November 28: The government is preparing to cover social security for workers in the informal sector, Nepali migrant workers abroad and those engaged in…
November 28: The government is preparing to cover social security for workers in the informal sector, Nepali migrant workers abroad and those engaged in…
November 28: The Election Commission has unveiled the election results of 157 seats out of 165 of the House of Representatives (HoR) under the First-Past-The-Post (FPTP) electoral…
November 27: Last Wednesday, there were a lot of activities at the Biratnagar-based Integrated Check Post (ICP) area on the Nepal-India…
November 27: Costa Rica stunned Japan 1-0 thanks to a late goal at the World Cup on Sunday to blow Group E wide open.…
November 27: Vote count under the proportional representation category of the elections to the House of Representatives and the provincial assemblies is currently…
November 27: A total of 16,341micro, cottage and small industries have been registered in Nepal in the first three months of the current fiscal…
November 27: The Office of Problematic Cooperative Management Committee (OPCMC) has issued a fresh notice to the depositors of Oriental Cooperative, which has been declared problematic by the government, to update the amounts embezzled by the…
November 27: The number of companies listed with the Nepal Stock Exchange (NEPSE) has reached 242 as of mid-October 2022.…
November 27: The Nepali Congress is in the top position in the vote count tally of the election to the members of the House of Representatives (HoR) and provincial assemblies (PA) elections held on November…
November 27: Lionel Messi kept his dream of winning his first World Cup alive by scoring the opening goal in Saturday's 2-0 victory over Mexico in World Cup Group…
November 27: France’s star striker Kylian Mbappe displayed a superb individual performance with two second-half goals to make sure the defending champions France becomes the first side to reach the last 16 of the World…
Nov 26: The Election Commission has said it has counted more than 7.6 million votes under the proportional election category.…
November 26: The Election Commission has published the final results of the voting held in 118 constituencies out of 165 in the House of Representatives under the First-Past-The-Post (FPTP) electoral system.…
November 26: Brazil’s star striker Neymar has been ruled out of the next two World Cup games after sustaining ligament damage in his right ankle, the BBC reported citing Brazil’s team…
November 26: Counting of votes cast under the Proportional Representation (PR) system during the election to the members of the House of Representatives and provincial assemblies is underway.…
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', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">November 28: The government is preparing to cover social security for workers in the informal sector, Nepali migrant workers abroad and those engaged in self-employment. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Minister for Labour, Employment and Social Security Sher Bahadur Kunwar has pledged to bring those sector on board the social security criteria. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">During an event organized on the occasion of the fifth Social Security Day on Sunday, Minister Kunwar said the social security scheme would be made conducive to the workers. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Hinting at amendments to the schemes unveiled under the Social Security Fund, Minister Kunwar argued that no one will be left behind since the criteria of the social security schemes has been extended. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">He further said that the family members of the workers would be encouraged towards entrepreneurship development by extending the fund’s horizon. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Also speaking at the event, SSF Chairman and Secretary at the Ministry, Ek Narayan Aryal, said the employees and employers should not hesitate to join the social security scheme since the SSF has been offering the contributors with attractive facilities. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Likewise, Executive Director of SSF Kapil Mani Gyawali said that the contributors’ spouse will get medical expenses and the contributors will also get medical expenses for chronic diseases. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Meanwhile, the SSF announced the establishment of its offices in Butwal and Nepalgunj on Sunday. The SSF now has four offices including those in Biratnagar and Simara and another office will be established in Pokhara in the near future. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Currently, 17,507 employers and 375,904 employees have been enlisted in the fund and a total of Rs 26 billion has been collected from them. -- RSS </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-28', 'modified' => '2022-11-28', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16140', 'image' => '20221128115926_agri maize.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-28 11:58:53', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 1 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16398', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Election Commission Unveils Results of 157 Seats under FPTP', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 28: The Election Commission has unveiled the election results of 157 seats out of 165 of the House of Representatives (HoR) under the First-Past-The-Post (FPTP) electoral system.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">November 28: The Election Commission has unveiled the election results of 157 seats out of 165 of the House of Representatives (HoR) under the First-Past-The-Post (FPTP) electoral system. According to the latest update of the EC, the Nepali Congress (NC) continues to lead the election results. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The Election Commission informed that the Nepali Congress has obtained 53 seats, followed by CPN (UML) with 42 seats, CPN (Maoist Centre) with 17 seats, CPN (Unified Socialist) with 10 seats while Rastriya Swatantra Party and Rastriya Prajatantra Party have each secured seven seats. Janata Samajwadi Party has won six seats in the lower house. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Similarly, the Lokatantrik Samajwadi Party has secured four seats, Nagarik Unmukti Party 3 while the Nepal Workers and Peasants Party, Rastriya Janamorcha and Janamat Party have won one seat each. Likewise, five independent candidates have been elected to the HoR under the FPTP, the Election Commissions said. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Vote counting in Dolakha, Bajura and Syangja districts could not be held yet owing to disputes among the political parties' representatives and candidates contesting the parliamentary elections. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The Election Commission has decided to hold reelection in some polling centres within December 1 this year while reelection was held in Bajura on Saturday. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Who won from which party? </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Prime Minister and Nepali Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba, leaders Yogesh Sherchan, Tek Bahadur Gurung, Prakashman Singh, Santosh Chalise, Gagan Kumar Thapa, Pradeep Poudel, Mohan Acharya, Udaya Shumsher JBR, Shankar Bhandari and Rajendra Kumar KC were elected to the HoR on behalf of the Nepali Congress. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Similarly, other NC candidates emerging victorious include Ramesh Kumar Rijal, Hridaya Ram Thani, Ramhari Khatiwada, Bishwa Prakash Sharma, Ajay Kumar Chaurasiya, Rajendra Bajagain, Kham Bahadur Garbuja, Pushpa Bahadur Shah, Bir Bahadur Balayar, Dilendra Prasad Badu, Ramesh Lekhak, NP Saud, Dikpal Kumar Shahi, Durlabh Thapa, Shashank Koirala, Ramchandra Poudel, Kishore Singh Rathore, Dev Prakash Timalsina, Dinesh Kumar Yadav, Ramnath Adhikari and Purna Bahadur Khadka. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">According to the Election Commission, other candidates elected in the HoR from NC are Bishnu Kumar Karki, Shyam Kumar Ghimire, Deepak Giri, Sanjay Gautam, Binod Chaudhary, Ramkrishna Yadav, Mohan Bahadur Basnet, Shekhar Koirala, Dilliraj Panta, Chandrakanta Bhandari, Raju Thapa, Deepak Khadka, Surendra Raj Acharya, Sita Gurung, Sunil Kumar Sharma, Arjun Narsingh KC, Tejulal Chaudhary, Ain Bahadur Shahi, Mahendra Kumar Raya, Dig Bahadur Limbu and Purna Bahadur Tamang. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The candidates elected from CPN (UML) include Ambar Bahadur Rayamajhi, Krishna Gopal Shrestha, Prem Bahadur Maharjan, Gokarna Bista, Devraj Ghimire, KP Sharma Oli, Yogesh Bhattarai, Raj Kumar Gupta, Top Bahadur Rayamajhi, Surya Thapa, Prithivi Subba Gurung, Mahesh Bartaula, Manbir Rai, Padam Giri, Lal Prasad Sanwa Limbu, Basudev Ghimire, and Rajendra Kumar Rai. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Furthermore, the Election Commission shared that (CPN) UML's Bidhya Bhattarai, Surya Prasad Dhakal, Ram Shankar Yadav, Damodar Bhandari, Tara Lama Tamang, Balaram Adhikari, Basanta Kumar Nemwang, Damodar Poudel, Hari Prasad Uprety, Jwala Kumari Shah, Achyut Prasad Mainali, Juli Mahato and Man Bahadur Gurung secured victory. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Leelanath Shrestha, Thakur Prasad Gaire, Rishikesh Pokharel, Mangal Prasad Gupta, Bishnu Poudel, Gokul Banskota, Narayan Prasad Acharya, Chabilal Bishwakarma, Bim Acharya, Subash Nemwang, Laxmi Mahato Koiri and Mahesh Basnet also emerged victorious on behalf of the CPN (UML). </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">From CPN (Maoist Centre), party's Chairperson Pushpa Kamal Dahal, its leaders Janardan Sharma, Barshaman Pun, Devendra Poudel, Shakti Bahadur Basnet, Sudan Kirati, Madhav Sapkota, Amanlal Modi, Hit Bahadur Tamang, Ram Kumar Rai, Lekhnath Dahal, Rekha Sharma, Purna Bahadur Gharti, Mahendra Ray Yadav, Surya Prasad Tamang (Dong), Tshiring Dambul Lama and Mahendra Bahadur Shahi were elected to the HoR, informed the Election Commission. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The candidates wining from CPN (Unified Socialist) include party chairperson Madhav Kumar Nepal, leaders Rajendra Prasad Pandey, Dhan Bahadur Buda, Ambar Bahadur Thapa, Krishna Kumar Shrestha, Sher Bahadur Kunwar, Prakash Jwala, Met Mani Chaudhary, Prem Bahadur Ale and Bhanubhakta Joshi. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The candidates who secured seats in the HoR from Rastriya Swatantra Party are Ravi Lamichhane, Sobita Gautam, Ganesh Parajuli, Biraj Bhakta Shrestha, Hari Dhakal, Sishir Khanal and Toshima Karki. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Janata Samajbadi Party's candidates Pradeep Yadav, Nawal Kishore Shah, Deepak Karki, Ram Sahayak Prasad Yadav, Raj Kishore Yadav and Birendra Prasad Mahato secured victory. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Rastriya Prajatantra Party's candidates Rajendra Lingden, Bikram Pandey, Dhawal Shumsher Rana, Deepak Bahadur Singh, Dhruba Bahadur Pradhan, Deepak Bohora and Gyanendra Bahadur Shahi were elected HoR members. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Lokatantrik Samajwadi Party's Chairperson Mahantha Thakur, Sarbendranath Shukla, Sharat Singh Bhandari and Ram Prakash Chaudhary were also elected MPs. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">From Rastriya Janamorcha, Chitra Bahadur KC emerged victorious while Prem Suwal from Nepal Workers and Peasants Party's and Chandrakant Raut from Janamat Party secured a seat each in the parliament. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Independent candidates securing seat in HoR are Amresh Kumar Singh, Yogesh Mandal, Prabhu Shah, Kiran Kumar Shah and Lalbir Chaudhary, the Election Commission said. -- RSS </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-28', 'modified' => '2022-11-28', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16139', 'image' => '20221128111324_Election_Commission.2e16d0ba.fill-650x500.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-28 11:12:51', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 2 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16397', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Cargo Train to Arrive at Biratnagar ICP within Three Weeks', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 27: Last Wednesday, there were a lot of activities at the Biratnagar-based Integrated Check Post (ICP) area on the Nepal-India border.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">November 27: Last Wednesday, there were a lot of activities at the Biratnagar-based Integrated Check Post (ICP) area on the Nepal-India border. Employees from Nepal and India were jostling to take photos. A passenger train with 25 coaches arrived at the ICP from Bathnaha, India.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The train engine had arrived several times before for broad gauge testing, but it was the first time that the full train did had arrived here. Only cargo containers will come in this broad gauge. On Wednesday, Indian officials came for testing a passenger train.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The Indian side has completed the entire railway work at the ICP which is seven and a half kilometers northeast of Bathnaha. They have also passed the test. As soon as the Indian authorities received the news from Nepal that they are ready for the agreement, India assured that they will hand over regular cargo trains from December 15 onwards. The Nepali side has also informed that the work has been completed, and preparations have been made accordingly.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The Railways Department of India returned from an on-site inspection on Wednesday concluding that cargo trains can be brought up to ICP. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Roshan Kumar Dev, Site Engineer of Bathnaha-Katahari Railways under the Railways Department, said that the officials of the Indian Railways Department are making final preparations.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Engineer Dev informed that they are in the process of operating a cargo train within the next one and a half months.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The work of preparing the necessary infrastructure to bring the cargo train to the Nepal Customs Yard of the ICP has also been started. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">According to Dev, the Indian government will hand over the railway to the Ministry of Physical Infrastructure of Nepal.</span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-27', 'modified' => '2022-11-27', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16138', 'image' => '20221127081123_1669501161.Clipboard16 (1).jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-27 20:10:25', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 3 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16396', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Costa Rica Stun Japan, Hand a Lifeline to Germany', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 27: Costa Rica stunned Japan 1-0 thanks to a late goal at the World Cup on Sunday to blow Group E wide open. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">AGENCIES</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">November 27: Costa Rica stunned Japan 1-0 thanks to a late goal at the World Cup on Sunday to blow Group E wide open. The win over Japan has given a potential lifeline to heavyweight Germany, who were beaten by the Samurai Blue 2-1 in their opening match.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">According to AFP, Japan could have taken a giant stride towards the last 16 with a win but they laboured for large parts of the match against a Costa Rica side who were hammered 7-0 by Spain.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Keysher Fuller's curling 81st-minute effort, Costa Rica's first shot on target in the entire tournament, rocked Japan and put their hopes of progression in peril, Reuters reported.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The result left Spain, Japan and Costa Rica all on three points. Spain face Germany later on Sunday in another crucial contest.</span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-27', 'modified' => '2022-11-27', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16137', 'image' => '20221127071334_Untitled.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-27 19:13:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 4 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16395', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => '80 Percent Vote Count under PR Completed ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 27: Vote count under the proportional representation category of the elections to the House of Representatives and the provincial assemblies is currently underway. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">November 27: Vote count under the proportional representation category of the elections to the House of Representatives and the provincial assemblies is currently underway. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Out of over 17.9 million registered voters, the voters' turnout was 61 percent, according to the EC. So far, approximately 80 percent of the votes cast during the November 20 election have been counted, said EC's Spokesperson Shaligram Sharma Paudel. </span></span></span><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">According to him, approximately 2.4 million votes remain to be counted. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The latest updates of the EC show that out of 8,774,661 votes counted so far, the CPN (UML) is leading with 2,413,222 votes followed by the Nepali Congress with 2,294,983 votes. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Similarly, the CPN (Maoist Center) has secured 1,005,679 votes, followed by the Rastriya Swatantra Party with 983,522 votes, the Rastriya Prajatantra Party with 513,911 votes, the Janata Samajwadi Party with 300,449 votes, and the CPN (Unified Socialist) with 235,375 votes. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Similarly, the Janamat Party has obtained 234,127 votes, the Nagarik Unmukti Party 202,079 votes, the Loktantrik Samajwadi Party 122,557 votes, the Nepal Workers and Peasants Party 70,371 votes, the Hamro Nepal Party 49,627 votes, the Rastriya Janamorcha 43,926 votes and the Mongol National Organisation 44,208 votes. The Nationalist People’s Party has received the lowest 1,504 votes. -- RSS </span></span></span><br /> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-27', 'modified' => '2022-11-27', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16136', 'image' => '20221127064936_20220805085711_Election_Commission.2e16d0ba.fill-650x500.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-27 18:49:11', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 5 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16394', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Over 16,000 Small Industries Registered Within 6 Months', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 27: A total of 16,341micro, cottage and small industries have been registered in Nepal in the first three months of the current fiscal year.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">November 27: A total of 16,341micro, cottage and small industries have been registered in Nepal in the first three months of the current fiscal year. Those industries have been registered at the micro, cottage and small industries offices across the country and are expected to provide employment to 50,211 people.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Supplies revealed this data during a programme organized on the occasion of the 8th Industry Day in Kathmandu on Friday. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Similarly, 86 industries have been registered with the Department of Industries during this period and are expected to provide employment to 5,935 people. On the occasion, Chief Secretary of the Government of Nepal, Shankar Das Bairagi, and the Secretary at the Ministry of Industries, Commerce and Supplies Toya Narayan Gyawali also released the industrial bulletin.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">According to the ministry, the government has launched the Small Enterprise Development Programme with the aim of creating employment opportunities at the local levels. Under the programme, 51,428 new small entrepreneurs were created in the last fiscal year. Similarly, Gyawali said that the government has been supporting the programme under the "Make in Nepal" campaign in collaboration with the private sector. He said that a MoU has been signed with the FNCCI to implement the arrangements in the budget. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Director General of the Department of Industry Ram Chandra Tiwari said that improvements in policy, legal, institutional, procedural and technological aspects have been done to facilitate the industrial sector.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">He expressed that only by creating an industry-friendly environment, the traditional agricultural system can be transformed into entrepreneurship, and only through that, a sustainable and independent economy can be developed. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Similarly, Shekhar Golchha, the president of the Federation of Nepalese Chamber of Commerce and Industry, stressed that the government should provide subsidies to industries in Nepal for value addition, job creation and export. Saying that the economy is in a lot of crisis now, he stated that both the government and the private sector should be involved in creating an environment for the industry to sort out the problems.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Vishnu Kumar Agarwal, president of the Confederation of Nepalese Industries (CNI), suggested that the government should bring a clear industrial policy to open new industries and prevent the displacement of old ones. He said that it is very difficult to start an industry at present due to the exorbitant prices of land. According to him, the CNI has launched various campaigns and plans by giving priority to domestic production and exports. He said that it is also necessary for the government to support and cooperate in these activities of the private sector. He also stressed on the need to do homework on cost reduction issues as the production cost of industries is high.