August 26 As part of its campaign to demolish illegally built structures, the Kathmandu Metropolitan City on Thursday pulled down structures built illegally by Alfa Beta Complex in New…
August 26 As part of its campaign to demolish illegally built structures, the Kathmandu Metropolitan City on Thursday pulled down structures built illegally by Alfa Beta Complex in New…
August 25: Nepal Bureau of Standards and Metrology took action against 19,014 businessmen during the last fiscal year for cheating customers using sub-standard weighing…
August 25: Some people are more successful in the work they are forced to do than the work they want to do.…
August 25: Governance Lab, a research organization that supports the government to make evidence-based policy decisions by conducting policy research, collaborated with the Federation of Woman Entrepreneurs’ Associations of Nepal (FWEAN) to organize a panel discussion during the 6th International Women’s Trade Expo and Symposium…
August 25: Samsung Electronics is all set to assemble television sets of the multinational company in…
August 25: Most parts of the country received below average rainfall during this monsoon, according to the Department of Hydrology and Meteorology…
August 25: The Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) has launched a drive to demolish illegally-built…
August 25: It has been two years since the government purchased two sets of trains from India in order to operate the Janakpur-Jaynagar railway…
August 24: Bank of Kathmandu (BoK) and the Himalayan Bank have received the amount paid by a Chinese bank as a counter guarantee to the Melamchi Water Supply…
August 24: The Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) has said it plans to manage solid waste in the Kathmandu Valley within the next four…
August 24: The Youth Entrepreneurs Forum of the Confederation of Nepalese Industries has elected a new executive…
August 24: India has excluded Nepal from the list of wheat exporting countries.…
August 24: The efforts of the political parties to forge electoral alliance for the upcoming federal and state elections to be held on November 20 will be disastrous for economic prosperity, progress and…
August 24: The government is preparing to start security printing from the current fiscal year.…
August 24: The government has decided to form a high-level salary and facilities commission to review the minimum salary, allowances, remuneration and facilities of the civil servants and…
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', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">August 26 As part of its campaign to demolish illegally built structures, the Kathmandu Metropolitan City on Thursday pulled down structures built illegally by Alfa Beta Complex in New Baneshwar. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Earlier, a KMC team led by mayor Balen Shah inspected the complex in the morning. During the monitoring, a brief argument took place between Shah and the owner of the complex. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">After the dispute, mayor Shah again reached the complex with a map along with a dozer to destroy the structures found to have been built illegally, said KMC police chief Raju Nath Pandey. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">"From now on, we should not be forced to bring down structures built illegally. The locals should destroy them themselves. Structures should be used according to their use as per the approved maps," said Shah. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Prior to this, the KMC had issued a 35-day notice asking all concerned stakeholders to demolish structures built illegally. It resorted to this move from August 22 after the notice expired, said a KMC official. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">"A business operating at the basement of a building housing Mukti Bikas Bank at ward-9 has been asked to shut down," said Pandey. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">As part of the campaign, the KMC on Wednesday destroyed structures built illegally at the Kathmandu Mall and RB Complex. -- RSS </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-08-26', 'modified' => '2022-08-26', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '15607', 'image' => '20220826104720_1661432569.301593760_620863559405903_7548901906971753134_n.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-08-26 10:46:06', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 1 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '15865', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Over Nineteen Thousand Businessmen Booked for Using Faulty Weighing Machines', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'August 25: Nepal Bureau of Standards and Metrology took action against 19,014 businessmen during the last fiscal year for cheating customers using sub-standard weighing machines.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">August 25: Nepal Bureau of Standards and Metrology took action against 19,014 businessmen during the last fiscal year for cheating customers using sub-standard weighing machines. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">According to the bureau, almost half of those booked were from Kathmandu. The bureau said that a total of 8851 businessmen were found using sub-standard weight and were booked accordingly. Likewise, 1679 businessmen from Pokhara, 1064 from Butwal, 150 from Nepalgunj, 409 from Surkhet, 1067 from Dhangadhi, 174 from Silgadhi, 1251 from Birgunj, 1139 from Janakpur, 1485 Biratnagar and 845 from Jhapa were also booked for the same offence. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The bureau’s Spokesperson Jyoti Joshi Bhatta informed that they took action against the businessmen after they were found fleecing customers using faulty weighing machines. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Bhatta said that the bureau has stepped up monitoring due to an increasing trend of businessmen using faulty weighing machines to cheat customers. During the monitoring, it was found that many businessmen had not registered their weighing machines and those who had registered were yet to renew their registration.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Bhatta said that the department has been taking action against such businessmen. During the last fiscal year, a total of 23049 weighing machines were checked by the department. The highest number of weighing machines were checked in Kathmandu. According to the bureau, altogether 5641 businessmen had brought their weighing machines for checking at the bureau in Kathmandu. </span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-08-25', 'modified' => '2022-08-25', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '15606', 'image' => '20220825074428_Pr 077 - TRI - 21_11_10 - 034.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-08-25 19:43:46', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 2 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '15864', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Niti Joshi Dedicates her Life to Handicraft Promotion', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'August 25: Some people are more successful in the work they are forced to do than the work they want to do. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Prashant Khadka </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">August 25: Some people are more successful in the work they are forced to do than the work they want to do. Neeti Joshi, who was aiming to become an interior decorator since her childhood, is one such character. Joshi, who was unable to fulfill her aim of becoming an interior decorator, has made an identity as a successful woman entrepreneur in her professional journey of 25 years.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Joshi, who had the idea that she should do something by herself rather than study and seek a job, wanted to create an image through the profession of interior decoration. Unfortunately, her ambition to become an interior decorator was dealt a huge blow when her father suddenly passed away after she completed her SLC examination. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">At that time, the course of interior decoration was not available in Nepal, so she had to go to India to study that subject. But with the death of her father, the door to go to India for studies was closed. Her main objective remained incomplete. She started studying management at Shankardev Campus in Kathmandu, against her wish to study interior decoration.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Joshi’s father Ramanand Joshi, popularly known as RN Joshi, was a well-known artist of that time. He used to do painting-related business under the name Park Gallery in Kathmandu. He used to frame his paintings. He encouraged Joshi to enter the field of interior decoration from an early age. After RN's demise, people started coming to buy the business he ran. However, the family did not want to sell the art gallery. Instead, she decided to turn it into a museum in memory of her father and move on. After that, Joshi and her sister started a new business of framing in an artistic way and named it Frame World. Joshi was 23 years old at that time.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Joshi claims to have started the business of making and selling tailor-made frames as per the demand of the customers for the first time in Kathmandu with an investment of around Rs 300,000. The price of tailor-made goods is three times higher than that of ready-made goods.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Although the family accepted the business run by an inexperienced young woman, the society could not accept it easily. There were those who were jealous about how she could do such a thing at such a young age. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">“But, I dared to do it. I had complete faith that I could do something,” she said. Although she did not want to get a job, she has the experience of going to interviews in many places to boost her confidence.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">At that time, it was a challenge for a young woman to start a business. Moreover, since it was a luxury goods business, the number of customers was very limited. Only high-class families and five-star hotels were attracted to it. She said that due to this, it was very difficult to run the business in the initial stage.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Gradually, her father's clients also started coming looking for Joshi. Orders for goods started coming from five-star hotels like Hyatt, Soaltee, Shangri-La and offices of various organizations. "There was no looking back after that," said Joshi.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">For the last three years, she has been doing the business of handicraft items along with framing work in order to promote the products of the new generation of women handicraft entrepreneurs. She is doing business under the name Dhuku Store in the north side of the Royal Palace. Her shop has goods ranging from Rs 500 to 50,000.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Joshi, who has been doing business for 25 years, once had four outlets in Kathmandu. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, two of them had to be closed. As the business is going well now, she plans to gradually expand the outlet. She has given employment to about a dozen people. At one time, she only had 20 percent of Nepali customers, but now 80 percent of her customers are Nepalis.</span></span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-08-25', 'modified' => '2022-09-01', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '15605', 'image' => '20220825053003_1661403226.Hastakala.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-08-25 17:29:17', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 3 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '15863', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Governance Lab Collaborates with FWEAN to Strengthen Women-led Enterprises', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'August 25: Governance Lab, a research organization that supports the government to make evidence-based policy decisions by conducting policy research, collaborated with the Federation of Woman Entrepreneurs’ Associations of Nepal (FWEAN) to organize a panel discussion during the 6th International Women’s Trade Expo and Symposium 2022.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">August 25: Governance Lab, a research organization that supports the government to make evidence-based policy decisions by conducting policy research, collaborated with the Federation of Woman Entrepreneurs’ Associations of Nepal (FWEAN) to organize a panel discussion during the 6th International Women’s Trade Expo and Symposium 2022. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">According to a statement issued by Governance Lab, the discussion on the topic of “Accelerating Women-led Enterprises through Innovative Approaches” focused on the issues, existing policies and programmes, and innovative ideas and approaches on how women-led enterprises can be strengthened for the sustainable economic growth of the nation.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">At the programme, Nicola Pollitt, British Ambassador to Nepal emphasized on the importance of women-centric policies and programmes to sustainably accelerate the women-led enterprises. “More needs to be done to address the systemic constraints that prevent women from contributing to and benefitting from Nepal’s economic growth,” the statement quoted Pollitt as saying.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Neeru Rayamajhi Khatri, president of FWEAN said that the government of Nepal has acknowledged FWEAN as one of the policy partners. “So the conclusions drawn from this discussion will be documented and submitted to the government as recommendations. FWEAN will strongly push to bring some positive changes in the policies related to women entrepreneurship,” she said.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Salina Bhattarai, research coordinator at Governance Lab stated that such discussions are very important to examine the current situation of women entrepreneurs and support in accelerating them through innovative approaches to ensure sustainable economic growth of Nepal. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">“We are very hopeful with this collaboration and excited to come up with meaningful projects that can escalate women entrepreneurship in Nepal.”</span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-08-25', 'modified' => '2022-08-25', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '15604', 'image' => '20220825024317_IMG_4198.JPG', 'article_date' => '2022-08-25 14:42:24', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 4 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '15862', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Samsung Television to be Assembled in Nepal', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'August 25: Samsung Electronics is all set to assemble television sets of the multinational company in Nepal.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">August 25: Samsung Electronics is all set to assemble television sets of the multinational company in Nepal. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">South Korea's Samsung Electronics Company Limited will collaborate with Golchha Group of Nepal to set up a television production plant with joint investment at Bhumahi in Nawalparasi district.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The plant will be a joint venture between Samsung and Golchha Group's Him Electronics. Preparation for the construction of the infrastructure of the assembling plant is currently underway.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Minister for Industry, Commerce and Supplies, Dilendra Prasad Badu laid the foundation stone of the plant amid a programme organized on Wednesday.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Initially, the plant aims to produce only television sets. Later, there are plans to increase the production based on the demand. Altogether Rs 500 million will be invested for the infrastructure development and technology of the plant, which will come into operation within the year 2023.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The company informed that thousands of television sets of different sizes and their panels will be produced daily at the plant. Moreover, the fitting of the plant will start in a few days.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">After laying the foundation stone, Minister Badu said that there is conducive environment for investment in Nepal and Samsung's plant is an example of this. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Shekhar Golchha, chairman of Golchha Group, who is also the president of the Federation of Nepalese Chamber of Commerce and Industry said that the 22-year-long business partnership with Samsung Electronics created the environment for television production in Nepal. Golchha Group has been importing and distributing Samsung televisions in Nepal since the last two decades.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">According to Golchha Group, 150 people will get direct employment in the plant which will be operated under the supervision of technicians from Samsung, South Korea.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-08-25', 'modified' => '2022-08-25', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '15603', 'image' => '20220825013835_1661400517.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-08-25 13:37:48', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 5 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '15861', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Most Parts of the Country Receive Below Average Rainfall this Monsoon: DHM ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'August 25: Most parts of the country received below average rainfall during this monsoon, according to the Department of Hydrology and Meteorology (DHM). ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">August 25: </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Most parts of the country received below average rainfall during this monsoon, according to the Department of Hydrology and Meteorology (DHM). </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">As per the information provided by the department, Madhes Province and western parts of the country received below average rainfall despite some parts including eastern belts and the Kathmandu Valley having had above average rainfall. </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 failure of wind carrying water vapour to enter the northern sides in enough amount due to the monsoon low pressure line is to be blamed for the low rainfall in the country, said meteorologist Hira Bhattarai. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Unlike in the past, most parts of the country did not receive torrential rainfall for four to five consecutive days this monsoon except in some hill areas including the Kathmandu Valley, said meteorologist Sanjib Adhikari. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">In general, the country receives rains for around 110 days between mid-June and mid-October following the entrance of monsoon wind, said the department. -- RSS </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-08-25', 'modified' => '2022-08-25', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '15602', 'image' => '20220825093408_rainnnn.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-08-25 09:33:12', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 6 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '15860', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'KMC Begins Demolishing Illegally-Built Structures', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'August 25: The Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) has launched a drive to demolish illegally-built structures.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">August 25: The Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) has launched a drive to demolish illegally-built structures. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The KMC resorted to the move after the expiry of the 35-day public notice given to the concerned parties to remove the structures. The metropolis believes this move would resolve 25 percent problems related to vehicle parking in the city. </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"">Those structures built without the approval of maps or those violating the approved maps were pulled down, said Sunil Lamsal, member of the Secretariat of the KMC mayor Balendra Shah. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">As part of the campaign, structures built at Kathmandu Mall in Sundhara and New Road-based RB Complex were brought down with the use of dozers, he said. </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"">Mayor Shah himself was present on the occasion. Structures built illegally at Durbar Marg were also destroyed on Wednesday, he said. </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"">Earlier, the KMC had destroyed structures built illegally in New Baneshwar area. -- RSS </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-08-25', 'modified' => '2022-08-25', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '15601', 'image' => '20220825092754_1661346682.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-08-25 09:27:22', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 7 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '15859', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Nepal Railway Company Incurring Huge Losses due to Failure to Produce Domestic Human Resources', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'August 25: It has been two years since the government purchased two sets of trains from India in order to operate the Janakpur-Jaynagar railway service.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">August 25: It has been two years since the government purchased two sets of trains from India in order to operate the Janakpur-Jaynagar railway service. The trains that arrived in Nepal mid-September 2020 were kept covered with tents for nineteen months. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Although the government brought those trains after setting up a 35-kilometer track, it had to wait for nineteen months to operate the trains due to lack of necessary laws. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The Nepal Railway Company had problems recruiting staff members in the absence of laws related to railway service. In order to remove legal hurdles, the government introduced an ordinance for the third time and started the railway service almost five months ago. However, Nepal has been forced to pay Rs 480 million annually to India’s Konkan Railway due to lack of manpower, infrastructures and problems in human resource management. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Nepal Railway Company has to pay the amount to the Indian company for the salaries of the workers brought from India as well as repair and maintenance cost and the fee for signal change. All these expenses could have been avoided had the government made necessary arrangements within the country using domestic workers and other available means. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Nepal Railway Company Limited has to pay a minimum salary of Rs 300,000 to as much as Rs 500,000 per month to the engineers provided by Konkan Railway. Nepali engineers, who are working in the same company, are paid around Rs 40,000 to Rs 50,000 as per the government’s pay scale. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The company is compelled to pay an annual salary of around Rs 60 million to 26 engineers and cabin crew members because it failed to produce the required manpower within the country on time.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">It is more costlier for the repair and maintenance of the trains. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Nepal Railway Company’s General Manager Niranjan Jha informed that the company has to pay around Rs 120 million annually for the repair and maintenance of the trains. Likewise, the company has to pay around Rs 60 million for the signal change system. The total cost after adding expenses under other headings and including tax reaches up to Rs 480 million.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The company’s engineer Rabindra Sah says that the government needs to produce technical manpower within the country to reduce the cost of operating the trains. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Jha says that the company has so far received Rs 140 million from the government to pay Konkan Railway. He complained that the Ministry of Finance is yet to release the remaining amount. </span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-08-25', 'modified' => '2022-08-25', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '15600', 'image' => '20220825092821_1661383895.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-08-25 09:17:36', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 8 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '15857', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Chinese Bank Refunds BoK and Himalayan Bank', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'August 24: Bank of Kathmandu (BoK) and the Himalayan Bank have received the amount paid by a Chinese bank as a counter guarantee to the Melamchi Water Supply Project.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">August 24: Bank of Kathmandu (BoK) and the Himalayan Bank have received the amount paid by a Chinese bank as a counter guarantee to the Melamchi Water Supply Project. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">China Construction Bank paid USD 6,625,010 and 1,411,453 euros to BoK and USD 6,600,000 to Himalayan Bank after a Chinese high court ordered the bank to pay the amount to the Nepali banks. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Chief Executive Officer of BoK, Shravan Maskey informed that the payment was received from the Chinese bank on Tuesday.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">BoK and Himalayan Bank had provided counter guarantee to China Railway which was assured the bank guarantee for the MWSP by the China Construction Bank.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">MWSP had terminated the contract with China Railway after it failed to undertake the project as per the agreement. MWSP then filed a case in the Chinese court seeking the guarantee amount. The Chinese court ruled that although the Nepalese banks had provided the guarantee amount to the project, they were yet to receive the counter guarantee amount from the Chinese bank.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Earlier, China Railway had pleaded in the court that it the China Construction Company is not liable to pay the counter guarantee amount to the Nepalese banks. The two banks of Nepal then sent their representatives to China and fought a legal battle in the high court. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The People's Intermediate Court and the Henan People's High Court in Henan Province of China gave an order in favor of Nepali Bank. </span></span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-08-24', 'modified' => '2022-08-25', 'keywords' => 'bank, guarantee, refund, Melamcji, China, Railway, court, order, Henan', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '15599', 'image' => '20220824053237_20220803094438_istockphoto-900791430-612x612.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-08-24 17:31:38', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 9 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '15856', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'KMC Plans to Manage Waste within Four Days ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'August 24: The Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) has said it plans to manage solid waste in the Kathmandu Valley within the next four days. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">August 24: The Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) has said it plans to manage solid waste in the Kathmandu Valley within the next four days. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">According to KMC’s environment department chief Sarita Rai, works are underway with the plan to complete the management of garbage piled up alongside the streets and crossroads by this weekend. Rai said the management of waste from major streets has been over and it plans to pick up remaining waste from the inner streets and manage it by coming Saturday. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">At present, 300 vehicles have been dumping the garbage at the Bancharedanda landfill site on a daily basis. The number of waste-collecting vehicles is more than the normal time due to the need to manage the waste that has been piled-up since a long time. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Few days ago, KMC Mayor Balendra Shah directed private companies partnering with the KMC in the waste management to conclude the management within a week. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">It may be noted that management of waste generated in the Kathmandu Valley was halted for two months partly because of the road disruption due to monsoon rains and also owing to the obstruction from the locals of Sisdole and Bancharedanda who were non-cooperating with the KMC citing that the latter failed to implement agreements reached with them. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Last week, a four-point agreement was signed among the Chief District Officers of Kathmandu, Dhading and Nuwakot and the locals of Sisdole and Bancharedanda, paving the way to resume the management works since last Thursday. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Around 1,200 metric tonnes of solid waste is generated in the Kathmandu Valley per day and the KMC is the highest contributor (over 500 metric tons). Bancharedanda has been serving as the final waste disposal site for garbage produced in the KMC and other 17 local levels since a long time. -- RSS </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">--- </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-08-24', 'modified' => '2022-08-24', 'keywords' => 'KMC, Kathmandu, Valley, waste, management, Balen, Shah, Mayor, Sisdole, Banchardanda', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '15598', 'image' => '20220824052045_Kathmandu Valley.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-08-24 17:19:30', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 10 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '15858', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Prachi Agarwal Elected Chairperson of Youth Entrepreneurs Forum of CNI', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'August 24: The Youth Entrepreneurs Forum of the Confederation of Nepalese Industries has elected a new executive committee.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">August 24: The Youth Entrepreneurs Forum of the Confederation of Nepalese Industries has elected a new executive committee. The annual general meeting of the forum recently constituted a new board under the chairmanship of Prachi Agarwal. Agarwal has become the first woman president of the forum.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The newly elected president Agarwal is involved in various businesses including furnishing. She holds a Masters in Finance and Marketing from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow and a Masters in Interior Designing from the United Arab Emirates.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Anurag Goyal (Learning Chair), Ashish Aggarwal (Assistant Learning Chair), Manish Shrestha (Membership and Engagement Chair), Chirag Saravagi (Communication Chair), Ankush Agarwal (Finance Chair) and Sugam Ghimire (Startup Chair) have been elected to the new board of the forum. </span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Newly elected president Agarwal said that this year the forum will focus on instilling the spirit of entrepreneurship among the youth by starting an incubation center for startups. "We will start developing and building Nepal's economy by advocating favorable policies for all," she said.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Youth Entrepreneurs Forum is a youth organization of the CNI formed in 2017. The first president of the forum was Bishnu Kumar Aggarwal. He is currently the president of CNI. </span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The forum recently concluded its successful program CNIYEF Nepal Startup Fest. During the event, 7 startups signed an initial investment agreement of Rs 245 million.</span></span></span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-08-24', 'modified' => '2022-08-25', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '15597', 'image' => '20220824054622_youth entrepreneurs.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-08-24 17:45:46', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 11 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '15855', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'India Excludes Nepal from its List of Wheat Exporting Nations', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'August 24: India has excluded Nepal from the list of wheat exporting countries. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">August 24: India has excluded Nepal from the list of wheat exporting countries. Nepal was left out of the wheat export quota by the Government of India due to the delay in part of the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Supplies. This has cast doubt regarding the import of 600,000 metric tons of wheat required by the domestic flour industry.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">India has decided export wheat to Bangladesh, Indonesia, Yemen, the UAE and Oman under quota system. Since those countries took the initiative in time, New Delhi has given permission to export wheat to those countries by setting quota. On Monday, the Indian government announced the details of the wheat exporting countries and the quota allocated for them. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">It may be noted that India imposed a ban on wheat export on April 14 due to the decline in domestic production. Despite the ban, New Delhi has said that wheat will be exported to the countries that are in need of food security by setting quotas.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Although the Minister of Industry, Commerce and Supplies has repeatedly promised to take initiative for the import of wheat, 32 flour industries operating in the country have been closed due to the failure to do so on time. Concerned industrialists have said that they are running out of stock of wheat. Keeping in mind the approaching festivals, the ministry has shown readiness to bring sugar from India but has neglected wheat.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Although the ministry had asked the industrialists one month ago to determine the quantity of wheat required for them, it has not yet taken any initiative with the Government of India to import wheat. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Dr Narayan Prasad Regmi, under secretary at the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Supplies, said that it will take some time to decide on importing wheat needed by Nepal's industry. He said that since the ministry is currently studying the requirement, he could not say exactly when wheat will be imported. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Avinash Bohora, central member of the Federation of Nepalese Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the President of Province 1 chapter of Nepal India Industry and Commerce Association, said that if the government does not bring wheat immediately, there will be a shortage of flour during the upcoming festivals. He said that not only the flour industry but more than 250 other related industries will be affected. Wheat is the raw material for industries that produce biscuits and noodles.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Bikas Begwani, secretary of Nepal Flour Mill Association and vice president of Morang Trade Association, said that Nepal was not included in the list of countries that India exports wheat to because the ministry staff did not work quickly. He said that the government should have sent a letter to the Government of India immediately after the industrialist informed the ministry about the required amount of wheat, but the ministry did not do so.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-08-24', 'modified' => '2022-08-24', 'keywords' => 'wheat, export, Nepal, India, ban, food, FNCCI, festival', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '15596', 'image' => '20220824050910_wheatttttt.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-08-24 17:08:07', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 12 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '15854', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Electoral Alliance is not the Essence of Democracy', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'August 24: The efforts of the political parties to forge electoral alliance for the upcoming federal and state elections to be held on November 20 will be disastrous for economic prosperity, progress and democracy.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Rudra Khadka</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">August 24: The efforts of the political parties to forge electoral alliance for the upcoming federal and state elections to be held on November 20 will be disastrous for economic prosperity, progress and democracy. By introducing such a practice in Nepal, which is rare in the world, political parties are trying not to change the society, but only their fortune. If the parties take part in the elections by forming an alliance, it will not bring any significant change.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">For example, if the number of people who are known to be good and honest in the society is 49 percent, but 51 percent of the bad people form an alliance, the good people are bound to be defeated. The effort to forge the coalition between the ruling and opposition parties is not for a cause, but rather to win seats for those who get the ticket with the blessing of the top leaders. Some of the leaders who are willing to form an alliance say that the current alliance may not be maintained after the election. The alliance that is formed now is not motivated by any new purpose, but is intended to win the elections for those who are in power and have been there many times before. The history is evident that economic prosperity is not possible with the efforts of those who are currently in power or those who have experienced power. New thinking and planning is needed for the economic prosperity and progress of Nepal.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Some may raise a question here - if the election itself cannot be won, how can good or progressive work be done? However, what everyone realizes is that if the objective is to win the election and form the government, then after winning, they have neither the interest nor the morale to do more than that. After it is confirmed that there will be no change from what is seen now, there will be no achievement again from those people who win with the backup of electoral alliance.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">If the parties want to bring a change or if they want to work for the welfare of the country and the people, they should participate in the elections with their own agenda and plans, not through alliances.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">In the case of a consensus parliament, the parties run coalition governments in other countries of the world as well. However, most of them compete in the elections alone. After the election, they share power only when the government is formed. They do not secure their position by making alliances before the elections.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">In politics, one should aim to work for the good of the country and the people. The goal should not be just to form the government and reach the position of personal benefit. It is useless for others to expect innovation or progress from individuals or organizations that do not have the ability to compete. Therefore, since the parties are currently preparing for the upcoming elections, they should try to participate in the elections alone rather than by forming a coalition. The parties should get their agenda approved by the people. Only if this can be done, the real meaning of democracy will suffice.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Arguably, there will be no innovation if only the weak or the powerful try to get along with each other, win elections and run the government. At such a time, it is necessary for the youth in different political parties to be active. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">General secretary duo of Nepali Congress, Gagan Thapa and Bishwa Prakash Sharma have set an example how success can be achieved due to the active role of the youth. Likewise, the victory of Balen Shah for the post of Kathmandu Metropolitan City’s mayor oduring the local elections held a few months ago is another precedent.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">It is useless to say that there is democracy in the country until the Nepali citizens can feel the change. Due to the governance system adopted by Nepal, it is definitely difficult for any party to get majority votes. The act of participating and winning the election by forming alliances cannot be considered a democratic move.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The five ruling parties Nepali Congress, CPN Maoist Center, CPN United Socialist, Janata Samajwadi Party and Rastriya Jana Morcha have decided to participate in the upcoming election by forging an electoral alliance and are currently engaged in allocation of seats. In the same way, the main opposition CPN-UML is also trying to find out whether it is possible to form an alliance with other parties including RPP. Apart from these, other small parties are also trying to cooperate with various parties to win the elections.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-08-24', 'modified' => '2022-08-24', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '15595', 'image' => '20220824030611_parliament building.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-08-24 15:05:16', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 13 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '15853', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Security Printing to Start from Current Fiscal Year ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'August 24: The government is preparing to start security printing from the current fiscal year. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">August 24: The government is preparing to start security printing from the current fiscal year. Minister of Communication and Information Technology, Gyanendra Bahadur Karki shared that security materials will be printed with the establishment of a security printing press in the current fiscal year. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif""> Releasing a booklet of major achievements made by the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology and its subordinate agencies in the fiscal year 2021/22, Minister Karki on Tuesday said that security printing press has been established to print security documents such as passports, postage stamps, excise duty stickers etc within the country. He said that the ministry is always ready and committed to providing simple, convenient and effective services to the people. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Minister Karki shared that the fourth generation Internet "4G" service has been extended to 735 out of the 753 local levels in the country. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">According to the ministry's progress booklet, 1,642 km of optical fiber was installed in the last fiscal year, taking the total installed optical fibre to 12,224 kms. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Communication Minister Karki said that the programs of the Ministry of CIT are aimed at strengthening means of mass communication, development, expansion and use of information technology and the timely improvement of postal services. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">In the fiscal year 2021/22, the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology and its subordinate agencies recorded major achievements in areas related to policy, legal issues, telecommunication, information technology, mass media, postal service, film and printing. The booklet also shares that an integrated action plan for the implementation of the annual policy and program and budget has been developed while and an objective evaluation system has been put in place for the effective implementation of the action plan. </span><br /> <strong><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">45 services being rendered through Nagarik App </span></strong> <br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Minister Karki shared that the Nagarik App had been upgraded time to time and a total of 45 services are being rendered through the App at present. All services by the Department of Information and Broadcasting have gone fully digital. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Integrated Work Management System has been implemented in six subordinate bodies of the Ministry to realize the goal of 'Paperless Government', Minister Karki said. Through the Integrated Gateway, one can send SMS to the government agencies for Rs 20 paisa. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">This service will be extended to additional 20 government agencies within the Singha Durbar complex during the ongoing fiscal year, shared Minister Karki. To implement the 'Right to Information' by ensuring public's easy access to information on public affairs and concerns, bulletin containing information on the activities of the Ministry would be published quarterly. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Furthermore, the Ministry has prioritized establishment of 'Cinema Story Bank' in all seven provinces to promote and streamline the film sector adversely affected by COVID-19 pandemic. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Prospective film shooting spots would be explored in all seven provinces and developed accordingly. Identity card for senior cine artistes is put in place while preparation was underway to implement e-commerce in postal administration to further streamline the sector. -- RSS </span></span></span><br /> <br /> <br /> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-08-24', 'modified' => '2022-08-24', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '15594', 'image' => '20220824100755_RS_KTM_MantriKarki-1.