November 22: The counting of votes of the November 20 election is currently…
November 22: The counting of votes of the November 20 election is currently…
November 21: Dish Media Network has announced to broadcast the live matches of the much-awaited FIFA…
November 21: Young Nepali migrant workers facing physical, financial and mental exploitation during foreign employment is no longer a new issue for…
November 21: Indian officials have assured to reopen the Bailey Bridge over Pramana River in Mirgunj, India, within 15…
November 21: Jute production has been declining continuously in Nepal in recent years, according to the data provided by the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock…
November 21: The voter turnout during Sunday’s general election was much less than expected.…
November 21: The 2022 World Cup kicked off in Qatar’s Al-Bayt Stadium on Sunday with a visually appealing opening…
November 20: Negotiators at the United Nations climate talks on Saturday struck a breakthrough deal on creating a disaster fund for compensating poor nations that are the victims of climate…
November 21: The Election Commission (EC) has directed the offices of the chief returning officers to ensure vote counting of the first-past-the-post (FPTP) system as well as proportional representation (PR) of the House of Representatives (HoR) and provincial assemblies in four different places at a time. …
November 20: The voters’ turnout during the general election on Sunday remained around 60 per cent, as per a preliminary report of the Election Commission…
November 20: Voting under the general election today is taking place in an enthusiastic, systematic and peaceful manner, according to election…
November 20: Thirty-two percent voting was recorded as of 12.45 pm across the country today under the election to the Member of the House of Representatives and provincial assemblies, the Election Commission…
November 20: Chitwan Chamber of Commerce and Industry has started preparation to organise the 14th edition of Chitwan Festival in the district.…
November 20: India has scrapped export taxes on low-grade iron ore and on some intermediate steel products starting from Saturday, according to a news report published by…
November 20: Oriental Cooperative, which was announced crisis-ridden twice by the cabinet, is found to have embezzled some Rs 10.84 billion from its…
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', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">November 22: The counting of votes of the November 20 election is currently underway. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">In the first-past-the-post category, the Nepali Congress is leading the polls after securing 2 seats of the House of Representatives, while the CPN (UML) is in second place with one seat so far. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">According to the Election Commission, Nepali Congress is leading in 35 constituencies and CPN (UML) in 32 followed by CPN (Maoist Center) in 9 constituencies, Rastriya Swatantra Party in 8, Rastriya Prajatantra Party in 5 while others have maintained lead in 19 constituencies. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The Nepali Congress, which is in the first place in the FPTP category, is in the second place in the proportional representation (PR) category. According to the Election Commission, CPN-UML has secured the top position with 23,374 votes followed by Nepali Congress in the second position with 21,949 votes. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Likewise, Rastriya Swatantra Party is in the third place with 11,505 votes while CPN (Maoist Center) is fourth with 8,398 votes. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Furthermore, Rastriya Prajatantra Party has garnered 5,476 votes, Janata Samajwadi Party Nepal received 2,098, Janamaat Party has secured 1,648 votes and Nepal Workers and Peasant Party 1,600 votes. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The main opposition, CPN (UML) is also in the top position in proportional representation category of the Provincial Assembly elections. According to the EC, the UML has secured 8,124 votes while Nepali Congress which is in the second position with 7, 411 votes. The Maoist Center is in third place with 2,678 votes. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Likewise, the Rastriya Prajatantra Party has bagged 2,148 votes, Janata Samajwadi Party Nepal 1,375 votes and others has so far received 3,083 votes. -- RSS </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-22', 'modified' => '2022-11-22', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16095', 'image' => '20221122110703_Election_Commission.2e16d0ba.fill-650x500.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-22 11:06:24', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 1 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16352', 'article_category_id' => '266', 'title' => 'DishHome to Broadcast World Cup Matches Live', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 21: Dish Media Network has announced to broadcast the live matches of the much-awaited FIFA Worldcup.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">November 21: Dish Media Network has announced to broadcast the live matches of the much-awaited FIFA Worldcup.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Issuing a statement, Dish Media Network said it has started its FIFA World Cup 2022 campaign, 'Feel the Magic of Football in DishHome.'</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">“As Nepali football fans celebrate the world cup and cheer the team they support, the campaign also has various social media contests. Many prizes and gift hampers await the winners of the DishHome campaign,” the statement added.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">According to the company, football fans must use the hashtag #MagicalMomentsof (their favorite team, eg, MagicalMomentsofPortugal) to participate in the DishHome Facebook page post. They must add video clips or photos of the magical moment of the team or player they are supporting to become eligible to win prizes.</span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-21', 'modified' => '2022-11-21', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16094', 'image' => '20221121030611_DH.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-21 15:05:41', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 2 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16351', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Nepali Migrant Workers found Working in Countries with no Labor Agreement', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 21: Young Nepali migrant workers facing physical, financial and mental exploitation during foreign employment is no longer a new issue for Nepal.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">November 21: Young Nepali migrant workers facing physical, financial and mental exploitation during foreign employment is no longer a new issue for Nepal. Even though the rights activists are raising their voices that the problems faced by the workers should be addressed, the youths have been forced to visit foreign countries for employment due to government’s negligence. They are even found visiting countries with whom Nepal has not signed labour pacts.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Although it is considered mandatory to have a labor contract with the respective country before going for foreign employment, the government is unable to sign a labor contract with the employer country. But the process of workers entering those countries still continues unabated.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Those who have reached the leadership level of power have repeatedly assured that a labor agreement will be made with the employer country. However, labor contracts have not been signed with most of the labor destination countries chosen by Nepali youth for foreign employment. Officials of the Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Security say that due to weak diplomatic initiatives, labor agreements have not been reached with most of the countries.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Due to the failure to reach a bilateral agreement at the government level with the major labour destination countries, a secure environment has not been created for Nepali workers. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">After the Covid-19 pandemic, around 2,000 young people have been going abroad for foreign employment every day. As mentioned in the data of the Department of Foreign Employment, most of them go to Gulf countries.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">So far, the government has opened up 111 countries of the world for employment, but has signed labor agreements with only 10 countries. According to the ministry, so far labor agreements have been signed with Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Japan, Korea, Bahrain, Israel, Jordan, Malaysia, Mauritius and Oman.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Spokesperson at the Labour Ministry Danduraj Ghimire says that the ministry is always ready for labor agreements with the main labour destination countries. He said that the government has a plan to make foreign employment systematic, transparent and dignified by signing labor agreements with labour destination countries with good prospects.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-21', 'modified' => '2022-11-21', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16093', 'image' => '20221121015409_foreign emp.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-21 13:53:35', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 3 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16353', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Mirgunj Bridge to Reopen Within 15 Days', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 21: Indian officials have assured to reopen the Bailey Bridge over Pramana River in Mirgunj, India, within 15 days.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">November 21: Indian officials have assured to reopen the Bailey Bridge over Pramana River in Mirgunj, India, within 15 days. The delay in opening of the bridge has become a headache for Nepali businessmen as they have to rely on longer route for trade with India.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The Indian Embassy in Kathmandu gave such assurance to the Morang Merchants’ Association. The bridge is located 4 kilometers west of the Biratnagar-Jogwani border checkpoint. India is yet to open the traffic even though the Bailey Bridge, which collapsed 10 months ago, had been repaired already. As a result, Nepali entrepreneurs are compelled to re-route goods imported from Indian and third and also pay extra freight charge.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Keeping this problem in mind, Gopal Agarwal, executive member of the Morang Merchants’ Association, submitted a memorandum to Deputy Chief of Mission of the Indian Embassy Prasanna Srivastava and Chief of Commerce SumanShekhar to open the bridge immediately. In response, the embassy officials provided assurance about opening the bridge within 15 days.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The damaged Bailey Bridge has already been repaired along with a concrete bridge on the newly built four-lane road 200 meters north of it. The four-lane road leads from Bihar's road network to the Nepal-India Integrated Checkpoint (ICP). However, despite repeated requests to the Indian side, the bridge is still closed.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The association has been drawing the attention of the high-ranking officials of India, requesting for the bridge be operated as soon as possible. However, they have only been giving assurances. Agarwal, also handed over a letter signed by the association’s president Naveen Rijal to the embassy officials.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">When the goods that have arrived near the customs are re-routed and brought back to the Biratnagar customs from Bhantabari via Sunsari, they have to travel 116 km more. The industrialists of Sunsari-Morang Industrial Corridor have been complaining that they have to pay Rs 250,000 more as freight charge every day when the goods are re-routed and brought into the country.</span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-21', 'modified' => '2022-11-21', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16092', 'image' => '20221121032216_Flag-Pins-India-Nepal.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-21 15:21:51', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 4 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16350', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Jute Production Declining Continuously in Nepal', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 21: Jute production has been declining continuously in Nepal in recent years, according to the data provided by the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">November 21: Jute production has been declining continuously in Nepal in recent years, according to the data provided by the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">As per the data, the production decreased by 6000 metric tons in the last seven years. The farmers producing jute are now abandoning its cultivation after they stopped getting equitable returns according to their investment.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">According to the data of the ministry, 16,530 metric tons of jute was produced in Nepal in the fiscal year (FY 2014/15). By the end of the year 2020/21, jute production decreased by 6,079 metric tons to 10,451 metric tons.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">During this period, the area of land where jute is produced also decreased by about 4000 hectares. The data shows that jute farming was done on 11,400 hectares of land in FY 2014/15, which decreased to 7,415 hectares in FY 2020/21.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Binod Gupta of Jute Research Programme, Itahari informed that the farmers are not getting the price according to the cost of production and the production is decreasing every year due to unstable prices. However, when farmers sell jute, they do not get the price according to the cost of production. He said that the jute industry sets the price much lower than the production cost of the farmers. Also, the government does not set the support price of jute. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Gupta says Nepali jute producing farmers have been hurt by the practice of setting prices by the Nepali jute industry under the guidance of the jute industry of Kolkata.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">About 12 years ago, jute was cultivated on an area of more than 20,000 hectares in the districts of Sunsari, Morang, Jhapa, Siraha, Saptari, Udayapur alone. Now the area under jute farming has decreased. Other crops are grown on the land where jute farming used to be done. The ironic reality is that 70 percent of the raw jute required for Nepali industry is being imported from India and Bangladesh, according to stakeholders. </span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-21', 'modified' => '2022-11-21', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16091', 'image' => '20221121011125_NG_Sunsari-IMG_20221011_121746.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-21 13:10:51', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 5 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16349', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Voter Turnout Less Than Expected: Election Commission ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 21: The voter turnout during Sunday’s general election was much less than expected. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Bijay Damase </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"">November 21: The voter turnout during Sunday’s general election was much less than expected. According to the preliminary report of the Election Commission (EC), the voter turnout remained less than 61 per cent.</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"">Prior to this, the nationwide voter turnout in the elections held in 2017 stood at 67.63 percent while the voter turnout in local elections held earlier this year was 66.86 percent. </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"">Analysts believe that the low voter turnout is the result of lack of accountability of the people’s representatives elected in the past. The low voter turnout also hints at the people’s contempt towards political party leaders and their working style.</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"">Chief Election Commissioner Dinesh Kumar Thapaliya admitted during a press conference on Sunday evening that the voter turnout was less than expected. He said that the voting was not encouraging on Sunday morning but there was some improvement towards the afternoon.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">“The election has been postponed in some places,” said CEC Thapaliya.</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"">He added that the vote counting would begin as soon as the ballot boxes are collected from the polling stations and brought to the vote counting centres.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The EC maintained that the elections were largely peaceful, with some exceptions of sporadic incidents. </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"">According to the EC, election-related violence was reported in over a dozen district. Police had to resort to firing blank shots in the air to bring the situation under control in over 24 polling centres of 11 districts. Voting was suspended in 64 places but it resumed in all but six of those areas. One person was killed in police firing in Triveni Municipality of Bajura district as police opened fire to disperse the agitating crowd.</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 are a total of eligible 17,988,570 voters in Nepal registered at the Election Commission. According to the EC, information on voter turnout is being registered in the EC’s entry system. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The Election Commission had set up 22,227 voting centres under 10,892 polling stations for the election to the House of Representatives (HoR) and provincial assemblies on November 20. </span></span></span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-21', 'modified' => '2022-11-21', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16090', 'image' => '20221121120022_KiranTHapa_Melamchi_RSS_04_222.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-21 11:59:44', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 6 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16347', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'World Cup Kicks off with Glitzy Inaugural Ceremony', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 21: The 2022 World Cup kicked off in Qatar’s Al-Bayt Stadium on Sunday with a visually appealing opening ceremony.', '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 21: The 2022 World Cup kicked off in Qatar’s Al-Bayt Stadium on Sunday with a visually appealing opening ceremony.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">According to the BBC, America’s Oscar-winning actor Morgan Freeman featured in the festivities alongside Qatari YouTuber Ghanim Al-Muftah. South Korean pop star Jung Kook sang Dreamers, the tournament song, alongside Qatari singer Fahad Al Kubaisi at the stadium in Al Khor.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The build-up to the first World Cup to be held in a Muslim country in the Middle East has been overshadowed by a number of controversies, including deaths of migrant workers and treatment of LGBT people in Qatar, BBC added.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">According to Reuters, Qatar's ruler in his inauguration speech called for people of all races and orientations to put aside their differences, as the host nation faced a barrage of criticism over its treatment of foreign workers and LGBT rights.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The Muslim Gulf nation is staking its reputation on delivering a smooth tournament and has denied accusations of abuse of workers and discrimination, the news agency added. Football governing body FIFA hopes the spotlight will now turn to action on the pitch.