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-27', 'modified' => '2022-11-27', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16135', 'image' => '20221127053353_20220526052559_service_1543560160.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-27 17:33:18', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 6 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16393', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'OPCMC Urges Victims of Oriental Cooperative to Resubmit their Claims', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 27: The Office of Problematic Cooperative Management Committee (OPCMC) has issued a fresh notice to the depositors of Oriental Cooperative, which has been declared problematic by the government, to update the amounts embezzled by the cooperative. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">November 27: The Office of the Problematic Cooperative Management Committee (OPCMC) has issued a fresh notice to the depositors of Oriental Cooperative, which has been declared problematic by the government, to update the amounts embezzled by the cooperative. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Issuing a public notice on Friday, OPCMC has urged the depositors to update the office within 15 days regarding the money they are entitled to receive from the cooperative. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The OPCMC has already collected the details of the amount embezzled by the cooperative. However, OPCMC Member Secretary Keshav Prasad Poudel said that the government body decided to seek details again to update the claims made by the depositors after the cooperative was declared problematic for the second time.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">“We have already collected the details. We are seeking the details from the depositors for the second time just to cross-check whether they match with the details submitted earlier,” Poudel told New Business Age.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Poudel informed that the victims can update the claims through the OPCMC website.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">According to the Problematic Cooperative Management Committee’s Office, Oriental Cooperative Ltd had amassed savings of over Rs 10 billion through its nine branches across the country and misappropriated the deposits. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The cooperative was first declared problematic on November 6, 2017 after it went bankrupt. According to the committee chief Keshab Prasad Poudel, 7,646 members approached the committee office demanding its intervention to get back their deposits. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The cooperative also faced a case at the Supreme Court for the ‘misappropriation’ of the deposits. Responding to the case, the apex court on February 23, 2020 ordered the cooperative to address the issue. But the implementation of the court verdict is still awaited. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Assessing that the cooperative is not serious towards addressing the issue, the Ministry of Cooperatives on September 23, 2022 declared it ‘problematic’ for the second time. Following the declaration, former chair of the cooperative Sudhir Basnet has been arrested. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">During his inquiry, Basnet revealed his association with ‘Kohinoor Hill Saving and Credit Co-operative Limited’, ‘Consumer Savings and Credit Cooperative Ltd’, and the ‘Vegas Savings and Credit Cooperative Ltd’ which have also been identified as ‘problematic’ by the government. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">So far, Oriental Cooperative is found to have collected the deposits by establishing its branches in Nepalgunj, Pokhara, Dang, Surkhet, Kathmandu, Biratnagar, Itahari, Bhaktapur and Lalitpur. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The government has declared 12 cooperatives as ‘problematic’. </span></span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-27', 'modified' => '2022-11-27', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16134', 'image' => '20221127020026_cooperative problematic.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-27 13:59:42', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 7 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16392', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Number of Companies Listed with NEPSE Reaches 242 in mid-October ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 27: The number of companies listed with the Nepal Stock Exchange (NEPSE) has reached 242 as of mid-October 2022. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">November 27: The number of companies listed with the Nepal Stock Exchange (NEPSE) has reached 242 as of mid-October 2022. This is stated in the latest report of Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) on the Current Macroeconomic and Financial Situation of Nepal. The report is based on three months’ data ending mid-October, 2022/23. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The companies listed with the NEPSE include 146 Banks and Financial Institutions (BFIs) and insurance companies, 59 hydropower companies, 19 manufacturing and processing industries, six investment companies, five hotels, four trading companies and three others. The number of companies listed with NEPSE was 222 in mid-October 2021. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The share of BFIs and insurance companies in stock market capitalization is 68.6 percent, the NRB report said. Such a share for hydropower companies is 10.5 percent, investment companies 6.4 percent, manufacturing and processing industries 4.4 percent, hotels 1.7 percent, trading companies 0.4 percent and the share of other companies is 8.1 percent. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The paid-up value of 6.82 billion shares listed with NEPSE stood at Rs 672.69 billion in mid-October 2022. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Securities worth Rs 80.78 billion were listed with NEPSE during the three months of FY 2022/23. Such securities comprise government bonds worth Rs 35 billion, debenture worth Rs 25.44 billion, bonus shares worth Rs 9.29 billion, ordinary shares worth Rs 6.57 billion, mutual fund worth Rs 3.27 billion and rights shares worth Rs 1.21 billion. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Securities Board of Nepal approved the total public issuance of securities worth Rs 9.39 billion which includes debenture worth Rs 4.24 billion, mutual fund worth Rs 3.15 billion, ordinary shares worth Rs 1.05 billion and rights shares worth Rs. 954 million in the review period. -- RSS </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-27', 'modified' => '2022-11-27', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16133', 'image' => '20221127011839_NEPSE-FI.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-27 13:18:05', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 8 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16391', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'NC Leads Vote-Count under FPTP Category, Secures 52 HoR Seats so Far', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 27: The Nepali Congress is in the top position in the vote count tally of the election to the members of the House of Representatives (HoR) and provincial assemblies (PA) elections held on November 20. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">November 27: The Nepali Congress is in the top position in the vote count tally of the election to the members of the House of Representatives (HoR) and provincial assemblies (PA) elections held on November 20. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">According to the Election Commission, the results of the vote counting of 155 out of the 165 electoral constituencies under the first-past-the-post (FPTP) category have been announced by 7 am today (Sunday). </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The Nepali Congress tops the vote-count, securing 52 seats, followed by the CPN (UML) with 41 seats, the CPN (Maoist Centre) 17 seats, the CPN (Unified Socialist) 10 seats, the Rastriya Swatantra Party and the Rastriya Prajatantra Party seven seats each, the Janata Samajbadi Party five seats, the Lokatantrik Samajbadi Party four seats, the Nagarik Unmukti Party three seats and independent candidates winning five seats under the FPTP category of the HoR election so far. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The Nepal Workers and Peasants Party, the Janamat Party and the Rastriya Janamorcha have each won one HoR seat under the FPTP category. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The Election Commission stated that the vote count results of 10 electoral constituencies are still awaited. The delay in announcing the results in these constituencies is because of the delayed vote counting in some constituencies while the vote count in some constituencies have not started yet.</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"">There has been delay in counting of votes in Bajura where re-voting was held on Saturday. So far, the results of Dolakha-1, Syangja-2, Sunsari-1, 3 and 4, Bajura, Ilam-1, Udayapur-1 and Ramechhap constituencies is awaited. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The vote counting is in progress in seven constituencies. Nepali Congress is leading the vote-count tally in four, the UML in two and the Rastriya Swatantra Party in one out of these. The vote counting has not yet started in Dolakha, Syangja-2 and Bajura. -- RSS </span><br /> </span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-27', 'modified' => '2022-11-27', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16132', 'image' => '20221127122927_NCC.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-27 12:28:53', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 9 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16389', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Messi Magic Keeps Argentina's World Cup Dream Alive ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 27: Lionel Messi kept his dream of winning his first World Cup alive by scoring the opening goal in Saturday's 2-0 victory over Mexico in World Cup Group C.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">AGENCIES</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">November 27: Lionel Messi kept his dream of winning his first World Cup alive by scoring the opening goal in Saturday's 2-0 victory over Mexico in World Cup Group C.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The Argentine, competing in his fifth World Cup at age 35, has won every other major title in his career but has failed to lift the coveted trophy despite making the final in 2014, Reuters reported.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Meanwhile, the BBC reported that Argentina knew defeat would effectively end their World Cup following the embarrassing loss to Saudi Arabia in the opener. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">“Messi knew this would mean the major honour that has eluded his grasp in a glittering career would be forever out of reach.”</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Messi was, once again, shouldering the burden of Argentina's expectations - and once again he delivered by pulling out a piece of trademark magic when they needed it most to change the course of an attritional game, and perhaps even change the course of his team's World Cup in the process, added the BBC.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">According to Reuters, Messi’s 64th minute strike that was followed by substitute Enzo Fernandez's sublime effort three minutes from time, reignited their hopes of advancing past the group stage after their shock 2-1 loss to Saudi Arabia in their opener.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Messi, who equalled Diego Maradona's Argentina record of 21 matches and eight goals at the World Cup, was nowhere to be seen for more than an hour before picking up an Angel Di Maria pass, finding just enough space and rifling in from 20 metres, added the news agency.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Substitute Fernandez made sure of the victory when he curled a superb shot into the top corner.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Argentina, with just three points from two matches, can guarantee progress with a win over Poland in their final group-stage match on Wednesday.</span></span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-27', 'modified' => '2022-11-27', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16131', 'image' => '20221127110047_Lionel-Messi-celeb-Argentina-vs-Mexico.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-27 10:59:46', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 10 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16390', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Mbappe Double Sends France into World Cup Last-16', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 27: France’s star striker Kylian Mbappe displayed a superb individual performance with two second-half goals to make sure the defending champions France becomes the first side to reach the last 16 of the World Cup.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">AGENCIES</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">November 27: France’s star striker Kylian Mbappe displayed a superb individual performance with two second-half goals to make sure the defending champions France becomes the first side to reach the last 16 of the World Cup.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">According to media reports, the two-time champions France beat Denmark 2-1 in their Group D clash at the 974 Stadium on Saturday riding on goals of the 2018 World Cup hero Mbappe.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mbappe's goals sent France top the group on six points, three ahead of Australia, who beat Tunisia 1-0 earlier in the day, with the Danes and the Tunisians both on one point, Reuters reported.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">France take on Tunisia and Denmark meet Socceroos in the final group-stage round on Wednesday, with the Danes needing a win to advance.</span></span></span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-27', 'modified' => '2022-11-27', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16130', 'image' => '20221127111112_Kylian-Mbappe-4.jpeg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-27 11:10:31', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 11 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16388', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => '7.6 million Votes Counted under Proportional Representation Category ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'Nov 26: The Election Commission has said it has counted more than 7.6 million votes under the proportional election category. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Nov 26: The Election Commission has said it has counted more than 7.6 million votes under the proportional election category. The figure is the latest update of votes received by 47 political parties published by the EC on Saturday evening. </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"">There is a constitutional provision to elect a total of 110 members to the House of Representatives via the proportional electoral system. As per the vote count, the CPN UML is ahead with 2.8 million votes followed by the Nepali Congress with 2.1 million votes. Similarly, the CPN Maoist has been able to secure third position with 891,000 votes. The fourth party in proportional representation is the Rastriya Swatantra Party which has collected 854,000 votes. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Similarly, Rastriya Prajatantra Party has so far received 458,000 votes, followed by Janata Samajbadi Party (248,000 votes), CPN-Unified Socialist (193,000 votes), Janamat Party (178,000 votes), Nagarik Unmukti Party (175,000 votes), Loktantrik Samajbadi Party 104,000 votes), Nepal Workers and Peasants Party 68,000 votes). </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The Nationalist People's Party is last in the ranking with 1,159 votes under the proportional election system. The vote turnout in the election to the House of Representatives and Province Assembly was 61 percent. There are more than 17.9 million voters registered for the election. For the first-past-the-post election, there were 2,412 candidates while for the proportional election, there are 2,199 candidates in the final closed list. (RSS) </span></span></span><br /> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-27', 'modified' => '2022-11-27', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16129', 'image' => '20221127103037_20221124112330_KN_Damauli-image_6483441.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-27 10:29:55', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 12 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16387', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'NC leading FPTP Seats in HoR ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 26: The Election Commission has published the final results of the voting held in 118 constituencies out of 165 in the House of Representatives under the First-Past-The-Post (FPTP) electoral system. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">November 26: The Election Commission has published the final results of the voting held in 118 constituencies out of 165 in the House of Representatives under the First-Past-The-Post (FPTP) electoral system. By the time this news report was prepared, the Nepali Congress (NC) was leading the FPTP polls securing 39 HoR seats. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The CPN (UML) is trailing behind the NC with 32 seats while the CPN (Maoist Centre) is in the third position with 13 seats in parliament, according to the latest update provided by the Election Commission. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Likewise, the CPN (Unified Socialist) has so far won seven seats, followed by Rastriya Swatantra Party, Janata Samajwadi Party and Rastriya Prajatantra Party with five seats each. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The Lokatantrik Samajwadi Party has secured four seats in parliament, while Rastriya Janamorcha Party and Nepal Workers and Peasants Party have won one seats each. Meanwhile, five independent candidates have been elected as members of the HoR under FPTP, the Election Commission said. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Counting of votes for HoR under FPTP system is yet to begin in one constituency each in Dolakha, Syangja and Bajura district. </span><br /> <strong><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">NC leads FPTP seats in Province Assembly </span></strong><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The Nepali Congress is also leading in Province Assembly election under FPTP. The NC is leading in four provinces, CPN (UML) is trailing in two and CPN (Maoist Centre) in one. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The NC remains ahead in Bagmati Province, Gandaki Province, Lumbini Province and Karnali Province while the CPN (UML) in leading in Province 1 and Madhesh Province. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">CPN (Maoist Centre) is leading in Sudurpaschim Province, the EC 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"">So far, the NC has won 81 Provincial Assembly seats, followed by CPN-UML (67) and CPN Maoist Centre (37). (With inputs from RSS)</span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-26', 'modified' => '2022-11-26', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16128', 'image' => '20221126055006_SB_SURUNGGA_BISWAPRAKAS.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-26 17:49:20', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 13 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16386', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Neymar to Miss next Two World Cup Matches of Brazil with Ankle Injury', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 26: Brazil’s star striker Neymar has been ruled out of the next two World Cup games after sustaining ligament damage in his right ankle, the BBC reported citing Brazil’s team doctor.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">AGENCIES<br /> November 26: Brazil’s star striker Neymar has been ruled out of the next two World Cup games after sustaining ligament damage in his right ankle, the BBC reported citing Brazil’s team doctor.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">According to AFP, the Paris Saint-Germain star suffered ligament damage in the 2-0 victory against Serbia on Thursday when he collided with Nikola Milenkovic.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The 30-year-old forward was replaced in 80th minute after a heavy tackle by Milenkovic.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">According to the BBC, he described the injury as "one of the hardest moments of my career".</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">"Nothing in my life came easy and I've always had to work for my dreams and goals," Neymar wrote on Instagram. "I have never wished anyone anything bad and always helped who needed. I'm injured, yes it's not nice, it will hurt but I'm sure I will have the chance to come back because I'll do everything possible to help my country, my team-mates and myself."</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Neymar's career has been peppered by injuries which have impacted on his previous two World Cups, added AFP.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">According to the French news agency, he suffered a fractured bone in his back in the quarter-final win over Colombia in 2014, meaning he was sidelined when the hosts were thrashed 7-1 by Germany in the semi-finals.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">“Four years later he raced to recover from injury in time for the tournament in Russia, but Brazil never hit the expected heights before losing to Belgium in the last eight.”</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Brazil face Switzerland in their second Group G game on Monday (16:00 GMT), before playing Cameroon next Friday (19:00 BST).