainous and hill areas of the remaining provinces. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">According to the department, partial to general changes in weather would occur in mountainous areas of Sudurpaschim and Karnali provinces. Light rain is predicted to take place in a few places of Sudurpaschim and Karnali provinces. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Today, the minimum temperature of the Kathmandu Valley is predicted to be around 4.2 degrees centigrade and maximum temperature at 15 degrees centigrade. </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-19', 'modified' => '2023-01-19', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16521', 'image' => '20230119103350_DB-Simkot-AirUdanb (1).jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-19 10:33:11', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 11 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16779', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Finance Minister Paudel Admits Economic Crisis', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'January 19: Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Bishnu Prasad Poudel has admitted that the country’s economy is under crisis.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">January 19: Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Bishnu Prasad Poudel has admitted that the country’s economy is under crisis.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">He said that the ministry is working to identify the problems faced by the national economy and will prepare concrete plan and programmes after identifying the problems. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Speaking at an interaction on ‘Economy: The Way Forward’ organized by Nepal Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday, Minister Poudel said that we faced the challenge of Indian blockade and Covid-19 but now we are in trouble.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">“Nepal’s economy braved difficult situations line the mega earthquakes, border blockade and Covid-19. We did not face much trouble during the economic blockade or earthquake, but question arises how we reached this disappointing stage of economy now?” he questioned. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">DPM Poudel said that the country’s economy faced much more crisis after onset of Russia-Ukraine war. He further said that the government is studying the reasons behind the economic downfall.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">“The problems are therefore being analysed closely,” said the finance minister. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">He made it clear that the government can resolve the economic crisis only after proper identification of the problems. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">According to him, the government is facing worrying state of capital expenditure and revenue mobilization. The government is making necessary plans to address these problems by widening the tax net and making the tax administration effective. The government is committed to maintaining fiscal discipline, he added. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">DPM Poudel said that increasing the capital expenditure is the current need and the government will encourage spending in productive sector. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">On the occasion, former finance minister Dr Yubraj Khatiwada said that the government needs to do a lot to prevent Nepal’s economy from crumbling.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">He suggested the government that it brought to track the economy along with balance in fiscal policy and monetary policy. “There is no point in rejoicing the increase of foreign currency reserve by reducing the goods that help create capital in the country. Initiatives are essential to scale up the domestic products,” Dr Khatiwada suggested. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The former finance minister also recommended that the government effectively implemented the hedging system to bring in foreign investment. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Moreover, former vice chairperson of the National Planning Commission, Dr Swarnim Wagle, expressed concerns that the country was heavily dependent on remittance.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">At the programme, Nepal Chamber of Commerce President Rajendra Malla demanded concrete actions from the government to resolve economic problems. </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-19', 'modified' => '2023-01-19', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16520', 'image' => '20230119103309_economic crisis.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-19 10:32:32', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 12 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16778', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'French Team Begins Investigation into Yeti Airlines Plane Crash', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'January 19: A team from French aeroplane manufacturing company ATR has started on-site investigation of the Yeti Airlines ATR-72 plane crash in Pokhara that took place on Sunday. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">January 19: A team from French aeroplane manufacturing company ATR has started on-site investigation of the Yeti Airlines ATR-72 plane crash in Pokhara that took place on Sunday. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The team reached the Seti River gorge where the plane with call sign 9N-ANC had fallen deep down and crashed claiming lives of all 72 onboard and inspected the accident site. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The nine-member investigating team is being facilitated by officials from the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN), security personnel as well as the locals. The team also reportedly flew a drone camera to screen the accident site. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The plane with 72 people onboard including 68 passengers and four crew members had flown to Pokhara from Kathmandu at 10:32 am and crashed in the gorge while making a final approach for landing. So far, the dead bodies of 71 victims have already been retrieved while search is underway for one missing person, said Superintendent of Police Ajay KC. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The plane manufacturing company is keenly studying Nepal's first ATR plane crash. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Chief District Officer (CDO) of Kaski, Tek Bahadur KC, said that the security agencies are deployed for search and rescue and management of dead bodies post the disasters. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">“</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The matter of investigation is not related to us," he said. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The government has also formed an investigation committee coordinated by Joint-Secretary at the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation Buddisagar Lamichhane, which is also looking into the case. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Some members of the French team have returned to Kathmandu after the on-site study of the accident while some were still in Pokhara, according to Chief of Pokhara International Airport, Bikram Gautam. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Earlier on Monday, the 'black box' of the crashed aircraft was found. The CAAN is hopeful that the 'black box' would help find out the cause behind the air crash. -- RSS</span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-19', 'modified' => '2023-01-19', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16519', 'image' => '20230119095747_KD_KASKI_ACCIDENT.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-19 09:57:03', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 13 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16777', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Sagarmatha Jalbidhyut Company Ltd Issues IPO to Locals and Migrant Workers ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'Sagarmatha Jalbidhyut Company Ltd is issuing its Initial Public Offerings (IPO) to the locals of project-affected Ilam district and Nepali citizens working in foreign countries in the first phase from Wednesday. ', 'content' => '<p><br /> <span style="font-size:22px">January 19: Sagarmatha Jalbidhyut Company Ltd is issuing its Initial Public Offerings (IPO) to the locals of project-affected Ilam district and Nepali citizens working in foreign countries in the first phase from Wednesday. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:22px">Out of the total issued capital of Rs 1,12,0000000, the hydropower is issuing 10 per cent of the share, i.e. 11,20,000 units of shares worth Rs 11,20,00000 to the project-affected locals of Ilam district at a face value of Rs 100 per unit.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:22px">Ten per cent of the share, which is 4,36,800 units out of the total 43,68,000 kittas of shares allocated for the general public, is being issued to Nepali citizens working in foreign countries by taking labour permission from the Department of Labour. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:22px">Locals of project-affected district and migrant workers can apply for a minimum of 10 units of shares. The maximum units of shares that locals can apply are 10,000, while migrant workers can apply up to 50,000 kittas. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:22px">The sale of IPO will close on February 2. If the IPO issued for locals remains under-subscribed, the deadline will be extended until February 17. The closing date, however, will not be extended for the migrant workers.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:22px">After allotment of the shares to locals and migrant workers, the hydropower company will float the shares to the general public in the second phase. </span><br /> </p> <p><span style="font-size:22px">Prabbhu Capital is the issue and sales manager of the hydropower company. Locals can visit project site, specified branch offices of Prabhu Bank, Century Commercial Bank and Prime Commercial Bank and banks approved by Securities Board of Nepal for CASBA services to apply for the IPO. Migrant workers can apply for the IPO through Mero Share. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:22px">Sagarmatha Jalbidhyut Company Ltd has been producing electricity from Supermai A Hydropower Project(9.6 megawatt) for the last two and a half years. Per megawatt construction cost of the hydropower stands at Rs 19.84 crores.</span></p> <p><br /> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-19', 'modified' => '2023-01-19', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16518', 'image' => '20230119061615_collage (64).jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-19 06:08:44', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '42' ) ), (int) 14 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16776', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Farmers of Solu Worried due to Delay in Snowfall', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'January 18: The farmers of Solukhumbu, a mountainous district in eastern Nepal, are worried because of the delay in snowfall and rain this year.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">January 18: The farmers of Solukhumbu, a mountainous district in eastern Nepal, are worried because of the delay in snowfall and rain this year. The crops in the district have started drying up due to lack of rainfall even after mid-January. The district used to receive snowfall and rainfall by mid-December in previous years.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">In the past, the fields and hills of Solukhumbu used to be covered with snow at around this time of year. But this year, due to the lack of snow, the hills and fields are dry, said Kamichhiri Sherpa of Likhupike Rural Municipality-5.