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Organisers have also denied allegations of bribery to win the rights to host football’s biggest event.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">"People of all races, nationalities, beliefs and orientations will gather here in Qatar and around screens across the continents to share in the exciting moments," Reuters quoted Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani as saying.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">In the inaugural match, which took place minutes after the opening ceremony, the hosts Qatar were beaten 2-0 by Equador.</span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-21', 'modified' => '2022-11-21', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16089', 'image' => '20221121093249_wc.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-21 09:32:10', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 7 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16345', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Negotiators Strike Landmark Deal to Help Poor Countries Affected by Climate Change', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 20: Negotiators at the United Nations climate talks on Saturday struck a breakthrough deal on creating a disaster fund for compensating poor nations that are the victims of climate change.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Agencies</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">November 20: Negotiators at the United Nations climate talks on Saturday struck a breakthrough deal on creating a disaster fund for compensating poor nations that are the victims of climate change due to rich countries' carbon pollution, according to media reports.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The BBC confirmed that a new fund to help the countries worst-hit by the effects of climate change has been agreed in a historic deal.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Citing several international cabinet ministers, The Associated Press reported that an agreement had been reached on a fund for "loss and damage."</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">CNN also confirmed that negotiators from nearly 200 countries at the COP27 UN climate summit in Egypt took the historic step of agreeing to set up a “loss and damage” fund meant to help vulnerable countries cope with climate disasters. They also agreed that the globe needs to cut greenhouse gas emissions nearly in half by 2030, added CNN.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">According to The Hill, the draft text outlines a proposed fund that would be open to all developing nations “that are particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change.” The document is light on details as to the financial model and logistics of the fund, but the agreement marks a major breakthrough for developing nations that have struggled to make their voices heard on the world stage on climate issues.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Poorer nations are often the victims of climate disasters despite having contributed little to the pollution, Fox News added.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Meanwhile, the BBC reported that it is still undecided how much countries will get from the loss and damage fund - and when.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The previous $100bn commitment pledged by richer countries in 2009 to deliver the amount annually till 2020 still hasn't been reached two years after the deadline, added the BBC. “This has left the developing nations wary of this new promise of money,” added the BBC.</span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-20', 'modified' => '2022-11-20', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16088', 'image' => '20221120070703_climate-change-1024x680-1.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-20 19:06:25', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 8 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16348', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Vote Counting of FPTP, PR to be Conducted at Once ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 21: The Election Commission (EC) has directed the offices of the chief returning officers to ensure vote counting of the first-past-the-post (FPTP) system as well as proportional representation (PR) of the House of Representatives (HoR) and provincial assemblies in four different places at a time. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">November 21: The Election Commission (EC) has directed the offices of the chief returning officers to ensure vote counting of the first-past-the-post (FPTP) system as well as proportional representation (PR) of the House of Representatives (HoR) and provincial assemblies in four different places at a time. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The EC issued such directive as some ballot papers of the HoR and provincial assemblies were mixed up in some polling stations during the voting process due to carelessness of the officials and voters. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The EC has planned to release the results within eight days. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">In a news conference on Sunday evening, Chief Election Commissioner Dinesh Kumar Thapaliya said that ballot boxes were being taken to the offices of the returning officers after completing the voting on Sunday and vote counting was to begin in some places including the Kathmandu Valley from last night itself. The EC reached such decision after forging a consensus among the political parties. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">According to the EC, helicopters were used to collect the ballot boxes from remote areas. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Meanwhile, the EC has directed to immediately begin vote counting after the collection of the ballot boxes. -- RSS </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-21', 'modified' => '2022-11-21', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16087', 'image' => '20221121111436_Election_Commission.2e16d0ba.fill-650x500.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-21 11:13:45', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 9 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16346', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => '60 Percent Voter Turnout: Preliminary Report of EC', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 20: The voters’ turnout during the general election on Sunday remained around 60 per cent, as per a preliminary report of the Election Commission (EC). ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">November 20: The voters’ turnout during the general election on Sunday remained around 60 per cent, as per a preliminary report of the Election Commission (EC). </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The voting that started from 7 am today and concluded at 5 pm is over and the details of the turnout continues to arrive, the EC said. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Overall, the voting was conducted in a peaceful and enthusiastic manner across the country, except some sporadic incidents, according to the EC. Although the designated voting time is over, the voters who have already entered the polling centres or are within a few yards of the centre can cast their votes even after the deadline. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">In Madhesh Province, voting was conducted in all polling centres without any postponement. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Voting process was obstructed in some districts such as Bajura, Surkhet, Taplejung, Nawalparasi (Susta East), Gulmi and Dolakha after disputes between the political parties and the candidates, the EC stated. -- RSS </span></span></span><br /> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-20', 'modified' => '2022-11-20', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16086', 'image' => '20221120071452_RP_Kanchanpur-2.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-20 19:14:27', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 10 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16343', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => '‘Voting Underway in Peaceful Environment’ ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 20: Voting under the general election today is taking place in an enthusiastic, systematic and peaceful manner, according to election observers. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">November 20: Voting under the general election today is taking place in an enthusiastic, systematic and peaceful manner, according to election observers. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Former Chief Election Commissioner Bhoj Raj Pokharel, who is observing the election on behalf of the General Election Observation Committee (GEOC), said that voting is taking place in a well-organized and peaceful manner. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Another former Chief Election Commissioner Dr Ayodhi Prasad Yadav, who is observing election in Saptari district, said that voters have lined up and are enthusiastically casting their votes in a systematic way. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Former Chief Justice Kalyan Shrestha shared that the voters have been exercising their Right to Vote, queuing up at the polling centres since early morning. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">"The voting is taking place in a peaceful manner. The voters are excited. At several places voters could be seen queuing up since early morning waiting for their turn to cast the ballot," he said. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">At many voting centres voters turned up only from 8am due to cold and their numbers increased as the day progressed. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Meanwhile, former Chairman of the Council of Ministers and Chief Justice Khila Raj Regmi cast his ballot at Sano Gaucharan Park polling booth at Old Baneshwor at 9.45 this morning. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Talking to RSS after casting his vote, Regmi urged all the electorate to take part in the voting which decides the course of the nation for the next five years and beyond. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">"The voters are casting ballot in an easy, smooth and peaceful manner. I reckon voter numbers would increase more towards the afternoon," he said. -- RSS </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-20', 'modified' => '2022-11-20', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16085', 'image' => '20221120015338_NL_Mannayang.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-20 13:51:57', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 11 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16342', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => '32 Percent Voting across the Country until 12.45 pm ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 20: Thirty-two percent voting was recorded as of 12.45 pm across the country today under the election to the Member of the House of Representatives and provincial assemblies, the Election Commission said. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">November 20: Thirty-two percent voting was recorded as of 12.45 pm across the country today under the election to the Member of the House of Representatives and provincial assemblies, the Election Commission said. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">EC spokesperson Shaligram Sharma Poudel gave this information at a news conference held at the Election Commission. -- RSS </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-20', 'modified' => '2022-11-20', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16084', 'image' => '20221120014507_SG_Myagdi107yearoldmanmatadan(2).jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-20 13:44:23', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 12 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16341', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Preparations for 14th Chitwan Festival Begins', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 20: Chitwan Chamber of Commerce and Industry has started preparation to organise the 14th edition of Chitwan Festival in the district. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">November 20: Chitwan Chamber of Commerce and Industry has started preparation to organise the 14<sup>th</sup> edition of Chitwan Festival in the district. With the aim of promoting local products, the festival is going to be held at the Narayani riverside exhibition ground from January 9 to 18.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The chamber informed about the preparations for ground management and stall booking for Chitwan Festival, which is one of the biggest festivals organized every two years in Nepal.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Chun Narayan Shrestha, president of the federation said that there will be around 500 stalls in this festival. Shrestha said that he believes the festival will make the economic activities of the country sustainable and provide relief to businessmen.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Shrestha said that this year's festival will focus on tourism promotion stating, “Tourism touches every economic sector. After Covid-19 pandemic, the message that Chitwan is safe for tourism will also spread.”</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">He said that due to the decrease in domestic and foreign tourists in Chitwan after Covid-19, stakeholders have given priority to revive the tourism sector. He said that the publicity for the festival will be done after the election.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Nil Bahadur KC, a member of the organizing committee, said that stall booking started from November 17. According to him, 175 stalls have been booked as of last Friday. The stalls of agriculture, education, health and tourism will be given priority in the festival which will commence with the main slogan of 'Land of Diversity'.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Apart from this, there will be stalls for information technology, automobile, hotel, restaurant, fancy stalls etc. KC said that the products made in Nepal and Chitwan will be promoted more at the stalls. He added that a 20 percent discount has been given for booking stalls for the members of the chamber, which is looking for sponsors and co-sponsors to complete the festival.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-20', 'modified' => '2022-11-20', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16083', 'image' => '20221120123855_Festival_5.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-20 12:38:23', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 13 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16340', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'India Scraps Export Tax on Low-Grade Iron Ore', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 20: India has scrapped export taxes on low-grade iron ore and on some intermediate steel products starting from Saturday, according to a news report published by Reuters.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Agencies</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">November 20: India has scrapped export taxes on low-grade iron ore and on some intermediate steel products starting from Saturday, according to a news report published by Reuters.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">According to the news agency, India took such measures after months of complaints from miners and steel makers about loss of foreign sales opportunities.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The move, set out in a notification issued late on Friday, reverses the imposition in May of a 50 percent tax on exports of iron-ore lumps and fines with less than 58 percent iron content, Reuters added.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">“The government also reversed a May rise in export tax on iron ore concentrates other than roasted iron pyrites. That tax now returns to 30 percent from 50 percent.”</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">According to Reuters, the additional taxation imposed in May was intended to boost domestic supply of iron ore, a raw ingredient for making steel, and thereby hold down inflation.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">India exported less than half as much steel in the seven months to October as it did a year earlier, Reuters reported citing government data.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Major steel makers have reportedly urged the Indian government to unwind the additional export taxation, saying it added to their problem of weakening international demand.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Despite the latest tax reductions, a top miners' organisation remained doubtful about the prospect of exports reviving.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">"Once you disturb the trade, to recover is very difficult." Reuters quoted RK Sharma, secretary-general of the Federation of Indian Mineral Industries, as saying.</span></span></span></span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-20', 'modified' => '2022-11-20', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16082', 'image' => '20221120122600_20220220042539_application_iron-ore_723x365.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-20 12:25:17', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 14 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16339', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Oriental Cooperative Owes Over Rs 10 Billion to its Depositors ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 20: Oriental Cooperative, which was announced crisis-ridden twice by the cabinet, is found to have embezzled some Rs 10.84 billion from its members. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">November 20: Oriental Cooperative, which was announced crisis-ridden twice by the cabinet, is found to have embezzled some Rs 10.84 billion from its members. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","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><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","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><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","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><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","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><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","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><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","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><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The government has declared 12 cooperatives as ‘problematic’. </span></span></span><br /> </p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Cooperatives declared problematic by government </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The cooperatives declared crisis-ridden by the government are Standard Savings and Credit Cooperative Limited, Prabhu Saving and Loan Cooperatives Limited, Consumer Savings and Loan Cooperatives Limited, Standard Saving and Credit Co-operative Limited, Standard Multipurpose Cooperative Limited and Lu:Niva Multipurpose Cooperatives Limited. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Likewise, Pacific Saving and Investment Cooperative Limited, Kohinoor Hill Saving and Credit Cooperative, Kuber Saving and Loan Cooperative Limited, Vegas Saving and Loan Cooperatives, Societal Saving and Loan Cooperative Limited were also declared troubled by the government. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The committee office has been managing the cooperatives declared crisis-ridden by the government, said Office Chief Poudel, who is also the member-secretary of the committee. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Most of the depositors doing transaction with the problematic cooperatives have been refunded except for Oriental Cooperatives. Legal recourses were being taken against the troubled cooperatives to refund the remaining depositors at the earliest, Poudel shared. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Most of the money trapped in the troubled cooperatives is of retired employees, shared Tejnath Pokharel, branch officer of the committee. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The shopkeepers saving their income in the cooperatives without acquiring additional information about the cooperatives were also duped. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The Problematic Cooperative Management Committee Office had issued a 15-day notice on November 7 in the name of the board members, debtors, managers and employees of the cooperatives declared crisis-stricken by the government to pay the loan and interest of the liabilities to the depositors and members within 15 days. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Notices were published in the national-level media, shared Poudel adding that operators of those cooperatives, debtors, managers and employees not paying interest within 15 days will be booked. -- RSS </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-20', 'modified' => '2022-11-20', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16081', 'image' => '20221120101156_cooperative problematic.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-20 10:11:22', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ) ) $current_user = null $logged_in = falseinclude - APP/View/Elements/side_bar.ctp, line 60 View::_evaluate() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 971 View::_render() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 933 View::_renderElement() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 1224 View::element() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 418 include - APP/View/Articles/index.ctp, line 157 View::_evaluate() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 971 View::_render() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 933 View::render() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 473 Controller::render() - CORE/Cake/Controller/Controller.php, line 968 Dispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/Cake/Routing/Dispatcher.php, line 200 Dispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/Cake/Routing/Dispatcher.php, line 167 [main] - APP/webroot/index.php, line 117