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-08-24 10:07:16', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 14 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '15852', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Government forms High-level Commission to Review Salary of Civil Servants ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'August 24: The government has decided to form a high-level salary and facilities commission to review the minimum salary, allowances, remuneration and facilities of the civil servants and workers. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">August 24: The government has decided to form a high-level salary and facilities commission to review the minimum salary, allowances, remuneration and facilities of the civil servants and workers. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">A meeting of the Council of Ministers held on August 22 has constituted the commission under the convenorship of former Chief Secretary Leelamani Paudyal for carrying out necessary study for revising the salary, allowance, remuneration and facilities of government employees and workers. The commission has been asked to conduct the study and make recommendation on the basis of the country's economic condition and its spending capacity. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Addressing a news conference organised at the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology on Tuesday to make public the decisions made by the cabinet meeting, Communications Minister and the government spokesman Gyanendra Bahadur Karki confirmed that the government had decided to form the High-level Salary and Facilities Commission to review the salary and facilities. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The cabinet meeting has also agreed in principle to call for tender and move forward the procurement process in special circumstances for the construction works of the 5.5 kilometres Mudkhu-Tinpiple section of the Balaju-Trishuli road. </span><br /> <br /> <br /> </span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-08-24', 'modified' => '2022-08-24', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '15593', 'image' => '20220824100713_salary.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-08-24 09:53:43', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, '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:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">August 26 As part of its campaign to demolish illegally built structures, the Kathmandu Metropolitan City on Thursday pulled down structures built illegally by Alfa Beta Complex in New Baneshwar. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Earlier, a KMC team led by mayor Balen Shah inspected the complex in the morning. During the monitoring, a brief argument took place between Shah and the owner of the complex. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">After the dispute, mayor Shah again reached the complex with a map along with a dozer to destroy the structures found to have been built illegally, said KMC police chief Raju Nath Pandey. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">"From now on, we should not be forced to bring down structures built illegally. The locals should destroy them themselves. Structures should be used according to their use as per the approved maps," said Shah. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Prior to this, the KMC had issued a 35-day notice asking all concerned stakeholders to demolish structures built illegally. It resorted to this move from August 22 after the notice expired, said a KMC official. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">"A business operating at the basement of a building housing Mukti Bikas Bank at ward-9 has been asked to shut down," said Pandey. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">As part of the campaign, the KMC on Wednesday destroyed structures built illegally at the Kathmandu Mall and RB Complex. -- RSS </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-08-26', 'modified' => '2022-08-26', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '15607', 'image' => '20220826104720_1661432569.301593760_620863559405903_7548901906971753134_n.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-08-26 10:46:06', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 1 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '15865', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Over Nineteen Thousand Businessmen Booked for Using Faulty Weighing Machines', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'August 25: Nepal Bureau of Standards and Metrology took action against 19,014 businessmen during the last fiscal year for cheating customers using sub-standard weighing machines.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">August 25: Nepal Bureau of Standards and Metrology took action against 19,014 businessmen during the last fiscal year for cheating customers using sub-standard weighing machines. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">According to the bureau, almost half of those booked were from Kathmandu. The bureau said that a total of 8851 businessmen were found using sub-standard weight and were booked accordingly. Likewise, 1679 businessmen from Pokhara, 1064 from Butwal, 150 from Nepalgunj, 409 from Surkhet, 1067 from Dhangadhi, 174 from Silgadhi, 1251 from Birgunj, 1139 from Janakpur, 1485 Biratnagar and 845 from Jhapa were also booked for the same offence. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The bureau’s Spokesperson Jyoti Joshi Bhatta informed that they took action against the businessmen after they were found fleecing customers using faulty weighing machines. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Bhatta said that the bureau has stepped up monitoring due to an increasing trend of businessmen using faulty weighing machines to cheat customers. During the monitoring, it was found that many businessmen had not registered their weighing machines and those who had registered were yet to renew their registration.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Bhatta said that the department has been taking action against such businessmen. During the last fiscal year, a total of 23049 weighing machines were checked by the department. The highest number of weighing machines were checked in Kathmandu. According to the bureau, altogether 5641 businessmen had brought their weighing machines for checking at the bureau in Kathmandu. </span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-08-25', 'modified' => '2022-08-25', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '15606', 'image' => '20220825074428_Pr 077 - TRI - 21_11_10 - 034.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-08-25 19:43:46', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 2 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '15864', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Niti Joshi Dedicates her Life to Handicraft Promotion', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'August 25: Some people are more successful in the work they are forced to do than the work they want to do. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Prashant Khadka </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">August 25: Some people are more successful in the work they are forced to do than the work they want to do. Neeti Joshi, who was aiming to become an interior decorator since her childhood, is one such character. Joshi, who was unable to fulfill her aim of becoming an interior decorator, has made an identity as a successful woman entrepreneur in her professional journey of 25 years.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Joshi, who had the idea that she should do something by herself rather than study and seek a job, wanted to create an image through the profession of interior decoration. Unfortunately, her ambition to become an interior decorator was dealt a huge blow when her father suddenly passed away after she completed her SLC examination. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">At that time, the course of interior decoration was not available in Nepal, so she had to go to India to study that subject. But with the death of her father, the door to go to India for studies was closed. Her main objective remained incomplete. She started studying management at Shankardev Campus in Kathmandu, against her wish to study interior decoration.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Joshi’s father Ramanand Joshi, popularly known as RN Joshi, was a well-known artist of that time. He used to do painting-related business under the name Park Gallery in Kathmandu. He used to frame his paintings. He encouraged Joshi to enter the field of interior decoration from an early age. After RN's demise, people started coming to buy the business he ran. However, the family did not want to sell the art gallery. Instead, she decided to turn it into a museum in memory of her father and move on. After that, Joshi and her sister started a new business of framing in an artistic way and named it Frame World. Joshi was 23 years old at that time.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Joshi claims to have started the business of making and selling tailor-made frames as per the demand of the customers for the first time in Kathmandu with an investment of around Rs 300,000. The price of tailor-made goods is three times higher than that of ready-made goods.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Although the family accepted the business run by an inexperienced young woman, the society could not accept it easily. There were those who were jealous about how she could do such a thing at such a young age. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">“But, I dared to do it. I had complete faith that I could do something,” she said. Although she did not want to get a job, she has the experience of going to interviews in many places to boost her confidence.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">At that time, it was a challenge for a young woman to start a business. Moreover, since it was a luxury goods business, the number of customers was very limited. Only high-class families and five-star hotels were attracted to it. She said that due to this, it was very difficult to run the business in the initial stage.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Gradually, her father's clients also started coming looking for Joshi. Orders for goods started coming from five-star hotels like Hyatt, Soaltee, Shangri-La and offices of various organizations. "There was no looking back after that," said Joshi.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">For the last three years, she has been doing the business of handicraft items along with framing work in order to promote the products of the new generation of women handicraft entrepreneurs. She is doing business under the name Dhuku Store in the north side of the Royal Palace. Her shop has goods ranging from Rs 500 to 50,000.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Joshi, who has been doing business for 25 years, once had four outlets in Kathmandu. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, two of them had to be closed. As the business is going well now, she plans to gradually expand the outlet. She has given employment to about a dozen people. At one time, she only had 20 percent of Nepali customers, but now 80 percent of her customers are Nepalis.</span></span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-08-25', 'modified' => '2022-09-01', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '15605', 'image' => '20220825053003_1661403226.Hastakala.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-08-25 17:29:17', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 3 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '15863', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Governance Lab Collaborates with FWEAN to Strengthen Women-led Enterprises', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'August 25: Governance Lab, a research organization that supports the government to make evidence-based policy decisions by conducting policy research, collaborated with the Federation of Woman Entrepreneurs’ Associations of Nepal (FWEAN) to organize a panel discussion during the 6th International Women’s Trade Expo and Symposium 2022.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">August 25: Governance Lab, a research organization that supports the government to make evidence-based policy decisions by conducting policy research, collaborated with the Federation of Woman Entrepreneurs’ Associations of Nepal (FWEAN) to organize a panel discussion during the 6th International Women’s Trade Expo and Symposium 2022. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">According to a statement issued by Governance Lab, the discussion on the topic of “Accelerating Women-led Enterprises through Innovative Approaches” focused on the issues, existing policies and programmes, and innovative ideas and approaches on how women-led enterprises can be strengthened for the sustainable economic growth of the nation.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">At the programme, Nicola Pollitt, British Ambassador to Nepal emphasized on the importance of women-centric policies and programmes to sustainably accelerate the women-led enterprises. “More needs to be done to address the systemic constraints that prevent women from contributing to and benefitting from Nepal’s economic growth,” the statement quoted Pollitt as saying.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Neeru Rayamajhi Khatri, president of FWEAN said that the government of Nepal has acknowledged FWEAN as one of the policy partners. “So the conclusions drawn from this discussion will be documented and submitted to the government as recommendations. FWEAN will strongly push to bring some positive changes in the policies related to women entrepreneurship,” she said.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Salina Bhattarai, research coordinator at Governance Lab stated that such discussions are very important to examine the current situation of women entrepreneurs and support in accelerating them through innovative approaches to ensure sustainable economic growth of Nepal. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">“We are very hopeful with this collaboration and excited to come up with meaningful projects that can escalate women entrepreneurship in Nepal.”</span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-08-25', 'modified' => '2022-08-25', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '15604', 'image' => '20220825024317_IMG_4198.JPG', 'article_date' => '2022-08-25 14:42:24', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 4 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '15862', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Samsung Television to be Assembled in Nepal', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'August 25: Samsung Electronics is all set to assemble television sets of the multinational company in Nepal.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">August 25: Samsung Electronics is all set to assemble television sets of the multinational company in Nepal. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">South Korea's Samsung Electronics Company Limited will collaborate with Golchha Group of Nepal to set up a television production plant with joint investment at Bhumahi in Nawalparasi district.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The plant will be a joint venture between Samsung and Golchha Group's Him Electronics. Preparation for the construction of the infrastructure of the assembling plant is currently underway.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Minister for Industry, Commerce and Supplies, Dilendra Prasad Badu laid the foundation stone of the plant amid a programme organized on Wednesday.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Initially, the plant aims to produce only television sets. Later, there are plans to increase the production based on the demand. Altogether Rs 500 million will be invested for the infrastructure development and technology of the plant, which will come into operation within the year 2023.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The company informed that thousands of television sets of different sizes and their panels will be produced daily at the plant. Moreover, the fitting of the plant will start in a few days.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">After laying the foundation stone, Minister Badu said that there is conducive environment for investment in Nepal and Samsung's plant is an example of this. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Shekhar Golchha, chairman of Golchha Group, who is also the president of the Federation of Nepalese Chamber of Commerce and Industry said that the 22-year-long business partnership with Samsung Electronics created the environment for television production in Nepal. Golchha Group has been importing and distributing Samsung televisions in Nepal since the last two decades.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">According to Golchha Group, 150 people will get direct employment in the plant which will be operated under the supervision of technicians from Samsung, South Korea.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-08-25', 'modified' => '2022-08-25', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '15603', 'image' => '20220825013835_1661400517.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-08-25 13:37:48', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 5 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '15861', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Most Parts of the Country Receive Below Average Rainfall this Monsoon: DHM ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'August 25: Most parts of the country received below average rainfall during this monsoon, according to the Department of Hydrology and Meteorology (DHM). ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">August 25: </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Most parts of the country received below average rainfall during this monsoon, according to the Department of Hydrology and Meteorology (DHM). </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">As per the information provided by the department, Madhes Province and western parts of the country received below average rainfall despite some parts including eastern belts and the Kathmandu Valley having had above average rainfall. </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 failure of wind carrying water vapour to enter the northern sides in enough amount due to the monsoon low pressure line is to be blamed for the low rainfall in the country, said meteorologist Hira Bhattarai. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Unlike in the past, most parts of the country did not receive torrential rainfall for four to five consecutive days this monsoon except in some hill areas including the Kathmandu Valley, said meteorologist Sanjib Adhikari. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">In general, the country receives rains for around 110 days between mid-June and mid-October following the entrance of monsoon wind, said the department. -- RSS </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-08-25', 'modified' => '2022-08-25', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '15602', 'image' => '20220825093408_rainnnn.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-08-25 09:33:12', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 6 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '15860', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'KMC Begins Demolishing Illegally-Built Structures', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'August 25: The Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) has launched a drive to demolish illegally-built structures.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">August 25: The Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) has launched a drive to demolish illegally-built structures. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The KMC resorted to the move after the expiry of the 35-day public notice given to the concerned parties to remove the structures. The metropolis believes this move would resolve 25 percent problems related to vehicle parking in the city. </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"">Those structures built without the approval of maps or those violating the approved maps were pulled down, said Sunil Lamsal, member of the Secretariat of the KMC mayor Balendra Shah. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">As part of the campaign, structures built at Kathmandu Mall in Sundhara and New Road-based RB Complex were brought down with the use of dozers, he said. </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"">Mayor Shah himself was present on the occasion. Structures built illegally at Durbar Marg were also destroyed on Wednesday, he said. </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"">Earlier, the KMC had destroyed structures built illegally in New Baneshwar area. -- RSS </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-08-25', 'modified' => '2022-08-25', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '15601', 'image' => '20220825092754_1661346682.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-08-25 09:27:22', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 7 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '15859', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Nepal Railway Company Incurring Huge Losses due to Failure to Produce Domestic Human Resources', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'August 25: It has been two years since the government purchased two sets of trains from India in order to operate the Janakpur-Jaynagar railway service.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">August 25: It has been two years since the government purchased two sets of trains from India in order to operate the Janakpur-Jaynagar railway service. The trains that arrived in Nepal mid-September 2020 were kept covered with tents for nineteen months. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Although the government brought those trains after setting up a 35-kilometer track, it had to wait for nineteen months to operate the trains due to lack of necessary laws. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The Nepal Railway Company had problems recruiting staff members in the absence of laws related to railway service. In order to remove legal hurdles, the government introduced an ordinance for the third time and started the railway service almost five months ago. However, Nepal has been forced to pay Rs 480 million annually to India’s Konkan Railway due to lack of manpower, infrastructures and problems in human resource management. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Nepal Railway Company has to pay the amount to the Indian company for the salaries of the workers brought from India as well as repair and maintenance cost and the fee for signal change. All these expenses could have been avoided had the government made necessary arrangements within the country using domestic workers and other available means. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Nepal Railway Company Limited has to pay a minimum salary of Rs 300,000 to as much as Rs 500,000 per month to the engineers provided by Konkan Railway. Nepali engineers, who are working in the same company, are paid around Rs 40,000 to Rs 50,000 as per the government’s pay scale. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The company is compelled to pay an annual salary of around Rs 60 million to 26 engineers and cabin crew members because it failed to produce the required manpower within the country on time.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">It is more costlier for the repair and maintenance of the trains. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Nepal Railway Company’s General Manager Niranjan Jha informed that the company has to pay around Rs 120 million annually for the repair and maintenance of the trains. Likewise, the company has to pay around Rs 60 million for the signal change system. The total cost after adding expenses under other headings and including tax reaches up to Rs 480 million.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The company’s engineer Rabindra Sah says that the government needs to produce technical manpower within the country to reduce the cost of operating the trains. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Jha says that the company has so far received Rs 140 million from the government to pay Konkan Railway. He complained that the Ministry of Finance is yet to release the remaining amount. </span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-08-25', 'modified' => '2022-08-25', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '15600', 'image' => '20220825092821_1661383895.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-08-25 09:17:36', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 8 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '15857', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Chinese Bank Refunds BoK and Himalayan Bank', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'August 24: Bank of Kathmandu (BoK) and the Himalayan Bank have received the amount paid by a Chinese bank as a counter guarantee to the Melamchi Water Supply Project.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">August 24: Bank of Kathmandu (BoK) and the Himalayan Bank have received the amount paid by a Chinese bank as a counter guarantee to the Melamchi Water Supply Project. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">China Construction Bank paid USD 6,625,010 and 1,411,453 euros to BoK and USD 6,600,000 to Himalayan Bank after a Chinese high court ordered the bank to pay the amount to the Nepali banks. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Chief Executive Officer of BoK, Shravan Maskey informed that the payment was received from the Chinese bank on Tuesday.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">BoK and Himalayan Bank had provided counter guarantee to China Railway which was assured the bank guarantee for the MWSP by the China Construction Bank.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">MWSP had terminated the contract with China Railway after it failed to undertake the project as per the agreement. MWSP then filed a case in the Chinese court seeking the guarantee amount. The Chinese court ruled that although the Nepalese banks had provided the guarantee amount to the project, they were yet to receive the counter guarantee amount from the Chinese bank.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Earlier, China Railway had pleaded in the court that it the China Construction Company is not liable to pay the counter guarantee amount to the Nepalese banks. The two banks of Nepal then sent their representatives to China and fought a legal battle in the high court. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The People's Intermediate Court and the Henan People's High Court in Henan Province of China gave an order in favor of Nepali Bank. </span></span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-08-24', 'modified' => '2022-08-25', 'keywords' => 'bank, guarantee, refund, Melamcji, China, Railway, court, order, Henan', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '15599', 'image' => '20220824053237_20220803094438_istockphoto-900791430-612x612.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-08-24 17:31:38', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 9 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '15856', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'KMC Plans to Manage Waste within Four Days ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'August 24: The Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) has said it plans to manage solid waste in the Kathmandu Valley within the next four days. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">August 24: The Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) has said it plans to manage solid waste in the Kathmandu Valley within the next four days. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">According to KMC’s environment department chief Sarita Rai, works are underway with the plan to complete the management of garbage piled up alongside the streets and crossroads by this weekend. Rai said the management of waste from major streets has been over and it plans to pick up remaining waste from the inner streets and manage it by coming Saturday. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">At present, 300 vehicles have been dumping the garbage at the Bancharedanda landfill site on a daily basis. The number of waste-collecting vehicles is more than the normal time due to the need to manage the waste that has been piled-up since a long time. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Few days ago, KMC Mayor Balendra Shah directed private companies partnering with the KMC in the waste management to conclude the management within a week. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">It may be noted that management of waste generated in the Kathmandu Valley was halted for two months partly because of the road disruption due to monsoon rains and also owing to the obstruction from the locals of Sisdole and Bancharedanda who were non-cooperating with the KMC citing that the latter failed to implement agreements reached with them. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Last week, a four-point agreement was signed among the Chief District Officers of Kathmandu, Dhading and Nuwakot and the locals of Sisdole and Bancharedanda, paving the way to resume the management works since last Thursday. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Around 1,200 metric tonnes of solid waste is generated in the Kathmandu Valley per day and the KMC is the highest contributor (over 500 metric tons). Bancharedanda has been serving as the final waste disposal site for garbage produced in the KMC and other 17 local levels since a long time. -- RSS </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">--- </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-08-24', 'modified' => '2022-08-24', 'keywords' => 'KMC, Kathmandu, Valley, waste, management, Balen, Shah, Mayor, Sisdole, Banchardanda', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '15598', 'image' => '20220824052045_Kathmandu Valley.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-08-24 17:19:30', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 10 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '15858', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Prachi Agarwal Elected Chairperson of Youth Entrepreneurs Forum of CNI', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'August 24: The Youth Entrepreneurs Forum of the Confederation of Nepalese Industries has elected a new executive committee.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">August 24: The Youth Entrepreneurs Forum of the Confederation of Nepalese Industries has elected a new executive committee. The annual general meeting of the forum recently constituted a new board under the chairmanship of Prachi Agarwal. Agarwal has become the first woman president of the forum.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The newly elected president Agarwal is involved in various businesses including furnishing. She holds a Masters in Finance and Marketing from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow and a Masters in Interior Designing from the United Arab Emirates.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Anurag Goyal (Learning Chair), Ashish Aggarwal (Assistant Learning Chair), Manish Shrestha (Membership and Engagement Chair), Chirag Saravagi (Communication Chair), Ankush Agarwal (Finance Chair) and Sugam Ghimire (Startup Chair) have been elected to the new board of the forum. </span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Newly elected president Agarwal said that this year the forum will focus on instilling the spirit of entrepreneurship among the youth by starting an incubation center for startups. "We will start developing and building Nepal's economy by advocating favorable policies for all," she said.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Youth Entrepreneurs Forum is a youth organization of the CNI formed in 2017. The first president of the forum was Bishnu Kumar Aggarwal. He is currently the president of CNI. </span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The forum recently concluded its successful program CNIYEF Nepal Startup Fest. During the event, 7 startups signed an initial investment agreement of Rs 245 million.</span></span></span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-08-24', 'modified' => '2022-08-25', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '15597', 'image' => '20220824054622_youth entrepreneurs.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-08-24 17:45:46', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 11 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '15855', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'India Excludes Nepal from its List of Wheat Exporting Nations', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'August 24: India has excluded Nepal from the list of wheat exporting countries. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">August 24: India has excluded Nepal from the list of wheat exporting countries. Nepal was left out of the wheat export quota by the Government of India due to the delay in part of the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Supplies. This has cast doubt regarding the import of 600,000 metric tons of wheat required by the domestic flour industry.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">India has decided export wheat to Bangladesh, Indonesia, Yemen, the UAE and Oman under quota system. Since those countries took the initiative in time, New Delhi has given permission to export wheat to those countries by setting quota. On Monday, the Indian government announced the details of the wheat exporting countries and the quota allocated for them. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">It may be noted that India imposed a ban on wheat export on April 14 due to the decline in domestic production. Despite the ban, New Delhi has said that wheat will be exported to the countries that are in need of food security by setting quotas.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Although the Minister of Industry, Commerce and Supplies has repeatedly promised to take initiative for the import of wheat, 32 flour industries operating in the country have been closed due to the failure to do so on time. Concerned industrialists have said that they are running out of stock of wheat. Keeping in mind the approaching festivals, the ministry has shown readiness to bring sugar from India but has neglected wheat.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Although the ministry had asked the industrialists one month ago to determine the quantity of wheat required for them, it has not yet taken any initiative with the Government of India to import wheat. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Dr Narayan Prasad Regmi, under secretary at the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Supplies, said that it will take some time to decide on importing wheat needed by Nepal's industry. He said that since the ministry is currently studying the requirement, he could not say exactly when wheat will be imported. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Avinash Bohora, central member of the Federation of Nepalese Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the President of Province 1 chapter of Nepal India Industry and Commerce Association, said that if the government does not bring wheat immediately, there will be a shortage of flour during the upcoming festivals. He said that not only the flour industry but more than 250 other related industries will be affected. Wheat is the raw material for industries that produce biscuits and noodles.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Bikas Begwani, secretary of Nepal Flour Mill Association and vice president of Morang Trade Association, said that Nepal was not included in the list of countries that India exports wheat to because the ministry staff did not work quickly. He said that the government should have sent a letter to the Government of India immediately after the industrialist informed the ministry about the required amount of wheat, but the ministry did not do so.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-08-24', 'modified' => '2022-08-24', 'keywords' => 'wheat, export, Nepal, India, ban, food, FNCCI, festival', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '15596', 'image' => '20220824050910_wheatttttt.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-08-24 17:08:07', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 12 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '15854', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Electoral Alliance is not the Essence of Democracy', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'August 24: The efforts of the political parties to forge electoral alliance for the upcoming federal and state elections to be held on November 20 will be disastrous for economic prosperity, progress and democracy.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Rudra Khadka</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">August 24: The efforts of the political parties to forge electoral alliance for the upcoming federal and state elections to be held on November 20 will be disastrous for economic prosperity, progress and democracy. By introducing such a practice in Nepal, which is rare in the world, political parties are trying not to change the society, but only their fortune. If the parties take part in the elections by forming an alliance, it will not bring any significant change.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">For example, if the number of people who are known to be good and honest in the society is 49 percent, but 51 percent of the bad people form an alliance, the good people are bound to be defeated. The effort to forge the coalition between the ruling and opposition parties is not for a cause, but rather to win seats for those who get the ticket with the blessing of the top leaders. Some of the leaders who are willing to form an alliance say that the current alliance may not be maintained after the election. The alliance that is formed now is not motivated by any new purpose, but is intended to win the elections for those who are in power and have been there many times before. The history is evident that economic prosperity is not possible with the efforts of those who are currently in power or those who have experienced power. New thinking and planning is needed for the economic prosperity and progress of Nepal.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Some may raise a question here - if the election itself cannot be won, how can good or progressive work be done? However, what everyone realizes is that if the objective is to win the election and form the government, then after winning, they have neither the interest nor the morale to do more than that. After it is confirmed that there will be no change from what is seen now, there will be no achievement again from those people who win with the backup of electoral alliance.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">If the parties want to bring a change or if they want to work for the welfare of the country and the people, they should participate in the elections with their own agenda and plans, not through alliances.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">In the case of a consensus parliament, the parties run coalition governments in other countries of the world as well. However, most of them compete in the elections alone. After the election, they share power only when the government is formed. They do not secure their position by making alliances before the elections.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">In politics, one should aim to work for the good of the country and the people. The goal should not be just to form the government and reach the position of personal benefit. It is useless for others to expect innovation or progress from individuals or organizations that do not have the ability to compete. Therefore, since the parties are currently preparing for the upcoming elections, they should try to participate in the elections alone rather than by forming a coalition. The parties should get their agenda approved by the people. Only if this can be done, the real meaning of democracy will suffice.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Arguably, there will be no innovation if only the weak or the powerful try to get along with each other, win elections and run the government. At such a time, it is necessary for the youth in different political parties to be active. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">General secretary duo of Nepali Congress, Gagan Thapa and Bishwa Prakash Sharma have set an example how success can be achieved due to the active role of the youth. Likewise, the victory of Balen Shah for the post of Kathmandu Metropolitan City’s mayor oduring the local elections held a few months ago is another precedent.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">It is useless to say that there is democracy in the country until the Nepali citizens can feel the change. Due to the governance system adopted by Nepal, it is definitely difficult for any party to get majority votes. The act of participating and winning the election by forming alliances cannot be considered a democratic move.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The five ruling parties Nepali Congress, CPN Maoist Center, CPN United Socialist, Janata Samajwadi Party and Rastriya Jana Morcha have decided to participate in the upcoming election by forging an electoral alliance and are currently engaged in allocation of seats. In the same way, the main opposition CPN-UML is also trying to find out whether it is possible to form an alliance with other parties including RPP. Apart from these, other small parties are also trying to cooperate with various parties to win the elections.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-08-24', 'modified' => '2022-08-24', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '15595', 'image' => '20220824030611_parliament building.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-08-24 15:05:16', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 13 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '15853', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Security Printing to Start from Current Fiscal Year ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'August 24: The government is preparing to start security printing from the current fiscal year. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">August 24: The government is preparing to start security printing from the current fiscal year. Minister of Communication and Information Technology, Gyanendra Bahadur Karki shared that security materials will be printed with the establishment of a security printing press in the current fiscal year. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif""> Releasing a booklet of major achievements made by the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology and its subordinate agencies in the fiscal year 2021/22, Minister Karki on Tuesday said that security printing press has been established to print security documents such as passports, postage stamps, excise duty stickers etc within the country. He said that the ministry is always ready and committed to providing simple, convenient and effective services to the people. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Minister Karki shared that the fourth generation Internet "4G" service has been extended to 735 out of the 753 local levels in the country. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">According to the ministry's progress booklet, 1,642 km of optical fiber was installed in the last fiscal year, taking the total installed optical fibre to 12,224 kms. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Communication Minister Karki said that the programs of the Ministry of CIT are aimed at strengthening means of mass communication, development, expansion and use of information technology and the timely improvement of postal services. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">In the fiscal year 2021/22, the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology and its subordinate agencies recorded major achievements in areas related to policy, legal issues, telecommunication, information technology, mass media, postal service, film and printing. The booklet also shares that an integrated action plan for the implementation of the annual policy and program and budget has been developed while and an objective evaluation system has been put in place for the effective implementation of the action plan. </span><br /> <strong><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">45 services being rendered through Nagarik App </span></strong> <br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Minister Karki shared that the Nagarik App had been upgraded time to time and a total of 45 services are being rendered through the App at present. All services by the Department of Information and Broadcasting have gone fully digital. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Integrated Work Management System has been implemented in six subordinate bodies of the Ministry to realize the goal of 'Paperless Government', Minister Karki said. Through the Integrated Gateway, one can send SMS to the government agencies for Rs 20 paisa. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">This service will be extended to additional 20 government agencies within the Singha Durbar complex during the ongoing fiscal year, shared Minister Karki. To implement the 'Right to Information' by ensuring public's easy access to information on public affairs and concerns, bulletin containing information on the activities of the Ministry would be published quarterly. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Furthermore, the Ministry has prioritized establishment of 'Cinema Story Bank' in all seven provinces to promote and streamline the film sector adversely affected by COVID-19 pandemic. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Prospective film shooting spots would be explored in all seven provinces and developed accordingly. Identity card for senior cine artistes is put in place while preparation was underway to implement e-commerce in postal administration to further streamline the sector. -- RSS </span></span></span><br /> <br /> <br /> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-08-24', 'modified' => '2022-08-24', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '15594', 'image' => '20220824100755_RS_KTM_MantriKarki-1.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-08-24 10:07:16', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 14 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '15852', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Government forms High-level Commission to Review Salary of Civil Servants ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'August 24: The government has decided to form a high-level salary and facilities commission to review the minimum salary, allowances, remuneration and facilities of the civil servants and workers. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">August 24: The government has decided to form a high-level salary and facilities commission to review the minimum salary, allowances, remuneration and facilities of the civil servants and workers. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">A meeting of the Council of Ministers held on August 22 has constituted the commission under the convenorship of former Chief Secretary Leelamani Paudyal for carrying out necessary study for revising the salary, allowance, remuneration and facilities of government employees and workers. The commission has been asked to conduct the study and make recommendation on the basis of the country's economic condition and its spending capacity. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Addressing a news conference organised at the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology on Tuesday to make public the decisions made by the cabinet meeting, Communications Minister and the government spokesman Gyanendra Bahadur Karki confirmed that the government had decided to form the High-level Salary and Facilities Commission to review the salary and facilities. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The cabinet meeting has also agreed in principle to call for tender and move forward the procurement process in special circumstances for the construction works of the 5.5 kilometres Mudkhu-Tinpiple section of the Balaju-Trishuli road. </span><br /> <br /> <br /> </span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-08-24', 'modified' => '2022-08-24', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '15593', 'image' => '20220824100713_salary.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-08-24 09:53:43', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '34' ) ) ) $current_user = null $logged_in = falsesimplexml_load_file - [internal], line ?? include - APP/View/Elements/side_bar.ctp, line 60 View::_evaluate() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 971 View::_render() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 933 View::_renderElement() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 1224 View::element() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 418 include - APP/View/Articles/index.ctp, line 157 View::_evaluate() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 971 View::_render() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 933 View::render() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 473 Controller::render() - CORE/Cake/Controller/Controller.php, line 968 Dispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/Cake/Routing/Dispatcher.php, line 200 Dispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/Cake/Routing/Dispatcher.php, line 167 [main] - APP/webroot/index.php, line 117