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Khumbu, the upper part of the district, received snow before mid-December last year. Farmers say that since there is no snow even after mid-January this year, the crops like potato, wheat and buckwheat have started drying up in the fields. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Hastakala Rai of Dudhkoshi Rural Municipality-5 said that the fields are becoming dry due to lack of snow. As a result, the crops planted by the farmers are drying up. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Kamingmar Sherpa of Solududhkunda Municipality-3 said that since there is no snowfall and rain this year, it is not as cold as last year.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The local residents here are worried because there is no snow during the winter season and the temperature is also increasing. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Environmentalist Rajan Thapa said that such a change in the environment is the result of rapid deforestation and emission of various harmful gases.</span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-18', 'modified' => '2023-01-18', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16517', 'image' => '20230118065315_242407_218728161484248_2103211_o.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-18 18:52:30', '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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Government expenditure exceeding the income has caused imbalance to persist. ', 'content' => '<p> </p> <p><span style="font-size:20px">January 20: Government’s financial account is under pressure. Government expenditure exceeding the income has caused imbalance to persist. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:20px">The government has collected a revenue of Rs 462 billion till January 18 despite its target of collecting 1403 billion revenue in the current fiscal year. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:20px">The government has spent Rs 582 billion till January 18. Out of it, Rs 460 billion is administrative expenditure while Rs 54.42 billion is capital expenses. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:20px">The data shows that revenue is hardly enough to sustain administrative expenses of the government. The government has started off initiative to end imbalance of income and expenditure.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:20px">The first Cabinet meeting of the Pushpa Kamal Dahal led government had decided to cut the unnecessary expenses to balance the government’s income and expenditures.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:20px">In line with same decision, Finance Ministry has issued Guidelines to Reduce current government expenditure-2079 at the initiative of Finance Minister Bishnu Prasad Poudel. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:20px">As per the guidelines released by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance Bishnu Poudel, the administrative and current expenses in the government agencies would be cut by 15 per cent as stated in the national budget of the current fiscal year.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:20px">With the new guidelines in place, non-essential national and foreign trips of government officials will be discouraged. Similarly, engine oil and lubricants would be used only if needed while servicing the two-wheelers and four-wheelers.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:20px"> Likewise, unnecessary hoarding of goods would be discouraged and the ministry's publications would be uploaded in the websites, instead of printing them.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:20px">Furthermore, non-essential seminars, training, symposium and such activities would be discouraged and even if they required to be held the government halls would be used instead of expensive hotels.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:20px">Additional allowances for budget drafting would not be given and only 50 per cent, i. e Rs 300 would be provided in case if it is an obligation.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:20px">Unnecessary use of AC, heater and fan would be discouraged along with bottled water. The toner and cartridge would be refilled as far as practicable.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:20px">The ministry stated that no new workforce would be hired on a contract and daily wage basis, besides for the approved posts.</span></p> <p><br /> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-20', 'modified' => '2023-01-20', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16535', 'image' => '20230120063953_collage (70).jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-20 06:34:11', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '42' ) ), (int) 1 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16793', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Changunarayan Municipality to Tax Manufacturing and Export of Clay Bricks ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'Changunarayan Municipality has imposed tax on the production and export of clay bricks. A 12th meeting of the Municipal Assembly took the decision to this effect as part of its strategy to expand tax coverage/base. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px">January 19: Changunarayan Municipality has imposed tax on the production and export of clay bricks. <br /> A 12th meeting of the Municipal Assembly took the decision to this effect as part of its strategy to expand tax coverage/base. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">While brick kiln entrepreneurs pay a certain amount of annual tax, entrepreneurs involved in manufacturing, sale and export of clay bricks have been operating their businesses without paying tax for a long time. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">The municipal assembly took the decision to tax manufacturing and export of the clay bricks to bring clay brick entrepreneurs under the tax coverage, according to Mayor Jivan Khatri.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">Entrepreneurs have been manufacturing clay bricks in the rented land of the farmers and selling them to kilns. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">The municipality has decided to collect Rs 10,000 per site for operating clay brick business and Rs 500 per ropani of land for the manufacture of clay bricks.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">Citing brick industries as major causes of pollution in Changunarayan Municipality, voices are being raised to remove such industries from the municipality. </span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-19', 'modified' => '2023-01-19', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16534', 'image' => '20230119054046_collage (69).jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-19 17:36:41', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '42' ) ), (int) 2 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16792', 'article_category_id' => '236', 'title' => 'TVS bags Best Feature and Best Commuter Bike Awards', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'January 19: TVS Raider and TVS Apache RTR 160 4V have bagged the 'Best Commuter' and 'Best Feature' awards respectively organized by the leading tech online portal, Techlekh.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">January 19: TVS Raider and TVS Apache RTR 160 4V have bagged the 'Best Commuter' and 'Best Feature' awards respectively organized by the leading tech online portal, Techlekh. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Issuing a statement, TVS said that its Raider model also bagged several prestigious awards last year including IMOTY-2022 and Autocar. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">According to the company, TVS Raider 125 has a stunning muscular look combined with several other amazing characteristics such as adjustable monoshock suspension, USB charging, under-seat storage, and wider tyres. Similarly, attractive all-new LED headlight, angular LED DRLs, and a fender up front enhance its appearance even more. Likewise, it comes with a 3-valve engine and has the quickest acceleration rate with 0-60 KM/H acceleration in only 5.9 seconds, added the company.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">According to the statement issued by Techlekh, TVS Raider managed to conquer the tough competition due to its affordability, stylish look, and other updated features. “These features made the TVS Raider unbeatable.”</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Jagdamba Motors Pvt Ltd is the sole distributor of TVS two-wheelers in Nepal. The company claims to have a strong nationwide distribution network of more than 140 dealers across Nepal.</span></span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-19', 'modified' => '2023-01-19', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16533', 'image' => '20230119051508_TVS Bags Best Feature And Best Commuter Bike Awards.jpeg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-19 17:14:21', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 3 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16791', 'article_category_id' => '218', 'title' => 'SEBON Gives Green Signal to Increase the Size of NIBL Sahabhagita Fund to Rs 2 Billion', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'January 19: Securities Board of Nepal (SEBON) has approved the proposal of Nepal Investment Mega Bank Limited (NIMBL) to increase the size of NIBL Sahabhagita Fund, which the bank claims to be Nepal’s first open-ended mutual fund scheme, to Rs 2 billion.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">January 19: Securities Board of Nepal (SEBON) has approved the proposal of Nepal Investment Mega Bank Limited (NIMBL) to increase the size of NIBL Sahabhagita Fund, which the bank claims to be Nepal’s first open-ended mutual fund scheme, to Rs 2 billion.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The scheme, which is operated under NIBL Mutual Fund, was first launched in 2019 with a size of Rs 200 million and has since grown to a milestone size of Rs 1 billion, NIMBL said in a statement.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Considering the high demand of investors, NIBL Ace Capital approached SEBON to increase the size of the scheme to Rs 2 Billion and gained approval from SEBON on January 1, the bank said in the statement published recently.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">“Considering the developing capital market of Nepal, growing mutual fund industry and increasing investor in mutual fund and being Nepal's first open-ended scheme, this scheme has been successful in giving reasonable returns to its unit holders since the first year of its operation.”</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Under this scheme, a total of 65.45 percent dividends have been distributed in three years of successful operations with an average annual return of 21.81 percent, added the statement.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The bank claimed that this scheme has so far yielded the highest returns compared to other open-ended mutual fund schemes. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Investors who want to invest in this scheme can invest by submitting duly filled forms available at all the branch offices of NIMB and NIBL Ace Capital and distribution agents. They can also apply online by visiting the website (www.niblcapital.com) of NIBL Ace capital.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Investors can participate in a Dividend Re-Investment Plan as well which eliminates constant logistical hassles and ensures investors don’t miss out an investment opportunity. With skilled and experienced fund managers, the scheme that started with a size of Rs 200 million and was able to a gain significant participation of investors due to its lucrative returns, and as of now it is has crossed a size of more than Rs 1 billion, added the statement.