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', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">November 22: The counting of votes of the November 20 election is currently underway. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">In the first-past-the-post category, the Nepali Congress is leading the polls after securing 2 seats of the House of Representatives, while the CPN (UML) is in second place with one seat so far. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">According to the Election Commission, Nepali Congress is leading in 35 constituencies and CPN (UML) in 32 followed by CPN (Maoist Center) in 9 constituencies, Rastriya Swatantra Party in 8, Rastriya Prajatantra Party in 5 while others have maintained lead in 19 constituencies. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The Nepali Congress, which is in the first place in the FPTP category, is in the second place in the proportional representation (PR) category. According to the Election Commission, CPN-UML has secured the top position with 23,374 votes followed by Nepali Congress in the second position with 21,949 votes. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Likewise, Rastriya Swatantra Party is in the third place with 11,505 votes while CPN (Maoist Center) is fourth with 8,398 votes. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Furthermore, Rastriya Prajatantra Party has garnered 5,476 votes, Janata Samajwadi Party Nepal received 2,098, Janamaat Party has secured 1,648 votes and Nepal Workers and Peasant Party 1,600 votes. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The main opposition, CPN (UML) is also in the top position in proportional representation category of the Provincial Assembly elections. According to the EC, the UML has secured 8,124 votes while Nepali Congress which is in the second position with 7, 411 votes. The Maoist Center is in third place with 2,678 votes. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Likewise, the Rastriya Prajatantra Party has bagged 2,148 votes, Janata Samajwadi Party Nepal 1,375 votes and others has so far received 3,083 votes. -- RSS </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-22', 'modified' => '2022-11-22', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16095', 'image' => '20221122110703_Election_Commission.2e16d0ba.fill-650x500.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-22 11:06:24', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 1 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16352', 'article_category_id' => '266', 'title' => 'DishHome to Broadcast World Cup Matches Live', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 21: Dish Media Network has announced to broadcast the live matches of the much-awaited FIFA Worldcup.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">November 21: Dish Media Network has announced to broadcast the live matches of the much-awaited FIFA Worldcup.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Issuing a statement, Dish Media Network said it has started its FIFA World Cup 2022 campaign, 'Feel the Magic of Football in DishHome.'</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">“As Nepali football fans celebrate the world cup and cheer the team they support, the campaign also has various social media contests. Many prizes and gift hampers await the winners of the DishHome campaign,” the statement added.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">According to the company, football fans must use the hashtag #MagicalMomentsof (their favorite team, eg, MagicalMomentsofPortugal) to participate in the DishHome Facebook page post. They must add video clips or photos of the magical moment of the team or player they are supporting to become eligible to win prizes.</span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-21', 'modified' => '2022-11-21', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16094', 'image' => '20221121030611_DH.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-21 15:05:41', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 2 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16351', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Nepali Migrant Workers found Working in Countries with no Labor Agreement', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 21: Young Nepali migrant workers facing physical, financial and mental exploitation during foreign employment is no longer a new issue for Nepal.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">November 21: Young Nepali migrant workers facing physical, financial and mental exploitation during foreign employment is no longer a new issue for Nepal. Even though the rights activists are raising their voices that the problems faced by the workers should be addressed, the youths have been forced to visit foreign countries for employment due to government’s negligence. They are even found visiting countries with whom Nepal has not signed labour pacts.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Although it is considered mandatory to have a labor contract with the respective country before going for foreign employment, the government is unable to sign a labor contract with the employer country. But the process of workers entering those countries still continues unabated.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Those who have reached the leadership level of power have repeatedly assured that a labor agreement will be made with the employer country. However, labor contracts have not been signed with most of the labor destination countries chosen by Nepali youth for foreign employment. Officials of the Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Security say that due to weak diplomatic initiatives, labor agreements have not been reached with most of the countries.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Due to the failure to reach a bilateral agreement at the government level with the major labour destination countries, a secure environment has not been created for Nepali workers. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">After the Covid-19 pandemic, around 2,000 young people have been going abroad for foreign employment every day. As mentioned in the data of the Department of Foreign Employment, most of them go to Gulf countries.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">So far, the government has opened up 111 countries of the world for employment, but has signed labor agreements with only 10 countries. According to the ministry, so far labor agreements have been signed with Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Japan, Korea, Bahrain, Israel, Jordan, Malaysia, Mauritius and Oman.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Spokesperson at the Labour Ministry Danduraj Ghimire says that the ministry is always ready for labor agreements with the main labour destination countries. He said that the government has a plan to make foreign employment systematic, transparent and dignified by signing labor agreements with labour destination countries with good prospects.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-21', 'modified' => '2022-11-21', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16093', 'image' => '20221121015409_foreign emp.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-21 13:53:35', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 3 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16353', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Mirgunj Bridge to Reopen Within 15 Days', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 21: Indian officials have assured to reopen the Bailey Bridge over Pramana River in Mirgunj, India, within 15 days.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">November 21: Indian officials have assured to reopen the Bailey Bridge over Pramana River in Mirgunj, India, within 15 days. The delay in opening of the bridge has become a headache for Nepali businessmen as they have to rely on longer route for trade with India.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The Indian Embassy in Kathmandu gave such assurance to the Morang Merchants’ Association. The bridge is located 4 kilometers west of the Biratnagar-Jogwani border checkpoint. India is yet to open the traffic even though the Bailey Bridge, which collapsed 10 months ago, had been repaired already. As a result, Nepali entrepreneurs are compelled to re-route goods imported from Indian and third and also pay extra freight charge.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Keeping this problem in mind, Gopal Agarwal, executive member of the Morang Merchants’ Association, submitted a memorandum to Deputy Chief of Mission of the Indian Embassy Prasanna Srivastava and Chief of Commerce SumanShekhar to open the bridge immediately. In response, the embassy officials provided assurance about opening the bridge within 15 days.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The damaged Bailey Bridge has already been repaired along with a concrete bridge on the newly built four-lane road 200 meters north of it. The four-lane road leads from Bihar's road network to the Nepal-India Integrated Checkpoint (ICP). However, despite repeated requests to the Indian side, the bridge is still closed.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The association has been drawing the attention of the high-ranking officials of India, requesting for the bridge be operated as soon as possible. However, they have only been giving assurances. Agarwal, also handed over a letter signed by the association’s president Naveen Rijal to the embassy officials.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">When the goods that have arrived near the customs are re-routed and brought back to the Biratnagar customs from Bhantabari via Sunsari, they have to travel 116 km more. The industrialists of Sunsari-Morang Industrial Corridor have been complaining that they have to pay Rs 250,000 more as freight charge every day when the goods are re-routed and brought into the country.</span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-21', 'modified' => '2022-11-21', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16092', 'image' => '20221121032216_Flag-Pins-India-Nepal.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-21 15:21:51', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 4 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16350', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Jute Production Declining Continuously in Nepal', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 21: Jute production has been declining continuously in Nepal in recent years, according to the data provided by the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">November 21: Jute production has been declining continuously in Nepal in recent years, according to the data provided by the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">As per the data, the production decreased by 6000 metric tons in the last seven years. The farmers producing jute are now abandoning its cultivation after they stopped getting equitable returns according to their investment.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">According to the data of the ministry, 16,530 metric tons of jute was produced in Nepal in the fiscal year (FY 2014/15). By the end of the year 2020/21, jute production decreased by 6,079 metric tons to 10,451 metric tons.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">During this period, the area of land where jute is produced also decreased by about 4000 hectares. The data shows that jute farming was done on 11,400 hectares of land in FY 2014/15, which decreased to 7,415 hectares in FY 2020/21.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Binod Gupta of Jute Research Programme, Itahari informed that the farmers are not getting the price according to the cost of production and the production is decreasing every year due to unstable prices. However, when farmers sell jute, they do not get the price according to the cost of production. He said that the jute industry sets the price much lower than the production cost of the farmers. Also, the government does not set the support price of jute. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Gupta says Nepali jute producing farmers have been hurt by the practice of setting prices by the Nepali jute industry under the guidance of the jute industry of Kolkata.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">About 12 years ago, jute was cultivated on an area of more than 20,000 hectares in the districts of Sunsari, Morang, Jhapa, Siraha, Saptari, Udayapur alone. Now the area under jute farming has decreased. Other crops are grown on the land where jute farming used to be done. The ironic reality is that 70 percent of the raw jute required for Nepali industry is being imported from India and Bangladesh, according to stakeholders. </span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-21', 'modified' => '2022-11-21', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16091', 'image' => '20221121011125_NG_Sunsari-IMG_20221011_121746.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-21 13:10:51', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 5 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16349', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Voter Turnout Less Than Expected: Election Commission ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 21: The voter turnout during Sunday’s general election was much less than expected. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Bijay Damase </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"">November 21: The voter turnout during Sunday’s general election was much less than expected. According to the preliminary report of the Election Commission (EC), the voter turnout remained less than 61 per cent.</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"">Prior to this, the nationwide voter turnout in the elections held in 2017 stood at 67.63 percent while the voter turnout in local elections held earlier this year was 66.86 percent. </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"">Analysts believe that the low voter turnout is the result of lack of accountability of the people’s representatives elected in the past. The low voter turnout also hints at the people’s contempt towards political party leaders and their working style.</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"">Chief Election Commissioner Dinesh Kumar Thapaliya admitted during a press conference on Sunday evening that the voter turnout was less than expected. He said that the voting was not encouraging on Sunday morning but there was some improvement towards the afternoon.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">“The election has been postponed in some places,” said CEC Thapaliya.</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"">He added that the vote counting would begin as soon as the ballot boxes are collected from the polling stations and brought to the vote counting centres.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The EC maintained that the elections were largely peaceful, with some exceptions of sporadic incidents. </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"">According to the EC, election-related violence was reported in over a dozen district. Police had to resort to firing blank shots in the air to bring the situation under control in over 24 polling centres of 11 districts. Voting was suspended in 64 places but it resumed in all but six of those areas. One person was killed in police firing in Triveni Municipality of Bajura district as police opened fire to disperse the agitating crowd.</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 are a total of eligible 17,988,570 voters in Nepal registered at the Election Commission. According to the EC, information on voter turnout is being registered in the EC’s entry system. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The Election Commission had set up 22,227 voting centres under 10,892 polling stations for the election to the House of Representatives (HoR) and provincial assemblies on November 20. </span></span></span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-21', 'modified' => '2022-11-21', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16090', 'image' => '20221121120022_KiranTHapa_Melamchi_RSS_04_222.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-21 11:59:44', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 6 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16347', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'World Cup Kicks off with Glitzy Inaugural Ceremony', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 21: The 2022 World Cup kicked off in Qatar’s Al-Bayt Stadium on Sunday with a visually appealing opening ceremony.', '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 21: The 2022 World Cup kicked off in Qatar’s Al-Bayt Stadium on Sunday with a visually appealing opening ceremony.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">According to the BBC, America’s Oscar-winning actor Morgan Freeman featured in the festivities alongside Qatari YouTuber Ghanim Al-Muftah. South Korean pop star Jung Kook sang Dreamers, the tournament song, alongside Qatari singer Fahad Al Kubaisi at the stadium in Al Khor.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The build-up to the first World Cup to be held in a Muslim country in the Middle East has been overshadowed by a number of controversies, including deaths of migrant workers and treatment of LGBT people in Qatar, BBC added.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">According to Reuters, Qatar's ruler in his inauguration speech called for people of all races and orientations to put aside their differences, as the host nation faced a barrage of criticism over its treatment of foreign workers and LGBT rights.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The Muslim Gulf nation is staking its reputation on delivering a smooth tournament and has denied accusations of abuse of workers and discrimination, the news agency added. Football governing body FIFA hopes the spotlight will now turn to action on the pitch.