</span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-26', 'modified' => '2022-11-26', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16127', 'image' => '20221126042406_Neymar-2048x1474.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-26 16:23:41', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 14 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16385', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'UML, NC, Rastriya Swatantra Among Top Three in PR Vote Count', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 26: Counting of votes cast under the Proportional Representation (PR) system during the election to the members of the House of Representatives and provincial assemblies is underway. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">November 26: Counting of votes cast under the Proportional Representation (PR) system during the election to the members of the House of Representatives and provincial assemblies is underway. The voting was held on November 20. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">According to the vote count update made available by the Election Commission on Saturday morning, the CPN (UML) is leading the PR tally under the House of Representatives. The party has received 1,809,417 votes so far. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Similarly, the Nepali Congress is in the second position with 1,744,069 votes followed by Rastriya Swatantra Party with 787,747 votes. 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', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">November 28: The government is preparing to cover social security for workers in the informal sector, Nepali migrant workers abroad and those engaged in self-employment. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Minister for Labour, Employment and Social Security Sher Bahadur Kunwar has pledged to bring those sector on board the social security criteria. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">During an event organized on the occasion of the fifth Social Security Day on Sunday, Minister Kunwar said the social security scheme would be made conducive to the workers. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Hinting at amendments to the schemes unveiled under the Social Security Fund, Minister Kunwar argued that no one will be left behind since the criteria of the social security schemes has been extended. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">He further said that the family members of the workers would be encouraged towards entrepreneurship development by extending the fund’s horizon. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Also speaking at the event, SSF Chairman and Secretary at the Ministry, Ek Narayan Aryal, said the employees and employers should not hesitate to join the social security scheme since the SSF has been offering the contributors with attractive facilities. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Likewise, Executive Director of SSF Kapil Mani Gyawali said that the contributors’ spouse will get medical expenses and the contributors will also get medical expenses for chronic diseases. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Meanwhile, the SSF announced the establishment of its offices in Butwal and Nepalgunj on Sunday. The SSF now has four offices including those in Biratnagar and Simara and another office will be established in Pokhara in the near future. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Currently, 17,507 employers and 375,904 employees have been enlisted in the fund and a total of Rs 26 billion has been collected from them. -- RSS </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-28', 'modified' => '2022-11-28', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16140', 'image' => '20221128115926_agri maize.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-28 11:58:53', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 1 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16398', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Election Commission Unveils Results of 157 Seats under FPTP', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 28: The Election Commission has unveiled the election results of 157 seats out of 165 of the House of Representatives (HoR) under the First-Past-The-Post (FPTP) electoral system.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">November 28: The Election Commission has unveiled the election results of 157 seats out of 165 of the House of Representatives (HoR) under the First-Past-The-Post (FPTP) electoral system. According to the latest update of the EC, the Nepali Congress (NC) continues to lead the election results. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The Election Commission informed that the Nepali Congress has obtained 53 seats, followed by CPN (UML) with 42 seats, CPN (Maoist Centre) with 17 seats, CPN (Unified Socialist) with 10 seats while Rastriya Swatantra Party and Rastriya Prajatantra Party have each secured seven seats. Janata Samajwadi Party has won six seats in the lower house. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Similarly, the Lokatantrik Samajwadi Party has secured four seats, Nagarik Unmukti Party 3 while the Nepal Workers and Peasants Party, Rastriya Janamorcha and Janamat Party have won one seat each. Likewise, five independent candidates have been elected to the HoR under the FPTP, the Election Commissions said. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Vote counting in Dolakha, Bajura and Syangja districts could not be held yet owing to disputes among the political parties' representatives and candidates contesting the parliamentary elections. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The Election Commission has decided to hold reelection in some polling centres within December 1 this year while reelection was held in Bajura on Saturday. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Who won from which party? </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Prime Minister and Nepali Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba, leaders Yogesh Sherchan, Tek Bahadur Gurung, Prakashman Singh, Santosh Chalise, Gagan Kumar Thapa, Pradeep Poudel, Mohan Acharya, Udaya Shumsher JBR, Shankar Bhandari and Rajendra Kumar KC were elected to the HoR on behalf of the Nepali Congress. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Similarly, other NC candidates emerging victorious include Ramesh Kumar Rijal, Hridaya Ram Thani, Ramhari Khatiwada, Bishwa Prakash Sharma, Ajay Kumar Chaurasiya, Rajendra Bajagain, Kham Bahadur Garbuja, Pushpa Bahadur Shah, Bir Bahadur Balayar, Dilendra Prasad Badu, Ramesh Lekhak, NP Saud, Dikpal Kumar Shahi, Durlabh Thapa, Shashank Koirala, Ramchandra Poudel, Kishore Singh Rathore, Dev Prakash Timalsina, Dinesh Kumar Yadav, Ramnath Adhikari and Purna Bahadur Khadka. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">According to the Election Commission, other candidates elected in the HoR from NC are Bishnu Kumar Karki, Shyam Kumar Ghimire, Deepak Giri, Sanjay Gautam, Binod Chaudhary, Ramkrishna Yadav, Mohan Bahadur Basnet, Shekhar Koirala, Dilliraj Panta, Chandrakanta Bhandari, Raju Thapa, Deepak Khadka, Surendra Raj Acharya, Sita Gurung, Sunil Kumar Sharma, Arjun Narsingh KC, Tejulal Chaudhary, Ain Bahadur Shahi, Mahendra Kumar Raya, Dig Bahadur Limbu and Purna Bahadur Tamang. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The candidates elected from CPN (UML) include Ambar Bahadur Rayamajhi, Krishna Gopal Shrestha, Prem Bahadur Maharjan, Gokarna Bista, Devraj Ghimire, KP Sharma Oli, Yogesh Bhattarai, Raj Kumar Gupta, Top Bahadur Rayamajhi, Surya Thapa, Prithivi Subba Gurung, Mahesh Bartaula, Manbir Rai, Padam Giri, Lal Prasad Sanwa Limbu, Basudev Ghimire, and Rajendra Kumar Rai. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Furthermore, the Election Commission shared that (CPN) UML's Bidhya Bhattarai, Surya Prasad Dhakal, Ram Shankar Yadav, Damodar Bhandari, Tara Lama Tamang, Balaram Adhikari, Basanta Kumar Nemwang, Damodar Poudel, Hari Prasad Uprety, Jwala Kumari Shah, Achyut Prasad Mainali, Juli Mahato and Man Bahadur Gurung secured victory. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Leelanath Shrestha, Thakur Prasad Gaire, Rishikesh Pokharel, Mangal Prasad Gupta, Bishnu Poudel, Gokul Banskota, Narayan Prasad Acharya, Chabilal Bishwakarma, Bim Acharya, Subash Nemwang, Laxmi Mahato Koiri and Mahesh Basnet also emerged victorious on behalf of the CPN (UML). </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">From CPN (Maoist Centre), party's Chairperson Pushpa Kamal Dahal, its leaders Janardan Sharma, Barshaman Pun, Devendra Poudel, Shakti Bahadur Basnet, Sudan Kirati, Madhav Sapkota, Amanlal Modi, Hit Bahadur Tamang, Ram Kumar Rai, Lekhnath Dahal, Rekha Sharma, Purna Bahadur Gharti, Mahendra Ray Yadav, Surya Prasad Tamang (Dong), Tshiring Dambul Lama and Mahendra Bahadur Shahi were elected to the HoR, informed the Election Commission. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The candidates wining from CPN (Unified Socialist) include party chairperson Madhav Kumar Nepal, leaders Rajendra Prasad Pandey, Dhan Bahadur Buda, Ambar Bahadur Thapa, Krishna Kumar Shrestha, Sher Bahadur Kunwar, Prakash Jwala, Met Mani Chaudhary, Prem Bahadur Ale and Bhanubhakta Joshi. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The candidates who secured seats in the HoR from Rastriya Swatantra Party are Ravi Lamichhane, Sobita Gautam, Ganesh Parajuli, Biraj Bhakta Shrestha, Hari Dhakal, Sishir Khanal and Toshima Karki. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Janata Samajbadi Party's candidates Pradeep Yadav, Nawal Kishore Shah, Deepak Karki, Ram Sahayak Prasad Yadav, Raj Kishore Yadav and Birendra Prasad Mahato secured victory. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Rastriya Prajatantra Party's candidates Rajendra Lingden, Bikram Pandey, Dhawal Shumsher Rana, Deepak Bahadur Singh, Dhruba Bahadur Pradhan, Deepak Bohora and Gyanendra Bahadur Shahi were elected HoR members. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Lokatantrik Samajwadi Party's Chairperson Mahantha Thakur, Sarbendranath Shukla, Sharat Singh Bhandari and Ram Prakash Chaudhary were also elected MPs. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">From Rastriya Janamorcha, Chitra Bahadur KC emerged victorious while Prem Suwal from Nepal Workers and Peasants Party's and Chandrakant Raut from Janamat Party secured a seat each in the parliament. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Independent candidates securing seat in HoR are Amresh Kumar Singh, Yogesh Mandal, Prabhu Shah, Kiran Kumar Shah and Lalbir Chaudhary, the Election Commission said. -- RSS </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-28', 'modified' => '2022-11-28', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16139', 'image' => '20221128111324_Election_Commission.2e16d0ba.fill-650x500.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-28 11:12:51', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 2 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16397', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Cargo Train to Arrive at Biratnagar ICP within Three Weeks', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 27: Last Wednesday, there were a lot of activities at the Biratnagar-based Integrated Check Post (ICP) area on the Nepal-India border.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">November 27: Last Wednesday, there were a lot of activities at the Biratnagar-based Integrated Check Post (ICP) area on the Nepal-India border. Employees from Nepal and India were jostling to take photos. A passenger train with 25 coaches arrived at the ICP from Bathnaha, India.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The train engine had arrived several times before for broad gauge testing, but it was the first time that the full train did had arrived here. Only cargo containers will come in this broad gauge. On Wednesday, Indian officials came for testing a passenger train.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The Indian side has completed the entire railway work at the ICP which is seven and a half kilometers northeast of Bathnaha. They have also passed the test. As soon as the Indian authorities received the news from Nepal that they are ready for the agreement, India assured that they will hand over regular cargo trains from December 15 onwards. The Nepali side has also informed that the work has been completed, and preparations have been made accordingly.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The Railways Department of India returned from an on-site inspection on Wednesday concluding that cargo trains can be brought up to ICP. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Roshan Kumar Dev, Site Engineer of Bathnaha-Katahari Railways under the Railways Department, said that the officials of the Indian Railways Department are making final preparations.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Engineer Dev informed that they are in the process of operating a cargo train within the next one and a half months.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The work of preparing the necessary infrastructure to bring the cargo train to the Nepal Customs Yard of the ICP has also been started. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">According to Dev, the Indian government will hand over the railway to the Ministry of Physical Infrastructure of Nepal.</span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-27', 'modified' => '2022-11-27', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16138', 'image' => '20221127081123_1669501161.Clipboard16 (1).jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-27 20:10:25', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 3 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16396', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Costa Rica Stun Japan, Hand a Lifeline to Germany', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 27: Costa Rica stunned Japan 1-0 thanks to a late goal at the World Cup on Sunday to blow Group E wide open. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">AGENCIES</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">November 27: Costa Rica stunned Japan 1-0 thanks to a late goal at the World Cup on Sunday to blow Group E wide open. The win over Japan has given a potential lifeline to heavyweight Germany, who were beaten by the Samurai Blue 2-1 in their opening match.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">According to AFP, Japan could have taken a giant stride towards the last 16 with a win but they laboured for large parts of the match against a Costa Rica side who were hammered 7-0 by Spain.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Keysher Fuller's curling 81st-minute effort, Costa Rica's first shot on target in the entire tournament, rocked Japan and put their hopes of progression in peril, Reuters reported.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The result left Spain, Japan and Costa Rica all on three points. Spain face Germany later on Sunday in another crucial contest.</span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-27', 'modified' => '2022-11-27', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16137', 'image' => '20221127071334_Untitled.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-27 19:13:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 4 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16395', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => '80 Percent Vote Count under PR Completed ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 27: Vote count under the proportional representation category of the elections to the House of Representatives and the provincial assemblies is currently underway. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">November 27: Vote count under the proportional representation category of the elections to the House of Representatives and the provincial assemblies is currently underway. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Out of over 17.9 million registered voters, the voters' turnout was 61 percent, according to the EC. So far, approximately 80 percent of the votes cast during the November 20 election have been counted, said EC's Spokesperson Shaligram Sharma Paudel. </span></span></span><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">According to him, approximately 2.4 million votes remain to be counted. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The latest updates of the EC show that out of 8,774,661 votes counted so far, the CPN (UML) is leading with 2,413,222 votes followed by the Nepali Congress with 2,294,983 votes. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Similarly, the CPN (Maoist Center) has secured 1,005,679 votes, followed by the Rastriya Swatantra Party with 983,522 votes, the Rastriya Prajatantra Party with 513,911 votes, the Janata Samajwadi Party with 300,449 votes, and the CPN (Unified Socialist) with 235,375 votes. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Similarly, the Janamat Party has obtained 234,127 votes, the Nagarik Unmukti Party 202,079 votes, the Loktantrik Samajwadi Party 122,557 votes, the Nepal Workers and Peasants Party 70,371 votes, the Hamro Nepal Party 49,627 votes, the Rastriya Janamorcha 43,926 votes and the Mongol National Organisation 44,208 votes. The Nationalist People’s Party has received the lowest 1,504 votes. -- RSS </span></span></span><br /> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-27', 'modified' => '2022-11-27', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16136', 'image' => '20221127064936_20220805085711_Election_Commission.2e16d0ba.fill-650x500.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-27 18:49:11', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 5 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16394', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Over 16,000 Small Industries Registered Within 6 Months', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 27: A total of 16,341micro, cottage and small industries have been registered in Nepal in the first three months of the current fiscal year.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">November 27: A total of 16,341micro, cottage and small industries have been registered in Nepal in the first three months of the current fiscal year. Those industries have been registered at the micro, cottage and small industries offices across the country and are expected to provide employment to 50,211 people.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Supplies revealed this data during a programme organized on the occasion of the 8th Industry Day in Kathmandu on Friday. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Similarly, 86 industries have been registered with the Department of Industries during this period and are expected to provide employment to 5,935 people. On the occasion, Chief Secretary of the Government of Nepal, Shankar Das Bairagi, and the Secretary at the Ministry of Industries, Commerce and Supplies Toya Narayan Gyawali also released the industrial bulletin.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">According to the ministry, the government has launched the Small Enterprise Development Programme with the aim of creating employment opportunities at the local levels. Under the programme, 51,428 new small entrepreneurs were created in the last fiscal year. Similarly, Gyawali said that the government has been supporting the programme under the "Make in Nepal" campaign in collaboration with the private sector. He said that a MoU has been signed with the FNCCI to implement the arrangements in the budget. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Director General of the Department of Industry Ram Chandra Tiwari said that improvements in policy, legal, institutional, procedural and technological aspects have been done to facilitate the industrial sector.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">He expressed that only by creating an industry-friendly environment, the traditional agricultural system can be transformed into entrepreneurship, and only through that, a sustainable and independent economy can be developed. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Similarly, Shekhar Golchha, the president of the Federation of Nepalese Chamber of Commerce and Industry, stressed that the government should provide subsidies to industries in Nepal for value addition, job creation and export. Saying that the economy is in a lot of crisis now, he stated that both the government and the private sector should be involved in creating an environment for the industry to sort out the problems.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Vishnu Kumar Agarwal, president of the Confederation of Nepalese Industries (CNI), suggested that the government should bring a clear industrial policy to open new industries and prevent the displacement of old ones. He said that it is very difficult to start an industry at present due to the exorbitant prices of land. According to him, the CNI has launched various campaigns and plans by giving priority to domestic production and exports. He said that it is also necessary for the government to support and cooperate in these activities of the private sector. He also stressed on the need to do homework on cost reduction issues as the production cost of industries is high.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-27', 'modified' => '2022-11-27', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16135', 'image' => '20221127053353_20220526052559_service_1543560160.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-27 17:33:18', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 6 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16393', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'OPCMC Urges Victims of Oriental Cooperative to Resubmit their Claims', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 27: The Office of Problematic Cooperative Management Committee (OPCMC) has issued a fresh notice to the depositors of Oriental Cooperative, which has been declared problematic by the government, to update the amounts embezzled by the cooperative. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">November 27: The Office of the Problematic Cooperative Management Committee (OPCMC) has issued a fresh notice to the depositors of Oriental Cooperative, which has been declared problematic by the government, to update the amounts embezzled by the cooperative. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Issuing a public notice on Friday, OPCMC has urged the depositors to update the office within 15 days regarding the money they are entitled to receive from the cooperative. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The OPCMC has already collected the details of the amount embezzled by the cooperative. However, OPCMC Member Secretary Keshav Prasad Poudel said that the government body decided to seek details again to update the claims made by the depositors after the cooperative was declared problematic for the second time.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">“We have already collected the details. We are seeking the details from the depositors for the second time just to cross-check whether they match with the details submitted earlier,” Poudel told New Business Age.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Poudel informed that the victims can update the claims through the OPCMC website.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">According to the Problematic Cooperative Management Committee’s Office, Oriental Cooperative Ltd had amassed savings of over Rs 10 billion through its nine branches across the country and misappropriated the deposits. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The cooperative was first declared problematic on November 6, 2017 after it went bankrupt. According to the committee chief Keshab Prasad Poudel, 7,646 members approached the committee office demanding its intervention to get back their deposits. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The cooperative also faced a case at the Supreme Court for the ‘misappropriation’ of the deposits. Responding to the case, the apex court on February 23, 2020 ordered the cooperative to address the issue. But the implementation of the court verdict is still awaited. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Assessing that the cooperative is not serious towards addressing the issue, the Ministry of Cooperatives on September 23, 2022 declared it ‘problematic’ for the second time. Following the declaration, former chair of the cooperative Sudhir Basnet has been arrested. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">During his inquiry, Basnet revealed his association with ‘Kohinoor Hill Saving and Credit Co-operative Limited’, ‘Consumer Savings and Credit Cooperative Ltd’, and the ‘Vegas Savings and Credit Cooperative Ltd’ which have also been identified as ‘problematic’ by the government. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">So far, Oriental Cooperative is found to have collected the deposits by establishing its branches in Nepalgunj, Pokhara, Dang, Surkhet, Kathmandu, Biratnagar, Itahari, Bhaktapur and Lalitpur. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The government has declared 12 cooperatives as ‘problematic’. </span></span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-27', 'modified' => '2022-11-27', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16134', 'image' => '20221127020026_cooperative problematic.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-27 13:59:42', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 7 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16392', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Number of Companies Listed with NEPSE Reaches 242 in mid-October ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 27: The number of companies listed with the Nepal Stock Exchange (NEPSE) has reached 242 as of mid-October 2022. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">November 27: The number of companies listed with the Nepal Stock Exchange (NEPSE) has reached 242 as of mid-October 2022. This is stated in the latest report of Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) on the Current Macroeconomic and Financial Situation of Nepal. The report is based on three months’ data ending mid-October, 2022/23. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The companies listed with the NEPSE include 146 Banks and Financial Institutions (BFIs) and insurance companies, 59 hydropower companies, 19 manufacturing and processing industries, six investment companies, five hotels, four trading companies and three others. The number of companies listed with NEPSE was 222 in mid-October 2021. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The share of BFIs and insurance companies in stock market capitalization is 68.6 percent, the NRB report said. Such a share for hydropower companies is 10.5 percent, investment companies 6.4 percent, manufacturing and processing industries 4.4 percent, hotels 1.7 percent, trading companies 0.4 percent and the share of other companies is 8.1 percent. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The paid-up value of 6.82 billion shares listed with NEPSE stood at Rs 672.69 billion in mid-October 2022. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Securities worth Rs 80.78 billion were listed with NEPSE during the three months of FY 2022/23. Such securities comprise government bonds worth Rs 35 billion, debenture worth Rs 25.44 billion, bonus shares worth Rs 9.29 billion, ordinary shares worth Rs 6.57 billion, mutual fund worth Rs 3.27 billion and rights shares worth Rs 1.21 billion. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Securities Board of Nepal approved the total public issuance of securities worth Rs 9.39 billion which includes debenture worth Rs 4.24 billion, mutual fund worth Rs 3.15 billion, ordinary shares worth Rs 1.05 billion and rights shares worth Rs. 954 million in the review period. -- RSS </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-27', 'modified' => '2022-11-27', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16133', 'image' => '20221127011839_NEPSE-FI.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-27 13:18:05', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 8 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16391', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'NC Leads Vote-Count under FPTP Category, Secures 52 HoR Seats so Far', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 27: The Nepali Congress is in the top position in the vote count tally of the election to the members of the House of Representatives (HoR) and provincial assemblies (PA) elections held on November 20. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">November 27: The Nepali Congress is in the top position in the vote count tally of the election to the members of the House of Representatives (HoR) and provincial assemblies (PA) elections held on November 20. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">According to the Election Commission, the results of the vote counting of 155 out of the 165 electoral constituencies under the first-past-the-post (FPTP) category have been announced by 7 am today (Sunday). </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The Nepali Congress tops the vote-count, securing 52 seats, followed by the CPN (UML) with 41 seats, the CPN (Maoist Centre) 17 seats, the CPN (Unified Socialist) 10 seats, the Rastriya Swatantra Party and the Rastriya Prajatantra Party seven seats each, the Janata Samajbadi Party five seats, the Lokatantrik Samajbadi Party four seats, the Nagarik Unmukti Party three seats and independent candidates winning five seats under the FPTP category of the HoR election so far. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The Nepal Workers and Peasants Party, the Janamat Party and the Rastriya Janamorcha have each won one HoR seat under the FPTP category. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The Election Commission stated that the vote count results of 10 electoral constituencies are still awaited. The delay in announcing the results in these constituencies is because of the delayed vote counting in some constituencies while the vote count in some constituencies have not started yet.</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"">There has been delay in counting of votes in Bajura where re-voting was held on Saturday. So far, the results of Dolakha-1, Syangja-2, Sunsari-1, 3 and 4, Bajura, Ilam-1, Udayapur-1 and Ramechhap constituencies is awaited. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The vote counting is in progress in seven constituencies. Nepali Congress is leading the vote-count tally in four, the UML in two and the Rastriya Swatantra Party in one out of these. The vote counting has not yet started in Dolakha, Syangja-2 and Bajura. -- RSS </span><br /> </span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-27', 'modified' => '2022-11-27', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16132', 'image' => '20221127122927_NCC.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-27 12:28:53', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 9 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16389', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Messi Magic Keeps Argentina's World Cup Dream Alive ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 27: Lionel Messi kept his dream of winning his first World Cup alive by scoring the opening goal in Saturday's 2-0 victory over Mexico in World Cup Group C.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">AGENCIES</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">November 27: Lionel Messi kept his dream of winning his first World Cup alive by scoring the opening goal in Saturday's 2-0 victory over Mexico in World Cup Group C.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The Argentine, competing in his fifth World Cup at age 35, has won every other major title in his career but has failed to lift the coveted trophy despite making the final in 2014, Reuters reported.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Meanwhile, the BBC reported that Argentina knew defeat would effectively end their World Cup following the embarrassing loss to Saudi Arabia in the opener. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">“Messi knew this would mean the major honour that has eluded his grasp in a glittering career would be forever out of reach.”</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Messi was, once again, shouldering the burden of Argentina's expectations - and once again he delivered by pulling out a piece of trademark magic when they needed it most to change the course of an attritional game, and perhaps even change the course of his team's World Cup in the process, added the BBC.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">According to Reuters, Messi’s 64th minute strike that was followed by substitute Enzo Fernandez's sublime effort three minutes from time, reignited their hopes of advancing past the group stage after their shock 2-1 loss to Saudi Arabia in their opener.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Messi, who equalled Diego Maradona's Argentina record of 21 matches and eight goals at the World Cup, was nowhere to be seen for more than an hour before picking up an Angel Di Maria pass, finding just enough space and rifling in from 20 metres, added the news agency.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Substitute Fernandez made sure of the victory when he curled a superb shot into the top corner.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Argentina, with just three points from two matches, can guarantee progress with a win over Poland in their final group-stage match on Wednesday.</span></span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-27', 'modified' => '2022-11-27', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16131', 'image' => '20221127110047_Lionel-Messi-celeb-Argentina-vs-Mexico.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-27 10:59:46', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 10 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16390', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Mbappe Double Sends France into World Cup Last-16', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 27: France’s star striker Kylian Mbappe displayed a superb individual performance with two second-half goals to make sure the defending champions France becomes the first side to reach the last 16 of the World Cup.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">AGENCIES</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">November 27: France’s star striker Kylian Mbappe displayed a superb individual performance with two second-half goals to make sure the defending champions France becomes the first side to reach the last 16 of the World Cup.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">According to media reports, the two-time champions France beat Denmark 2-1 in their Group D clash at the 974 Stadium on Saturday riding on goals of the 2018 World Cup hero Mbappe.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mbappe's goals sent France top the group on six points, three ahead of Australia, who beat Tunisia 1-0 earlier in the day, with the Danes and the Tunisians both on one point, Reuters reported.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">France take on Tunisia and Denmark meet Socceroos in the final group-stage round on Wednesday, with the Danes needing a win to advance.</span></span></span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-27', 'modified' => '2022-11-27', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16130', 'image' => '20221127111112_Kylian-Mbappe-4.jpeg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-27 11:10:31', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 11 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16388', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => '7.6 million Votes Counted under Proportional Representation Category ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'Nov 26: The Election Commission has said it has counted more than 7.6 million votes under the proportional election category. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Nov 26: The Election Commission has said it has counted more than 7.6 million votes under the proportional election category. The figure is the latest update of votes received by 47 political parties published by the EC on Saturday evening. </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"">There is a constitutional provision to elect a total of 110 members to the House of Representatives via the proportional electoral system. As per the vote count, the CPN UML is ahead with 2.8 million votes followed by the Nepali Congress with 2.1 million votes. Similarly, the CPN Maoist has been able to secure third position with 891,000 votes. The fourth party in proportional representation is the Rastriya Swatantra Party which has collected 854,000 votes. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Similarly, Rastriya Prajatantra Party has so far received 458,000 votes, followed by Janata Samajbadi Party (248,000 votes), CPN-Unified Socialist (193,000 votes), Janamat Party (178,000 votes), Nagarik Unmukti Party (175,000 votes), Loktantrik Samajbadi Party 104,000 votes), Nepal Workers and Peasants Party 68,000 votes). </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The Nationalist People's Party is last in the ranking with 1,159 votes under the proportional election system. The vote turnout in the election to the House of Representatives and Province Assembly was 61 percent. There are more than 17.9 million voters registered for the election. For the first-past-the-post election, there were 2,412 candidates while for the proportional election, there are 2,199 candidates in the final closed list. (RSS) </span></span></span><br /> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-27', 'modified' => '2022-11-27', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16129', 'image' => '20221127103037_20221124112330_KN_Damauli-image_6483441.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-27 10:29:55', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 12 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16387', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'NC leading FPTP Seats in HoR ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 26: The Election Commission has published the final results of the voting held in 118 constituencies out of 165 in the House of Representatives under the First-Past-The-Post (FPTP) electoral system. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">November 26: The Election Commission has published the final results of the voting held in 118 constituencies out of 165 in the House of Representatives under the First-Past-The-Post (FPTP) electoral system. By the time this news report was prepared, the Nepali Congress (NC) was leading the FPTP polls securing 39 HoR seats. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The CPN (UML) is trailing behind the NC with 32 seats while the CPN (Maoist Centre) is in the third position with 13 seats in parliament, according to the latest update provided by the Election Commission. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Likewise, the CPN (Unified Socialist) has so far won seven seats, followed by Rastriya Swatantra Party, Janata Samajwadi Party and Rastriya Prajatantra Party with five seats each. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The Lokatantrik Samajwadi Party has secured four seats in parliament, while Rastriya Janamorcha Party and Nepal Workers and Peasants Party have won one seats each. Meanwhile, five independent candidates have been elected as members of the HoR under FPTP, the Election Commission said. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Counting of votes for HoR under FPTP system is yet to begin in one constituency each in Dolakha, Syangja and Bajura district. </span><br /> <strong><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">NC leads FPTP seats in Province Assembly </span></strong><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The Nepali Congress is also leading in Province Assembly election under FPTP. The NC is leading in four provinces, CPN (UML) is trailing in two and CPN (Maoist Centre) in one. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The NC remains ahead in Bagmati Province, Gandaki Province, Lumbini Province and Karnali Province while the CPN (UML) in leading in Province 1 and Madhesh Province. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">CPN (Maoist Centre) is leading in Sudurpaschim Province, the EC 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"">So far, the NC has won 81 Provincial Assembly seats, followed by CPN-UML (67) and CPN Maoist Centre (37). (With inputs from RSS)</span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-26', 'modified' => '2022-11-26', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16128', 'image' => '20221126055006_SB_SURUNGGA_BISWAPRAKAS.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-26 17:49:20', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 13 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16386', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Neymar to Miss next Two World Cup Matches of Brazil with Ankle Injury', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 26: Brazil’s star striker Neymar has been ruled out of the next two World Cup games after sustaining ligament damage in his right ankle, the BBC reported citing Brazil’s team doctor.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">AGENCIES<br /> November 26: Brazil’s star striker Neymar has been ruled out of the next two World Cup games after sustaining ligament damage in his right ankle, the BBC reported citing Brazil’s team doctor.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">According to AFP, the Paris Saint-Germain star suffered ligament damage in the 2-0 victory against Serbia on Thursday when he collided with Nikola Milenkovic.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The 30-year-old forward was replaced in 80th minute after a heavy tackle by Milenkovic.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">According to the BBC, he described the injury as "one of the hardest moments of my career".</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">"Nothing in my life came easy and I've always had to work for my dreams and goals," Neymar wrote on Instagram. "I have never wished anyone anything bad and always helped who needed. I'm injured, yes it's not nice, it will hurt but I'm sure I will have the chance to come back because I'll do everything possible to help my country, my team-mates and myself."</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Neymar's career has been peppered by injuries which have impacted on his previous two World Cups, added AFP.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">According to the French news agency, he suffered a fractured bone in his back in the quarter-final win over Colombia in 2014, meaning he was sidelined when the hosts were thrashed 7-1 by Germany in the semi-finals.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">“Four years later he raced to recover from injury in time for the tournament in Russia, but Brazil never hit the expected heights before losing to Belgium in the last eight.”</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Brazil face Switzerland in their second Group G game on Monday (16:00 GMT), before playing Cameroon next Friday (19:00 BST).</span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-26', 'modified' => '2022-11-26', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16127', 'image' => '20221126042406_Neymar-2048x1474.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-26 16:23:41', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 14 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16385', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'UML, NC, Rastriya Swatantra Among Top Three in PR Vote Count', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 26: Counting of votes cast under the Proportional Representation (PR) system during the election to the members of the House of Representatives and provincial assemblies is underway. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">November 26: Counting of votes cast under the Proportional Representation (PR) system during the election to the members of the House of Representatives and provincial assemblies is underway. The voting was held on November 20. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">According to the vote count update made available by the Election Commission on Saturday morning, the CPN (UML) is leading the PR tally under the House of Representatives. The party has received 1,809,417 votes so far. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Similarly, the Nepali Congress is in the second position with 1,744,069 votes followed by Rastriya Swatantra Party with 787,747 votes. Likewise, the CPN (Maoist Centre) has secured 767,306 votes while Rastriya Prajatantra Party has obtained 403,079 votes so far. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Janata Samahbadi Party Nepal has secured 216,943 votes, followed by CPN-Unified Socialist (164,856 votes), Nagarik Unmukti Party (156,582 votes), and Janamat Party (148,404 votes), according to the EC. -- RSS </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-26', 'modified' => '2022-11-26', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16126', 'image' => '20221126030520_20221123050626_20220805085711_Election_Commission.2e16d0ba.fill-650x500.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-26 15:04:44', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ) ) $current_user = null $logged_in = falsesimplexml_load_file - [internal], line ?? include - APP/View/Elements/side_bar.ctp, line 60 View::_evaluate() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 971 View::_render() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 933 View::_renderElement() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 1224 View::element() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 418 include - APP/View/Articles/index.ctp, line 157 View::_evaluate() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 971 View::_render() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 933 View::render() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 473 Controller::render() - CORE/Cake/Controller/Controller.php, line 968 Dispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/Cake/Routing/Dispatcher.php, line 200 Dispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/Cake/Routing/Dispatcher.php, line 167 [main] - APP/webroot/index.php, line 117