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">This has made the scheme the largest ever open-ended scheme in the capital market of Nepal, the statement further said.</span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-19', 'modified' => '2023-01-19', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16532', 'image' => '20230119050140_NIBL_OneBillion.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-19 17:00:07', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 4 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16789', 'article_category_id' => '236', 'title' => 'Sipradi Trading Orgagnises Nexon EV Range Test 2023', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'January 19: Sipradi Trading, the authorized distributor of Tata Motors in Nepal, recently orgagnised the Nexon EV Range Test 2023 Programme from Butwal to Bhairahawa with the objective of promoting electric vehicles.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">January 19: Sipradi Trading, the authorized distributor of Tata Motors in Nepal, recently orgagnised the Nexon EV Range Test 2023 Programme from Butwal to Bhairahawa with the objective of promoting electric vehicles, which the company believes will help protect environment and also ensure sustainable economic development.</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"">Issuing a statement, the company said that there was enthusiastic participation of Nexon EV customers during the programme. Subash Khadka scored 397 Wh/Km along the Butwal-Bhairahawa road section to top the list of participants. Likewise, Gopal Sharma finished second with 387 Wh/Km range and Subodh Bhattarai secured third position with 378 Wh/Km range. Only 22 participants were able to score more than 300 range during the programme, the company said in the statement.</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 top drivers with maximum range for minimum consumption of energy were provided attractive gift hampers by Sipradi Trading. First-placed Khadka bagged an LED TV while second place finisher Sharma was awarded a Samsung oven. </span></span></span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-19', 'modified' => '2023-01-19', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16530', 'image' => '20230119044302_NexonEV Range Test 2023 Butwal.jpeg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-19 16:42:19', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 5 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16788', 'article_category_id' => '266', 'title' => 'Coca-Cola Concludes Saksham Training programme', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'January 18: Coca-Cola has successfully concluded its Saksham training programme which reached over 1000 women entrepreneurs from small and medium scale businesses in retail and restaurants, providing them a platform for empowerment and skill development.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">January 18: Coca-Cola has successfully concluded its Saksham training programme which reached over 1000 women entrepreneurs from small and medium scale businesses in retail and restaurants, providing them a platform for empowerment and skill development.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Issuing a statement on January 17, Coca-Cola said that the ‘Saksham’ training programme was officially launched on 8th March 2022 coinciding with the International Women’s Day. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">According to the statement, the programme was launched by Coca-Cola along with its bottling partner Bottlers Nepal Limited with an aim to provide equal opportunities for women to compete in the marketplace. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">“The Saksham programme was designed to build the capacity of women-retailers and women-owned small restaurant owners on financial literacy, hospitality, sanitation management and use of digital wallet. The one-day training session was conducted across cities in Province 1, 2, 3 and 4.”</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Geeta Shrestha from Sauraha shared her experience, “Saksham training is an inspiring session for young women entrepreneurs. I had started by own business with just Rs 160 about 44 years ago. With my hard work, I have been able to fulfill my dreams where I am now an owner of 2 houses along with a store and proudly able to support my family as a single woman.”</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Similarly, Maya Pandey from Narayanghat expressed, “The Saksham programme provides us with skills to be economically empowered and has helped us build more networks over the years. Skill development programs like Saksham has encouraged me in doing business more efficiently.”</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""> Adarsh Awasthi, country director of Coca-Cola in Nepal shared, “At Coca-Cola, we believe in a better shared future, and women empowerment is core to our values. We launched the Saksham training programme in 2022 where we partnered with a proficient trainer to provide business skills training, mentoring networks, financial services and other assets to help women entrepreneurs improve their livelihoods, families and communities. We are happy that we have crossed our initial target of 1000 women entrepreneurs and will strive to further empower more women in the near future.”</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The initiative also supports the government’s aim to achieve substantial gender equality by ensuring equal and meaningful participation of women as announced in the 15th National Plan (2019-2024), added the statement.</span></span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-19', 'modified' => '2023-01-19', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16529', 'image' => '20230119040859_coke.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-19 16:08:09', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 6 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16787', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'UML’s Devraj Ghimire Elected Speaker of HoR ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'CPN-UML leader Devraj Ghimire has been elected as the Speaker of House of Representatives (HoR). ', 'content' => '<p> </p> <p>January 19: CPN-UML leader Devraj Ghimire has been elected as the Speaker of House of Representatives (HoR). </p> <p>Ghimire, common candidate of the ruling coalition, was elected as the HoR Speaker on Thursday.<br /> Ghimire garnered 167 votes, while his rival Nepali Congress’ Ishwori Devi Neupane received 100 votes. </p> <p>Lawmakers of the CPN-UML, CPN-Maoist Center, Rastriya Swotantra Party, Rastriya Prajatantra Party, Janata Samajwadi Party, Janamat Party, Nagarik Unmukti Party, and independent lawmakers Amresh Kumar Singh, Prabhu Sah and Yogendra Mandal had cast votes for Ghimire. </p> <p>Lawmakers from Nepali Congress, CPN-Unified Socialist, Loktantrik Samajwadi and Rastriya Janamorcha had supported NC’s Neupane for the post of Speaker. </p> <p>Out of the total 275 lawmakers, as many as 268 had participated in the voting process. One lawmaker had stayed neutral in the voting. <br /> Ghimire is the fifth Speaker of the House of Representatives after the establishment of republicanism in the country. </p> <p>Ghimire was elected as a Member of the HoR from Jhapa Constituency-2 in the election held on November 20 last year.</p> <p>Ghimire had registered his candidacy for the Speaker on behalf of the ruling coalition on Wednesday afternoon.</p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-19', 'modified' => '2023-01-19', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16528', 'image' => '20230119042344_collage (67).jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-19 16:00:27', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '42' ) ), (int) 7 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16785', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Farmers yet to Receive Urea Stored in Government Warehouses', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'January 19: Farmers have not been able to do 'top dressing' on the wheat crop as the urea fertilizer bought by the government from India through the G2G process is stored in the government warehouses. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px">January 19: Farmers have not been able to do 'top dressing' on the wheat crop as the urea fertilizer bought by the government from India through the G2G process is stored in the government warehouses. It has been almost a week since three rakes of urea arrived at the warehouse of Agricultural Inputs Company Limited in Birgunj. More fertilizer is on the way. But the farmers are complaining that they have not received fertilizer even though the government has stock of it.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">Out of the 30,000 metric tons of urea supplied by India in the first lot through the G2G process, three rakes have arrived in Birgunj by Monday. Rajendra Bahadur Karki, managing director of Agricultural Inputs Company Limited, informed that the rest of the fertilizers have arrived in Jogbani. According to Karki, it is taking some time to distribute the recently arrived fertilizer as the management team is new to the company. He admitted that the farmers did not get it because of the delay in opening the market.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">Bhuvaneswar Yadav, a representative farmer of Saptari, complained that even though the government has fertilizer, the farmers have not been able to top dress the wheat crop.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">He said, “We have heard the news that the government is importing urea fertilizer, but none of the farmers in the village have been able to apply it to the wheat crop.” Farmers visit the cooperatives every day, but there is no fertilizer in the cooperatives either.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">Nepal had entered into an agreement with India last February during the tenure of the then Agriculture Minister Mahindra Raya Yadav to bring a total of 935,000 tons of chemical fertilizers in five years through G2G. The MoU was signed by Dr Govinda Prasad Sharma, secretary of the ministry on behalf of Nepal and Rajesh Kumar Chaturvedi, secretary of the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers, Government of India on behalf of India.</span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-19', 'modified' => '2023-01-19', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16526', 'image' => '20230119033104_20230119031726_urea.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-19 15:29:53', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 8 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16784', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Nepal Telecom to Resolve Service Interruption', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'January 19: The Nepal Telecom is going to make systemic improvements to prevent the recurrence of mobile and PSTN telephone service interruption.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">January 19: The Nepal Telecom is going to make systemic improvements to prevent the recurrence of mobile and PSTN telephone service interruption. The mobile and PSTN telephone service of the state-owned company suffered interruption since Tuesday noon. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The Nepal Telecom issued a statement on Wednesday stating that the customers had to face difficulties in exchanging calls for some time due to network congestion. NT is committed to providing long-term solutions to prevent the recurrence of such problems in the future, the statement added.