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Organisers have also denied allegations of bribery to win the rights to host football’s biggest event.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">"People of all races, nationalities, beliefs and orientations will gather here in Qatar and around screens across the continents to share in the exciting moments," Reuters quoted Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani as saying.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">In the inaugural match, which took place minutes after the opening ceremony, the hosts Qatar were beaten 2-0 by Equador.</span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-21', 'modified' => '2022-11-21', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16089', 'image' => '20221121093249_wc.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-21 09:32:10', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 7 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16345', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Negotiators Strike Landmark Deal to Help Poor Countries Affected by Climate Change', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 20: Negotiators at the United Nations climate talks on Saturday struck a breakthrough deal on creating a disaster fund for compensating poor nations that are the victims of climate change.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Agencies</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">November 20: Negotiators at the United Nations climate talks on Saturday struck a breakthrough deal on creating a disaster fund for compensating poor nations that are the victims of climate change due to rich countries' carbon pollution, according to media reports.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The BBC confirmed that a new fund to help the countries worst-hit by the effects of climate change has been agreed in a historic deal.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Citing several international cabinet ministers, The Associated Press reported that an agreement had been reached on a fund for "loss and damage."</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">CNN also confirmed that negotiators from nearly 200 countries at the COP27 UN climate summit in Egypt took the historic step of agreeing to set up a “loss and damage” fund meant to help vulnerable countries cope with climate disasters. They also agreed that the globe needs to cut greenhouse gas emissions nearly in half by 2030, added CNN.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">According to The Hill, the draft text outlines a proposed fund that would be open to all developing nations “that are particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change.” The document is light on details as to the financial model and logistics of the fund, but the agreement marks a major breakthrough for developing nations that have struggled to make their voices heard on the world stage on climate issues.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Poorer nations are often the victims of climate disasters despite having contributed little to the pollution, Fox News added.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Meanwhile, the BBC reported that it is still undecided how much countries will get from the loss and damage fund - and when.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The previous $100bn commitment pledged by richer countries in 2009 to deliver the amount annually till 2020 still hasn't been reached two years after the deadline, added the BBC. “This has left the developing nations wary of this new promise of money,” added the BBC.</span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-20', 'modified' => '2022-11-20', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16088', 'image' => '20221120070703_climate-change-1024x680-1.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-20 19:06:25', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 8 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16348', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Vote Counting of FPTP, PR to be Conducted at Once ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 21: The Election Commission (EC) has directed the offices of the chief returning officers to ensure vote counting of the first-past-the-post (FPTP) system as well as proportional representation (PR) of the House of Representatives (HoR) and provincial assemblies in four different places at a time. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">November 21: The Election Commission (EC) has directed the offices of the chief returning officers to ensure vote counting of the first-past-the-post (FPTP) system as well as proportional representation (PR) of the House of Representatives (HoR) and provincial assemblies in four different places at a time. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The EC issued such directive as some ballot papers of the HoR and provincial assemblies were mixed up in some polling stations during the voting process due to carelessness of the officials and voters. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The EC has planned to release the results within eight days. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">In a news conference on Sunday evening, Chief Election Commissioner Dinesh Kumar Thapaliya said that ballot boxes were being taken to the offices of the returning officers after completing the voting on Sunday and vote counting was to begin in some places including the Kathmandu Valley from last night itself. The EC reached such decision after forging a consensus among the political parties. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">According to the EC, helicopters were used to collect the ballot boxes from remote areas. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Meanwhile, the EC has directed to immediately begin vote counting after the collection of the ballot boxes. -- RSS </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-21', 'modified' => '2022-11-21', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16087', 'image' => '20221121111436_Election_Commission.2e16d0ba.fill-650x500.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-21 11:13:45', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 9 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16346', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => '60 Percent Voter Turnout: Preliminary Report of EC', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 20: The voters’ turnout during the general election on Sunday remained around 60 per cent, as per a preliminary report of the Election Commission (EC). ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">November 20: The voters’ turnout during the general election on Sunday remained around 60 per cent, as per a preliminary report of the Election Commission (EC). </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The voting that started from 7 am today and concluded at 5 pm is over and the details of the turnout continues to arrive, the EC said. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Overall, the voting was conducted in a peaceful and enthusiastic manner across the country, except some sporadic incidents, according to the EC. Although the designated voting time is over, the voters who have already entered the polling centres or are within a few yards of the centre can cast their votes even after the deadline. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">In Madhesh Province, voting was conducted in all polling centres without any postponement. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Voting process was obstructed in some districts such as Bajura, Surkhet, Taplejung, Nawalparasi (Susta East), Gulmi and Dolakha after disputes between the political parties and the candidates, the EC stated. -- RSS </span></span></span><br /> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-20', 'modified' => '2022-11-20', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16086', 'image' => '20221120071452_RP_Kanchanpur-2.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-20 19:14:27', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 10 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16343', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => '‘Voting Underway in Peaceful Environment’ ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 20: Voting under the general election today is taking place in an enthusiastic, systematic and peaceful manner, according to election observers. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">November 20: Voting under the general election today is taking place in an enthusiastic, systematic and peaceful manner, according to election observers. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Former Chief Election Commissioner Bhoj Raj Pokharel, who is observing the election on behalf of the General Election Observation Committee (GEOC), said that voting is taking place in a well-organized and peaceful manner. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Another former Chief Election Commissioner Dr Ayodhi Prasad Yadav, who is observing election in Saptari district, said that voters have lined up and are enthusiastically casting their votes in a systematic way. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Former Chief Justice Kalyan Shrestha shared that the voters have been exercising their Right to Vote, queuing up at the polling centres since early morning. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">"The voting is taking place in a peaceful manner. The voters are excited. At several places voters could be seen queuing up since early morning waiting for their turn to cast the ballot," he said. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">At many voting centres voters turned up only from 8am due to cold and their numbers increased as the day progressed. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Meanwhile, former Chairman of the Council of Ministers and Chief Justice Khila Raj Regmi cast his ballot at Sano Gaucharan Park polling booth at Old Baneshwor at 9.45 this morning. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Talking to RSS after casting his vote, Regmi urged all the electorate to take part in the voting which decides the course of the nation for the next five years and beyond. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">"The voters are casting ballot in an easy, smooth and peaceful manner. I reckon voter numbers would increase more towards the afternoon," he said. -- RSS </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-20', 'modified' => '2022-11-20', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16085', 'image' => '20221120015338_NL_Mannayang.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-20 13:51:57', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 11 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16342', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => '32 Percent Voting across the Country until 12.45 pm ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 20: Thirty-two percent voting was recorded as of 12.45 pm across the country today under the election to the Member of the House of Representatives and provincial assemblies, the Election Commission said. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">November 20: Thirty-two percent voting was recorded as of 12.45 pm across the country today under the election to the Member of the House of Representatives and provincial assemblies, the Election Commission said. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">EC spokesperson Shaligram Sharma Poudel gave this information at a news conference held at the Election Commission. -- RSS </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-20', 'modified' => '2022-11-20', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16084', 'image' => '20221120014507_SG_Myagdi107yearoldmanmatadan(2).jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-20 13:44:23', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 12 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16341', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Preparations for 14th Chitwan Festival Begins', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 20: Chitwan Chamber of Commerce and Industry has started preparation to organise the 14th edition of Chitwan Festival in the district. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">November 20: Chitwan Chamber of Commerce and Industry has started preparation to organise the 14<sup>th</sup> edition of Chitwan Festival in the district. With the aim of promoting local products, the festival is going to be held at the Narayani riverside exhibition ground from January 9 to 18.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The chamber informed about the preparations for ground management and stall booking for Chitwan Festival, which is one of the biggest festivals organized every two years in Nepal.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Chun Narayan Shrestha, president of the federation said that there will be around 500 stalls in this festival. Shrestha said that he believes the festival will make the economic activities of the country sustainable and provide relief to businessmen.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Shrestha said that this year's festival will focus on tourism promotion stating, “Tourism touches every economic sector. After Covid-19 pandemic, the message that Chitwan is safe for tourism will also spread.”</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">He said that due to the decrease in domestic and foreign tourists in Chitwan after Covid-19, stakeholders have given priority to revive the tourism sector. He said that the publicity for the festival will be done after the election.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Nil Bahadur KC, a member of the organizing committee, said that stall booking started from November 17. According to him, 175 stalls have been booked as of last Friday. The stalls of agriculture, education, health and tourism will be given priority in the festival which will commence with the main slogan of 'Land of Diversity'.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Apart from this, there will be stalls for information technology, automobile, hotel, restaurant, fancy stalls etc. KC said that the products made in Nepal and Chitwan will be promoted more at the stalls. He added that a 20 percent discount has been given for booking stalls for the members of the chamber, which is looking for sponsors and co-sponsors to complete the festival.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-20', 'modified' => '2022-11-20', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16083', 'image' => '20221120123855_Festival_5.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-20 12:38:23', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 13 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16340', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'India Scraps Export Tax on Low-Grade Iron Ore', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 20: India has scrapped export taxes on low-grade iron ore and on some intermediate steel products starting from Saturday, according to a news report published by Reuters.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Agencies</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">November 20: India has scrapped export taxes on low-grade iron ore and on some intermediate steel products starting from Saturday, according to a news report published by Reuters.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">According to the news agency, India took such measures after months of complaints from miners and steel makers about loss of foreign sales opportunities.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The move, set out in a notification issued late on Friday, reverses the imposition in May of a 50 percent tax on exports of iron-ore lumps and fines with less than 58 percent iron content, Reuters added.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">“The government also reversed a May rise in export tax on iron ore concentrates other than roasted iron pyrites. That tax now returns to 30 percent from 50 percent.”</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">According to Reuters, the additional taxation imposed in May was intended to boost domestic supply of iron ore, a raw ingredient for making steel, and thereby hold down inflation.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">India exported less than half as much steel in the seven months to October as it did a year earlier, Reuters reported citing government data.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Major steel makers have reportedly urged the Indian government to unwind the additional export taxation, saying it added to their problem of weakening international demand.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Despite the latest tax reductions, a top miners' organisation remained doubtful about the prospect of exports reviving.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">"Once you disturb the trade, to recover is very difficult." Reuters quoted RK Sharma, secretary-general of the Federation of Indian Mineral Industries, as saying.</span></span></span></span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-20', 'modified' => '2022-11-20', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16082', 'image' => '20221120122600_20220220042539_application_iron-ore_723x365.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-20 12:25:17', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 14 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16339', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Oriental Cooperative Owes Over Rs 10 Billion to its Depositors ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 20: Oriental Cooperative, which was announced crisis-ridden twice by the cabinet, is found to have embezzled some Rs 10.84 billion from its members. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">November 20: Oriental Cooperative, which was announced crisis-ridden twice by the cabinet, is found to have embezzled some Rs 10.84 billion from its members. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","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><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","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><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","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><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","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><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","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><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","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><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The government has declared 12 cooperatives as ‘problematic’. </span></span></span><br /> </p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Cooperatives declared problematic by government </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The cooperatives declared crisis-ridden by the government are Standard Savings and Credit Cooperative Limited, Prabhu Saving and Loan Cooperatives Limited, Consumer Savings and Loan Cooperatives Limited, Standard Saving and Credit Co-operative Limited, Standard Multipurpose Cooperative Limited and Lu:Niva Multipurpose Cooperatives Limited. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Likewise, Pacific Saving and Investment Cooperative Limited, Kohinoor Hill Saving and Credit Cooperative, Kuber Saving and Loan Cooperative Limited, Vegas Saving and Loan Cooperatives, Societal Saving and Loan Cooperative Limited were also declared troubled by the government. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The committee office has been managing the cooperatives declared crisis-ridden by the government, said Office Chief Poudel, who is also the member-secretary of the committee. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Most of the depositors doing transaction with the problematic cooperatives have been refunded except for Oriental Cooperatives. Legal recourses were being taken against the troubled cooperatives to refund the remaining depositors at the earliest, Poudel shared. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Most of the money trapped in the troubled cooperatives is of retired employees, shared Tejnath Pokharel, branch officer of the committee. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The shopkeepers saving their income in the cooperatives without acquiring additional information about the cooperatives were also duped. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The Problematic Cooperative Management Committee Office had issued a 15-day notice on November 7 in the name of the board members, debtors, managers and employees of the cooperatives declared crisis-stricken by the government to pay the loan and interest of the liabilities to the depositors and members within 15 days. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Notices were published in the national-level media, shared Poudel adding that operators of those cooperatives, debtors, managers and employees not paying interest within 15 days will be booked. -- RSS </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-20', 'modified' => '2022-11-20', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16081', 'image' => '20221120101156_cooperative problematic.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-20 10:11:22', '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:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">November 22: The counting of votes of the November 20 election is currently underway. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">In the first-past-the-post category, the Nepali Congress is leading the polls after securing 2 seats of the House of Representatives, while the CPN (UML) is in second place with one seat so far. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">According to the Election Commission, Nepali Congress is leading in 35 constituencies and CPN (UML) in 32 followed by CPN (Maoist Center) in 9 constituencies, Rastriya Swatantra Party in 8, Rastriya Prajatantra Party in 5 while others have maintained lead in 19 constituencies. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The Nepali Congress, which is in the first place in the FPTP category, is in the second place in the proportional representation (PR) category. According to the Election Commission, CPN-UML has secured the top position with 23,374 votes followed by Nepali Congress in the second position with 21,949 votes. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Likewise, Rastriya Swatantra Party is in the third place with 11,505 votes while CPN (Maoist Center) is fourth with 8,398 votes. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Furthermore, Rastriya Prajatantra Party has garnered 5,476 votes, Janata Samajwadi Party Nepal received 2,098, Janamaat Party has secured 1,648 votes and Nepal Workers and Peasant Party 1,600 votes. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The main opposition, CPN (UML) is also in the top position in proportional representation category of the Provincial Assembly elections. According to the EC, the UML has secured 8,124 votes while Nepali Congress which is in the second position with 7, 411 votes. The Maoist Center is in third place with 2,678 votes. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Likewise, the Rastriya Prajatantra Party has bagged 2,148 votes, Janata Samajwadi Party Nepal 1,375 votes and others has so far received 3,083 votes. -- RSS </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-22', 'modified' => '2022-11-22', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16095', 'image' => '20221122110703_Election_Commission.2e16d0ba.fill-650x500.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-22 11:06:24', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 1 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16352', 'article_category_id' => '266', 'title' => 'DishHome to Broadcast World Cup Matches Live', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 21: Dish Media Network has announced to broadcast the live matches of the much-awaited FIFA Worldcup.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">November 21: Dish Media Network has announced to broadcast the live matches of the much-awaited FIFA Worldcup.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Issuing a statement, Dish Media Network said it has started its FIFA World Cup 2022 campaign, 'Feel the Magic of Football in DishHome.'</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">“As Nepali football fans celebrate the world cup and cheer the team they support, the campaign also has various social media contests. Many prizes and gift hampers await the winners of the DishHome campaign,” the statement added.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">According to the company, football fans must use the hashtag #MagicalMomentsof (their favorite team, eg, MagicalMomentsofPortugal) to participate in the DishHome Facebook page post. They must add video clips or photos of the magical moment of the team or player they are supporting to become eligible to win prizes.</span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-21', 'modified' => '2022-11-21', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16094', 'image' => '20221121030611_DH.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-21 15:05:41', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 2 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16351', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Nepali Migrant Workers found Working in Countries with no Labor Agreement', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 21: Young Nepali migrant workers facing physical, financial and mental exploitation during foreign employment is no longer a new issue for Nepal.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">November 21: Young Nepali migrant workers facing physical, financial and mental exploitation during foreign employment is no longer a new issue for Nepal. Even though the rights activists are raising their voices that the problems faced by the workers should be addressed, the youths have been forced to visit foreign countries for employment due to government’s negligence. They are even found visiting countries with whom Nepal has not signed labour pacts.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Although it is considered mandatory to have a labor contract with the respective country before going for foreign employment, the government is unable to sign a labor contract with the employer country. But the process of workers entering those countries still continues unabated.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Those who have reached the leadership level of power have repeatedly assured that a labor agreement will be made with the employer country. However, labor contracts have not been signed with most of the labor destination countries chosen by Nepali youth for foreign employment. Officials of the Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Security say that due to weak diplomatic initiatives, labor agreements have not been reached with most of the countries.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Due to the failure to reach a bilateral agreement at the government level with the major labour destination countries, a secure environment has not been created for Nepali workers. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">After the Covid-19 pandemic, around 2,000 young people have been going abroad for foreign employment every day. As mentioned in the data of the Department of Foreign Employment, most of them go to Gulf countries.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">So far, the government has opened up 111 countries of the world for employment, but has signed labor agreements with only 10 countries. According to the ministry, so far labor agreements have been signed with Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Japan, Korea, Bahrain, Israel, Jordan, Malaysia, Mauritius and Oman.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Spokesperson at the Labour Ministry Danduraj Ghimire says that the ministry is always ready for labor agreements with the main labour destination countries. He said that the government has a plan to make foreign employment systematic, transparent and dignified by signing labor agreements with labour destination countries with good prospects.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-21', 'modified' => '2022-11-21', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16093', 'image' => '20221121015409_foreign emp.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-21 13:53:35', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 3 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16353', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Mirgunj Bridge to Reopen Within 15 Days', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 21: Indian officials have assured to reopen the Bailey Bridge over Pramana River in Mirgunj, India, within 15 days.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">November 21: Indian officials have assured to reopen the Bailey Bridge over Pramana River in Mirgunj, India, within 15 days. The delay in opening of the bridge has become a headache for Nepali businessmen as they have to rely on longer route for trade with India.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The Indian Embassy in Kathmandu gave such assurance to the Morang Merchants’ Association. The bridge is located 4 kilometers west of the Biratnagar-Jogwani border checkpoint. India is yet to open the traffic even though the Bailey Bridge, which collapsed 10 months ago, had been repaired already. As a result, Nepali entrepreneurs are compelled to re-route goods imported from Indian and third and also pay extra freight charge.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Keeping this problem in mind, Gopal Agarwal, executive member of the Morang Merchants’ Association, submitted a memorandum to Deputy Chief of Mission of the Indian Embassy Prasanna Srivastava and Chief of Commerce SumanShekhar to open the bridge immediately. In response, the embassy officials provided assurance about opening the bridge within 15 days.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The damaged Bailey Bridge has already been repaired along with a concrete bridge on the newly built four-lane road 200 meters north of it. The four-lane road leads from Bihar's road network to the Nepal-India Integrated Checkpoint (ICP). However, despite repeated requests to the Indian side, the bridge is still closed.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The association has been drawing the attention of the high-ranking officials of India, requesting for the bridge be operated as soon as possible. However, they have only been giving assurances. Agarwal, also handed over a letter signed by the association’s president Naveen Rijal to the embassy officials.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">When the goods that have arrived near the customs are re-routed and brought back to the Biratnagar customs from Bhantabari via Sunsari, they have to travel 116 km more. The industrialists of Sunsari-Morang Industrial Corridor have been complaining that they have to pay Rs 250,000 more as freight charge every day when the goods are re-routed and brought into the country.</span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-21', 'modified' => '2022-11-21', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16092', 'image' => '20221121032216_Flag-Pins-India-Nepal.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-21 15:21:51', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 4 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16350', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Jute Production Declining Continuously in Nepal', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 21: Jute production has been declining continuously in Nepal in recent years, according to the data provided by the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">November 21: Jute production has been declining continuously in Nepal in recent years, according to the data provided by the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">As per the data, the production decreased by 6000 metric tons in the last seven years. The farmers producing jute are now abandoning its cultivation after they stopped getting equitable returns according to their investment.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">According to the data of the ministry, 16,530 metric tons of jute was produced in Nepal in the fiscal year (FY 2014/15). By the end of the year 2020/21, jute production decreased by 6,079 metric tons to 10,451 metric tons.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">During this period, the area of land where jute is produced also decreased by about 4000 hectares. The data shows that jute farming was done on 11,400 hectares of land in FY 2014/15, which decreased to 7,415 hectares in FY 2020/21.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Binod Gupta of Jute Research Programme, Itahari informed that the farmers are not getting the price according to the cost of production and the production is decreasing every year due to unstable prices. However, when farmers sell jute, they do not get the price according to the cost of production. He said that the jute industry sets the price much lower than the production cost of the farmers. Also, the government does not set the support price of jute. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Gupta says Nepali jute producing farmers have been hurt by the practice of setting prices by the Nepali jute industry under the guidance of the jute industry of Kolkata.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">About 12 years ago, jute was cultivated on an area of more than 20,000 hectares in the districts of Sunsari, Morang, Jhapa, Siraha, Saptari, Udayapur alone. Now the area under jute farming has decreased. Other crops are grown on the land where jute farming used to be done. The ironic reality is that 70 percent of the raw jute required for Nepali industry is being imported from India and Bangladesh, according to stakeholders. </span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-21', 'modified' => '2022-11-21', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16091', 'image' => '20221121011125_NG_Sunsari-IMG_20221011_121746.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-21 13:10:51', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 5 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16349', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Voter Turnout Less Than Expected: Election Commission ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 21: The voter turnout during Sunday’s general election was much less than expected. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Bijay Damase </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"">November 21: The voter turnout during Sunday’s general election was much less than expected. According to the preliminary report of the Election Commission (EC), the voter turnout remained less than 61 per cent.</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"">Prior to this, the nationwide voter turnout in the elections held in 2017 stood at 67.63 percent while the voter turnout in local elections held earlier this year was 66.86 percent. </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"">Analysts believe that the low voter turnout is the result of lack of accountability of the people’s representatives elected in the past. The low voter turnout also hints at the people’s contempt towards political party leaders and their working style.</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"">Chief Election Commissioner Dinesh Kumar Thapaliya admitted during a press conference on Sunday evening that the voter turnout was less than expected. He said that the voting was not encouraging on Sunday morning but there was some improvement towards the afternoon.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">“The election has been postponed in some places,” said CEC Thapaliya.</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"">He added that the vote counting would begin as soon as the ballot boxes are collected from the polling stations and brought to the vote counting centres.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The EC maintained that the elections were largely peaceful, with some exceptions of sporadic incidents. </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"">According to the EC, election-related violence was reported in over a dozen district. Police had to resort to firing blank shots in the air to bring the situation under control in over 24 polling centres of 11 districts. Voting was suspended in 64 places but it resumed in all but six of those areas. One person was killed in police firing in Triveni Municipality of Bajura district as police opened fire to disperse the agitating crowd.</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 are a total of eligible 17,988,570 voters in Nepal registered at the Election Commission. According to the EC, information on voter turnout is being registered in the EC’s entry system. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The Election Commission had set up 22,227 voting centres under 10,892 polling stations for the election to the House of Representatives (HoR) and provincial assemblies on November 20. </span></span></span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-21', 'modified' => '2022-11-21', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16090', 'image' => '20221121120022_KiranTHapa_Melamchi_RSS_04_222.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-21 11:59:44', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 6 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16347', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'World Cup Kicks off with Glitzy Inaugural Ceremony', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 21: The 2022 World Cup kicked off in Qatar’s Al-Bayt Stadium on Sunday with a visually appealing opening ceremony.', '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 21: The 2022 World Cup kicked off in Qatar’s Al-Bayt Stadium on Sunday with a visually appealing opening ceremony.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">According to the BBC, America’s Oscar-winning actor Morgan Freeman featured in the festivities alongside Qatari YouTuber Ghanim Al-Muftah. South Korean pop star Jung Kook sang Dreamers, the tournament song, alongside Qatari singer Fahad Al Kubaisi at the stadium in Al Khor.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The build-up to the first World Cup to be held in a Muslim country in the Middle East has been overshadowed by a number of controversies, including deaths of migrant workers and treatment of LGBT people in Qatar, BBC added.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">According to Reuters, Qatar's ruler in his inauguration speech called for people of all races and orientations to put aside their differences, as the host nation faced a barrage of criticism over its treatment of foreign workers and LGBT rights.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The Muslim Gulf nation is staking its reputation on delivering a smooth tournament and has denied accusations of abuse of workers and discrimination, the news agency added. Football governing body FIFA hopes the spotlight will now turn to action on the pitch.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Organisers have also denied allegations of bribery to win the rights to host football’s biggest event.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">"People of all races, nationalities, beliefs and orientations will gather here in Qatar and around screens across the continents to share in the exciting moments," Reuters quoted Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani as saying.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">In the inaugural match, which took place minutes after the opening ceremony, the hosts Qatar were beaten 2-0 by Equador.</span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-21', 'modified' => '2022-11-21', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16089', 'image' => '20221121093249_wc.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-21 09:32:10', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 7 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16345', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Negotiators Strike Landmark Deal to Help Poor Countries Affected by Climate Change', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 20: Negotiators at the United Nations climate talks on Saturday struck a breakthrough deal on creating a disaster fund for compensating poor nations that are the victims of climate change.