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', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">November 28: The government is preparing to cover social security for workers in the informal sector, Nepali migrant workers abroad and those engaged in self-employment. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Minister for Labour, Employment and Social Security Sher Bahadur Kunwar has pledged to bring those sector on board the social security criteria. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">During an event organized on the occasion of the fifth Social Security Day on Sunday, Minister Kunwar said the social security scheme would be made conducive to the workers. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Hinting at amendments to the schemes unveiled under the Social Security Fund, Minister Kunwar argued that no one will be left behind since the criteria of the social security schemes has been extended. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">He further said that the family members of the workers would be encouraged towards entrepreneurship development by extending the fund’s horizon. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Also speaking at the event, SSF Chairman and Secretary at the Ministry, Ek Narayan Aryal, said the employees and employers should not hesitate to join the social security scheme since the SSF has been offering the contributors with attractive facilities. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Likewise, Executive Director of SSF Kapil Mani Gyawali said that the contributors’ spouse will get medical expenses and the contributors will also get medical expenses for chronic diseases. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Meanwhile, the SSF announced the establishment of its offices in Butwal and Nepalgunj on Sunday. The SSF now has four offices including those in Biratnagar and Simara and another office will be established in Pokhara in the near future. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Currently, 17,507 employers and 375,904 employees have been enlisted in the fund and a total of Rs 26 billion has been collected from them. -- RSS </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-28', 'modified' => '2022-11-28', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16140', 'image' => '20221128115926_agri maize.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-28 11:58:53', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 1 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16398', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Election Commission Unveils Results of 157 Seats under FPTP', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 28: The Election Commission has unveiled the election results of 157 seats out of 165 of the House of Representatives (HoR) under the First-Past-The-Post (FPTP) electoral system.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">November 28: The Election Commission has unveiled the election results of 157 seats out of 165 of the House of Representatives (HoR) under the First-Past-The-Post (FPTP) electoral system. According to the latest update of the EC, the Nepali Congress (NC) continues to lead the election results. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The Election Commission informed that the Nepali Congress has obtained 53 seats, followed by CPN (UML) with 42 seats, CPN (Maoist Centre) with 17 seats, CPN (Unified Socialist) with 10 seats while Rastriya Swatantra Party and Rastriya Prajatantra Party have each secured seven seats. Janata Samajwadi Party has won six seats in the lower house. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Similarly, the Lokatantrik Samajwadi Party has secured four seats, Nagarik Unmukti Party 3 while the Nepal Workers and Peasants Party, Rastriya Janamorcha and Janamat Party have won one seat each. Likewise, five independent candidates have been elected to the HoR under the FPTP, the Election Commissions said. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Vote counting in Dolakha, Bajura and Syangja districts could not be held yet owing to disputes among the political parties' representatives and candidates contesting the parliamentary elections. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The Election Commission has decided to hold reelection in some polling centres within December 1 this year while reelection was held in Bajura on Saturday. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Who won from which party? </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Prime Minister and Nepali Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba, leaders Yogesh Sherchan, Tek Bahadur Gurung, Prakashman Singh, Santosh Chalise, Gagan Kumar Thapa, Pradeep Poudel, Mohan Acharya, Udaya Shumsher JBR, Shankar Bhandari and Rajendra Kumar KC were elected to the HoR on behalf of the Nepali Congress. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Similarly, other NC candidates emerging victorious include Ramesh Kumar Rijal, Hridaya Ram Thani, Ramhari Khatiwada, Bishwa Prakash Sharma, Ajay Kumar Chaurasiya, Rajendra Bajagain, Kham Bahadur Garbuja, Pushpa Bahadur Shah, Bir Bahadur Balayar, Dilendra Prasad Badu, Ramesh Lekhak, NP Saud, Dikpal Kumar Shahi, Durlabh Thapa, Shashank Koirala, Ramchandra Poudel, Kishore Singh Rathore, Dev Prakash Timalsina, Dinesh Kumar Yadav, Ramnath Adhikari and Purna Bahadur Khadka. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">According to the Election Commission, other candidates elected in the HoR from NC are Bishnu Kumar Karki, Shyam Kumar Ghimire, Deepak Giri, Sanjay Gautam, Binod Chaudhary, Ramkrishna Yadav, Mohan Bahadur Basnet, Shekhar Koirala, Dilliraj Panta, Chandrakanta Bhandari, Raju Thapa, Deepak Khadka, Surendra Raj Acharya, Sita Gurung, Sunil Kumar Sharma, Arjun Narsingh KC, Tejulal Chaudhary, Ain Bahadur Shahi, Mahendra Kumar Raya, Dig Bahadur Limbu and Purna Bahadur Tamang. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The candidates elected from CPN (UML) include Ambar Bahadur Rayamajhi, Krishna Gopal Shrestha, Prem Bahadur Maharjan, Gokarna Bista, Devraj Ghimire, KP Sharma Oli, Yogesh Bhattarai, Raj Kumar Gupta, Top Bahadur Rayamajhi, Surya Thapa, Prithivi Subba Gurung, Mahesh Bartaula, Manbir Rai, Padam Giri, Lal Prasad Sanwa Limbu, Basudev Ghimire, and Rajendra Kumar Rai. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Furthermore, the Election Commission shared that (CPN) UML's Bidhya Bhattarai, Surya Prasad Dhakal, Ram Shankar Yadav, Damodar Bhandari, Tara Lama Tamang, Balaram Adhikari, Basanta Kumar Nemwang, Damodar Poudel, Hari Prasad Uprety, Jwala Kumari Shah, Achyut Prasad Mainali, Juli Mahato and Man Bahadur Gurung secured victory. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Leelanath Shrestha, Thakur Prasad Gaire, Rishikesh Pokharel, Mangal Prasad Gupta, Bishnu Poudel, Gokul Banskota, Narayan Prasad Acharya, Chabilal Bishwakarma, Bim Acharya, Subash Nemwang, Laxmi Mahato Koiri and Mahesh Basnet also emerged victorious on behalf of the CPN (UML). </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">From CPN (Maoist Centre), party's Chairperson Pushpa Kamal Dahal, its leaders Janardan Sharma, Barshaman Pun, Devendra Poudel, Shakti Bahadur Basnet, Sudan Kirati, Madhav Sapkota, Amanlal Modi, Hit Bahadur Tamang, Ram Kumar Rai, Lekhnath Dahal, Rekha Sharma, Purna Bahadur Gharti, Mahendra Ray Yadav, Surya Prasad Tamang (Dong), Tshiring Dambul Lama and Mahendra Bahadur Shahi were elected to the HoR, informed the Election Commission. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The candidates wining from CPN (Unified Socialist) include party chairperson Madhav Kumar Nepal, leaders Rajendra Prasad Pandey, Dhan Bahadur Buda, Ambar Bahadur Thapa, Krishna Kumar Shrestha, Sher Bahadur Kunwar, Prakash Jwala, Met Mani Chaudhary, Prem Bahadur Ale and Bhanubhakta Joshi. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The candidates who secured seats in the HoR from Rastriya Swatantra Party are Ravi Lamichhane, Sobita Gautam, Ganesh Parajuli, Biraj Bhakta Shrestha, Hari Dhakal, Sishir Khanal and Toshima Karki. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Janata Samajbadi Party's candidates Pradeep Yadav, Nawal Kishore Shah, Deepak Karki, Ram Sahayak Prasad Yadav, Raj Kishore Yadav and Birendra Prasad Mahato secured victory. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Rastriya Prajatantra Party's candidates Rajendra Lingden, Bikram Pandey, Dhawal Shumsher Rana, Deepak Bahadur Singh, Dhruba Bahadur Pradhan, Deepak Bohora and Gyanendra Bahadur Shahi were elected HoR members. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Lokatantrik Samajwadi Party's Chairperson Mahantha Thakur, Sarbendranath Shukla, Sharat Singh Bhandari and Ram Prakash Chaudhary were also elected MPs. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">From Rastriya Janamorcha, Chitra Bahadur KC emerged victorious while Prem Suwal from Nepal Workers and Peasants Party's and Chandrakant Raut from Janamat Party secured a seat each in the parliament. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Independent candidates securing seat in HoR are Amresh Kumar Singh, Yogesh Mandal, Prabhu Shah, Kiran Kumar Shah and Lalbir Chaudhary, the Election Commission said. -- RSS </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-28', 'modified' => '2022-11-28', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16139', 'image' => '20221128111324_Election_Commission.2e16d0ba.fill-650x500.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-28 11:12:51', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 2 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16397', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Cargo Train to Arrive at Biratnagar ICP within Three Weeks', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 27: Last Wednesday, there were a lot of activities at the Biratnagar-based Integrated Check Post (ICP) area on the Nepal-India border.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">November 27: Last Wednesday, there were a lot of activities at the Biratnagar-based Integrated Check Post (ICP) area on the Nepal-India border. Employees from Nepal and India were jostling to take photos. A passenger train with 25 coaches arrived at the ICP from Bathnaha, India.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The train engine had arrived several times before for broad gauge testing, but it was the first time that the full train did had arrived here. Only cargo containers will come in this broad gauge. On Wednesday, Indian officials came for testing a passenger train.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The Indian side has completed the entire railway work at the ICP which is seven and a half kilometers northeast of Bathnaha. They have also passed the test. As soon as the Indian authorities received the news from Nepal that they are ready for the agreement, India assured that they will hand over regular cargo trains from December 15 onwards. The Nepali side has also informed that the work has been completed, and preparations have been made accordingly.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The Railways Department of India returned from an on-site inspection on Wednesday concluding that cargo trains can be brought up to ICP. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Roshan Kumar Dev, Site Engineer of Bathnaha-Katahari Railways under the Railways Department, said that the officials of the Indian Railways Department are making final preparations.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Engineer Dev informed that they are in the process of operating a cargo train within the next one and a half months.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The work of preparing the necessary infrastructure to bring the cargo train to the Nepal Customs Yard of the ICP has also been started. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">According to Dev, the Indian government will hand over the railway to the Ministry of Physical Infrastructure of Nepal.</span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-27', 'modified' => '2022-11-27', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16138', 'image' => '20221127081123_1669501161.Clipboard16 (1).jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-27 20:10:25', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 3 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16396', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Costa Rica Stun Japan, Hand a Lifeline to Germany', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 27: Costa Rica stunned Japan 1-0 thanks to a late goal at the World Cup on Sunday to blow Group E wide open. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">AGENCIES</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">November 27: Costa Rica stunned Japan 1-0 thanks to a late goal at the World Cup on Sunday to blow Group E wide open. The win over Japan has given a potential lifeline to heavyweight Germany, who were beaten by the Samurai Blue 2-1 in their opening match.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">According to AFP, Japan could have taken a giant stride towards the last 16 with a win but they laboured for large parts of the match against a Costa Rica side who were hammered 7-0 by Spain.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Keysher Fuller's curling 81st-minute effort, Costa Rica's first shot on target in the entire tournament, rocked Japan and put their hopes of progression in peril, Reuters reported.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The result left Spain, Japan and Costa Rica all on three points. Spain face Germany later on Sunday in another crucial contest.</span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-27', 'modified' => '2022-11-27', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16137', 'image' => '20221127071334_Untitled.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-27 19:13:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 4 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16395', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => '80 Percent Vote Count under PR Completed ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 27: Vote count under the proportional representation category of the elections to the House of Representatives and the provincial assemblies is currently underway. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">November 27: Vote count under the proportional representation category of the elections to the House of Representatives and the provincial assemblies is currently underway. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Out of over 17.9 million registered voters, the voters' turnout was 61 percent, according to the EC. So far, approximately 80 percent of the votes cast during the November 20 election have been counted, said EC's Spokesperson Shaligram Sharma Paudel. </span></span></span><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">According to him, approximately 2.4 million votes remain to be counted. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The latest updates of the EC show that out of 8,774,661 votes counted so far, the CPN (UML) is leading with 2,413,222 votes followed by the Nepali Congress with 2,294,983 votes. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Similarly, the CPN (Maoist Center) has secured 1,005,679 votes, followed by the Rastriya Swatantra Party with 983,522 votes, the Rastriya Prajatantra Party with 513,911 votes, the Janata Samajwadi Party with 300,449 votes, and the CPN (Unified Socialist) with 235,375 votes. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Similarly, the Janamat Party has obtained 234,127 votes, the Nagarik Unmukti Party 202,079 votes, the Loktantrik Samajwadi Party 122,557 votes, the Nepal Workers and Peasants Party 70,371 votes, the Hamro Nepal Party 49,627 votes, the Rastriya Janamorcha 43,926 votes and the Mongol National Organisation 44,208 votes. The Nationalist People’s Party has received the lowest 1,504 votes. -- RSS </span></span></span><br /> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-27', 'modified' => '2022-11-27', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16136', 'image' => '20221127064936_20220805085711_Election_Commission.2e16d0ba.fill-650x500.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-27 18:49:11', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 5 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16394', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Over 16,000 Small Industries Registered Within 6 Months', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 27: A total of 16,341micro, cottage and small industries have been registered in Nepal in the first three months of the current fiscal year.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">November 27: A total of 16,341micro, cottage and small industries have been registered in Nepal in the first three months of the current fiscal year. Those industries have been registered at the micro, cottage and small industries offices across the country and are expected to provide employment to 50,211 people.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Supplies revealed this data during a programme organized on the occasion of the 8th Industry Day in Kathmandu on Friday. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Similarly, 86 industries have been registered with the Department of Industries during this period and are expected to provide employment to 5,935 people. On the occasion, Chief Secretary of the Government of Nepal, Shankar Das Bairagi, and the Secretary at the Ministry of Industries, Commerce and Supplies Toya Narayan Gyawali also released the industrial bulletin.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">According to the ministry, the government has launched the Small Enterprise Development Programme with the aim of creating employment opportunities at the local levels. Under the programme, 51,428 new small entrepreneurs were created in the last fiscal year. Similarly, Gyawali said that the government has been supporting the programme under the "Make in Nepal" campaign in collaboration with the private sector. He said that a MoU has been signed with the FNCCI to implement the arrangements in the budget. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Director General of the Department of Industry Ram Chandra Tiwari said that improvements in policy, legal, institutional, procedural and technological aspects have been done to facilitate the industrial sector.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">He expressed that only by creating an industry-friendly environment, the traditional agricultural system can be transformed into entrepreneurship, and only through that, a sustainable and independent economy can be developed. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Similarly, Shekhar Golchha, the president of the Federation of Nepalese Chamber of Commerce and Industry, stressed that the government should provide subsidies to industries in Nepal for value addition, job creation and export. Saying that the economy is in a lot of crisis now, he stated that both the government and the private sector should be involved in creating an environment for the industry to sort out the problems.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Vishnu Kumar Agarwal, president of the Confederation of Nepalese Industries (CNI), suggested that the government should bring a clear industrial policy to open new industries and prevent the displacement of old ones. He said that it is very difficult to start an industry at present due to the exorbitant prices of land. According to him, the CNI has launched various campaigns and plans by giving priority to domestic production and exports. He said that it is also necessary for the government to support and cooperate in these activities of the private sector. He also stressed on the need to do homework on cost reduction issues as the production cost of industries is high.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-27', 'modified' => '2022-11-27', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16135', 'image' => '20221127053353_20220526052559_service_1543560160.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-27 17:33:18', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 6 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16393', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'OPCMC Urges Victims of Oriental Cooperative to Resubmit their Claims', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 27: The Office of Problematic Cooperative Management Committee (OPCMC) has issued a fresh notice to the depositors of Oriental Cooperative, which has been declared problematic by the government, to update the amounts embezzled by the cooperative. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">November 27: The Office of the Problematic Cooperative Management Committee (OPCMC) has issued a fresh notice to the depositors of Oriental Cooperative, which has been declared problematic by the government, to update the amounts embezzled by the cooperative. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Issuing a public notice on Friday, OPCMC has urged the depositors to update the office within 15 days regarding the money they are entitled to receive from the cooperative. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The OPCMC has already collected the details of the amount embezzled by the cooperative. However, OPCMC Member Secretary Keshav Prasad Poudel said that the government body decided to seek details again to update the claims made by the depositors after the cooperative was declared problematic for the second time.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">“We have already collected the details. We are seeking the details from the depositors for the second time just to cross-check whether they match with the details submitted earlier,” Poudel told New Business Age.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Poudel informed that the victims can update the claims through the OPCMC website.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">According to the Problematic Cooperative Management Committee’s Office, Oriental Cooperative Ltd had amassed savings of over Rs 10 billion through its nine branches across the country and misappropriated the deposits. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The cooperative was first declared problematic on November 6, 2017 after it went bankrupt. According to the committee chief Keshab Prasad Poudel, 7,646 members approached the committee office demanding its intervention to get back their deposits. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The cooperative also faced a case at the Supreme Court for the ‘misappropriation’ of the deposits. Responding to the case, the apex court on February 23, 2020 ordered the cooperative to address the issue. But the implementation of the court verdict is still awaited. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Assessing that the cooperative is not serious towards addressing the issue, the Ministry of Cooperatives on September 23, 2022 declared it ‘problematic’ for the second time. Following the declaration, former chair of the cooperative Sudhir Basnet has been arrested. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">During his inquiry, Basnet revealed his association with ‘Kohinoor Hill Saving and Credit Co-operative Limited’, ‘Consumer Savings and Credit Cooperative Ltd’, and the ‘Vegas Savings and Credit Cooperative Ltd’ which have also been identified as ‘problematic’ by the government. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">So far, Oriental Cooperative is found to have collected the deposits by establishing its branches in Nepalgunj, Pokhara, Dang, Surkhet, Kathmandu, Biratnagar, Itahari, Bhaktapur and Lalitpur. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The government has declared 12 cooperatives as ‘problematic’. </span></span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-27', 'modified' => '2022-11-27', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16134', 'image' => '20221127020026_cooperative problematic.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-27 13:59:42', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 7 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16392', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Number of Companies Listed with NEPSE Reaches 242 in mid-October ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 27: The number of companies listed with the Nepal Stock Exchange (NEPSE) has reached 242 as of mid-October 2022. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">November 27: The number of companies listed with the Nepal Stock Exchange (NEPSE) has reached 242 as of mid-October 2022. This is stated in the latest report of Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) on the Current Macroeconomic and Financial Situation of Nepal. The report is based on three months’ data ending mid-October, 2022/23. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The companies listed with the NEPSE include 146 Banks and Financial Institutions (BFIs) and insurance companies, 59 hydropower companies, 19 manufacturing and processing industries, six investment companies, five hotels, four trading companies and three others. The number of companies listed with NEPSE was 222 in mid-October 2021. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The share of BFIs and insurance companies in stock market capitalization is 68.6 percent, the NRB report said. Such a share for hydropower companies is 10.5 percent, investment companies 6.4 percent, manufacturing and processing industries 4.4 percent, hotels 1.7 percent, trading companies 0.4 percent and the share of other companies is 8.1 percent. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The paid-up value of 6.82 billion shares listed with NEPSE stood at Rs 672.69 billion in mid-October 2022. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Securities worth Rs 80.78 billion were listed with NEPSE during the three months of FY 2022/23. Such securities comprise government bonds worth Rs 35 billion, debenture worth Rs 25.44 billion, bonus shares worth Rs 9.29 billion, ordinary shares worth Rs 6.57 billion, mutual fund worth Rs 3.27 billion and rights shares worth Rs 1.21 billion. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Securities Board of Nepal approved the total public issuance of securities worth Rs 9.39 billion which includes debenture worth Rs 4.24 billion, mutual fund worth Rs 3.15 billion, ordinary shares worth Rs 1.05 billion and rights shares worth Rs. 954 million in the review period. -- RSS </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-27', 'modified' => '2022-11-27', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16133', 'image' => '20221127011839_NEPSE-FI.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-27 13:18:05', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 8 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16391', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'NC Leads Vote-Count under FPTP Category, Secures 52 HoR Seats so Far', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 27: The Nepali Congress is in the top position in the vote count tally of the election to the members of the House of Representatives (HoR) and provincial assemblies (PA) elections held on November 20. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">November 27: The Nepali Congress is in the top position in the vote count tally of the election to the members of the House of Representatives (HoR) and provincial assemblies (PA) elections held on November 20. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">According to the Election Commission, the results of the vote counting of 155 out of the 165 electoral constituencies under the first-past-the-post (FPTP) category have been announced by 7 am today (Sunday). </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The Nepali Congress tops the vote-count, securing 52 seats, followed by the CPN (UML) with 41 seats, the CPN (Maoist Centre) 17 seats, the CPN (Unified Socialist) 10 seats, the Rastriya Swatantra Party and the Rastriya Prajatantra Party seven seats each, the Janata Samajbadi Party five seats, the Lokatantrik Samajbadi Party four seats, the Nagarik Unmukti Party three seats and independent candidates winning five seats under the FPTP category of the HoR election so far. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The Nepal Workers and Peasants Party, the Janamat Party and the Rastriya Janamorcha have each won one HoR seat under the FPTP category. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The Election Commission stated that the vote count results of 10 electoral constituencies are still awaited. The delay in announcing the results in these constituencies is because of the delayed vote counting in some constituencies while the vote count in some constituencies have not started yet.</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"">There has been delay in counting of votes in Bajura where re-voting was held on Saturday. So far, the results of Dolakha-1, Syangja-2, Sunsari-1, 3 and 4, Bajura, Ilam-1, Udayapur-1 and Ramechhap constituencies is awaited. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The vote counting is in progress in seven constituencies. Nepali Congress is leading the vote-count tally in four, the UML in two and the Rastriya Swatantra Party in one out of these. The vote counting has not yet started in Dolakha, Syangja-2 and Bajura. -- RSS </span><br /> </span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-27', 'modified' => '2022-11-27', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16132', 'image' => '20221127122927_NCC.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-27 12:28:53', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 9 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16389', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Messi Magic Keeps Argentina's World Cup Dream Alive ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 27: Lionel Messi kept his dream of winning his first World Cup alive by scoring the opening goal in Saturday's 2-0 victory over Mexico in World Cup Group C.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">AGENCIES</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">November 27: Lionel Messi kept his dream of winning his first World Cup alive by scoring the opening goal in Saturday's 2-0 victory over Mexico in World Cup Group C.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The Argentine, competing in his fifth World Cup at age 35, has won every other major title in his career but has failed to lift the coveted trophy despite making the final in 2014, Reuters reported.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Meanwhile, the BBC reported that Argentina knew defeat would effectively end their World Cup following the embarrassing loss to Saudi Arabia in the opener. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">“Messi knew this would mean the major honour that has eluded his grasp in a glittering career would be forever out of reach.”</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Messi was, once again, shouldering the burden of Argentina's expectations - and once again he delivered by pulling out a piece of trademark magic when they needed it most to change the course of an attritional game, and perhaps even change the course of his team's World Cup in the process, added the BBC.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">According to Reuters, Messi’s 64th minute strike that was followed by substitute Enzo Fernandez's sublime effort three minutes from time, reignited their hopes of advancing past the group stage after their shock 2-1 loss to Saudi Arabia in their opener.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Messi, who equalled Diego Maradona's Argentina record of 21 matches and eight goals at the World Cup, was nowhere to be seen for more than an hour before picking up an Angel Di Maria pass, finding just enough space and rifling in from 20 metres, added the news agency.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Substitute Fernandez made sure of the victory when he curled a superb shot into the top corner.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Argentina, with just three points from two matches, can guarantee progress with a win over Poland in their final group-stage match on Wednesday.</span></span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-27', 'modified' => '2022-11-27', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16131', 'image' => '20221127110047_Lionel-Messi-celeb-Argentina-vs-Mexico.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-27 10:59:46', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 10 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16390', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Mbappe Double Sends France into World Cup Last-16', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 27: France’s star striker Kylian Mbappe displayed a superb individual performance with two second-half goals to make sure the defending champions France becomes the first side to reach the last 16 of the World Cup.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">AGENCIES</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">November 27: France’s star striker Kylian Mbappe displayed a superb individual performance with two second-half goals to make sure the defending champions France becomes the first side to reach the last 16 of the World Cup.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">According to media reports, the two-time champions France beat Denmark 2-1 in their Group D clash at the 974 Stadium on Saturday riding on goals of the 2018 World Cup hero Mbappe.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mbappe's goals sent France top the group on six points, three ahead of Australia, who beat Tunisia 1-0 earlier in the day, with the Danes and the Tunisians both on one point, Reuters reported.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">France take on Tunisia and Denmark meet Socceroos in the final group-stage round on Wednesday, with the Danes needing a win to advance.</span></span></span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-27', 'modified' => '2022-11-27', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16130', 'image' => '20221127111112_Kylian-Mbappe-4.jpeg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-27 11:10:31', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 11 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16388', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => '7.6 million Votes Counted under Proportional Representation Category ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'Nov 26: The Election Commission has said it has counted more than 7.6 million votes under the proportional election category. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Nov 26: The Election Commission has said it has counted more than 7.6 million votes under the proportional election category. The figure is the latest update of votes received by 47 political parties published by the EC on Saturday evening. </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"">There is a constitutional provision to elect a total of 110 members to the House of Representatives via the proportional electoral system. As per the vote count, the CPN UML is ahead with 2.8 million votes followed by the Nepali Congress with 2.1 million votes. Similarly, the CPN Maoist has been able to secure third position with 891,000 votes. The fourth party in proportional representation is the Rastriya Swatantra Party which has collected 854,000 votes. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Similarly, Rastriya Prajatantra Party has so far received 458,000 votes, followed by Janata Samajbadi Party (248,000 votes), CPN-Unified Socialist (193,000 votes), Janamat Party (178,000 votes), Nagarik Unmukti Party (175,000 votes), Loktantrik Samajbadi Party 104,000 votes), Nepal Workers and Peasants Party 68,000 votes). </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The Nationalist People's Party is last in the ranking with 1,159 votes under the proportional election system. The vote turnout in the election to the House of Representatives and Province Assembly was 61 percent. There are more than 17.9 million voters registered for the election. For the first-past-the-post election, there were 2,412 candidates while for the proportional election, there are 2,199 candidates in the final closed list. (RSS) </span></span></span><br /> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-27', 'modified' => '2022-11-27', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16129', 'image' => '20221127103037_20221124112330_KN_Damauli-image_6483441.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-27 10:29:55', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 12 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16387', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'NC leading FPTP Seats in HoR ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 26: The Election Commission has published the final results of the voting held in 118 constituencies out of 165 in the House of Representatives under the First-Past-The-Post (FPTP) electoral system. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">November 26: The Election Commission has published the final results of the voting held in 118 constituencies out of 165 in the House of Representatives under the First-Past-The-Post (FPTP) electoral system. By the time this news report was prepared, the Nepali Congress (NC) was leading the FPTP polls securing 39 HoR seats. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The CPN (UML) is trailing behind the NC with 32 seats while the CPN (Maoist Centre) is in the third position with 13 seats in parliament, according to the latest update provided by the Election Commission. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Likewise, the CPN (Unified Socialist) has so far won seven seats, followed by Rastriya Swatantra Party, Janata Samajwadi Party and Rastriya Prajatantra Party with five seats each. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The Lokatantrik Samajwadi Party has secured four seats in parliament, while Rastriya Janamorcha Party and Nepal Workers and Peasants Party have won one seats each. Meanwhile, five independent candidates have been elected as members of the HoR under FPTP, the Election Commission said. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Counting of votes for HoR under FPTP system is yet to begin in one constituency each in Dolakha, Syangja and Bajura district. </span><br /> <strong><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">NC leads FPTP seats in Province Assembly </span></strong><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The Nepali Congress is also leading in Province Assembly election under FPTP. The NC is leading in four provinces, CPN (UML) is trailing in two and CPN (Maoist Centre) in one. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The NC remains ahead in Bagmati Province, Gandaki Province, Lumbini Province and Karnali Province while the CPN (UML) in leading in Province 1 and Madhesh Province. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">CPN (Maoist Centre) is leading in Sudurpaschim Province, the EC 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"">So far, the NC has won 81 Provincial Assembly seats, followed by CPN-UML (67) and CPN Maoist Centre (37). (With inputs from RSS)</span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-26', 'modified' => '2022-11-26', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16128', 'image' => '20221126055006_SB_SURUNGGA_BISWAPRAKAS.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-26 17:49:20', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 13 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16386', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Neymar to Miss next Two World Cup Matches of Brazil with Ankle Injury', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 26: Brazil’s star striker Neymar has been ruled out of the next two World Cup games after sustaining ligament damage in his right ankle, the BBC reported citing Brazil’s team doctor.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">AGENCIES<br /> November 26: Brazil’s star striker Neymar has been ruled out of the next two World Cup games after sustaining ligament damage in his right ankle, the BBC reported citing Brazil’s team doctor.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">According to AFP, the Paris Saint-Germain star suffered ligament damage in the 2-0 victory against Serbia on Thursday when he collided with Nikola Milenkovic.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The 30-year-old forward was replaced in 80th minute after a heavy tackle by Milenkovic.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">According to the BBC, he described the injury as "one of the hardest moments of my career".</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">"Nothing in my life came easy and I've always had to work for my dreams and goals," Neymar wrote on Instagram. "I have never wished anyone anything bad and always helped who needed. I'm injured, yes it's not nice, it will hurt but I'm sure I will have the chance to come back because I'll do everything possible to help my country, my team-mates and myself."</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Neymar's career has been peppered by injuries which have impacted on his previous two World Cups, added AFP.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">According to the French news agency, he suffered a fractured bone in his back in the quarter-final win over Colombia in 2014, meaning he was sidelined when the hosts were thrashed 7-1 by Germany in the semi-finals.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">“Four years later he raced to recover from injury in time for the tournament in Russia, but Brazil never hit the expected heights before losing to Belgium in the last eight.”</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Brazil face Switzerland in their second Group G game on Monday (16:00 GMT), before playing Cameroon next Friday (19:00 BST).</span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-26', 'modified' => '2022-11-26', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16127', 'image' => '20221126042406_Neymar-2048x1474.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-26 16:23:41', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 14 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16385', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'UML, NC, Rastriya Swatantra Among Top Three in PR Vote Count', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 26: Counting of votes cast under the Proportional Representation (PR) system during the election to the members of the House of Representatives and provincial assemblies is underway. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">November 26: Counting of votes cast under the Proportional Representation (PR) system during the election to the members of the House of Representatives and provincial assemblies is underway. The voting was held on November 20. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">According to the vote count update made available by the Election Commission on Saturday morning, the CPN (UML) is leading the PR tally under the House of Representatives. The party has received 1,809,417 votes so far. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Similarly, the Nepali Congress is in the second position with 1,744,069 votes followed by Rastriya Swatantra Party with 787,747 votes. 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', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">November 28: The government is preparing to cover social security for workers in the informal sector, Nepali migrant workers abroad and those engaged in self-employment. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Minister for Labour, Employment and Social Security Sher Bahadur Kunwar has pledged to bring those sector on board the social security criteria. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">During an event organized on the occasion of the fifth Social Security Day on Sunday, Minister Kunwar said the social security scheme would be made conducive to the workers. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Hinting at amendments to the schemes unveiled under the Social Security Fund, Minister Kunwar argued that no one will be left behind since the criteria of the social security schemes has been extended. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">He further said that the family members of the workers would be encouraged towards entrepreneurship development by extending the fund’s horizon. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Also speaking at the event, SSF Chairman and Secretary at the Ministry, Ek Narayan Aryal, said the employees and employers should not hesitate to join the social security scheme since the SSF has been offering the contributors with attractive facilities. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Likewise, Executive Director of SSF Kapil Mani Gyawali said that the contributors’ spouse will get medical expenses and the contributors will also get medical expenses for chronic diseases. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Meanwhile, the SSF announced the establishment of its offices in Butwal and Nepalgunj on Sunday. The SSF now has four offices including those in Biratnagar and Simara and another office will be established in Pokhara in the near future. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Currently, 17,507 employers and 375,904 employees have been enlisted in the fund and a total of Rs 26 billion has been collected from them. -- RSS </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-28', 'modified' => '2022-11-28', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16140', 'image' => '20221128115926_agri maize.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-28 11:58:53', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 1 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16398', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Election Commission Unveils Results of 157 Seats under FPTP', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 28: The Election Commission has unveiled the election results of 157 seats out of 165 of the House of Representatives (HoR) under the First-Past-The-Post (FPTP) electoral system.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">November 28: The Election Commission has unveiled the election results of 157 seats out of 165 of the House of Representatives (HoR) under the First-Past-The-Post (FPTP) electoral system. According to the latest update of the EC, the Nepali Congress (NC) continues to lead the election results. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The Election Commission informed that the Nepali Congress has obtained 53 seats, followed by CPN (UML) with 42 seats, CPN (Maoist Centre) with 17 seats, CPN (Unified Socialist) with 10 seats while Rastriya Swatantra Party and Rastriya Prajatantra Party have each secured seven seats. Janata Samajwadi Party has won six seats in the lower house. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Similarly, the Lokatantrik Samajwadi Party has secured four seats, Nagarik Unmukti Party 3 while the Nepal Workers and Peasants Party, Rastriya Janamorcha and Janamat Party have won one seat each. Likewise, five independent candidates have been elected to the HoR under the FPTP, the Election Commissions said. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Vote counting in Dolakha, Bajura and Syangja districts could not be held yet owing to disputes among the political parties' representatives and candidates contesting the parliamentary elections. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The Election Commission has decided to hold reelection in some polling centres within December 1 this year while reelection was held in Bajura on Saturday. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Who won from which party? </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Prime Minister and Nepali Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba, leaders Yogesh Sherchan, Tek Bahadur Gurung, Prakashman Singh, Santosh Chalise, Gagan Kumar Thapa, Pradeep Poudel, Mohan Acharya, Udaya Shumsher JBR, Shankar Bhandari and Rajendra Kumar KC were elected to the HoR on behalf of the Nepali Congress. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Similarly, other NC candidates emerging victorious include Ramesh Kumar Rijal, Hridaya Ram Thani, Ramhari Khatiwada, Bishwa Prakash Sharma, Ajay Kumar Chaurasiya, Rajendra Bajagain, Kham Bahadur Garbuja, Pushpa Bahadur Shah, Bir Bahadur Balayar, Dilendra Prasad Badu, Ramesh Lekhak, NP Saud, Dikpal Kumar Shahi, Durlabh Thapa, Shashank Koirala, Ramchandra Poudel, Kishore Singh Rathore, Dev Prakash Timalsina, Dinesh Kumar Yadav, Ramnath Adhikari and Purna Bahadur Khadka. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">According to the Election Commission, other candidates elected in the HoR from NC are Bishnu Kumar Karki, Shyam Kumar Ghimire, Deepak Giri, Sanjay Gautam, Binod Chaudhary, Ramkrishna Yadav, Mohan Bahadur Basnet, Shekhar Koirala, Dilliraj Panta, Chandrakanta Bhandari, Raju Thapa, Deepak Khadka, Surendra Raj Acharya, Sita Gurung, Sunil Kumar Sharma, Arjun Narsingh KC, Tejulal Chaudhary, Ain Bahadur Shahi, Mahendra Kumar Raya, Dig Bahadur Limbu and Purna Bahadur Tamang. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The candidates elected from CPN (UML) include Ambar Bahadur Rayamajhi, Krishna Gopal Shrestha, Prem Bahadur Maharjan, Gokarna Bista, Devraj Ghimire, KP Sharma Oli, Yogesh Bhattarai, Raj Kumar Gupta, Top Bahadur Rayamajhi, Surya Thapa, Prithivi Subba Gurung, Mahesh Bartaula, Manbir Rai, Padam Giri, Lal Prasad Sanwa Limbu, Basudev Ghimire, and Rajendra Kumar Rai. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Furthermore, the Election Commission shared that (CPN) UML's Bidhya Bhattarai, Surya Prasad Dhakal, Ram Shankar Yadav, Damodar Bhandari, Tara Lama Tamang, Balaram Adhikari, Basanta Kumar Nemwang, Damodar Poudel, Hari Prasad Uprety, Jwala Kumari Shah, Achyut Prasad Mainali, Juli Mahato and Man Bahadur Gurung secured victory. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Leelanath Shrestha, Thakur Prasad Gaire, Rishikesh Pokharel, Mangal Prasad Gupta, Bishnu Poudel, Gokul Banskota, Narayan Prasad Acharya, Chabilal Bishwakarma, Bim Acharya, Subash Nemwang, Laxmi Mahato Koiri and Mahesh Basnet also emerged victorious on behalf of the CPN (UML). </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">From CPN (Maoist Centre), party's Chairperson Pushpa Kamal Dahal, its leaders Janardan Sharma, Barshaman Pun, Devendra Poudel, Shakti Bahadur Basnet, Sudan Kirati, Madhav Sapkota, Amanlal Modi, Hit Bahadur Tamang, Ram Kumar Rai, Lekhnath Dahal, Rekha Sharma, Purna Bahadur Gharti, Mahendra Ray Yadav, Surya Prasad Tamang (Dong), Tshiring Dambul Lama and Mahendra Bahadur Shahi were elected to the HoR, informed the Election Commission. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The candidates wining from CPN (Unified Socialist) include party chairperson Madhav Kumar Nepal, leaders Rajendra Prasad Pandey, Dhan Bahadur Buda, Ambar Bahadur Thapa, Krishna Kumar Shrestha, Sher Bahadur Kunwar, Prakash Jwala, Met Mani Chaudhary, Prem Bahadur Ale and Bhanubhakta Joshi. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The candidates who secured seats in the HoR from Rastriya Swatantra Party are Ravi Lamichhane, Sobita Gautam, Ganesh Parajuli, Biraj Bhakta Shrestha, Hari Dhakal, Sishir Khanal and Toshima Karki. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Janata Samajbadi Party's candidates Pradeep Yadav, Nawal Kishore Shah, Deepak Karki, Ram Sahayak Prasad Yadav, Raj Kishore Yadav and Birendra Prasad Mahato secured victory. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Rastriya Prajatantra Party's candidates Rajendra Lingden, Bikram Pandey, Dhawal Shumsher Rana, Deepak Bahadur Singh, Dhruba Bahadur Pradhan, Deepak Bohora and Gyanendra Bahadur Shahi were elected HoR members. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Lokatantrik Samajwadi Party's Chairperson Mahantha Thakur, Sarbendranath Shukla, Sharat Singh Bhandari and Ram Prakash Chaudhary were also elected MPs. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">From Rastriya Janamorcha, Chitra Bahadur KC emerged victorious while Prem Suwal from Nepal Workers and Peasants Party's and Chandrakant Raut from Janamat Party secured a seat each in the parliament. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Independent candidates securing seat in HoR are Amresh Kumar Singh, Yogesh Mandal, Prabhu Shah, Kiran Kumar Shah and Lalbir Chaudhary, the Election Commission said. -- RSS </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-28', 'modified' => '2022-11-28', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16139', 'image' => '20221128111324_Election_Commission.2e16d0ba.fill-650x500.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-28 11:12:51', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 2 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16397', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Cargo Train to Arrive at Biratnagar ICP within Three Weeks', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 27: Last Wednesday, there were a lot of activities at the Biratnagar-based Integrated Check Post (ICP) area on the Nepal-India border.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">November 27: Last Wednesday, there were a lot of activities at the Biratnagar-based Integrated Check Post (ICP) area on the Nepal-India border. Employees from Nepal and India were jostling to take photos. A passenger train with 25 coaches arrived at the ICP from Bathnaha, India.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The train engine had arrived several times before for broad gauge testing, but it was the first time that the full train did had arrived here. Only cargo containers will come in this broad gauge. On Wednesday, Indian officials came for testing a passenger train.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The Indian side has completed the entire railway work at the ICP which is seven and a half kilometers northeast of Bathnaha. They have also passed the test. As soon as the Indian authorities received the news from Nepal that they are ready for the agreement, India assured that they will hand over regular cargo trains from December 15 onwards. The Nepali side has also informed that the work has been completed, and preparations have been made accordingly.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The Railways Department of India returned from an on-site inspection on Wednesday concluding that cargo trains can be brought up to ICP. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Roshan Kumar Dev, Site Engineer of Bathnaha-Katahari Railways under the Railways Department, said that the officials of the Indian Railways Department are making final preparations.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Engineer Dev informed that they are in the process of operating a cargo train within the next one and a half months.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The work of preparing the necessary infrastructure to bring the cargo train to the Nepal Customs Yard of the ICP has also been started. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">According to Dev, the Indian government will hand over the railway to the Ministry of Physical Infrastructure of Nepal.</span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-27', 'modified' => '2022-11-27', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16138', 'image' => '20221127081123_1669501161.Clipboard16 (1).jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-27 20:10:25', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 3 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16396', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Costa Rica Stun Japan, Hand a Lifeline to Germany', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 27: Costa Rica stunned Japan 1-0 thanks to a late goal at the World Cup on Sunday to blow Group E wide open. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">AGENCIES</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">November 27: Costa Rica stunned Japan 1-0 thanks to a late goal at the World Cup on Sunday to blow Group E wide open. The win over Japan has given a potential lifeline to heavyweight Germany, who were beaten by the Samurai Blue 2-1 in their opening match.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">According to AFP, Japan could have taken a giant stride towards the last 16 with a win but they laboured for large parts of the match against a Costa Rica side who were hammered 7-0 by Spain.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Keysher Fuller's curling 81st-minute effort, Costa Rica's first shot on target in the entire tournament, rocked Japan and put their hopes of progression in peril, Reuters reported.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The result left Spain, Japan and Costa Rica all on three points. Spain face Germany later on Sunday in another crucial contest.</span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-27', 'modified' => '2022-11-27', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16137', 'image' => '20221127071334_Untitled.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-27 19:13:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 4 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16395', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => '80 Percent Vote Count under PR Completed ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 27: Vote count under the proportional representation category of the elections to the House of Representatives and the provincial assemblies is currently underway. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">November 27: Vote count under the proportional representation category of the elections to the House of Representatives and the provincial assemblies is currently underway. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Out of over 17.9 million registered voters, the voters' turnout was 61 percent, according to the EC. So far, approximately 80 percent of the votes cast during the November 20 election have been counted, said EC's Spokesperson Shaligram Sharma Paudel. </span></span></span><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">According to him, approximately 2.4 million votes remain to be counted. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The latest updates of the EC show that out of 8,774,661 votes counted so far, the CPN (UML) is leading with 2,413,222 votes followed by the Nepali Congress with 2,294,983 votes. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Similarly, the CPN (Maoist Center) has secured 1,005,679 votes, followed by the Rastriya Swatantra Party with 983,522 votes, the Rastriya Prajatantra Party with 513,911 votes, the Janata Samajwadi Party with 300,449 votes, and the CPN (Unified Socialist) with 235,375 votes. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Similarly, the Janamat Party has obtained 234,127 votes, the Nagarik Unmukti Party 202,079 votes, the Loktantrik Samajwadi Party 122,557 votes, the Nepal Workers and Peasants Party 70,371 votes, the Hamro Nepal Party 49,627 votes, the Rastriya Janamorcha 43,926 votes and the Mongol National Organisation 44,208 votes. The Nationalist People’s Party has received the lowest 1,504 votes. -- RSS </span></span></span><br /> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-27', 'modified' => '2022-11-27', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16136', 'image' => '20221127064936_20220805085711_Election_Commission.2e16d0ba.fill-650x500.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-27 18:49:11', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 5 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16394', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Over 16,000 Small Industries Registered Within 6 Months', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 27: A total of 16,341micro, cottage and small industries have been registered in Nepal in the first three months of the current fiscal year.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">November 27: A total of 16,341micro, cottage and small industries have been registered in Nepal in the first three months of the current fiscal year. Those industries have been registered at the micro, cottage and small industries offices across the country and are expected to provide employment to 50,211 people.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Supplies revealed this data during a programme organized on the occasion of the 8th Industry Day in Kathmandu on Friday. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Similarly, 86 industries have been registered with the Department of Industries during this period and are expected to provide employment to 5,935 people. On the occasion, Chief Secretary of the Government of Nepal, Shankar Das Bairagi, and the Secretary at the Ministry of Industries, Commerce and Supplies Toya Narayan Gyawali also released the industrial bulletin.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">According to the ministry, the government has launched the Small Enterprise Development Programme with the aim of creating employment opportunities at the local levels. Under the programme, 51,428 new small entrepreneurs were created in the last fiscal year. Similarly, Gyawali said that the government has been supporting the programme under the "Make in Nepal" campaign in collaboration with the private sector. He said that a MoU has been signed with the FNCCI to implement the arrangements in the budget. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Director General of the Department of Industry Ram Chandra Tiwari said that improvements in policy, legal, institutional, procedural and technological aspects have been done to facilitate the industrial sector.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">He expressed that only by creating an industry-friendly environment, the traditional agricultural system can be transformed into entrepreneurship, and only through that, a sustainable and independent economy can be developed. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Similarly, Shekhar Golchha, the president of the Federation of Nepalese Chamber of Commerce and Industry, stressed that the government should provide subsidies to industries in Nepal for value addition, job creation and export. Saying that the economy is in a lot of crisis now, he stated that both the government and the private sector should be involved in creating an environment for the industry to sort out the problems.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Vishnu Kumar Agarwal, president of the Confederation of Nepalese Industries (CNI), suggested that the government should bring a clear industrial policy to open new industries and prevent the displacement of old ones. He said that it is very difficult to start an industry at present due to the exorbitant prices of land. According to him, the CNI has launched various campaigns and plans by giving priority to domestic production and exports. He said that it is also necessary for the government to support and cooperate in these activities of the private sector. He also stressed on the need to do homework on cost reduction issues as the production cost of industries is high.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-27', 'modified' => '2022-11-27', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16135', 'image' => '20221127053353_20220526052559_service_1543560160.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-27 17:33:18', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 6 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16393', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'OPCMC Urges Victims of Oriental Cooperative to Resubmit their Claims', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 27: The Office of Problematic Cooperative Management Committee (OPCMC) has issued a fresh notice to the depositors of Oriental Cooperative, which has been declared problematic by the government, to update the amounts embezzled by the cooperative. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">November 27: The Office of the Problematic Cooperative Management Committee (OPCMC) has issued a fresh notice to the depositors of Oriental Cooperative, which has been declared problematic by the government, to update the amounts embezzled by the cooperative. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Issuing a public notice on Friday, OPCMC has urged the depositors to update the office within 15 days regarding the money they are entitled to receive from the cooperative. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The OPCMC has already collected the details of the amount embezzled by the cooperative. However, OPCMC Member Secretary Keshav Prasad Poudel said that the government body decided to seek details again to update the claims made by the depositors after the cooperative was declared problematic for the second time.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">“We have already collected the details. We are seeking the details from the depositors for the second time just to cross-check whether they match with the details submitted earlier,” Poudel told New Business Age.