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">“The company is always committed to providing uninterrupted quality telecommunication services to the customers.” </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The company has also requested all customers to contact 1498 and 1988 for any problem related to interruption in mobile, telephone and other services of the company. -- RSS </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-19', 'modified' => '2023-01-19', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16525', 'image' => '20230119032937_Nepal-Telecom-(NTC-Building).jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-19 15:29:03', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 9 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16781', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Government Fixes Support Price of Sugarcane', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'January 19: The government has fixed the price of sugarcane at Rs 540 per quintal.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">January 19: The government has fixed the price of sugarcane at Rs 540 per quintal. This price is Rs 20 more per quintal than last year. The cabinet meeting on Wednesday decided that the government will bear the transportation cost of Rs 70 per quintal while fixing the price of sugarcane.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development had failed to set the support price for sugarcane even though the sugarcane crushing season had started. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Due to this, the farmers were forced to sell sugarcane on credit to sugar mills at low prices. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The farmers were forced to deliver sugarcane to the sugar mills without getting proper price, fearing that the sugarcane would dry up in the fields. After the farmers sold off most of their produce, the cabinet determined the price upon the proposal of the Ministry of Agriculture.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">At the moment, the farmers in Terai are in a rush to sell sugarcane.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Farmer Brijmohan Pandey says that the sugarcane after the second week of November becomes juicy and the weight increases. After November, the juice dries up and the weight decreases. He said that it has become easy to sell sugarcane after the government fixed the price. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Bishnu Poudel said that problems related to the crusher industry were discussed in the meeting and a suitable decision would be reached after further study. Poudel said that each ministry has been given five days’ time to make an action plan related to each ministry for the implementation of the minimum common program of the government. Similarly, the cabinet meeting decided to transfer the Secretary of the Ministry of Energy to the Ministry of Physical Infrastructure and the Secretary of Physical Infrastructure Ministry to the Ministry of Energy and to appoint Prof Dr Devraj Adhikari as the chairman of the University Grants Commission.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">It has been decided to give the responsibility of government spokesperson to Communications Minister Rekha Sharma. Until now, Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Bishnu Poudel was in charge of the official spokesperson. Similarly, the Council of Ministers also decided that the staff of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs must be present when ministers meet foreign diplomats. The government took such a decision after it was heavily criticized for letting ministers meet foreign dignitaries alone.</span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-19', 'modified' => '2023-01-19', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16522', 'image' => '20230119023446_HB-KTM-IMG_0180 (1).jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-19 14:33:54', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 10 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16780', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Light Rainfall and Snowfall to Take Place in Western Nepal Today ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'January 19: Light rainfall with partial to general changes in weather would occur across the country today (January 19) due to the influence of the westerly low pressure system. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">January 19: Light rainfall with partial to general changes in weather would occur across the country today (January 19) due to the influence of the westerly low pressure system. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The mountainous belt including that of Sudurpaschim and Karnali provinces would witness partial to general changes and the remaining areas would see partial changes and clear weather. Likewise, light rain is predicted in one or two places of Sudurpaschim and Karnali provinces, according to the Department of Hydrology and Meteorology. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Similarly, there is a chance of light snowfall in some places of high mountainous and hill areas of Sudurpaschim, Karnali and Gandaki provinces and one to two places of high mountainous and hill areas of the remaining provinces. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">According to the department, partial to general changes in weather would occur in mountainous areas of Sudurpaschim and Karnali provinces. Light rain is predicted to take place in a few places of Sudurpaschim and Karnali provinces. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Today, the minimum temperature of the Kathmandu Valley is predicted to be around 4.2 degrees centigrade and maximum temperature at 15 degrees centigrade. </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-19', 'modified' => '2023-01-19', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16521', 'image' => '20230119103350_DB-Simkot-AirUdanb (1).jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-19 10:33:11', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 11 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16779', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Finance Minister Paudel Admits Economic Crisis', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'January 19: Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Bishnu Prasad Poudel has admitted that the country’s economy is under crisis.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">January 19: Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Bishnu Prasad Poudel has admitted that the country’s economy is under crisis.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">He said that the ministry is working to identify the problems faced by the national economy and will prepare concrete plan and programmes after identifying the problems. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Speaking at an interaction on ‘Economy: The Way Forward’ organized by Nepal Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday, Minister Poudel said that we faced the challenge of Indian blockade and Covid-19 but now we are in trouble.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">“Nepal’s economy braved difficult situations line the mega earthquakes, border blockade and Covid-19. We did not face much trouble during the economic blockade or earthquake, but question arises how we reached this disappointing stage of economy now?” he questioned. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">DPM Poudel said that the country’s economy faced much more crisis after onset of Russia-Ukraine war. He further said that the government is studying the reasons behind the economic downfall.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">“The problems are therefore being analysed closely,” said the finance minister. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">He made it clear that the government can resolve the economic crisis only after proper identification of the problems. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">According to him, the government is facing worrying state of capital expenditure and revenue mobilization. The government is making necessary plans to address these problems by widening the tax net and making the tax administration effective. The government is committed to maintaining fiscal discipline, he added. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">DPM Poudel said that increasing the capital expenditure is the current need and the government will encourage spending in productive sector. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">On the occasion, former finance minister Dr Yubraj Khatiwada said that the government needs to do a lot to prevent Nepal’s economy from crumbling.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">He suggested the government that it brought to track the economy along with balance in fiscal policy and monetary policy. “There is no point in rejoicing the increase of foreign currency reserve by reducing the goods that help create capital in the country. Initiatives are essential to scale up the domestic products,” Dr Khatiwada suggested. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The former finance minister also recommended that the government effectively implemented the hedging system to bring in foreign investment. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Moreover, former vice chairperson of the National Planning Commission, Dr Swarnim Wagle, expressed concerns that the country was heavily dependent on remittance.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">At the programme, Nepal Chamber of Commerce President Rajendra Malla demanded concrete actions from the government to resolve economic problems. </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-19', 'modified' => '2023-01-19', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16520', 'image' => '20230119103309_economic crisis.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-19 10:32:32', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 12 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16778', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'French Team Begins Investigation into Yeti Airlines Plane Crash', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'January 19: A team from French aeroplane manufacturing company ATR has started on-site investigation of the Yeti Airlines ATR-72 plane crash in Pokhara that took place on Sunday. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">January 19: A team from French aeroplane manufacturing company ATR has started on-site investigation of the Yeti Airlines ATR-72 plane crash in Pokhara that took place on Sunday. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The team reached the Seti River gorge where the plane with call sign 9N-ANC had fallen deep down and crashed claiming lives of all 72 onboard and inspected the accident site. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The nine-member investigating team is being facilitated by officials from the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN), security personnel as well as the locals. The team also reportedly flew a drone camera to screen the accident site. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The plane with 72 people onboard including 68 passengers and four crew members had flown to Pokhara from Kathmandu at 10:32 am and crashed in the gorge while making a final approach for landing. So far, the dead bodies of 71 victims have already been retrieved while search is underway for one missing person, said Superintendent of Police Ajay KC. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The plane manufacturing company is keenly studying Nepal's first ATR plane crash. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Chief District Officer (CDO) of Kaski, Tek Bahadur KC, said that the security agencies are deployed for search and rescue and management of dead bodies post the disasters. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">“</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The matter of investigation is not related to us," he said. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The government has also formed an investigation committee coordinated by Joint-Secretary at the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation Buddisagar Lamichhane, which is also looking into the case. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Some members of the French team have returned to Kathmandu after the on-site study of the accident while some were still in Pokhara, according to Chief of Pokhara International Airport, Bikram Gautam. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Earlier on Monday, the 'black box' of the crashed aircraft was found. The CAAN is hopeful that the 'black box' would help find out the cause behind the air crash. -- RSS</span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-19', 'modified' => '2023-01-19', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16519', 'image' => '20230119095747_KD_KASKI_ACCIDENT.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-19 09:57:03', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 13 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16777', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Sagarmatha Jalbidhyut Company Ltd Issues IPO to Locals and Migrant Workers ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'Sagarmatha Jalbidhyut Company Ltd is issuing its Initial Public Offerings (IPO) to the locals of project-affected Ilam district and Nepali citizens working in foreign countries in the first phase from Wednesday. ', 'content' => '<p><br /> <span style="font-size:22px">January 19: Sagarmatha Jalbidhyut Company Ltd is issuing its Initial Public Offerings (IPO) to the locals of project-affected Ilam district and Nepali citizens working in foreign countries in the first phase from Wednesday. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:22px">Out of the total issued capital of Rs 1,12,0000000, the hydropower is issuing 10 per cent of the share, i.e. 11,20,000 units of shares worth Rs 11,20,00000 to the project-affected locals of Ilam district at a face value of Rs 100 per unit.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:22px">Ten per cent of the share, which is 4,36,800 units out of the total 43,68,000 kittas of shares allocated for the general public, is being issued to Nepali citizens working in foreign countries by taking labour permission from the Department of Labour. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:22px">Locals of project-affected district and migrant workers can apply for a minimum of 10 units of shares. The maximum units of shares that locals can apply are 10,000, while migrant workers can apply up to 50,000 kittas. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:22px">The sale of IPO will close on February 2. If the IPO issued for locals remains under-subscribed, the deadline will be extended until February 17. The closing date, however, will not be extended for the migrant workers.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:22px">After allotment of the shares to locals and migrant workers, the hydropower company will float the shares to the general public in the second phase. </span><br /> </p> <p><span style="font-size:22px">Prabbhu Capital is the issue and sales manager of the hydropower company. Locals can visit project site, specified branch offices of Prabhu Bank, Century Commercial Bank and Prime Commercial Bank and banks approved by Securities Board of Nepal for CASBA services to apply for the IPO. Migrant workers can apply for the IPO through Mero Share. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:22px">Sagarmatha Jalbidhyut Company Ltd has been producing electricity from Supermai A Hydropower Project(9.6 megawatt) for the last two and a half years. Per megawatt construction cost of the hydropower stands at Rs 19.84 crores.</span></p> <p><br /> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-19', 'modified' => '2023-01-19', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16518', 'image' => '20230119061615_collage (64).jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-19 06:08:44', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '42' ) ), (int) 14 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16776', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Farmers of Solu Worried due to Delay in Snowfall', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'January 18: The farmers of Solukhumbu, a mountainous district in eastern Nepal, are worried because of the delay in snowfall and rain this year.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">January 18: The farmers of Solukhumbu, a mountainous district in eastern Nepal, are worried because of the delay in snowfall and rain this year. The crops in the district have started drying up due to lack of rainfall even after mid-January. The district used to receive snowfall and rainfall by mid-December in previous years.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">In the past, the fields and hills of Solukhumbu used to be covered with snow at around this time of year. But this year, due to the lack of snow, the hills and fields are dry, said Kamichhiri Sherpa of Likhupike Rural Municipality-5.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Khumbu, the upper part of the district, received snow before mid-December last year. Farmers say that since there is no snow even after mid-January this year, the crops like potato, wheat and buckwheat have started drying up in the fields. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Hastakala Rai of Dudhkoshi Rural Municipality-5 said that the fields are becoming dry due to lack of snow. As a result, the crops planted by the farmers are drying up. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Kamingmar Sherpa of Solududhkunda Municipality-3 said that since there is no snowfall and rain this year, it is not as cold as last year.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The local residents here are worried because there is no snow during the winter season and the temperature is also increasing. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Environmentalist Rajan Thapa said that such a change in the environment is the result of rapid deforestation and emission of various harmful gases.</span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-18', 'modified' => '2023-01-18', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16517', 'image' => '20230118065315_242407_218728161484248_2103211_o.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-18 18:52:30', '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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Government expenditure exceeding the income has caused imbalance to persist. ', 'content' => '<p> </p> <p><span style="font-size:20px">January 20: Government’s financial account is under pressure. Government expenditure exceeding the income has caused imbalance to persist. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:20px">The government has collected a revenue of Rs 462 billion till January 18 despite its target of collecting 1403 billion revenue in the current fiscal year. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:20px">The government has spent Rs 582 billion till January 18. Out of it, Rs 460 billion is administrative expenditure while Rs 54.42 billion is capital expenses. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:20px">The data shows that revenue is hardly enough to sustain administrative expenses of the government. The government has started off initiative to end imbalance of income and expenditure.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:20px">The first Cabinet meeting of the Pushpa Kamal Dahal led government had decided to cut the unnecessary expenses to balance the government’s income and expenditures.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:20px">In line with same decision, Finance Ministry has issued Guidelines to Reduce current government expenditure-2079 at the initiative of Finance Minister Bishnu Prasad Poudel. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:20px">As per the guidelines released by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance Bishnu Poudel, the administrative and current expenses in the government agencies would be cut by 15 per cent as stated in the national budget of the current fiscal year.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:20px">With the new guidelines in place, non-essential national and foreign trips of government officials will be discouraged. Similarly, engine oil and lubricants would be used only if needed while servicing the two-wheelers and four-wheelers.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:20px"> Likewise, unnecessary hoarding of goods would be discouraged and the ministry's publications would be uploaded in the websites, instead of printing them.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:20px">Furthermore, non-essential seminars, training, symposium and such activities would be discouraged and even if they required to be held the government halls would be used instead of expensive hotels.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:20px">Additional allowances for budget drafting would not be given and only 50 per cent, i. e Rs 300 would be provided in case if it is an obligation.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:20px">Unnecessary use of AC, heater and fan would be discouraged along with bottled water. The toner and cartridge would be refilled as far as practicable.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:20px">The ministry stated that no new workforce would be hired on a contract and daily wage basis, besides for the approved posts.</span></p> <p><br /> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-20', 'modified' => '2023-01-20', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16535', 'image' => '20230120063953_collage (70).jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-20 06:34:11', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '42' ) ), (int) 1 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16793', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Changunarayan Municipality to Tax Manufacturing and Export of Clay Bricks ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'Changunarayan Municipality has imposed tax on the production and export of clay bricks. A 12th meeting of the Municipal Assembly took the decision to this effect as part of its strategy to expand tax coverage/base. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px">January 19: Changunarayan Municipality has imposed tax on the production and export of clay bricks. <br /> A 12th meeting of the Municipal Assembly took the decision to this effect as part of its strategy to expand tax coverage/base. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">While brick kiln entrepreneurs pay a certain amount of annual tax, entrepreneurs involved in manufacturing, sale and export of clay bricks have been operating their businesses without paying tax for a long time. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">The municipal assembly took the decision to tax manufacturing and export of the clay bricks to bring clay brick entrepreneurs under the tax coverage, according to Mayor Jivan Khatri.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">Entrepreneurs have been manufacturing clay bricks in the rented land of the farmers and selling them to kilns. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">The municipality has decided to collect Rs 10,000 per site for operating clay brick business and Rs 500 per ropani of land for the manufacture of clay bricks.