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Agencies</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">November 20: Negotiators at the United Nations climate talks on Saturday struck a breakthrough deal on creating a disaster fund for compensating poor nations that are the victims of climate change due to rich countries' carbon pollution, according to media reports.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The BBC confirmed that a new fund to help the countries worst-hit by the effects of climate change has been agreed in a historic deal.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Citing several international cabinet ministers, The Associated Press reported that an agreement had been reached on a fund for "loss and damage."</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">CNN also confirmed that negotiators from nearly 200 countries at the COP27 UN climate summit in Egypt took the historic step of agreeing to set up a “loss and damage” fund meant to help vulnerable countries cope with climate disasters. They also agreed that the globe needs to cut greenhouse gas emissions nearly in half by 2030, added CNN.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">According to The Hill, the draft text outlines a proposed fund that would be open to all developing nations “that are particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change.” The document is light on details as to the financial model and logistics of the fund, but the agreement marks a major breakthrough for developing nations that have struggled to make their voices heard on the world stage on climate issues.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Poorer nations are often the victims of climate disasters despite having contributed little to the pollution, Fox News added.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Meanwhile, the BBC reported that it is still undecided how much countries will get from the loss and damage fund - and when.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The previous $100bn commitment pledged by richer countries in 2009 to deliver the amount annually till 2020 still hasn't been reached two years after the deadline, added the BBC. “This has left the developing nations wary of this new promise of money,” added the BBC.</span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-20', 'modified' => '2022-11-20', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16088', 'image' => '20221120070703_climate-change-1024x680-1.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-20 19:06:25', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 8 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16348', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Vote Counting of FPTP, PR to be Conducted at Once ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 21: The Election Commission (EC) has directed the offices of the chief returning officers to ensure vote counting of the first-past-the-post (FPTP) system as well as proportional representation (PR) of the House of Representatives (HoR) and provincial assemblies in four different places at a time. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">November 21: The Election Commission (EC) has directed the offices of the chief returning officers to ensure vote counting of the first-past-the-post (FPTP) system as well as proportional representation (PR) of the House of Representatives (HoR) and provincial assemblies in four different places at a time. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The EC issued such directive as some ballot papers of the HoR and provincial assemblies were mixed up in some polling stations during the voting process due to carelessness of the officials and voters. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The EC has planned to release the results within eight days. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">In a news conference on Sunday evening, Chief Election Commissioner Dinesh Kumar Thapaliya said that ballot boxes were being taken to the offices of the returning officers after completing the voting on Sunday and vote counting was to begin in some places including the Kathmandu Valley from last night itself. The EC reached such decision after forging a consensus among the political parties. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">According to the EC, helicopters were used to collect the ballot boxes from remote areas. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Meanwhile, the EC has directed to immediately begin vote counting after the collection of the ballot boxes. -- RSS </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-21', 'modified' => '2022-11-21', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16087', 'image' => '20221121111436_Election_Commission.2e16d0ba.fill-650x500.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-21 11:13:45', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 9 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16346', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => '60 Percent Voter Turnout: Preliminary Report of EC', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 20: The voters’ turnout during the general election on Sunday remained around 60 per cent, as per a preliminary report of the Election Commission (EC). ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">November 20: The voters’ turnout during the general election on Sunday remained around 60 per cent, as per a preliminary report of the Election Commission (EC). </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The voting that started from 7 am today and concluded at 5 pm is over and the details of the turnout continues to arrive, the EC said. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Overall, the voting was conducted in a peaceful and enthusiastic manner across the country, except some sporadic incidents, according to the EC. Although the designated voting time is over, the voters who have already entered the polling centres or are within a few yards of the centre can cast their votes even after the deadline. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">In Madhesh Province, voting was conducted in all polling centres without any postponement. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Voting process was obstructed in some districts such as Bajura, Surkhet, Taplejung, Nawalparasi (Susta East), Gulmi and Dolakha after disputes between the political parties and the candidates, the EC stated. -- RSS </span></span></span><br /> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-20', 'modified' => '2022-11-20', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16086', 'image' => '20221120071452_RP_Kanchanpur-2.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-20 19:14:27', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 10 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16343', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => '‘Voting Underway in Peaceful Environment’ ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 20: Voting under the general election today is taking place in an enthusiastic, systematic and peaceful manner, according to election observers. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">November 20: Voting under the general election today is taking place in an enthusiastic, systematic and peaceful manner, according to election observers. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Former Chief Election Commissioner Bhoj Raj Pokharel, who is observing the election on behalf of the General Election Observation Committee (GEOC), said that voting is taking place in a well-organized and peaceful manner. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Another former Chief Election Commissioner Dr Ayodhi Prasad Yadav, who is observing election in Saptari district, said that voters have lined up and are enthusiastically casting their votes in a systematic way. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Former Chief Justice Kalyan Shrestha shared that the voters have been exercising their Right to Vote, queuing up at the polling centres since early morning. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">"The voting is taking place in a peaceful manner. The voters are excited. At several places voters could be seen queuing up since early morning waiting for their turn to cast the ballot," he said. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">At many voting centres voters turned up only from 8am due to cold and their numbers increased as the day progressed. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Meanwhile, former Chairman of the Council of Ministers and Chief Justice Khila Raj Regmi cast his ballot at Sano Gaucharan Park polling booth at Old Baneshwor at 9.45 this morning. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Talking to RSS after casting his vote, Regmi urged all the electorate to take part in the voting which decides the course of the nation for the next five years and beyond. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">"The voters are casting ballot in an easy, smooth and peaceful manner. I reckon voter numbers would increase more towards the afternoon," he said. -- RSS </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-20', 'modified' => '2022-11-20', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16085', 'image' => '20221120015338_NL_Mannayang.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-20 13:51:57', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 11 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16342', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => '32 Percent Voting across the Country until 12.45 pm ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 20: Thirty-two percent voting was recorded as of 12.45 pm across the country today under the election to the Member of the House of Representatives and provincial assemblies, the Election Commission said. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">November 20: Thirty-two percent voting was recorded as of 12.45 pm across the country today under the election to the Member of the House of Representatives and provincial assemblies, the Election Commission said. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">EC spokesperson Shaligram Sharma Poudel gave this information at a news conference held at the Election Commission. -- RSS </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-20', 'modified' => '2022-11-20', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16084', 'image' => '20221120014507_SG_Myagdi107yearoldmanmatadan(2).jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-20 13:44:23', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 12 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16341', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Preparations for 14th Chitwan Festival Begins', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 20: Chitwan Chamber of Commerce and Industry has started preparation to organise the 14th edition of Chitwan Festival in the district. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">November 20: Chitwan Chamber of Commerce and Industry has started preparation to organise the 14<sup>th</sup> edition of Chitwan Festival in the district. With the aim of promoting local products, the festival is going to be held at the Narayani riverside exhibition ground from January 9 to 18.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The chamber informed about the preparations for ground management and stall booking for Chitwan Festival, which is one of the biggest festivals organized every two years in Nepal.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Chun Narayan Shrestha, president of the federation said that there will be around 500 stalls in this festival. Shrestha said that he believes the festival will make the economic activities of the country sustainable and provide relief to businessmen.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Shrestha said that this year's festival will focus on tourism promotion stating, “Tourism touches every economic sector. After Covid-19 pandemic, the message that Chitwan is safe for tourism will also spread.”</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">He said that due to the decrease in domestic and foreign tourists in Chitwan after Covid-19, stakeholders have given priority to revive the tourism sector. He said that the publicity for the festival will be done after the election.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Nil Bahadur KC, a member of the organizing committee, said that stall booking started from November 17. According to him, 175 stalls have been booked as of last Friday. The stalls of agriculture, education, health and tourism will be given priority in the festival which will commence with the main slogan of 'Land of Diversity'.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Apart from this, there will be stalls for information technology, automobile, hotel, restaurant, fancy stalls etc. KC said that the products made in Nepal and Chitwan will be promoted more at the stalls. He added that a 20 percent discount has been given for booking stalls for the members of the chamber, which is looking for sponsors and co-sponsors to complete the festival.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-20', 'modified' => '2022-11-20', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16083', 'image' => '20221120123855_Festival_5.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-20 12:38:23', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 13 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16340', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'India Scraps Export Tax on Low-Grade Iron Ore', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 20: India has scrapped export taxes on low-grade iron ore and on some intermediate steel products starting from Saturday, according to a news report published by Reuters.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Agencies</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">November 20: India has scrapped export taxes on low-grade iron ore and on some intermediate steel products starting from Saturday, according to a news report published by Reuters.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">According to the news agency, India took such measures after months of complaints from miners and steel makers about loss of foreign sales opportunities.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The move, set out in a notification issued late on Friday, reverses the imposition in May of a 50 percent tax on exports of iron-ore lumps and fines with less than 58 percent iron content, Reuters added.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">“The government also reversed a May rise in export tax on iron ore concentrates other than roasted iron pyrites. That tax now returns to 30 percent from 50 percent.”</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">According to Reuters, the additional taxation imposed in May was intended to boost domestic supply of iron ore, a raw ingredient for making steel, and thereby hold down inflation.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">India exported less than half as much steel in the seven months to October as it did a year earlier, Reuters reported citing government data.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Major steel makers have reportedly urged the Indian government to unwind the additional export taxation, saying it added to their problem of weakening international demand.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Despite the latest tax reductions, a top miners' organisation remained doubtful about the prospect of exports reviving.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">"Once you disturb the trade, to recover is very difficult." Reuters quoted RK Sharma, secretary-general of the Federation of Indian Mineral Industries, as saying.</span></span></span></span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-20', 'modified' => '2022-11-20', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16082', 'image' => '20221120122600_20220220042539_application_iron-ore_723x365.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-20 12:25:17', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 14 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16339', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Oriental Cooperative Owes Over Rs 10 Billion to its Depositors ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 20: Oriental Cooperative, which was announced crisis-ridden twice by the cabinet, is found to have embezzled some Rs 10.84 billion from its members. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">November 20: Oriental Cooperative, which was announced crisis-ridden twice by the cabinet, is found to have embezzled some Rs 10.84 billion from its members. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","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><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","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><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","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><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","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><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","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><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","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><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The government has declared 12 cooperatives as ‘problematic’. </span></span></span><br /> </p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Cooperatives declared problematic by government </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The cooperatives declared crisis-ridden by the government are Standard Savings and Credit Cooperative Limited, Prabhu Saving and Loan Cooperatives Limited, Consumer Savings and Loan Cooperatives Limited, Standard Saving and Credit Co-operative Limited, Standard Multipurpose Cooperative Limited and Lu:Niva Multipurpose Cooperatives Limited. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Likewise, Pacific Saving and Investment Cooperative Limited, Kohinoor Hill Saving and Credit Cooperative, Kuber Saving and Loan Cooperative Limited, Vegas Saving and Loan Cooperatives, Societal Saving and Loan Cooperative Limited were also declared troubled by the government. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The committee office has been managing the cooperatives declared crisis-ridden by the government, said Office Chief Poudel, who is also the member-secretary of the committee. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Most of the depositors doing transaction with the problematic cooperatives have been refunded except for Oriental Cooperatives. Legal recourses were being taken against the troubled cooperatives to refund the remaining depositors at the earliest, Poudel shared. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Most of the money trapped in the troubled cooperatives is of retired employees, shared Tejnath Pokharel, branch officer of the committee. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The shopkeepers saving their income in the cooperatives without acquiring additional information about the cooperatives were also duped. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The Problematic Cooperative Management Committee Office had issued a 15-day notice on November 7 in the name of the board members, debtors, managers and employees of the cooperatives declared crisis-stricken by the government to pay the loan and interest of the liabilities to the depositors and members within 15 days. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Notices were published in the national-level media, shared Poudel adding that operators of those cooperatives, debtors, managers and employees not paying interest within 15 days will be booked. -- RSS </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-20', 'modified' => '2022-11-20', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16081', 'image' => '20221120101156_cooperative problematic.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-20 10:11:22', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ) ) $current_user = null $logged_in = false $xml = falseinclude - APP/View/Elements/side_bar.ctp, line 133 View::_evaluate() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 971 View::_render() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 933 View::_renderElement() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 1224 View::element() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 418 include - APP/View/Articles/index.ctp, line 157 View::_evaluate() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 971 View::_render() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 933 View::render() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 473 Controller::render() - CORE/Cake/Controller/Controller.php, line 968 Dispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/Cake/Routing/Dispatcher.php, line 200 Dispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/Cake/Routing/Dispatcher.php, line 167 [main] - APP/webroot/index.php, line 117