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Poudel informed that the victims can update the claims through the OPCMC website.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">According to the Problematic Cooperative Management Committee’s Office, Oriental Cooperative Ltd had amassed savings of over Rs 10 billion through its nine branches across the country and misappropriated the deposits. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The cooperative was first declared problematic on November 6, 2017 after it went bankrupt. According to the committee chief Keshab Prasad Poudel, 7,646 members approached the committee office demanding its intervention to get back their deposits. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The cooperative also faced a case at the Supreme Court for the ‘misappropriation’ of the deposits. Responding to the case, the apex court on February 23, 2020 ordered the cooperative to address the issue. But the implementation of the court verdict is still awaited. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Assessing that the cooperative is not serious towards addressing the issue, the Ministry of Cooperatives on September 23, 2022 declared it ‘problematic’ for the second time. Following the declaration, former chair of the cooperative Sudhir Basnet has been arrested. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">During his inquiry, Basnet revealed his association with ‘Kohinoor Hill Saving and Credit Co-operative Limited’, ‘Consumer Savings and Credit Cooperative Ltd’, and the ‘Vegas Savings and Credit Cooperative Ltd’ which have also been identified as ‘problematic’ by the government. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">So far, Oriental Cooperative is found to have collected the deposits by establishing its branches in Nepalgunj, Pokhara, Dang, Surkhet, Kathmandu, Biratnagar, Itahari, Bhaktapur and Lalitpur. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The government has declared 12 cooperatives as ‘problematic’. </span></span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-27', 'modified' => '2022-11-27', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16134', 'image' => '20221127020026_cooperative problematic.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-27 13:59:42', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 7 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16392', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Number of Companies Listed with NEPSE Reaches 242 in mid-October ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 27: The number of companies listed with the Nepal Stock Exchange (NEPSE) has reached 242 as of mid-October 2022. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">November 27: The number of companies listed with the Nepal Stock Exchange (NEPSE) has reached 242 as of mid-October 2022. This is stated in the latest report of Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) on the Current Macroeconomic and Financial Situation of Nepal. The report is based on three months’ data ending mid-October, 2022/23. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The companies listed with the NEPSE include 146 Banks and Financial Institutions (BFIs) and insurance companies, 59 hydropower companies, 19 manufacturing and processing industries, six investment companies, five hotels, four trading companies and three others. The number of companies listed with NEPSE was 222 in mid-October 2021. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The share of BFIs and insurance companies in stock market capitalization is 68.6 percent, the NRB report said. Such a share for hydropower companies is 10.5 percent, investment companies 6.4 percent, manufacturing and processing industries 4.4 percent, hotels 1.7 percent, trading companies 0.4 percent and the share of other companies is 8.1 percent. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The paid-up value of 6.82 billion shares listed with NEPSE stood at Rs 672.69 billion in mid-October 2022. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Securities worth Rs 80.78 billion were listed with NEPSE during the three months of FY 2022/23. Such securities comprise government bonds worth Rs 35 billion, debenture worth Rs 25.44 billion, bonus shares worth Rs 9.29 billion, ordinary shares worth Rs 6.57 billion, mutual fund worth Rs 3.27 billion and rights shares worth Rs 1.21 billion. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Securities Board of Nepal approved the total public issuance of securities worth Rs 9.39 billion which includes debenture worth Rs 4.24 billion, mutual fund worth Rs 3.15 billion, ordinary shares worth Rs 1.05 billion and rights shares worth Rs. 954 million in the review period. -- RSS </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-27', 'modified' => '2022-11-27', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16133', 'image' => '20221127011839_NEPSE-FI.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-27 13:18:05', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 8 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16391', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'NC Leads Vote-Count under FPTP Category, Secures 52 HoR Seats so Far', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 27: The Nepali Congress is in the top position in the vote count tally of the election to the members of the House of Representatives (HoR) and provincial assemblies (PA) elections held on November 20. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">November 27: The Nepali Congress is in the top position in the vote count tally of the election to the members of the House of Representatives (HoR) and provincial assemblies (PA) elections held on November 20. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">According to the Election Commission, the results of the vote counting of 155 out of the 165 electoral constituencies under the first-past-the-post (FPTP) category have been announced by 7 am today (Sunday). </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The Nepali Congress tops the vote-count, securing 52 seats, followed by the CPN (UML) with 41 seats, the CPN (Maoist Centre) 17 seats, the CPN (Unified Socialist) 10 seats, the Rastriya Swatantra Party and the Rastriya Prajatantra Party seven seats each, the Janata Samajbadi Party five seats, the Lokatantrik Samajbadi Party four seats, the Nagarik Unmukti Party three seats and independent candidates winning five seats under the FPTP category of the HoR election so far. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The Nepal Workers and Peasants Party, the Janamat Party and the Rastriya Janamorcha have each won one HoR seat under the FPTP category. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The Election Commission stated that the vote count results of 10 electoral constituencies are still awaited. The delay in announcing the results in these constituencies is because of the delayed vote counting in some constituencies while the vote count in some constituencies have not started yet.</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"">There has been delay in counting of votes in Bajura where re-voting was held on Saturday. So far, the results of Dolakha-1, Syangja-2, Sunsari-1, 3 and 4, Bajura, Ilam-1, Udayapur-1 and Ramechhap constituencies is awaited. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The vote counting is in progress in seven constituencies. Nepali Congress is leading the vote-count tally in four, the UML in two and the Rastriya Swatantra Party in one out of these. The vote counting has not yet started in Dolakha, Syangja-2 and Bajura. -- RSS </span><br /> </span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-27', 'modified' => '2022-11-27', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16132', 'image' => '20221127122927_NCC.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-27 12:28:53', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 9 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16389', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Messi Magic Keeps Argentina's World Cup Dream Alive ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 27: Lionel Messi kept his dream of winning his first World Cup alive by scoring the opening goal in Saturday's 2-0 victory over Mexico in World Cup Group C.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">AGENCIES</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">November 27: Lionel Messi kept his dream of winning his first World Cup alive by scoring the opening goal in Saturday's 2-0 victory over Mexico in World Cup Group C.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The Argentine, competing in his fifth World Cup at age 35, has won every other major title in his career but has failed to lift the coveted trophy despite making the final in 2014, Reuters reported.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Meanwhile, the BBC reported that Argentina knew defeat would effectively end their World Cup following the embarrassing loss to Saudi Arabia in the opener. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">“Messi knew this would mean the major honour that has eluded his grasp in a glittering career would be forever out of reach.”</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Messi was, once again, shouldering the burden of Argentina's expectations - and once again he delivered by pulling out a piece of trademark magic when they needed it most to change the course of an attritional game, and perhaps even change the course of his team's World Cup in the process, added the BBC.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">According to Reuters, Messi’s 64th minute strike that was followed by substitute Enzo Fernandez's sublime effort three minutes from time, reignited their hopes of advancing past the group stage after their shock 2-1 loss to Saudi Arabia in their opener.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Messi, who equalled Diego Maradona's Argentina record of 21 matches and eight goals at the World Cup, was nowhere to be seen for more than an hour before picking up an Angel Di Maria pass, finding just enough space and rifling in from 20 metres, added the news agency.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Substitute Fernandez made sure of the victory when he curled a superb shot into the top corner.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Argentina, with just three points from two matches, can guarantee progress with a win over Poland in their final group-stage match on Wednesday.</span></span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-27', 'modified' => '2022-11-27', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16131', 'image' => '20221127110047_Lionel-Messi-celeb-Argentina-vs-Mexico.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-27 10:59:46', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 10 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16390', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Mbappe Double Sends France into World Cup Last-16', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 27: France’s star striker Kylian Mbappe displayed a superb individual performance with two second-half goals to make sure the defending champions France becomes the first side to reach the last 16 of the World Cup.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">AGENCIES</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">November 27: France’s star striker Kylian Mbappe displayed a superb individual performance with two second-half goals to make sure the defending champions France becomes the first side to reach the last 16 of the World Cup.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">According to media reports, the two-time champions France beat Denmark 2-1 in their Group D clash at the 974 Stadium on Saturday riding on goals of the 2018 World Cup hero Mbappe.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mbappe's goals sent France top the group on six points, three ahead of Australia, who beat Tunisia 1-0 earlier in the day, with the Danes and the Tunisians both on one point, Reuters reported.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">France take on Tunisia and Denmark meet Socceroos in the final group-stage round on Wednesday, with the Danes needing a win to advance.</span></span></span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-27', 'modified' => '2022-11-27', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16130', 'image' => '20221127111112_Kylian-Mbappe-4.jpeg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-27 11:10:31', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 11 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16388', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => '7.6 million Votes Counted under Proportional Representation Category ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'Nov 26: The Election Commission has said it has counted more than 7.6 million votes under the proportional election category. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Nov 26: The Election Commission has said it has counted more than 7.6 million votes under the proportional election category. The figure is the latest update of votes received by 47 political parties published by the EC on Saturday evening. </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"">There is a constitutional provision to elect a total of 110 members to the House of Representatives via the proportional electoral system. As per the vote count, the CPN UML is ahead with 2.8 million votes followed by the Nepali Congress with 2.1 million votes. Similarly, the CPN Maoist has been able to secure third position with 891,000 votes. The fourth party in proportional representation is the Rastriya Swatantra Party which has collected 854,000 votes. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Similarly, Rastriya Prajatantra Party has so far received 458,000 votes, followed by Janata Samajbadi Party (248,000 votes), CPN-Unified Socialist (193,000 votes), Janamat Party (178,000 votes), Nagarik Unmukti Party (175,000 votes), Loktantrik Samajbadi Party 104,000 votes), Nepal Workers and Peasants Party 68,000 votes). </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The Nationalist People's Party is last in the ranking with 1,159 votes under the proportional election system. The vote turnout in the election to the House of Representatives and Province Assembly was 61 percent. There are more than 17.9 million voters registered for the election. For the first-past-the-post election, there were 2,412 candidates while for the proportional election, there are 2,199 candidates in the final closed list. (RSS) </span></span></span><br /> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-27', 'modified' => '2022-11-27', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16129', 'image' => '20221127103037_20221124112330_KN_Damauli-image_6483441.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-27 10:29:55', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 12 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16387', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'NC leading FPTP Seats in HoR ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 26: The Election Commission has published the final results of the voting held in 118 constituencies out of 165 in the House of Representatives under the First-Past-The-Post (FPTP) electoral system. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">November 26: The Election Commission has published the final results of the voting held in 118 constituencies out of 165 in the House of Representatives under the First-Past-The-Post (FPTP) electoral system. By the time this news report was prepared, the Nepali Congress (NC) was leading the FPTP polls securing 39 HoR seats. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The CPN (UML) is trailing behind the NC with 32 seats while the CPN (Maoist Centre) is in the third position with 13 seats in parliament, according to the latest update provided by the Election Commission. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Likewise, the CPN (Unified Socialist) has so far won seven seats, followed by Rastriya Swatantra Party, Janata Samajwadi Party and Rastriya Prajatantra Party with five seats each. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The Lokatantrik Samajwadi Party has secured four seats in parliament, while Rastriya Janamorcha Party and Nepal Workers and Peasants Party have won one seats each. Meanwhile, five independent candidates have been elected as members of the HoR under FPTP, the Election Commission said. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Counting of votes for HoR under FPTP system is yet to begin in one constituency each in Dolakha, Syangja and Bajura district. </span><br /> <strong><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">NC leads FPTP seats in Province Assembly </span></strong><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The Nepali Congress is also leading in Province Assembly election under FPTP. The NC is leading in four provinces, CPN (UML) is trailing in two and CPN (Maoist Centre) in one. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The NC remains ahead in Bagmati Province, Gandaki Province, Lumbini Province and Karnali Province while the CPN (UML) in leading in Province 1 and Madhesh Province. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">CPN (Maoist Centre) is leading in Sudurpaschim Province, the EC 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"">So far, the NC has won 81 Provincial Assembly seats, followed by CPN-UML (67) and CPN Maoist Centre (37). (With inputs from RSS)</span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-26', 'modified' => '2022-11-26', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16128', 'image' => '20221126055006_SB_SURUNGGA_BISWAPRAKAS.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-26 17:49:20', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 13 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16386', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Neymar to Miss next Two World Cup Matches of Brazil with Ankle Injury', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 26: Brazil’s star striker Neymar has been ruled out of the next two World Cup games after sustaining ligament damage in his right ankle, the BBC reported citing Brazil’s team doctor.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">AGENCIES<br /> November 26: Brazil’s star striker Neymar has been ruled out of the next two World Cup games after sustaining ligament damage in his right ankle, the BBC reported citing Brazil’s team doctor.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">According to AFP, the Paris Saint-Germain star suffered ligament damage in the 2-0 victory against Serbia on Thursday when he collided with Nikola Milenkovic.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The 30-year-old forward was replaced in 80th minute after a heavy tackle by Milenkovic.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">According to the BBC, he described the injury as "one of the hardest moments of my career".</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">"Nothing in my life came easy and I've always had to work for my dreams and goals," Neymar wrote on Instagram. "I have never wished anyone anything bad and always helped who needed. I'm injured, yes it's not nice, it will hurt but I'm sure I will have the chance to come back because I'll do everything possible to help my country, my team-mates and myself."</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Neymar's career has been peppered by injuries which have impacted on his previous two World Cups, added AFP.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">According to the French news agency, he suffered a fractured bone in his back in the quarter-final win over Colombia in 2014, meaning he was sidelined when the hosts were thrashed 7-1 by Germany in the semi-finals.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">“Four years later he raced to recover from injury in time for the tournament in Russia, but Brazil never hit the expected heights before losing to Belgium in the last eight.”</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Brazil face Switzerland in their second Group G game on Monday (16:00 GMT), before playing Cameroon next Friday (19:00 BST).</span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-26', 'modified' => '2022-11-26', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16127', 'image' => '20221126042406_Neymar-2048x1474.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-26 16:23:41', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 14 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16385', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'UML, NC, Rastriya Swatantra Among Top Three in PR Vote Count', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 26: Counting of votes cast under the Proportional Representation (PR) system during the election to the members of the House of Representatives and provincial assemblies is underway. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">November 26: Counting of votes cast under the Proportional Representation (PR) system during the election to the members of the House of Representatives and provincial assemblies is underway. The voting was held on November 20. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">According to the vote count update made available by the Election Commission on Saturday morning, the CPN (UML) is leading the PR tally under the House of Representatives. The party has received 1,809,417 votes so far. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Similarly, the Nepali Congress is in the second position with 1,744,069 votes followed by Rastriya Swatantra Party with 787,747 votes. Likewise, the CPN (Maoist Centre) has secured 767,306 votes while Rastriya Prajatantra Party has obtained 403,079 votes so far. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Janata Samahbadi Party Nepal has secured 216,943 votes, followed by CPN-Unified Socialist (164,856 votes), Nagarik Unmukti Party (156,582 votes), and Janamat Party (148,404 votes), according to the EC. -- RSS </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-26', 'modified' => '2022-11-26', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16126', 'image' => '20221126030520_20221123050626_20220805085711_Election_Commission.2e16d0ba.fill-650x500.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-26 15:04:44', '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