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">Citing brick industries as major causes of pollution in Changunarayan Municipality, voices are being raised to remove such industries from the municipality. </span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-19', 'modified' => '2023-01-19', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16534', 'image' => '20230119054046_collage (69).jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-19 17:36:41', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '42' ) ), (int) 2 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16792', 'article_category_id' => '236', 'title' => 'TVS bags Best Feature and Best Commuter Bike Awards', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'January 19: TVS Raider and TVS Apache RTR 160 4V have bagged the 'Best Commuter' and 'Best Feature' awards respectively organized by the leading tech online portal, Techlekh.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">January 19: TVS Raider and TVS Apache RTR 160 4V have bagged the 'Best Commuter' and 'Best Feature' awards respectively organized by the leading tech online portal, Techlekh. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Issuing a statement, TVS said that its Raider model also bagged several prestigious awards last year including IMOTY-2022 and Autocar. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">According to the company, TVS Raider 125 has a stunning muscular look combined with several other amazing characteristics such as adjustable monoshock suspension, USB charging, under-seat storage, and wider tyres. Similarly, attractive all-new LED headlight, angular LED DRLs, and a fender up front enhance its appearance even more. Likewise, it comes with a 3-valve engine and has the quickest acceleration rate with 0-60 KM/H acceleration in only 5.9 seconds, added the company.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">According to the statement issued by Techlekh, TVS Raider managed to conquer the tough competition due to its affordability, stylish look, and other updated features. “These features made the TVS Raider unbeatable.”</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Jagdamba Motors Pvt Ltd is the sole distributor of TVS two-wheelers in Nepal. The company claims to have a strong nationwide distribution network of more than 140 dealers across Nepal.</span></span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-19', 'modified' => '2023-01-19', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16533', 'image' => '20230119051508_TVS Bags Best Feature And Best Commuter Bike Awards.jpeg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-19 17:14:21', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 3 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16791', 'article_category_id' => '218', 'title' => 'SEBON Gives Green Signal to Increase the Size of NIBL Sahabhagita Fund to Rs 2 Billion', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'January 19: Securities Board of Nepal (SEBON) has approved the proposal of Nepal Investment Mega Bank Limited (NIMBL) to increase the size of NIBL Sahabhagita Fund, which the bank claims to be Nepal’s first open-ended mutual fund scheme, to Rs 2 billion.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">January 19: Securities Board of Nepal (SEBON) has approved the proposal of Nepal Investment Mega Bank Limited (NIMBL) to increase the size of NIBL Sahabhagita Fund, which the bank claims to be Nepal’s first open-ended mutual fund scheme, to Rs 2 billion.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The scheme, which is operated under NIBL Mutual Fund, was first launched in 2019 with a size of Rs 200 million and has since grown to a milestone size of Rs 1 billion, NIMBL said in a statement.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Considering the high demand of investors, NIBL Ace Capital approached SEBON to increase the size of the scheme to Rs 2 Billion and gained approval from SEBON on January 1, the bank said in the statement published recently.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">“Considering the developing capital market of Nepal, growing mutual fund industry and increasing investor in mutual fund and being Nepal's first open-ended scheme, this scheme has been successful in giving reasonable returns to its unit holders since the first year of its operation.”</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Under this scheme, a total of 65.45 percent dividends have been distributed in three years of successful operations with an average annual return of 21.81 percent, added the statement.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The bank claimed that this scheme has so far yielded the highest returns compared to other open-ended mutual fund schemes. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Investors who want to invest in this scheme can invest by submitting duly filled forms available at all the branch offices of NIMB and NIBL Ace Capital and distribution agents. They can also apply online by visiting the website (www.niblcapital.com) of NIBL Ace capital.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Investors can participate in a Dividend Re-Investment Plan as well which eliminates constant logistical hassles and ensures investors don’t miss out an investment opportunity. With skilled and experienced fund managers, the scheme that started with a size of Rs 200 million and was able to a gain significant participation of investors due to its lucrative returns, and as of now it is has crossed a size of more than Rs 1 billion, added the statement.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">This has made the scheme the largest ever open-ended scheme in the capital market of Nepal, the statement further said.</span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-19', 'modified' => '2023-01-19', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16532', 'image' => '20230119050140_NIBL_OneBillion.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-19 17:00:07', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 4 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16789', 'article_category_id' => '236', 'title' => 'Sipradi Trading Orgagnises Nexon EV Range Test 2023', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'January 19: Sipradi Trading, the authorized distributor of Tata Motors in Nepal, recently orgagnised the Nexon EV Range Test 2023 Programme from Butwal to Bhairahawa with the objective of promoting electric vehicles.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">January 19: Sipradi Trading, the authorized distributor of Tata Motors in Nepal, recently orgagnised the Nexon EV Range Test 2023 Programme from Butwal to Bhairahawa with the objective of promoting electric vehicles, which the company believes will help protect environment and also ensure sustainable economic development.</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"">Issuing a statement, the company said that there was enthusiastic participation of Nexon EV customers during the programme. Subash Khadka scored 397 Wh/Km along the Butwal-Bhairahawa road section to top the list of participants. Likewise, Gopal Sharma finished second with 387 Wh/Km range and Subodh Bhattarai secured third position with 378 Wh/Km range. Only 22 participants were able to score more than 300 range during the programme, the company said in the statement.</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 top drivers with maximum range for minimum consumption of energy were provided attractive gift hampers by Sipradi Trading. First-placed Khadka bagged an LED TV while second place finisher Sharma was awarded a Samsung oven. </span></span></span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-19', 'modified' => '2023-01-19', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16530', 'image' => '20230119044302_NexonEV Range Test 2023 Butwal.jpeg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-19 16:42:19', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 5 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16788', 'article_category_id' => '266', 'title' => 'Coca-Cola Concludes Saksham Training programme', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'January 18: Coca-Cola has successfully concluded its Saksham training programme which reached over 1000 women entrepreneurs from small and medium scale businesses in retail and restaurants, providing them a platform for empowerment and skill development.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">January 18: Coca-Cola has successfully concluded its Saksham training programme which reached over 1000 women entrepreneurs from small and medium scale businesses in retail and restaurants, providing them a platform for empowerment and skill development.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Issuing a statement on January 17, Coca-Cola said that the ‘Saksham’ training programme was officially launched on 8th March 2022 coinciding with the International Women’s Day. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">According to the statement, the programme was launched by Coca-Cola along with its bottling partner Bottlers Nepal Limited with an aim to provide equal opportunities for women to compete in the marketplace. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">“The Saksham programme was designed to build the capacity of women-retailers and women-owned small restaurant owners on financial literacy, hospitality, sanitation management and use of digital wallet. The one-day training session was conducted across cities in Province 1, 2, 3 and 4.”</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Geeta Shrestha from Sauraha shared her experience, “Saksham training is an inspiring session for young women entrepreneurs. I had started by own business with just Rs 160 about 44 years ago. With my hard work, I have been able to fulfill my dreams where I am now an owner of 2 houses along with a store and proudly able to support my family as a single woman.”</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Similarly, Maya Pandey from Narayanghat expressed, “The Saksham programme provides us with skills to be economically empowered and has helped us build more networks over the years. Skill development programs like Saksham has encouraged me in doing business more efficiently.”</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""> Adarsh Awasthi, country director of Coca-Cola in Nepal shared, “At Coca-Cola, we believe in a better shared future, and women empowerment is core to our values. We launched the Saksham training programme in 2022 where we partnered with a proficient trainer to provide business skills training, mentoring networks, financial services and other assets to help women entrepreneurs improve their livelihoods, families and communities. We are happy that we have crossed our initial target of 1000 women entrepreneurs and will strive to further empower more women in the near future.”</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The initiative also supports the government’s aim to achieve substantial gender equality by ensuring equal and meaningful participation of women as announced in the 15th National Plan (2019-2024), added the statement.</span></span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-19', 'modified' => '2023-01-19', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16529', 'image' => '20230119040859_coke.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-19 16:08:09', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 6 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16787', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'UML’s Devraj Ghimire Elected Speaker of HoR ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'CPN-UML leader Devraj Ghimire has been elected as the Speaker of House of Representatives (HoR). ', 'content' => '<p> </p> <p>January 19: CPN-UML leader Devraj Ghimire has been elected as the Speaker of House of Representatives (HoR). </p> <p>Ghimire, common candidate of the ruling coalition, was elected as the HoR Speaker on Thursday.