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', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">November 22: The counting of votes of the November 20 election is currently underway. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">In the first-past-the-post category, the Nepali Congress is leading the polls after securing 2 seats of the House of Representatives, while the CPN (UML) is in second place with one seat so far. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">According to the Election Commission, Nepali Congress is leading in 35 constituencies and CPN (UML) in 32 followed by CPN (Maoist Center) in 9 constituencies, Rastriya Swatantra Party in 8, Rastriya Prajatantra Party in 5 while others have maintained lead in 19 constituencies. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The Nepali Congress, which is in the first place in the FPTP category, is in the second place in the proportional representation (PR) category. According to the Election Commission, CPN-UML has secured the top position with 23,374 votes followed by Nepali Congress in the second position with 21,949 votes. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Likewise, Rastriya Swatantra Party is in the third place with 11,505 votes while CPN (Maoist Center) is fourth with 8,398 votes. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Furthermore, Rastriya Prajatantra Party has garnered 5,476 votes, Janata Samajwadi Party Nepal received 2,098, Janamaat Party has secured 1,648 votes and Nepal Workers and Peasant Party 1,600 votes. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The main opposition, CPN (UML) is also in the top position in proportional representation category of the Provincial Assembly elections. According to the EC, the UML has secured 8,124 votes while Nepali Congress which is in the second position with 7, 411 votes. The Maoist Center is in third place with 2,678 votes. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Likewise, the Rastriya Prajatantra Party has bagged 2,148 votes, Janata Samajwadi Party Nepal 1,375 votes and others has so far received 3,083 votes. -- RSS </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-22', 'modified' => '2022-11-22', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16095', 'image' => '20221122110703_Election_Commission.2e16d0ba.fill-650x500.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-22 11:06:24', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 1 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16352', 'article_category_id' => '266', 'title' => 'DishHome to Broadcast World Cup Matches Live', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 21: Dish Media Network has announced to broadcast the live matches of the much-awaited FIFA Worldcup.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">November 21: Dish Media Network has announced to broadcast the live matches of the much-awaited FIFA Worldcup.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Issuing a statement, Dish Media Network said it has started its FIFA World Cup 2022 campaign, 'Feel the Magic of Football in DishHome.'</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">“As Nepali football fans celebrate the world cup and cheer the team they support, the campaign also has various social media contests. Many prizes and gift hampers await the winners of the DishHome campaign,” the statement added.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">According to the company, football fans must use the hashtag #MagicalMomentsof (their favorite team, eg, MagicalMomentsofPortugal) to participate in the DishHome Facebook page post. They must add video clips or photos of the magical moment of the team or player they are supporting to become eligible to win prizes.</span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-21', 'modified' => '2022-11-21', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16094', 'image' => '20221121030611_DH.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-21 15:05:41', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 2 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16351', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Nepali Migrant Workers found Working in Countries with no Labor Agreement', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 21: Young Nepali migrant workers facing physical, financial and mental exploitation during foreign employment is no longer a new issue for Nepal.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">November 21: Young Nepali migrant workers facing physical, financial and mental exploitation during foreign employment is no longer a new issue for Nepal. Even though the rights activists are raising their voices that the problems faced by the workers should be addressed, the youths have been forced to visit foreign countries for employment due to government’s negligence. They are even found visiting countries with whom Nepal has not signed labour pacts.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Although it is considered mandatory to have a labor contract with the respective country before going for foreign employment, the government is unable to sign a labor contract with the employer country. But the process of workers entering those countries still continues unabated.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Those who have reached the leadership level of power have repeatedly assured that a labor agreement will be made with the employer country. However, labor contracts have not been signed with most of the labor destination countries chosen by Nepali youth for foreign employment. Officials of the Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Security say that due to weak diplomatic initiatives, labor agreements have not been reached with most of the countries.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Due to the failure to reach a bilateral agreement at the government level with the major labour destination countries, a secure environment has not been created for Nepali workers. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">After the Covid-19 pandemic, around 2,000 young people have been going abroad for foreign employment every day. As mentioned in the data of the Department of Foreign Employment, most of them go to Gulf countries.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">So far, the government has opened up 111 countries of the world for employment, but has signed labor agreements with only 10 countries. According to the ministry, so far labor agreements have been signed with Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Japan, Korea, Bahrain, Israel, Jordan, Malaysia, Mauritius and Oman.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Spokesperson at the Labour Ministry Danduraj Ghimire says that the ministry is always ready for labor agreements with the main labour destination countries. He said that the government has a plan to make foreign employment systematic, transparent and dignified by signing labor agreements with labour destination countries with good prospects.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-21', 'modified' => '2022-11-21', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16093', 'image' => '20221121015409_foreign emp.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-21 13:53:35', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 3 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16353', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Mirgunj Bridge to Reopen Within 15 Days', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 21: Indian officials have assured to reopen the Bailey Bridge over Pramana River in Mirgunj, India, within 15 days.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">November 21: Indian officials have assured to reopen the Bailey Bridge over Pramana River in Mirgunj, India, within 15 days. The delay in opening of the bridge has become a headache for Nepali businessmen as they have to rely on longer route for trade with India.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The Indian Embassy in Kathmandu gave such assurance to the Morang Merchants’ Association. The bridge is located 4 kilometers west of the Biratnagar-Jogwani border checkpoint. India is yet to open the traffic even though the Bailey Bridge, which collapsed 10 months ago, had been repaired already. As a result, Nepali entrepreneurs are compelled to re-route goods imported from Indian and third and also pay extra freight charge.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Keeping this problem in mind, Gopal Agarwal, executive member of the Morang Merchants’ Association, submitted a memorandum to Deputy Chief of Mission of the Indian Embassy Prasanna Srivastava and Chief of Commerce SumanShekhar to open the bridge immediately. In response, the embassy officials provided assurance about opening the bridge within 15 days.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The damaged Bailey Bridge has already been repaired along with a concrete bridge on the newly built four-lane road 200 meters north of it. The four-lane road leads from Bihar's road network to the Nepal-India Integrated Checkpoint (ICP). However, despite repeated requests to the Indian side, the bridge is still closed.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The association has been drawing the attention of the high-ranking officials of India, requesting for the bridge be operated as soon as possible. However, they have only been giving assurances. Agarwal, also handed over a letter signed by the association’s president Naveen Rijal to the embassy officials.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">When the goods that have arrived near the customs are re-routed and brought back to the Biratnagar customs from Bhantabari via Sunsari, they have to travel 116 km more. The industrialists of Sunsari-Morang Industrial Corridor have been complaining that they have to pay Rs 250,000 more as freight charge every day when the goods are re-routed and brought into the country.</span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-21', 'modified' => '2022-11-21', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16092', 'image' => '20221121032216_Flag-Pins-India-Nepal.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-21 15:21:51', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 4 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16350', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Jute Production Declining Continuously in Nepal', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 21: Jute production has been declining continuously in Nepal in recent years, according to the data provided by the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">November 21: Jute production has been declining continuously in Nepal in recent years, according to the data provided by the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">As per the data, the production decreased by 6000 metric tons in the last seven years. The farmers producing jute are now abandoning its cultivation after they stopped getting equitable returns according to their investment.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">According to the data of the ministry, 16,530 metric tons of jute was produced in Nepal in the fiscal year (FY 2014/15). By the end of the year 2020/21, jute production decreased by 6,079 metric tons to 10,451 metric tons.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">During this period, the area of land where jute is produced also decreased by about 4000 hectares. The data shows that jute farming was done on 11,400 hectares of land in FY 2014/15, which decreased to 7,415 hectares in FY 2020/21.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Binod Gupta of Jute Research Programme, Itahari informed that the farmers are not getting the price according to the cost of production and the production is decreasing every year due to unstable prices. However, when farmers sell jute, they do not get the price according to the cost of production. He said that the jute industry sets the price much lower than the production cost of the farmers. Also, the government does not set the support price of jute. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Gupta says Nepali jute producing farmers have been hurt by the practice of setting prices by the Nepali jute industry under the guidance of the jute industry of Kolkata.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">About 12 years ago, jute was cultivated on an area of more than 20,000 hectares in the districts of Sunsari, Morang, Jhapa, Siraha, Saptari, Udayapur alone. Now the area under jute farming has decreased. Other crops are grown on the land where jute farming used to be done. The ironic reality is that 70 percent of the raw jute required for Nepali industry is being imported from India and Bangladesh, according to stakeholders. </span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-21', 'modified' => '2022-11-21', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16091', 'image' => '20221121011125_NG_Sunsari-IMG_20221011_121746.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-21 13:10:51', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 5 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16349', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Voter Turnout Less Than Expected: Election Commission ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 21: The voter turnout during Sunday’s general election was much less than expected. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Bijay Damase </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"">November 21: The voter turnout during Sunday’s general election was much less than expected. According to the preliminary report of the Election Commission (EC), the voter turnout remained less than 61 per cent.</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"">Prior to this, the nationwide voter turnout in the elections held in 2017 stood at 67.63 percent while the voter turnout in local elections held earlier this year was 66.86 percent. </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"">Analysts believe that the low voter turnout is the result of lack of accountability of the people’s representatives elected in the past. The low voter turnout also hints at the people’s contempt towards political party leaders and their working style.</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"">Chief Election Commissioner Dinesh Kumar Thapaliya admitted during a press conference on Sunday evening that the voter turnout was less than expected. He said that the voting was not encouraging on Sunday morning but there was some improvement towards the afternoon.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">“The election has been postponed in some places,” said CEC Thapaliya.</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"">He added that the vote counting would begin as soon as the ballot boxes are collected from the polling stations and brought to the vote counting centres.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The EC maintained that the elections were largely peaceful, with some exceptions of sporadic incidents. </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"">According to the EC, election-related violence was reported in over a dozen district. Police had to resort to firing blank shots in the air to bring the situation under control in over 24 polling centres of 11 districts. Voting was suspended in 64 places but it resumed in all but six of those areas. One person was killed in police firing in Triveni Municipality of Bajura district as police opened fire to disperse the agitating crowd.</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 are a total of eligible 17,988,570 voters in Nepal registered at the Election Commission. According to the EC, information on voter turnout is being registered in the EC’s entry system. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The Election Commission had set up 22,227 voting centres under 10,892 polling stations for the election to the House of Representatives (HoR) and provincial assemblies on November 20. </span></span></span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-21', 'modified' => '2022-11-21', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16090', 'image' => '20221121120022_KiranTHapa_Melamchi_RSS_04_222.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-21 11:59:44', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 6 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16347', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'World Cup Kicks off with Glitzy Inaugural Ceremony', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 21: The 2022 World Cup kicked off in Qatar’s Al-Bayt Stadium on Sunday with a visually appealing opening ceremony.', '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 21: The 2022 World Cup kicked off in Qatar’s Al-Bayt Stadium on Sunday with a visually appealing opening ceremony.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">According to the BBC, America’s Oscar-winning actor Morgan Freeman featured in the festivities alongside Qatari YouTuber Ghanim Al-Muftah. South Korean pop star Jung Kook sang Dreamers, the tournament song, alongside Qatari singer Fahad Al Kubaisi at the stadium in Al Khor.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The build-up to the first World Cup to be held in a Muslim country in the Middle East has been overshadowed by a number of controversies, including deaths of migrant workers and treatment of LGBT people in Qatar, BBC added.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">According to Reuters, Qatar's ruler in his inauguration speech called for people of all races and orientations to put aside their differences, as the host nation faced a barrage of criticism over its treatment of foreign workers and LGBT rights.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The Muslim Gulf nation is staking its reputation on delivering a smooth tournament and has denied accusations of abuse of workers and discrimination, the news agency added. Football governing body FIFA hopes the spotlight will now turn to action on the pitch.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Organisers have also denied allegations of bribery to win the rights to host football’s biggest event.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">"People of all races, nationalities, beliefs and orientations will gather here in Qatar and around screens across the continents to share in the exciting moments," Reuters quoted Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani as saying.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">In the inaugural match, which took place minutes after the opening ceremony, the hosts Qatar were beaten 2-0 by Equador.</span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-21', 'modified' => '2022-11-21', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16089', 'image' => '20221121093249_wc.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-21 09:32:10', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 7 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16345', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Negotiators Strike Landmark Deal to Help Poor Countries Affected by Climate Change', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 20: Negotiators at the United Nations climate talks on Saturday struck a breakthrough deal on creating a disaster fund for compensating poor nations that are the victims of climate change.