<br /> Ghimire garnered 167 votes, while his rival Nepali Congress’ Ishwori Devi Neupane received 100 votes. </p> <p>Lawmakers of the CPN-UML, CPN-Maoist Center, Rastriya Swotantra Party, Rastriya Prajatantra Party, Janata Samajwadi Party, Janamat Party, Nagarik Unmukti Party, and independent lawmakers Amresh Kumar Singh, Prabhu Sah and Yogendra Mandal had cast votes for Ghimire. </p> <p>Lawmakers from Nepali Congress, CPN-Unified Socialist, Loktantrik Samajwadi and Rastriya Janamorcha had supported NC’s Neupane for the post of Speaker. </p> <p>Out of the total 275 lawmakers, as many as 268 had participated in the voting process. One lawmaker had stayed neutral in the voting. <br /> Ghimire is the fifth Speaker of the House of Representatives after the establishment of republicanism in the country. </p> <p>Ghimire was elected as a Member of the HoR from Jhapa Constituency-2 in the election held on November 20 last year.</p> <p>Ghimire had registered his candidacy for the Speaker on behalf of the ruling coalition on Wednesday afternoon.</p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-19', 'modified' => '2023-01-19', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16528', 'image' => '20230119042344_collage (67).jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-19 16:00:27', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '42' ) ), (int) 7 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16785', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Farmers yet to Receive Urea Stored in Government Warehouses', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'January 19: Farmers have not been able to do 'top dressing' on the wheat crop as the urea fertilizer bought by the government from India through the G2G process is stored in the government warehouses. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px">January 19: Farmers have not been able to do 'top dressing' on the wheat crop as the urea fertilizer bought by the government from India through the G2G process is stored in the government warehouses. It has been almost a week since three rakes of urea arrived at the warehouse of Agricultural Inputs Company Limited in Birgunj. More fertilizer is on the way. But the farmers are complaining that they have not received fertilizer even though the government has stock of it.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">Out of the 30,000 metric tons of urea supplied by India in the first lot through the G2G process, three rakes have arrived in Birgunj by Monday. Rajendra Bahadur Karki, managing director of Agricultural Inputs Company Limited, informed that the rest of the fertilizers have arrived in Jogbani. According to Karki, it is taking some time to distribute the recently arrived fertilizer as the management team is new to the company. He admitted that the farmers did not get it because of the delay in opening the market.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">Bhuvaneswar Yadav, a representative farmer of Saptari, complained that even though the government has fertilizer, the farmers have not been able to top dress the wheat crop.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">He said, “We have heard the news that the government is importing urea fertilizer, but none of the farmers in the village have been able to apply it to the wheat crop.” Farmers visit the cooperatives every day, but there is no fertilizer in the cooperatives either.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">Nepal had entered into an agreement with India last February during the tenure of the then Agriculture Minister Mahindra Raya Yadav to bring a total of 935,000 tons of chemical fertilizers in five years through G2G. The MoU was signed by Dr Govinda Prasad Sharma, secretary of the ministry on behalf of Nepal and Rajesh Kumar Chaturvedi, secretary of the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers, Government of India on behalf of India.</span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-19', 'modified' => '2023-01-19', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16526', 'image' => '20230119033104_20230119031726_urea.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-19 15:29:53', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 8 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16784', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Nepal Telecom to Resolve Service Interruption', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'January 19: The Nepal Telecom is going to make systemic improvements to prevent the recurrence of mobile and PSTN telephone service interruption.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">January 19: The Nepal Telecom is going to make systemic improvements to prevent the recurrence of mobile and PSTN telephone service interruption. The mobile and PSTN telephone service of the state-owned company suffered interruption since Tuesday noon. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The Nepal Telecom issued a statement on Wednesday stating that the customers had to face difficulties in exchanging calls for some time due to network congestion. NT is committed to providing long-term solutions to prevent the recurrence of such problems in the future, the statement added.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">“The company is always committed to providing uninterrupted quality telecommunication services to the customers.” </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The company has also requested all customers to contact 1498 and 1988 for any problem related to interruption in mobile, telephone and other services of the company. -- RSS </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-19', 'modified' => '2023-01-19', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16525', 'image' => '20230119032937_Nepal-Telecom-(NTC-Building).jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-19 15:29:03', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 9 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16781', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Government Fixes Support Price of Sugarcane', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'January 19: The government has fixed the price of sugarcane at Rs 540 per quintal.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">January 19: The government has fixed the price of sugarcane at Rs 540 per quintal. This price is Rs 20 more per quintal than last year. The cabinet meeting on Wednesday decided that the government will bear the transportation cost of Rs 70 per quintal while fixing the price of sugarcane.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development had failed to set the support price for sugarcane even though the sugarcane crushing season had started. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Due to this, the farmers were forced to sell sugarcane on credit to sugar mills at low prices. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The farmers were forced to deliver sugarcane to the sugar mills without getting proper price, fearing that the sugarcane would dry up in the fields. After the farmers sold off most of their produce, the cabinet determined the price upon the proposal of the Ministry of Agriculture.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">At the moment, the farmers in Terai are in a rush to sell sugarcane.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Farmer Brijmohan Pandey says that the sugarcane after the second week of November becomes juicy and the weight increases. After November, the juice dries up and the weight decreases. He said that it has become easy to sell sugarcane after the government fixed the price. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Bishnu Poudel said that problems related to the crusher industry were discussed in the meeting and a suitable decision would be reached after further study. Poudel said that each ministry has been given five days’ time to make an action plan related to each ministry for the implementation of the minimum common program of the government. Similarly, the cabinet meeting decided to transfer the Secretary of the Ministry of Energy to the Ministry of Physical Infrastructure and the Secretary of Physical Infrastructure Ministry to the Ministry of Energy and to appoint Prof Dr Devraj Adhikari as the chairman of the University Grants Commission.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">It has been decided to give the responsibility of government spokesperson to Communications Minister Rekha Sharma. Until now, Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Bishnu Poudel was in charge of the official spokesperson. Similarly, the Council of Ministers also decided that the staff of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs must be present when ministers meet foreign diplomats. The government took such a decision after it was heavily criticized for letting ministers meet foreign dignitaries alone.</span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-19', 'modified' => '2023-01-19', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16522', 'image' => '20230119023446_HB-KTM-IMG_0180 (1).jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-19 14:33:54', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 10 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16780', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Light Rainfall and Snowfall to Take Place in Western Nepal Today ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'January 19: Light rainfall with partial to general changes in weather would occur across the country today (January 19) due to the influence of the westerly low pressure system. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">January 19: Light rainfall with partial to general changes in weather would occur across the country today (January 19) due to the influence of the westerly low pressure system. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The mountainous belt including that of Sudurpaschim and Karnali provinces would witness partial to general changes and the remaining areas would see partial changes and clear weather. Likewise, light rain is predicted in one or two places of Sudurpaschim and Karnali provinces, according to the Department of Hydrology and Meteorology. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Similarly, there is a chance of light snowfall in some places of high mountainous and hill areas of Sudurpaschim, Karnali and Gandaki provinces and one to two places of high mountainous and hill areas of the remaining provinces. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">According to the department, partial to general changes in weather would occur in mountainous areas of Sudurpaschim and Karnali provinces. Light rain is predicted to take place in a few places of Sudurpaschim and Karnali provinces. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Today, the minimum temperature of the Kathmandu Valley is predicted to be around 4.2 degrees centigrade and maximum temperature at 15 degrees centigrade. </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-19', 'modified' => '2023-01-19', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16521', 'image' => '20230119103350_DB-Simkot-AirUdanb (1).jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-19 10:33:11', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 11 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16779', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Finance Minister Paudel Admits Economic Crisis', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'January 19: Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Bishnu Prasad Poudel has admitted that the country’s economy is under crisis.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">January 19: Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Bishnu Prasad Poudel has admitted that the country’s economy is under crisis.