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Agencies</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">November 20: Negotiators at the United Nations climate talks on Saturday struck a breakthrough deal on creating a disaster fund for compensating poor nations that are the victims of climate change due to rich countries' carbon pollution, according to media reports.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The BBC confirmed that a new fund to help the countries worst-hit by the effects of climate change has been agreed in a historic deal.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Citing several international cabinet ministers, The Associated Press reported that an agreement had been reached on a fund for "loss and damage."</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">CNN also confirmed that negotiators from nearly 200 countries at the COP27 UN climate summit in Egypt took the historic step of agreeing to set up a “loss and damage” fund meant to help vulnerable countries cope with climate disasters. They also agreed that the globe needs to cut greenhouse gas emissions nearly in half by 2030, added CNN.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">According to The Hill, the draft text outlines a proposed fund that would be open to all developing nations “that are particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change.” The document is light on details as to the financial model and logistics of the fund, but the agreement marks a major breakthrough for developing nations that have struggled to make their voices heard on the world stage on climate issues.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Poorer nations are often the victims of climate disasters despite having contributed little to the pollution, Fox News added.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Meanwhile, the BBC reported that it is still undecided how much countries will get from the loss and damage fund - and when.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The previous $100bn commitment pledged by richer countries in 2009 to deliver the amount annually till 2020 still hasn't been reached two years after the deadline, added the BBC. “This has left the developing nations wary of this new promise of money,” added the BBC.</span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-20', 'modified' => '2022-11-20', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16088', 'image' => '20221120070703_climate-change-1024x680-1.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-20 19:06:25', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 8 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16348', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Vote Counting of FPTP, PR to be Conducted at Once ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 21: The Election Commission (EC) has directed the offices of the chief returning officers to ensure vote counting of the first-past-the-post (FPTP) system as well as proportional representation (PR) of the House of Representatives (HoR) and provincial assemblies in four different places at a time. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">November 21: The Election Commission (EC) has directed the offices of the chief returning officers to ensure vote counting of the first-past-the-post (FPTP) system as well as proportional representation (PR) of the House of Representatives (HoR) and provincial assemblies in four different places at a time. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The EC issued such directive as some ballot papers of the HoR and provincial assemblies were mixed up in some polling stations during the voting process due to carelessness of the officials and voters. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The EC has planned to release the results within eight days. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">In a news conference on Sunday evening, Chief Election Commissioner Dinesh Kumar Thapaliya said that ballot boxes were being taken to the offices of the returning officers after completing the voting on Sunday and vote counting was to begin in some places including the Kathmandu Valley from last night itself. The EC reached such decision after forging a consensus among the political parties. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">According to the EC, helicopters were used to collect the ballot boxes from remote areas. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Meanwhile, the EC has directed to immediately begin vote counting after the collection of the ballot boxes. -- RSS </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-21', 'modified' => '2022-11-21', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16087', 'image' => '20221121111436_Election_Commission.2e16d0ba.fill-650x500.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-21 11:13:45', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 9 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16346', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => '60 Percent Voter Turnout: Preliminary Report of EC', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 20: The voters’ turnout during the general election on Sunday remained around 60 per cent, as per a preliminary report of the Election Commission (EC). ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">November 20: The voters’ turnout during the general election on Sunday remained around 60 per cent, as per a preliminary report of the Election Commission (EC). </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The voting that started from 7 am today and concluded at 5 pm is over and the details of the turnout continues to arrive, the EC said. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Overall, the voting was conducted in a peaceful and enthusiastic manner across the country, except some sporadic incidents, according to the EC. Although the designated voting time is over, the voters who have already entered the polling centres or are within a few yards of the centre can cast their votes even after the deadline. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">In Madhesh Province, voting was conducted in all polling centres without any postponement. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Voting process was obstructed in some districts such as Bajura, Surkhet, Taplejung, Nawalparasi (Susta East), Gulmi and Dolakha after disputes between the political parties and the candidates, the EC stated. -- RSS </span></span></span><br /> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-20', 'modified' => '2022-11-20', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16086', 'image' => '20221120071452_RP_Kanchanpur-2.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-20 19:14:27', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 10 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16343', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => '‘Voting Underway in Peaceful Environment’ ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 20: Voting under the general election today is taking place in an enthusiastic, systematic and peaceful manner, according to election observers. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">November 20: Voting under the general election today is taking place in an enthusiastic, systematic and peaceful manner, according to election observers. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Former Chief Election Commissioner Bhoj Raj Pokharel, who is observing the election on behalf of the General Election Observation Committee (GEOC), said that voting is taking place in a well-organized and peaceful manner. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Another former Chief Election Commissioner Dr Ayodhi Prasad Yadav, who is observing election in Saptari district, said that voters have lined up and are enthusiastically casting their votes in a systematic way. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Former Chief Justice Kalyan Shrestha shared that the voters have been exercising their Right to Vote, queuing up at the polling centres since early morning. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">"The voting is taking place in a peaceful manner. The voters are excited. At several places voters could be seen queuing up since early morning waiting for their turn to cast the ballot," he said. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">At many voting centres voters turned up only from 8am due to cold and their numbers increased as the day progressed. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Meanwhile, former Chairman of the Council of Ministers and Chief Justice Khila Raj Regmi cast his ballot at Sano Gaucharan Park polling booth at Old Baneshwor at 9.45 this morning. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Talking to RSS after casting his vote, Regmi urged all the electorate to take part in the voting which decides the course of the nation for the next five years and beyond. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">"The voters are casting ballot in an easy, smooth and peaceful manner. I reckon voter numbers would increase more towards the afternoon," he said. -- RSS </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-20', 'modified' => '2022-11-20', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16085', 'image' => '20221120015338_NL_Mannayang.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-20 13:51:57', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 11 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16342', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => '32 Percent Voting across the Country until 12.45 pm ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 20: Thirty-two percent voting was recorded as of 12.45 pm across the country today under the election to the Member of the House of Representatives and provincial assemblies, the Election Commission said. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">November 20: Thirty-two percent voting was recorded as of 12.45 pm across the country today under the election to the Member of the House of Representatives and provincial assemblies, the Election Commission said. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">EC spokesperson Shaligram Sharma Poudel gave this information at a news conference held at the Election Commission. -- RSS </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-20', 'modified' => '2022-11-20', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16084', 'image' => '20221120014507_SG_Myagdi107yearoldmanmatadan(2).jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-20 13:44:23', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 12 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16341', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Preparations for 14th Chitwan Festival Begins', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 20: Chitwan Chamber of Commerce and Industry has started preparation to organise the 14th edition of Chitwan Festival in the district. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">November 20: Chitwan Chamber of Commerce and Industry has started preparation to organise the 14<sup>th</sup> edition of Chitwan Festival in the district. With the aim of promoting local products, the festival is going to be held at the Narayani riverside exhibition ground from January 9 to 18.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The chamber informed about the preparations for ground management and stall booking for Chitwan Festival, which is one of the biggest festivals organized every two years in Nepal.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Chun Narayan Shrestha, president of the federation said that there will be around 500 stalls in this festival. Shrestha said that he believes the festival will make the economic activities of the country sustainable and provide relief to businessmen.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Shrestha said that this year's festival will focus on tourism promotion stating, “Tourism touches every economic sector. After Covid-19 pandemic, the message that Chitwan is safe for tourism will also spread.”</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">He said that due to the decrease in domestic and foreign tourists in Chitwan after Covid-19, stakeholders have given priority to revive the tourism sector. He said that the publicity for the festival will be done after the election.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Nil Bahadur KC, a member of the organizing committee, said that stall booking started from November 17. According to him, 175 stalls have been booked as of last Friday. The stalls of agriculture, education, health and tourism will be given priority in the festival which will commence with the main slogan of 'Land of Diversity'.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Apart from this, there will be stalls for information technology, automobile, hotel, restaurant, fancy stalls etc. KC said that the products made in Nepal and Chitwan will be promoted more at the stalls. He added that a 20 percent discount has been given for booking stalls for the members of the chamber, which is looking for sponsors and co-sponsors to complete the festival.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-20', 'modified' => '2022-11-20', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16083', 'image' => '20221120123855_Festival_5.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-20 12:38:23', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 13 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16340', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'India Scraps Export Tax on Low-Grade Iron Ore', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 20: India has scrapped export taxes on low-grade iron ore and on some intermediate steel products starting from Saturday, according to a news report published by Reuters.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Agencies</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">November 20: India has scrapped export taxes on low-grade iron ore and on some intermediate steel products starting from Saturday, according to a news report published by Reuters.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">According to the news agency, India took such measures after months of complaints from miners and steel makers about loss of foreign sales opportunities.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The move, set out in a notification issued late on Friday, reverses the imposition in May of a 50 percent tax on exports of iron-ore lumps and fines with less than 58 percent iron content, Reuters added.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">“The government also reversed a May rise in export tax on iron ore concentrates other than roasted iron pyrites. That tax now returns to 30 percent from 50 percent.”</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">According to Reuters, the additional taxation imposed in May was intended to boost domestic supply of iron ore, a raw ingredient for making steel, and thereby hold down inflation.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">India exported less than half as much steel in the seven months to October as it did a year earlier, Reuters reported citing government data.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Major steel makers have reportedly urged the Indian government to unwind the additional export taxation, saying it added to their problem of weakening international demand.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Despite the latest tax reductions, a top miners' organisation remained doubtful about the prospect of exports reviving.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">"Once you disturb the trade, to recover is very difficult." Reuters quoted RK Sharma, secretary-general of the Federation of Indian Mineral Industries, as saying.</span></span></span></span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-20', 'modified' => '2022-11-20', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16082', 'image' => '20221120122600_20220220042539_application_iron-ore_723x365.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-20 12:25:17', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 14 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16339', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Oriental Cooperative Owes Over Rs 10 Billion to its Depositors ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'November 20: Oriental Cooperative, which was announced crisis-ridden twice by the cabinet, is found to have embezzled some Rs 10.84 billion from its members. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">November 20: Oriental Cooperative, which was announced crisis-ridden twice by the cabinet, is found to have embezzled some Rs 10.84 billion from its members. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","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><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","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><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","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><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","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><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","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><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","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><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The government has declared 12 cooperatives as ‘problematic’. </span></span></span><br /> </p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Cooperatives declared problematic by government </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The cooperatives declared crisis-ridden by the government are Standard Savings and Credit Cooperative Limited, Prabhu Saving and Loan Cooperatives Limited, Consumer Savings and Loan Cooperatives Limited, Standard Saving and Credit Co-operative Limited, Standard Multipurpose Cooperative Limited and Lu:Niva Multipurpose Cooperatives Limited. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Likewise, Pacific Saving and Investment Cooperative Limited, Kohinoor Hill Saving and Credit Cooperative, Kuber Saving and Loan Cooperative Limited, Vegas Saving and Loan Cooperatives, Societal Saving and Loan Cooperative Limited were also declared troubled by the government. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The committee office has been managing the cooperatives declared crisis-ridden by the government, said Office Chief Poudel, who is also the member-secretary of the committee. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Most of the depositors doing transaction with the problematic cooperatives have been refunded except for Oriental Cooperatives. Legal recourses were being taken against the troubled cooperatives to refund the remaining depositors at the earliest, Poudel shared. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Most of the money trapped in the troubled cooperatives is of retired employees, shared Tejnath Pokharel, branch officer of the committee. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The shopkeepers saving their income in the cooperatives without acquiring additional information about the cooperatives were also duped. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The Problematic Cooperative Management Committee Office had issued a 15-day notice on November 7 in the name of the board members, debtors, managers and employees of the cooperatives declared crisis-stricken by the government to pay the loan and interest of the liabilities to the depositors and members within 15 days. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Notices were published in the national-level media, shared Poudel adding that operators of those cooperatives, debtors, managers and employees not paying interest within 15 days will be booked. -- RSS </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-11-20', 'modified' => '2022-11-20', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16081', 'image' => '20221120101156_cooperative problematic.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-11-20 10:11:22', '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