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">He said that the ministry is working to identify the problems faced by the national economy and will prepare concrete plan and programmes after identifying the problems. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Speaking at an interaction on ‘Economy: The Way Forward’ organized by Nepal Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday, Minister Poudel said that we faced the challenge of Indian blockade and Covid-19 but now we are in trouble.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">“Nepal’s economy braved difficult situations line the mega earthquakes, border blockade and Covid-19. We did not face much trouble during the economic blockade or earthquake, but question arises how we reached this disappointing stage of economy now?” he questioned. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">DPM Poudel said that the country’s economy faced much more crisis after onset of Russia-Ukraine war. He further said that the government is studying the reasons behind the economic downfall.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">“The problems are therefore being analysed closely,” said the finance minister. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">He made it clear that the government can resolve the economic crisis only after proper identification of the problems. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">According to him, the government is facing worrying state of capital expenditure and revenue mobilization. The government is making necessary plans to address these problems by widening the tax net and making the tax administration effective. The government is committed to maintaining fiscal discipline, he added. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">DPM Poudel said that increasing the capital expenditure is the current need and the government will encourage spending in productive sector. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">On the occasion, former finance minister Dr Yubraj Khatiwada said that the government needs to do a lot to prevent Nepal’s economy from crumbling.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">He suggested the government that it brought to track the economy along with balance in fiscal policy and monetary policy. “There is no point in rejoicing the increase of foreign currency reserve by reducing the goods that help create capital in the country. Initiatives are essential to scale up the domestic products,” Dr Khatiwada suggested. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The former finance minister also recommended that the government effectively implemented the hedging system to bring in foreign investment. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Moreover, former vice chairperson of the National Planning Commission, Dr Swarnim Wagle, expressed concerns that the country was heavily dependent on remittance.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">At the programme, Nepal Chamber of Commerce President Rajendra Malla demanded concrete actions from the government to resolve economic problems. </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-19', 'modified' => '2023-01-19', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16520', 'image' => '20230119103309_economic crisis.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-19 10:32:32', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 12 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16778', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'French Team Begins Investigation into Yeti Airlines Plane Crash', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'January 19: A team from French aeroplane manufacturing company ATR has started on-site investigation of the Yeti Airlines ATR-72 plane crash in Pokhara that took place on Sunday. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">January 19: A team from French aeroplane manufacturing company ATR has started on-site investigation of the Yeti Airlines ATR-72 plane crash in Pokhara that took place on Sunday. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The team reached the Seti River gorge where the plane with call sign 9N-ANC had fallen deep down and crashed claiming lives of all 72 onboard and inspected the accident site. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The nine-member investigating team is being facilitated by officials from the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN), security personnel as well as the locals. The team also reportedly flew a drone camera to screen the accident site. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The plane with 72 people onboard including 68 passengers and four crew members had flown to Pokhara from Kathmandu at 10:32 am and crashed in the gorge while making a final approach for landing. So far, the dead bodies of 71 victims have already been retrieved while search is underway for one missing person, said Superintendent of Police Ajay KC. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The plane manufacturing company is keenly studying Nepal's first ATR plane crash. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Chief District Officer (CDO) of Kaski, Tek Bahadur KC, said that the security agencies are deployed for search and rescue and management of dead bodies post the disasters. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">“</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The matter of investigation is not related to us," he said. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The government has also formed an investigation committee coordinated by Joint-Secretary at the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation Buddisagar Lamichhane, which is also looking into the case. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Some members of the French team have returned to Kathmandu after the on-site study of the accident while some were still in Pokhara, according to Chief of Pokhara International Airport, Bikram Gautam. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Earlier on Monday, the 'black box' of the crashed aircraft was found. The CAAN is hopeful that the 'black box' would help find out the cause behind the air crash. -- RSS</span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-19', 'modified' => '2023-01-19', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16519', 'image' => '20230119095747_KD_KASKI_ACCIDENT.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-19 09:57:03', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 13 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16777', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Sagarmatha Jalbidhyut Company Ltd Issues IPO to Locals and Migrant Workers ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'Sagarmatha Jalbidhyut Company Ltd is issuing its Initial Public Offerings (IPO) to the locals of project-affected Ilam district and Nepali citizens working in foreign countries in the first phase from Wednesday. ', 'content' => '<p><br /> <span style="font-size:22px">January 19: Sagarmatha Jalbidhyut Company Ltd is issuing its Initial Public Offerings (IPO) to the locals of project-affected Ilam district and Nepali citizens working in foreign countries in the first phase from Wednesday. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:22px">Out of the total issued capital of Rs 1,12,0000000, the hydropower is issuing 10 per cent of the share, i.e. 11,20,000 units of shares worth Rs 11,20,00000 to the project-affected locals of Ilam district at a face value of Rs 100 per unit.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:22px">Ten per cent of the share, which is 4,36,800 units out of the total 43,68,000 kittas of shares allocated for the general public, is being issued to Nepali citizens working in foreign countries by taking labour permission from the Department of Labour. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:22px">Locals of project-affected district and migrant workers can apply for a minimum of 10 units of shares. The maximum units of shares that locals can apply are 10,000, while migrant workers can apply up to 50,000 kittas. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:22px">The sale of IPO will close on February 2. If the IPO issued for locals remains under-subscribed, the deadline will be extended until February 17. The closing date, however, will not be extended for the migrant workers.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:22px">After allotment of the shares to locals and migrant workers, the hydropower company will float the shares to the general public in the second phase. </span><br /> </p> <p><span style="font-size:22px">Prabbhu Capital is the issue and sales manager of the hydropower company. Locals can visit project site, specified branch offices of Prabhu Bank, Century Commercial Bank and Prime Commercial Bank and banks approved by Securities Board of Nepal for CASBA services to apply for the IPO. Migrant workers can apply for the IPO through Mero Share. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:22px">Sagarmatha Jalbidhyut Company Ltd has been producing electricity from Supermai A Hydropower Project(9.6 megawatt) for the last two and a half years. Per megawatt construction cost of the hydropower stands at Rs 19.84 crores.</span></p> <p><br /> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-19', 'modified' => '2023-01-19', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16518', 'image' => '20230119061615_collage (64).jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-19 06:08:44', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '42' ) ), (int) 14 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16776', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Farmers of Solu Worried due to Delay in Snowfall', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'January 18: The farmers of Solukhumbu, a mountainous district in eastern Nepal, are worried because of the delay in snowfall and rain this year.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">January 18: The farmers of Solukhumbu, a mountainous district in eastern Nepal, are worried because of the delay in snowfall and rain this year. The crops in the district have started drying up due to lack of rainfall even after mid-January. The district used to receive snowfall and rainfall by mid-December in previous years.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">In the past, the fields and hills of Solukhumbu used to be covered with snow at around this time of year. But this year, due to the lack of snow, the hills and fields are dry, said Kamichhiri Sherpa of Likhupike Rural Municipality-5.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Khumbu, the upper part of the district, received snow before mid-December last year. Farmers say that since there is no snow even after mid-January this year, the crops like potato, wheat and buckwheat have started drying up in the fields. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Hastakala Rai of Dudhkoshi Rural Municipality-5 said that the fields are becoming dry due to lack of snow. As a result, the crops planted by the farmers are drying up. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Kamingmar Sherpa of Solududhkunda Municipality-3 said that since there is no snowfall and rain this year, it is not as cold as last year.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The local residents here are worried because there is no snow during the winter season and the temperature is also increasing. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Environmentalist Rajan Thapa said that such a change in the environment is the result of rapid deforestation and emission of various harmful gases.</span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-18', 'modified' => '2023-01-18', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16517', 'image' => '20230118065315_242407_218728161484248_2103211_o.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-18 18:52:30', '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