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', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">August 26 As part of its campaign to demolish illegally built structures, the Kathmandu Metropolitan City on Thursday pulled down structures built illegally by Alfa Beta Complex in New Baneshwar. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Earlier, a KMC team led by mayor Balen Shah inspected the complex in the morning. During the monitoring, a brief argument took place between Shah and the owner of the complex. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">After the dispute, mayor Shah again reached the complex with a map along with a dozer to destroy the structures found to have been built illegally, said KMC police chief Raju Nath Pandey. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">"From now on, we should not be forced to bring down structures built illegally. The locals should destroy them themselves. Structures should be used according to their use as per the approved maps," said Shah. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Prior to this, the KMC had issued a 35-day notice asking all concerned stakeholders to demolish structures built illegally. It resorted to this move from August 22 after the notice expired, said a KMC official. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">"A business operating at the basement of a building housing Mukti Bikas Bank at ward-9 has been asked to shut down," said Pandey. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">As part of the campaign, the KMC on Wednesday destroyed structures built illegally at the Kathmandu Mall and RB Complex. -- RSS </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-08-26', 'modified' => '2022-08-26', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '15607', 'image' => '20220826104720_1661432569.301593760_620863559405903_7548901906971753134_n.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-08-26 10:46:06', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 1 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '15865', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Over Nineteen Thousand Businessmen Booked for Using Faulty Weighing Machines', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'August 25: Nepal Bureau of Standards and Metrology took action against 19,014 businessmen during the last fiscal year for cheating customers using sub-standard weighing machines.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">August 25: Nepal Bureau of Standards and Metrology took action against 19,014 businessmen during the last fiscal year for cheating customers using sub-standard weighing machines. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">According to the bureau, almost half of those booked were from Kathmandu. The bureau said that a total of 8851 businessmen were found using sub-standard weight and were booked accordingly. Likewise, 1679 businessmen from Pokhara, 1064 from Butwal, 150 from Nepalgunj, 409 from Surkhet, 1067 from Dhangadhi, 174 from Silgadhi, 1251 from Birgunj, 1139 from Janakpur, 1485 Biratnagar and 845 from Jhapa were also booked for the same offence. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The bureau’s Spokesperson Jyoti Joshi Bhatta informed that they took action against the businessmen after they were found fleecing customers using faulty weighing machines. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Bhatta said that the bureau has stepped up monitoring due to an increasing trend of businessmen using faulty weighing machines to cheat customers. During the monitoring, it was found that many businessmen had not registered their weighing machines and those who had registered were yet to renew their registration.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Bhatta said that the department has been taking action against such businessmen. During the last fiscal year, a total of 23049 weighing machines were checked by the department. The highest number of weighing machines were checked in Kathmandu. According to the bureau, altogether 5641 businessmen had brought their weighing machines for checking at the bureau in Kathmandu. </span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-08-25', 'modified' => '2022-08-25', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '15606', 'image' => '20220825074428_Pr 077 - TRI - 21_11_10 - 034.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-08-25 19:43:46', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 2 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '15864', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Niti Joshi Dedicates her Life to Handicraft Promotion', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'August 25: Some people are more successful in the work they are forced to do than the work they want to do. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Prashant Khadka </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">August 25: Some people are more successful in the work they are forced to do than the work they want to do. Neeti Joshi, who was aiming to become an interior decorator since her childhood, is one such character. Joshi, who was unable to fulfill her aim of becoming an interior decorator, has made an identity as a successful woman entrepreneur in her professional journey of 25 years.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Joshi, who had the idea that she should do something by herself rather than study and seek a job, wanted to create an image through the profession of interior decoration. Unfortunately, her ambition to become an interior decorator was dealt a huge blow when her father suddenly passed away after she completed her SLC examination. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">At that time, the course of interior decoration was not available in Nepal, so she had to go to India to study that subject. But with the death of her father, the door to go to India for studies was closed. Her main objective remained incomplete. She started studying management at Shankardev Campus in Kathmandu, against her wish to study interior decoration.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Joshi’s father Ramanand Joshi, popularly known as RN Joshi, was a well-known artist of that time. He used to do painting-related business under the name Park Gallery in Kathmandu. He used to frame his paintings. He encouraged Joshi to enter the field of interior decoration from an early age. After RN's demise, people started coming to buy the business he ran. However, the family did not want to sell the art gallery. Instead, she decided to turn it into a museum in memory of her father and move on. After that, Joshi and her sister started a new business of framing in an artistic way and named it Frame World. Joshi was 23 years old at that time.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Joshi claims to have started the business of making and selling tailor-made frames as per the demand of the customers for the first time in Kathmandu with an investment of around Rs 300,000. The price of tailor-made goods is three times higher than that of ready-made goods.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Although the family accepted the business run by an inexperienced young woman, the society could not accept it easily. There were those who were jealous about how she could do such a thing at such a young age. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">“But, I dared to do it. I had complete faith that I could do something,” she said. Although she did not want to get a job, she has the experience of going to interviews in many places to boost her confidence.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">At that time, it was a challenge for a young woman to start a business. Moreover, since it was a luxury goods business, the number of customers was very limited. Only high-class families and five-star hotels were attracted to it. She said that due to this, it was very difficult to run the business in the initial stage.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Gradually, her father's clients also started coming looking for Joshi. Orders for goods started coming from five-star hotels like Hyatt, Soaltee, Shangri-La and offices of various organizations. "There was no looking back after that," said Joshi.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">For the last three years, she has been doing the business of handicraft items along with framing work in order to promote the products of the new generation of women handicraft entrepreneurs. She is doing business under the name Dhuku Store in the north side of the Royal Palace. Her shop has goods ranging from Rs 500 to 50,000.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Joshi, who has been doing business for 25 years, once had four outlets in Kathmandu. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, two of them had to be closed. As the business is going well now, she plans to gradually expand the outlet. She has given employment to about a dozen people. At one time, she only had 20 percent of Nepali customers, but now 80 percent of her customers are Nepalis.</span></span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-08-25', 'modified' => '2022-09-01', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '15605', 'image' => '20220825053003_1661403226.Hastakala.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-08-25 17:29:17', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 3 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '15863', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Governance Lab Collaborates with FWEAN to Strengthen Women-led Enterprises', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'August 25: Governance Lab, a research organization that supports the government to make evidence-based policy decisions by conducting policy research, collaborated with the Federation of Woman Entrepreneurs’ Associations of Nepal (FWEAN) to organize a panel discussion during the 6th International Women’s Trade Expo and Symposium 2022.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">August 25: Governance Lab, a research organization that supports the government to make evidence-based policy decisions by conducting policy research, collaborated with the Federation of Woman Entrepreneurs’ Associations of Nepal (FWEAN) to organize a panel discussion during the 6th International Women’s Trade Expo and Symposium 2022. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">According to a statement issued by Governance Lab, the discussion on the topic of “Accelerating Women-led Enterprises through Innovative Approaches” focused on the issues, existing policies and programmes, and innovative ideas and approaches on how women-led enterprises can be strengthened for the sustainable economic growth of the nation.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">At the programme, Nicola Pollitt, British Ambassador to Nepal emphasized on the importance of women-centric policies and programmes to sustainably accelerate the women-led enterprises. “More needs to be done to address the systemic constraints that prevent women from contributing to and benefitting from Nepal’s economic growth,” the statement quoted Pollitt as saying.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Neeru Rayamajhi Khatri, president of FWEAN said that the government of Nepal has acknowledged FWEAN as one of the policy partners. “So the conclusions drawn from this discussion will be documented and submitted to the government as recommendations. FWEAN will strongly push to bring some positive changes in the policies related to women entrepreneurship,” she said.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Salina Bhattarai, research coordinator at Governance Lab stated that such discussions are very important to examine the current situation of women entrepreneurs and support in accelerating them through innovative approaches to ensure sustainable economic growth of Nepal. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">“We are very hopeful with this collaboration and excited to come up with meaningful projects that can escalate women entrepreneurship in Nepal.”</span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-08-25', 'modified' => '2022-08-25', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '15604', 'image' => '20220825024317_IMG_4198.JPG', 'article_date' => '2022-08-25 14:42:24', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 4 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '15862', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Samsung Television to be Assembled in Nepal', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'August 25: Samsung Electronics is all set to assemble television sets of the multinational company in Nepal.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">August 25: Samsung Electronics is all set to assemble television sets of the multinational company in Nepal. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">South Korea's Samsung Electronics Company Limited will collaborate with Golchha Group of Nepal to set up a television production plant with joint investment at Bhumahi in Nawalparasi district.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The plant will be a joint venture between Samsung and Golchha Group's Him Electronics. Preparation for the construction of the infrastructure of the assembling plant is currently underway.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Minister for Industry, Commerce and Supplies, Dilendra Prasad Badu laid the foundation stone of the plant amid a programme organized on Wednesday.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Initially, the plant aims to produce only television sets. Later, there are plans to increase the production based on the demand. Altogether Rs 500 million will be invested for the infrastructure development and technology of the plant, which will come into operation within the year 2023.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The company informed that thousands of television sets of different sizes and their panels will be produced daily at the plant. Moreover, the fitting of the plant will start in a few days.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">After laying the foundation stone, Minister Badu said that there is conducive environment for investment in Nepal and Samsung's plant is an example of this. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Shekhar Golchha, chairman of Golchha Group, who is also the president of the Federation of Nepalese Chamber of Commerce and Industry said that the 22-year-long business partnership with Samsung Electronics created the environment for television production in Nepal. Golchha Group has been importing and distributing Samsung televisions in Nepal since the last two decades.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">According to Golchha Group, 150 people will get direct employment in the plant which will be operated under the supervision of technicians from Samsung, South Korea.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-08-25', 'modified' => '2022-08-25', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '15603', 'image' => '20220825013835_1661400517.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-08-25 13:37:48', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 5 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '15861', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Most Parts of the Country Receive Below Average Rainfall this Monsoon: DHM ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'August 25: Most parts of the country received below average rainfall during this monsoon, according to the Department of Hydrology and Meteorology (DHM). ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">August 25: </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Most parts of the country received below average rainfall during this monsoon, according to the Department of Hydrology and Meteorology (DHM). </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">As per the information provided by the department, Madhes Province and western parts of the country received below average rainfall despite some parts including eastern belts and the Kathmandu Valley having had above average rainfall. </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 failure of wind carrying water vapour to enter the northern sides in enough amount due to the monsoon low pressure line is to be blamed for the low rainfall in the country, said meteorologist Hira Bhattarai. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Unlike in the past, most parts of the country did not receive torrential rainfall for four to five consecutive days this monsoon except in some hill areas including the Kathmandu Valley, said meteorologist Sanjib Adhikari. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">In general, the country receives rains for around 110 days between mid-June and mid-October following the entrance of monsoon wind, said the department. -- RSS </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-08-25', 'modified' => '2022-08-25', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '15602', 'image' => '20220825093408_rainnnn.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-08-25 09:33:12', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 6 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '15860', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'KMC Begins Demolishing Illegally-Built Structures', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'August 25: The Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) has launched a drive to demolish illegally-built structures.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">August 25: The Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) has launched a drive to demolish illegally-built structures. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The KMC resorted to the move after the expiry of the 35-day public notice given to the concerned parties to remove the structures. The metropolis believes this move would resolve 25 percent problems related to vehicle parking in the city. </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"">Those structures built without the approval of maps or those violating the approved maps were pulled down, said Sunil Lamsal, member of the Secretariat of the KMC mayor Balendra Shah. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">As part of the campaign, structures built at Kathmandu Mall in Sundhara and New Road-based RB Complex were brought down with the use of dozers, he said. </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"">Mayor Shah himself was present on the occasion. Structures built illegally at Durbar Marg were also destroyed on Wednesday, he said. </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"">Earlier, the KMC had destroyed structures built illegally in New Baneshwar area. -- RSS </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-08-25', 'modified' => '2022-08-25', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '15601', 'image' => '20220825092754_1661346682.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-08-25 09:27:22', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 7 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '15859', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Nepal Railway Company Incurring Huge Losses due to Failure to Produce Domestic Human Resources', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'August 25: It has been two years since the government purchased two sets of trains from India in order to operate the Janakpur-Jaynagar railway service.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">August 25: It has been two years since the government purchased two sets of trains from India in order to operate the Janakpur-Jaynagar railway service. The trains that arrived in Nepal mid-September 2020 were kept covered with tents for nineteen months. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Although the government brought those trains after setting up a 35-kilometer track, it had to wait for nineteen months to operate the trains due to lack of necessary laws. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The Nepal Railway Company had problems recruiting staff members in the absence of laws related to railway service. In order to remove legal hurdles, the government introduced an ordinance for the third time and started the railway service almost five months ago. However, Nepal has been forced to pay Rs 480 million annually to India’s Konkan Railway due to lack of manpower, infrastructures and problems in human resource management. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Nepal Railway Company has to pay the amount to the Indian company for the salaries of the workers brought from India as well as repair and maintenance cost and the fee for signal change. All these expenses could have been avoided had the government made necessary arrangements within the country using domestic workers and other available means. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Nepal Railway Company Limited has to pay a minimum salary of Rs 300,000 to as much as Rs 500,000 per month to the engineers provided by Konkan Railway. Nepali engineers, who are working in the same company, are paid around Rs 40,000 to Rs 50,000 as per the government’s pay scale. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The company is compelled to pay an annual salary of around Rs 60 million to 26 engineers and cabin crew members because it failed to produce the required manpower within the country on time.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">It is more costlier for the repair and maintenance of the trains. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Nepal Railway Company’s General Manager Niranjan Jha informed that the company has to pay around Rs 120 million annually for the repair and maintenance of the trains. Likewise, the company has to pay around Rs 60 million for the signal change system. The total cost after adding expenses under other headings and including tax reaches up to Rs 480 million.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The company’s engineer Rabindra Sah says that the government needs to produce technical manpower within the country to reduce the cost of operating the trains. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Jha says that the company has so far received Rs 140 million from the government to pay Konkan Railway. He complained that the Ministry of Finance is yet to release the remaining amount. </span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-08-25', 'modified' => '2022-08-25', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '15600', 'image' => '20220825092821_1661383895.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-08-25 09:17:36', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 8 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '15857', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Chinese Bank Refunds BoK and Himalayan Bank', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'August 24: Bank of Kathmandu (BoK) and the Himalayan Bank have received the amount paid by a Chinese bank as a counter guarantee to the Melamchi Water Supply Project.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">August 24: Bank of Kathmandu (BoK) and the Himalayan Bank have received the amount paid by a Chinese bank as a counter guarantee to the Melamchi Water Supply Project. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">China Construction Bank paid USD 6,625,010 and 1,411,453 euros to BoK and USD 6,600,000 to Himalayan Bank after a Chinese high court ordered the bank to pay the amount to the Nepali banks. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Chief Executive Officer of BoK, Shravan Maskey informed that the payment was received from the Chinese bank on Tuesday.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">BoK and Himalayan Bank had provided counter guarantee to China Railway which was assured the bank guarantee for the MWSP by the China Construction Bank.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">MWSP had terminated the contract with China Railway after it failed to undertake the project as per the agreement. MWSP then filed a case in the Chinese court seeking the guarantee amount. The Chinese court ruled that although the Nepalese banks had provided the guarantee amount to the project, they were yet to receive the counter guarantee amount from the Chinese bank.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Earlier, China Railway had pleaded in the court that it the China Construction Company is not liable to pay the counter guarantee amount to the Nepalese banks. The two banks of Nepal then sent their representatives to China and fought a legal battle in the high court. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The People's Intermediate Court and the Henan People's High Court in Henan Province of China gave an order in favor of Nepali Bank. </span></span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-08-24', 'modified' => '2022-08-25', 'keywords' => 'bank, guarantee, refund, Melamcji, China, Railway, court, order, Henan', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '15599', 'image' => '20220824053237_20220803094438_istockphoto-900791430-612x612.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-08-24 17:31:38', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 9 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '15856', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'KMC Plans to Manage Waste within Four Days ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'August 24: The Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) has said it plans to manage solid waste in the Kathmandu Valley within the next four days. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">August 24: The Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) has said it plans to manage solid waste in the Kathmandu Valley within the next four days. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">According to KMC’s environment department chief Sarita Rai, works are underway with the plan to complete the management of garbage piled up alongside the streets and crossroads by this weekend. Rai said the management of waste from major streets has been over and it plans to pick up remaining waste from the inner streets and manage it by coming Saturday. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">At present, 300 vehicles have been dumping the garbage at the Bancharedanda landfill site on a daily basis. The number of waste-collecting vehicles is more than the normal time due to the need to manage the waste that has been piled-up since a long time. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Few days ago, KMC Mayor Balendra Shah directed private companies partnering with the KMC in the waste management to conclude the management within a week. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">It may be noted that management of waste generated in the Kathmandu Valley was halted for two months partly because of the road disruption due to monsoon rains and also owing to the obstruction from the locals of Sisdole and Bancharedanda who were non-cooperating with the KMC citing that the latter failed to implement agreements reached with them. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Last week, a four-point agreement was signed among the Chief District Officers of Kathmandu, Dhading and Nuwakot and the locals of Sisdole and Bancharedanda, paving the way to resume the management works since last Thursday. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Around 1,200 metric tonnes of solid waste is generated in the Kathmandu Valley per day and the KMC is the highest contributor (over 500 metric tons). Bancharedanda has been serving as the final waste disposal site for garbage produced in the KMC and other 17 local levels since a long time. -- RSS </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">--- </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-08-24', 'modified' => '2022-08-24', 'keywords' => 'KMC, Kathmandu, Valley, waste, management, Balen, Shah, Mayor, Sisdole, Banchardanda', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '15598', 'image' => '20220824052045_Kathmandu Valley.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-08-24 17:19:30', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 10 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '15858', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Prachi Agarwal Elected Chairperson of Youth Entrepreneurs Forum of CNI', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'August 24: The Youth Entrepreneurs Forum of the Confederation of Nepalese Industries has elected a new executive committee.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">August 24: The Youth Entrepreneurs Forum of the Confederation of Nepalese Industries has elected a new executive committee. The annual general meeting of the forum recently constituted a new board under the chairmanship of Prachi Agarwal. Agarwal has become the first woman president of the forum.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The newly elected president Agarwal is involved in various businesses including furnishing. She holds a Masters in Finance and Marketing from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow and a Masters in Interior Designing from the United Arab Emirates.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Anurag Goyal (Learning Chair), Ashish Aggarwal (Assistant Learning Chair), Manish Shrestha (Membership and Engagement Chair), Chirag Saravagi (Communication Chair), Ankush Agarwal (Finance Chair) and Sugam Ghimire (Startup Chair) have been elected to the new board of the forum. </span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Newly elected president Agarwal said that this year the forum will focus on instilling the spirit of entrepreneurship among the youth by starting an incubation center for startups. "We will start developing and building Nepal's economy by advocating favorable policies for all," she said.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Youth Entrepreneurs Forum is a youth organization of the CNI formed in 2017. The first president of the forum was Bishnu Kumar Aggarwal. He is currently the president of CNI. </span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The forum recently concluded its successful program CNIYEF Nepal Startup Fest. During the event, 7 startups signed an initial investment agreement of Rs 245 million.</span></span></span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-08-24', 'modified' => '2022-08-25', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '15597', 'image' => '20220824054622_youth entrepreneurs.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-08-24 17:45:46', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 11 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '15855', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'India Excludes Nepal from its List of Wheat Exporting Nations', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'August 24: India has excluded Nepal from the list of wheat exporting countries. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">August 24: India has excluded Nepal from the list of wheat exporting countries. Nepal was left out of the wheat export quota by the Government of India due to the delay in part of the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Supplies. This has cast doubt regarding the import of 600,000 metric tons of wheat required by the domestic flour industry.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">India has decided export wheat to Bangladesh, Indonesia, Yemen, the UAE and Oman under quota system. Since those countries took the initiative in time, New Delhi has given permission to export wheat to those countries by setting quota. On Monday, the Indian government announced the details of the wheat exporting countries and the quota allocated for them. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">It may be noted that India imposed a ban on wheat export on April 14 due to the decline in domestic production. Despite the ban, New Delhi has said that wheat will be exported to the countries that are in need of food security by setting quotas.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Although the Minister of Industry, Commerce and Supplies has repeatedly promised to take initiative for the import of wheat, 32 flour industries operating in the country have been closed due to the failure to do so on time. Concerned industrialists have said that they are running out of stock of wheat. Keeping in mind the approaching festivals, the ministry has shown readiness to bring sugar from India but has neglected wheat.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Although the ministry had asked the industrialists one month ago to determine the quantity of wheat required for them, it has not yet taken any initiative with the Government of India to import wheat. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Dr Narayan Prasad Regmi, under secretary at the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Supplies, said that it will take some time to decide on importing wheat needed by Nepal's industry. He said that since the ministry is currently studying the requirement, he could not say exactly when wheat will be imported. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Avinash Bohora, central member of the Federation of Nepalese Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the President of Province 1 chapter of Nepal India Industry and Commerce Association, said that if the government does not bring wheat immediately, there will be a shortage of flour during the upcoming festivals. He said that not only the flour industry but more than 250 other related industries will be affected. Wheat is the raw material for industries that produce biscuits and noodles.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Bikas Begwani, secretary of Nepal Flour Mill Association and vice president of Morang Trade Association, said that Nepal was not included in the list of countries that India exports wheat to because the ministry staff did not work quickly. He said that the government should have sent a letter to the Government of India immediately after the industrialist informed the ministry about the required amount of wheat, but the ministry did not do so.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-08-24', 'modified' => '2022-08-24', 'keywords' => 'wheat, export, Nepal, India, ban, food, FNCCI, festival', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '15596', 'image' => '20220824050910_wheatttttt.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-08-24 17:08:07', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 12 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '15854', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Electoral Alliance is not the Essence of Democracy', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'August 24: The efforts of the political parties to forge electoral alliance for the upcoming federal and state elections to be held on November 20 will be disastrous for economic prosperity, progress and democracy.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Rudra Khadka</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">August 24: The efforts of the political parties to forge electoral alliance for the upcoming federal and state elections to be held on November 20 will be disastrous for economic prosperity, progress and democracy. By introducing such a practice in Nepal, which is rare in the world, political parties are trying not to change the society, but only their fortune. If the parties take part in the elections by forming an alliance, it will not bring any significant change.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">For example, if the number of people who are known to be good and honest in the society is 49 percent, but 51 percent of the bad people form an alliance, the good people are bound to be defeated. The effort to forge the coalition between the ruling and opposition parties is not for a cause, but rather to win seats for those who get the ticket with the blessing of the top leaders. Some of the leaders who are willing to form an alliance say that the current alliance may not be maintained after the election. The alliance that is formed now is not motivated by any new purpose, but is intended to win the elections for those who are in power and have been there many times before. The history is evident that economic prosperity is not possible with the efforts of those who are currently in power or those who have experienced power. New thinking and planning is needed for the economic prosperity and progress of Nepal.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Some may raise a question here - if the election itself cannot be won, how can good or progressive work be done? However, what everyone realizes is that if the objective is to win the election and form the government, then after winning, they have neither the interest nor the morale to do more than that. After it is confirmed that there will be no change from what is seen now, there will be no achievement again from those people who win with the backup of electoral alliance.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">If the parties want to bring a change or if they want to work for the welfare of the country and the people, they should participate in the elections with their own agenda and plans, not through alliances.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">In the case of a consensus parliament, the parties run coalition governments in other countries of the world as well. However, most of them compete in the elections alone. After the election, they share power only when the government is formed. They do not secure their position by making alliances before the elections.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">In politics, one should aim to work for the good of the country and the people. The goal should not be just to form the government and reach the position of personal benefit. It is useless for others to expect innovation or progress from individuals or organizations that do not have the ability to compete. Therefore, since the parties are currently preparing for the upcoming elections, they should try to participate in the elections alone rather than by forming a coalition. The parties should get their agenda approved by the people. Only if this can be done, the real meaning of democracy will suffice.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Arguably, there will be no innovation if only the weak or the powerful try to get along with each other, win elections and run the government. At such a time, it is necessary for the youth in different political parties to be active. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">General secretary duo of Nepali Congress, Gagan Thapa and Bishwa Prakash Sharma have set an example how success can be achieved due to the active role of the youth. Likewise, the victory of Balen Shah for the post of Kathmandu Metropolitan City’s mayor oduring the local elections held a few months ago is another precedent.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">It is useless to say that there is democracy in the country until the Nepali citizens can feel the change. Due to the governance system adopted by Nepal, it is definitely difficult for any party to get majority votes. The act of participating and winning the election by forming alliances cannot be considered a democratic move.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The five ruling parties Nepali Congress, CPN Maoist Center, CPN United Socialist, Janata Samajwadi Party and Rastriya Jana Morcha have decided to participate in the upcoming election by forging an electoral alliance and are currently engaged in allocation of seats. In the same way, the main opposition CPN-UML is also trying to find out whether it is possible to form an alliance with other parties including RPP. Apart from these, other small parties are also trying to cooperate with various parties to win the elections.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-08-24', 'modified' => '2022-08-24', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '15595', 'image' => '20220824030611_parliament building.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-08-24 15:05:16', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 13 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '15853', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Security Printing to Start from Current Fiscal Year ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'August 24: The government is preparing to start security printing from the current fiscal year. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">August 24: The government is preparing to start security printing from the current fiscal year. Minister of Communication and Information Technology, Gyanendra Bahadur Karki shared that security materials will be printed with the establishment of a security printing press in the current fiscal year. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif""> Releasing a booklet of major achievements made by the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology and its subordinate agencies in the fiscal year 2021/22, Minister Karki on Tuesday said that security printing press has been established to print security documents such as passports, postage stamps, excise duty stickers etc within the country. He said that the ministry is always ready and committed to providing simple, convenient and effective services to the people. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Minister Karki shared that the fourth generation Internet "4G" service has been extended to 735 out of the 753 local levels in the country. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">According to the ministry's progress booklet, 1,642 km of optical fiber was installed in the last fiscal year, taking the total installed optical fibre to 12,224 kms. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Communication Minister Karki said that the programs of the Ministry of CIT are aimed at strengthening means of mass communication, development, expansion and use of information technology and the timely improvement of postal services. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">In the fiscal year 2021/22, the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology and its subordinate agencies recorded major achievements in areas related to policy, legal issues, telecommunication, information technology, mass media, postal service, film and printing. The booklet also shares that an integrated action plan for the implementation of the annual policy and program and budget has been developed while and an objective evaluation system has been put in place for the effective implementation of the action plan. </span><br /> <strong><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">45 services being rendered through Nagarik App </span></strong> <br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Minister Karki shared that the Nagarik App had been upgraded time to time and a total of 45 services are being rendered through the App at present. All services by the Department of Information and Broadcasting have gone fully digital. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Integrated Work Management System has been implemented in six subordinate bodies of the Ministry to realize the goal of 'Paperless Government', Minister Karki said. Through the Integrated Gateway, one can send SMS to the government agencies for Rs 20 paisa. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">This service will be extended to additional 20 government agencies within the Singha Durbar complex during the ongoing fiscal year, shared Minister Karki. To implement the 'Right to Information' by ensuring public's easy access to information on public affairs and concerns, bulletin containing information on the activities of the Ministry would be published quarterly. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Furthermore, the Ministry has prioritized establishment of 'Cinema Story Bank' in all seven provinces to promote and streamline the film sector adversely affected by COVID-19 pandemic. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Prospective film shooting spots would be explored in all seven provinces and developed accordingly. Identity card for senior cine artistes is put in place while preparation was underway to implement e-commerce in postal administration to further streamline the sector. -- RSS </span></span></span><br /> <br /> <br /> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-08-24', 'modified' => '2022-08-24', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '15594', 'image' => '20220824100755_RS_KTM_MantriKarki-1.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-08-24 10:07:16', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 14 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '15852', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Government forms High-level Commission to Review Salary of Civil Servants ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'August 24: The government has decided to form a high-level salary and facilities commission to review the minimum salary, allowances, remuneration and facilities of the civil servants and workers. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">August 24: The government has decided to form a high-level salary and facilities commission to review the minimum salary, allowances, remuneration and facilities of the civil servants and workers. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">A meeting of the Council of Ministers held on August 22 has constituted the commission under the convenorship of former Chief Secretary Leelamani Paudyal for carrying out necessary study for revising the salary, allowance, remuneration and facilities of government employees and workers. The commission has been asked to conduct the study and make recommendation on the basis of the country's economic condition and its spending capacity. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Addressing a news conference organised at the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology on Tuesday to make public the decisions made by the cabinet meeting, Communications Minister and the government spokesman Gyanendra Bahadur Karki confirmed that the government had decided to form the High-level Salary and Facilities Commission to review the salary and facilities. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The cabinet meeting has also agreed in principle to call for tender and move forward the procurement process in special circumstances for the construction works of the 5.5 kilometres Mudkhu-Tinpiple section of the Balaju-Trishuli road. </span><br /> <br /> <br /> </span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-08-24', 'modified' => '2022-08-24', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '15593', 'image' => '20220824100713_salary.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-08-24 09:53:43', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, '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:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">August 26 As part of its campaign to demolish illegally built structures, the Kathmandu Metropolitan City on Thursday pulled down structures built illegally by Alfa Beta Complex in New Baneshwar. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Earlier, a KMC team led by mayor Balen Shah inspected the complex in the morning. During the monitoring, a brief argument took place between Shah and the owner of the complex. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">After the dispute, mayor Shah again reached the complex with a map along with a dozer to destroy the structures found to have been built illegally, said KMC police chief Raju Nath Pandey. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">"From now on, we should not be forced to bring down structures built illegally. The locals should destroy them themselves. Structures should be used according to their use as per the approved maps," said Shah. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Prior to this, the KMC had issued a 35-day notice asking all concerned stakeholders to demolish structures built illegally. It resorted to this move from August 22 after the notice expired, said a KMC official. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">"A business operating at the basement of a building housing Mukti Bikas Bank at ward-9 has been asked to shut down," said Pandey. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">As part of the campaign, the KMC on Wednesday destroyed structures built illegally at the Kathmandu Mall and RB Complex. -- RSS </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-08-26', 'modified' => '2022-08-26', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '15607', 'image' => '20220826104720_1661432569.301593760_620863559405903_7548901906971753134_n.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-08-26 10:46:06', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 1 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '15865', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Over Nineteen Thousand Businessmen Booked for Using Faulty Weighing Machines', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'August 25: Nepal Bureau of Standards and Metrology took action against 19,014 businessmen during the last fiscal year for cheating customers using sub-standard weighing machines.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">August 25: Nepal Bureau of Standards and Metrology took action against 19,014 businessmen during the last fiscal year for cheating customers using sub-standard weighing machines. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">According to the bureau, almost half of those booked were from Kathmandu. The bureau said that a total of 8851 businessmen were found using sub-standard weight and were booked accordingly. Likewise, 1679 businessmen from Pokhara, 1064 from Butwal, 150 from Nepalgunj, 409 from Surkhet, 1067 from Dhangadhi, 174 from Silgadhi, 1251 from Birgunj, 1139 from Janakpur, 1485 Biratnagar and 845 from Jhapa were also booked for the same offence. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The bureau’s Spokesperson Jyoti Joshi Bhatta informed that they took action against the businessmen after they were found fleecing customers using faulty weighing machines. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Bhatta said that the bureau has stepped up monitoring due to an increasing trend of businessmen using faulty weighing machines to cheat customers. During the monitoring, it was found that many businessmen had not registered their weighing machines and those who had registered were yet to renew their registration.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Bhatta said that the department has been taking action against such businessmen. During the last fiscal year, a total of 23049 weighing machines were checked by the department. The highest number of weighing machines were checked in Kathmandu. According to the bureau, altogether 5641 businessmen had brought their weighing machines for checking at the bureau in Kathmandu. </span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-08-25', 'modified' => '2022-08-25', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '15606', 'image' => '20220825074428_Pr 077 - TRI - 21_11_10 - 034.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-08-25 19:43:46', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 2 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '15864', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Niti Joshi Dedicates her Life to Handicraft Promotion', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'August 25: Some people are more successful in the work they are forced to do than the work they want to do. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Prashant Khadka </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">August 25: Some people are more successful in the work they are forced to do than the work they want to do. Neeti Joshi, who was aiming to become an interior decorator since her childhood, is one such character. Joshi, who was unable to fulfill her aim of becoming an interior decorator, has made an identity as a successful woman entrepreneur in her professional journey of 25 years.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Joshi, who had the idea that she should do something by herself rather than study and seek a job, wanted to create an image through the profession of interior decoration. Unfortunately, her ambition to become an interior decorator was dealt a huge blow when her father suddenly passed away after she completed her SLC examination. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">At that time, the course of interior decoration was not available in Nepal, so she had to go to India to study that subject. But with the death of her father, the door to go to India for studies was closed. Her main objective remained incomplete. She started studying management at Shankardev Campus in Kathmandu, against her wish to study interior decoration.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Joshi’s father Ramanand Joshi, popularly known as RN Joshi, was a well-known artist of that time. He used to do painting-related business under the name Park Gallery in Kathmandu. He used to frame his paintings. He encouraged Joshi to enter the field of interior decoration from an early age. After RN's demise, people started coming to buy the business he ran. However, the family did not want to sell the art gallery. Instead, she decided to turn it into a museum in memory of her father and move on. After that, Joshi and her sister started a new business of framing in an artistic way and named it Frame World. Joshi was 23 years old at that time.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Joshi claims to have started the business of making and selling tailor-made frames as per the demand of the customers for the first time in Kathmandu with an investment of around Rs 300,000. The price of tailor-made goods is three times higher than that of ready-made goods.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Although the family accepted the business run by an inexperienced young woman, the society could not accept it easily. There were those who were jealous about how she could do such a thing at such a young age. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">“But, I dared to do it. I had complete faith that I could do something,” she said. Although she did not want to get a job, she has the experience of going to interviews in many places to boost her confidence.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">At that time, it was a challenge for a young woman to start a business. Moreover, since it was a luxury goods business, the number of customers was very limited. Only high-class families and five-star hotels were attracted to it. She said that due to this, it was very difficult to run the business in the initial stage.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Gradually, her father's clients also started coming looking for Joshi. Orders for goods started coming from five-star hotels like Hyatt, Soaltee, Shangri-La and offices of various organizations. "There was no looking back after that," said Joshi.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">For the last three years, she has been doing the business of handicraft items along with framing work in order to promote the products of the new generation of women handicraft entrepreneurs. She is doing business under the name Dhuku Store in the north side of the Royal Palace. Her shop has goods ranging from Rs 500 to 50,000.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Joshi, who has been doing business for 25 years, once had four outlets in Kathmandu. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, two of them had to be closed. As the business is going well now, she plans to gradually expand the outlet. She has given employment to about a dozen people. At one time, she only had 20 percent of Nepali customers, but now 80 percent of her customers are Nepalis.</span></span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-08-25', 'modified' => '2022-09-01', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '15605', 'image' => '20220825053003_1661403226.Hastakala.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-08-25 17:29:17', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 3 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '15863', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Governance Lab Collaborates with FWEAN to Strengthen Women-led Enterprises', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'August 25: Governance Lab, a research organization that supports the government to make evidence-based policy decisions by conducting policy research, collaborated with the Federation of Woman Entrepreneurs’ Associations of Nepal (FWEAN) to organize a panel discussion during the 6th International Women’s Trade Expo and Symposium 2022.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">August 25: Governance Lab, a research organization that supports the government to make evidence-based policy decisions by conducting policy research, collaborated with the Federation of Woman Entrepreneurs’ Associations of Nepal (FWEAN) to organize a panel discussion during the 6th International Women’s Trade Expo and Symposium 2022. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">According to a statement issued by Governance Lab, the discussion on the topic of “Accelerating Women-led Enterprises through Innovative Approaches” focused on the issues, existing policies and programmes, and innovative ideas and approaches on how women-led enterprises can be strengthened for the sustainable economic growth of the nation.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">At the programme, Nicola Pollitt, British Ambassador to Nepal emphasized on the importance of women-centric policies and programmes to sustainably accelerate the women-led enterprises. “More needs to be done to address the systemic constraints that prevent women from contributing to and benefitting from Nepal’s economic growth,” the statement quoted Pollitt as saying.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Neeru Rayamajhi Khatri, president of FWEAN said that the government of Nepal has acknowledged FWEAN as one of the policy partners. “So the conclusions drawn from this discussion will be documented and submitted to the government as recommendations. FWEAN will strongly push to bring some positive changes in the policies related to women entrepreneurship,” she said.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Salina Bhattarai, research coordinator at Governance Lab stated that such discussions are very important to examine the current situation of women entrepreneurs and support in accelerating them through innovative approaches to ensure sustainable economic growth of Nepal. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">“We are very hopeful with this collaboration and excited to come up with meaningful projects that can escalate women entrepreneurship in Nepal.”</span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-08-25', 'modified' => '2022-08-25', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '15604', 'image' => '20220825024317_IMG_4198.JPG', 'article_date' => '2022-08-25 14:42:24', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 4 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '15862', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Samsung Television to be Assembled in Nepal', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'August 25: Samsung Electronics is all set to assemble television sets of the multinational company in Nepal.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">August 25: Samsung Electronics is all set to assemble television sets of the multinational company in Nepal. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">South Korea's Samsung Electronics Company Limited will collaborate with Golchha Group of Nepal to set up a television production plant with joint investment at Bhumahi in Nawalparasi district.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The plant will be a joint venture between Samsung and Golchha Group's Him Electronics. Preparation for the construction of the infrastructure of the assembling plant is currently underway.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Minister for Industry, Commerce and Supplies, Dilendra Prasad Badu laid the foundation stone of the plant amid a programme organized on Wednesday.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Initially, the plant aims to produce only television sets. Later, there are plans to increase the production based on the demand. Altogether Rs 500 million will be invested for the infrastructure development and technology of the plant, which will come into operation within the year 2023.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The company informed that thousands of television sets of different sizes and their panels will be produced daily at the plant. Moreover, the fitting of the plant will start in a few days.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">After laying the foundation stone, Minister Badu said that there is conducive environment for investment in Nepal and Samsung's plant is an example of this. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Shekhar Golchha, chairman of Golchha Group, who is also the president of the Federation of Nepalese Chamber of Commerce and Industry said that the 22-year-long business partnership with Samsung Electronics created the environment for television production in Nepal. Golchha Group has been importing and distributing Samsung televisions in Nepal since the last two decades.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">According to Golchha Group, 150 people will get direct employment in the plant which will be operated under the supervision of technicians from Samsung, South Korea.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-08-25', 'modified' => '2022-08-25', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '15603', 'image' => '20220825013835_1661400517.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-08-25 13:37:48', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 5 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '15861', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Most Parts of the Country Receive Below Average Rainfall this Monsoon: DHM ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'August 25: Most parts of the country received below average rainfall during this monsoon, according to the Department of Hydrology and Meteorology (DHM). ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">August 25: </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Most parts of the country received below average rainfall during this monsoon, according to the Department of Hydrology and Meteorology (DHM). </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">As per the information provided by the department, Madhes Province and western parts of the country received below average rainfall despite some parts including eastern belts and the Kathmandu Valley having had above average rainfall. </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 failure of wind carrying water vapour to enter the northern sides in enough amount due to the monsoon low pressure line is to be blamed for the low rainfall in the country, said meteorologist Hira Bhattarai. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Unlike in the past, most parts of the country did not receive torrential rainfall for four to five consecutive days this monsoon except in some hill areas including the Kathmandu Valley, said meteorologist Sanjib Adhikari. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">In general, the country receives rains for around 110 days between mid-June and mid-October following the entrance of monsoon wind, said the department. -- RSS </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-08-25', 'modified' => '2022-08-25', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '15602', 'image' => '20220825093408_rainnnn.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-08-25 09:33:12', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 6 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '15860', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'KMC Begins Demolishing Illegally-Built Structures', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'August 25: The Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) has launched a drive to demolish illegally-built structures.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">August 25: The Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) has launched a drive to demolish illegally-built structures. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The KMC resorted to the move after the expiry of the 35-day public notice given to the concerned parties to remove the structures. The metropolis believes this move would resolve 25 percent problems related to vehicle parking in the city. </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"">Those structures built without the approval of maps or those violating the approved maps were pulled down, said Sunil Lamsal, member of the Secretariat of the KMC mayor Balendra Shah. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">As part of the campaign, structures built at Kathmandu Mall in Sundhara and New Road-based RB Complex were brought down with the use of dozers, he said. </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"">Mayor Shah himself was present on the occasion. Structures built illegally at Durbar Marg were also destroyed on Wednesday, he said. </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"">Earlier, the KMC had destroyed structures built illegally in New Baneshwar area. -- RSS </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-08-25', 'modified' => '2022-08-25', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '15601', 'image' => '20220825092754_1661346682.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-08-25 09:27:22', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 7 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '15859', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Nepal Railway Company Incurring Huge Losses due to Failure to Produce Domestic Human Resources', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'August 25: It has been two years since the government purchased two sets of trains from India in order to operate the Janakpur-Jaynagar railway service.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">August 25: It has been two years since the government purchased two sets of trains from India in order to operate the Janakpur-Jaynagar railway service. The trains that arrived in Nepal mid-September 2020 were kept covered with tents for nineteen months. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Although the government brought those trains after setting up a 35-kilometer track, it had to wait for nineteen months to operate the trains due to lack of necessary laws. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The Nepal Railway Company had problems recruiting staff members in the absence of laws related to railway service. In order to remove legal hurdles, the government introduced an ordinance for the third time and started the railway service almost five months ago. However, Nepal has been forced to pay Rs 480 million annually to India’s Konkan Railway due to lack of manpower, infrastructures and problems in human resource management. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Nepal Railway Company has to pay the amount to the Indian company for the salaries of the workers brought from India as well as repair and maintenance cost and the fee for signal change. All these expenses could have been avoided had the government made necessary arrangements within the country using domestic workers and other available means. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Nepal Railway Company Limited has to pay a minimum salary of Rs 300,000 to as much as Rs 500,000 per month to the engineers provided by Konkan Railway. Nepali engineers, who are working in the same company, are paid around Rs 40,000 to Rs 50,000 as per the government’s pay scale. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The company is compelled to pay an annual salary of around Rs 60 million to 26 engineers and cabin crew members because it failed to produce the required manpower within the country on time.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">It is more costlier for the repair and maintenance of the trains. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Nepal Railway Company’s General Manager Niranjan Jha informed that the company has to pay around Rs 120 million annually for the repair and maintenance of the trains. Likewise, the company has to pay around Rs 60 million for the signal change system. The total cost after adding expenses under other headings and including tax reaches up to Rs 480 million.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The company’s engineer Rabindra Sah says that the government needs to produce technical manpower within the country to reduce the cost of operating the trains. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Jha says that the company has so far received Rs 140 million from the government to pay Konkan Railway. He complained that the Ministry of Finance is yet to release the remaining amount. </span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-08-25', 'modified' => '2022-08-25', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '15600', 'image' => '20220825092821_1661383895.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-08-25 09:17:36', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 8 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '15857', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Chinese Bank Refunds BoK and Himalayan Bank', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'August 24: Bank of Kathmandu (BoK) and the Himalayan Bank have received the amount paid by a Chinese bank as a counter guarantee to the Melamchi Water Supply Project.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">August 24: Bank of Kathmandu (BoK) and the Himalayan Bank have received the amount paid by a Chinese bank as a counter guarantee to the Melamchi Water Supply Project. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">China Construction Bank paid USD 6,625,010 and 1,411,453 euros to BoK and USD 6,600,000 to Himalayan Bank after a Chinese high court ordered the bank to pay the amount to the Nepali banks. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Chief Executive Officer of BoK, Shravan Maskey informed that the payment was received from the Chinese bank on Tuesday.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">BoK and Himalayan Bank had provided counter guarantee to China Railway which was assured the bank guarantee for the MWSP by the China Construction Bank.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">MWSP had terminated the contract with China Railway after it failed to undertake the project as per the agreement. MWSP then filed a case in the Chinese court seeking the guarantee amount. The Chinese court ruled that although the Nepalese banks had provided the guarantee amount to the project, they were yet to receive the counter guarantee amount from the Chinese bank.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Earlier, China Railway had pleaded in the court that it the China Construction Company is not liable to pay the counter guarantee amount to the Nepalese banks. The two banks of Nepal then sent their representatives to China and fought a legal battle in the high court. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The People's Intermediate Court and the Henan People's High Court in Henan Province of China gave an order in favor of Nepali Bank. </span></span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-08-24', 'modified' => '2022-08-25', 'keywords' => 'bank, guarantee, refund, Melamcji, China, Railway, court, order, Henan', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '15599', 'image' => '20220824053237_20220803094438_istockphoto-900791430-612x612.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-08-24 17:31:38', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 9 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '15856', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'KMC Plans to Manage Waste within Four Days ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'August 24: The Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) has said it plans to manage solid waste in the Kathmandu Valley within the next four days. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">August 24: The Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) has said it plans to manage solid waste in the Kathmandu Valley within the next four days. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">According to KMC’s environment department chief Sarita Rai, works are underway with the plan to complete the management of garbage piled up alongside the streets and crossroads by this weekend. Rai said the management of waste from major streets has been over and it plans to pick up remaining waste from the inner streets and manage it by coming Saturday. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">At present, 300 vehicles have been dumping the garbage at the Bancharedanda landfill site on a daily basis. The number of waste-collecting vehicles is more than the normal time due to the need to manage the waste that has been piled-up since a long time. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Few days ago, KMC Mayor Balendra Shah directed private companies partnering with the KMC in the waste management to conclude the management within a week. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">It may be noted that management of waste generated in the Kathmandu Valley was halted for two months partly because of the road disruption due to monsoon rains and also owing to the obstruction from the locals of Sisdole and Bancharedanda who were non-cooperating with the KMC citing that the latter failed to implement agreements reached with them. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Last week, a four-point agreement was signed among the Chief District Officers of Kathmandu, Dhading and Nuwakot and the locals of Sisdole and Bancharedanda, paving the way to resume the management works since last Thursday. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Around 1,200 metric tonnes of solid waste is generated in the Kathmandu Valley per day and the KMC is the highest contributor (over 500 metric tons). Bancharedanda has been serving as the final waste disposal site for garbage produced in the KMC and other 17 local levels since a long time. -- RSS </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">--- </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-08-24', 'modified' => '2022-08-24', 'keywords' => 'KMC, Kathmandu, Valley, waste, management, Balen, Shah, Mayor, Sisdole, Banchardanda', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '15598', 'image' => '20220824052045_Kathmandu Valley.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-08-24 17:19:30', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 10 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '15858', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Prachi Agarwal Elected Chairperson of Youth Entrepreneurs Forum of CNI', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'August 24: The Youth Entrepreneurs Forum of the Confederation of Nepalese Industries has elected a new executive committee.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">August 24: The Youth Entrepreneurs Forum of the Confederation of Nepalese Industries has elected a new executive committee. The annual general meeting of the forum recently constituted a new board under the chairmanship of Prachi Agarwal. Agarwal has become the first woman president of the forum.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The newly elected president Agarwal is involved in various businesses including furnishing. She holds a Masters in Finance and Marketing from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow and a Masters in Interior Designing from the United Arab Emirates.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Anurag Goyal (Learning Chair), Ashish Aggarwal (Assistant Learning Chair), Manish Shrestha (Membership and Engagement Chair), Chirag Saravagi (Communication Chair), Ankush Agarwal (Finance Chair) and Sugam Ghimire (Startup Chair) have been elected to the new board of the forum. </span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Newly elected president Agarwal said that this year the forum will focus on instilling the spirit of entrepreneurship among the youth by starting an incubation center for startups. "We will start developing and building Nepal's economy by advocating favorable policies for all," she said.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Youth Entrepreneurs Forum is a youth organization of the CNI formed in 2017. The first president of the forum was Bishnu Kumar Aggarwal. He is currently the president of CNI. </span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The forum recently concluded its successful program CNIYEF Nepal Startup Fest. During the event, 7 startups signed an initial investment agreement of Rs 245 million.</span></span></span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-08-24', 'modified' => '2022-08-25', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '15597', 'image' => '20220824054622_youth entrepreneurs.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-08-24 17:45:46', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 11 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '15855', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'India Excludes Nepal from its List of Wheat Exporting Nations', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'August 24: India has excluded Nepal from the list of wheat exporting countries. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">August 24: India has excluded Nepal from the list of wheat exporting countries. Nepal was left out of the wheat export quota by the Government of India due to the delay in part of the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Supplies. This has cast doubt regarding the import of 600,000 metric tons of wheat required by the domestic flour industry.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">India has decided export wheat to Bangladesh, Indonesia, Yemen, the UAE and Oman under quota system. Since those countries took the initiative in time, New Delhi has given permission to export wheat to those countries by setting quota. On Monday, the Indian government announced the details of the wheat exporting countries and the quota allocated for them. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">It may be noted that India imposed a ban on wheat export on April 14 due to the decline in domestic production. Despite the ban, New Delhi has said that wheat will be exported to the countries that are in need of food security by setting quotas.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Although the Minister of Industry, Commerce and Supplies has repeatedly promised to take initiative for the import of wheat, 32 flour industries operating in the country have been closed due to the failure to do so on time. Concerned industrialists have said that they are running out of stock of wheat. Keeping in mind the approaching festivals, the ministry has shown readiness to bring sugar from India but has neglected wheat.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Although the ministry had asked the industrialists one month ago to determine the quantity of wheat required for them, it has not yet taken any initiative with the Government of India to import wheat. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Dr Narayan Prasad Regmi, under secretary at the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Supplies, said that it will take some time to decide on importing wheat needed by Nepal's industry. He said that since the ministry is currently studying the requirement, he could not say exactly when wheat will be imported. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Avinash Bohora, central member of the Federation of Nepalese Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the President of Province 1 chapter of Nepal India Industry and Commerce Association, said that if the government does not bring wheat immediately, there will be a shortage of flour during the upcoming festivals. He said that not only the flour industry but more than 250 other related industries will be affected. Wheat is the raw material for industries that produce biscuits and noodles.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Bikas Begwani, secretary of Nepal Flour Mill Association and vice president of Morang Trade Association, said that Nepal was not included in the list of countries that India exports wheat to because the ministry staff did not work quickly. He said that the government should have sent a letter to the Government of India immediately after the industrialist informed the ministry about the required amount of wheat, but the ministry did not do so.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-08-24', 'modified' => '2022-08-24', 'keywords' => 'wheat, export, Nepal, India, ban, food, FNCCI, festival', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '15596', 'image' => '20220824050910_wheatttttt.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-08-24 17:08:07', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 12 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '15854', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Electoral Alliance is not the Essence of Democracy', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'August 24: The efforts of the political parties to forge electoral alliance for the upcoming federal and state elections to be held on November 20 will be disastrous for economic prosperity, progress and democracy.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Rudra Khadka</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">August 24: The efforts of the political parties to forge electoral alliance for the upcoming federal and state elections to be held on November 20 will be disastrous for economic prosperity, progress and democracy. By introducing such a practice in Nepal, which is rare in the world, political parties are trying not to change the society, but only their fortune. If the parties take part in the elections by forming an alliance, it will not bring any significant change.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">For example, if the number of people who are known to be good and honest in the society is 49 percent, but 51 percent of the bad people form an alliance, the good people are bound to be defeated. The effort to forge the coalition between the ruling and opposition parties is not for a cause, but rather to win seats for those who get the ticket with the blessing of the top leaders. Some of the leaders who are willing to form an alliance say that the current alliance may not be maintained after the election. The alliance that is formed now is not motivated by any new purpose, but is intended to win the elections for those who are in power and have been there many times before. The history is evident that economic prosperity is not possible with the efforts of those who are currently in power or those who have experienced power. New thinking and planning is needed for the economic prosperity and progress of Nepal.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Some may raise a question here - if the election itself cannot be won, how can good or progressive work be done? However, what everyone realizes is that if the objective is to win the election and form the government, then after winning, they have neither the interest nor the morale to do more than that. After it is confirmed that there will be no change from what is seen now, there will be no achievement again from those people who win with the backup of electoral alliance.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">If the parties want to bring a change or if they want to work for the welfare of the country and the people, they should participate in the elections with their own agenda and plans, not through alliances.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">In the case of a consensus parliament, the parties run coalition governments in other countries of the world as well. However, most of them compete in the elections alone. After the election, they share power only when the government is formed. They do not secure their position by making alliances before the elections.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">In politics, one should aim to work for the good of the country and the people. The goal should not be just to form the government and reach the position of personal benefit. It is useless for others to expect innovation or progress from individuals or organizations that do not have the ability to compete. Therefore, since the parties are currently preparing for the upcoming elections, they should try to participate in the elections alone rather than by forming a coalition. The parties should get their agenda approved by the people. Only if this can be done, the real meaning of democracy will suffice.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Arguably, there will be no innovation if only the weak or the powerful try to get along with each other, win elections and run the government. At such a time, it is necessary for the youth in different political parties to be active. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">General secretary duo of Nepali Congress, Gagan Thapa and Bishwa Prakash Sharma have set an example how success can be achieved due to the active role of the youth. Likewise, the victory of Balen Shah for the post of Kathmandu Metropolitan City’s mayor oduring the local elections held a few months ago is another precedent.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">It is useless to say that there is democracy in the country until the Nepali citizens can feel the change. Due to the governance system adopted by Nepal, it is definitely difficult for any party to get majority votes. The act of participating and winning the election by forming alliances cannot be considered a democratic move.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The five ruling parties Nepali Congress, CPN Maoist Center, CPN United Socialist, Janata Samajwadi Party and Rastriya Jana Morcha have decided to participate in the upcoming election by forging an electoral alliance and are currently engaged in allocation of seats. In the same way, the main opposition CPN-UML is also trying to find out whether it is possible to form an alliance with other parties including RPP. Apart from these, other small parties are also trying to cooperate with various parties to win the elections.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-08-24', 'modified' => '2022-08-24', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '15595', 'image' => '20220824030611_parliament building.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-08-24 15:05:16', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 13 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '15853', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Security Printing to Start from Current Fiscal Year ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'August 24: The government is preparing to start security printing from the current fiscal year. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">August 24: The government is preparing to start security printing from the current fiscal year. Minister of Communication and Information Technology, Gyanendra Bahadur Karki shared that security materials will be printed with the establishment of a security printing press in the current fiscal year. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif""> Releasing a booklet of major achievements made by the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology and its subordinate agencies in the fiscal year 2021/22, Minister Karki on Tuesday said that security printing press has been established to print security documents such as passports, postage stamps, excise duty stickers etc within the country. He said that the ministry is always ready and committed to providing simple, convenient and effective services to the people. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Minister Karki shared that the fourth generation Internet "4G" service has been extended to 735 out of the 753 local levels in the country. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">According to the ministry's progress booklet, 1,642 km of optical fiber was installed in the last fiscal year, taking the total installed optical fibre to 12,224 kms. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Communication Minister Karki said that the programs of the Ministry of CIT are aimed at strengthening means of mass communication, development, expansion and use of information technology and the timely improvement of postal services. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">In the fiscal year 2021/22, the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology and its subordinate agencies recorded major achievements in areas related to policy, legal issues, telecommunication, information technology, mass media, postal service, film and printing. The booklet also shares that an integrated action plan for the implementation of the annual policy and program and budget has been developed while and an objective evaluation system has been put in place for the effective implementation of the action plan. </span><br /> <strong><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">45 services being rendered through Nagarik App </span></strong> <br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Minister Karki shared that the Nagarik App had been upgraded time to time and a total of 45 services are being rendered through the App at present. All services by the Department of Information and Broadcasting have gone fully digital. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Integrated Work Management System has been implemented in six subordinate bodies of the Ministry to realize the goal of 'Paperless Government', Minister Karki said. Through the Integrated Gateway, one can send SMS to the government agencies for Rs 20 paisa. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">This service will be extended to additional 20 government agencies within the Singha Durbar complex during the ongoing fiscal year, shared Minister Karki. To implement the 'Right to Information' by ensuring public's easy access to information on public affairs and concerns, bulletin containing information on the activities of the Ministry would be published quarterly. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Furthermore, the Ministry has prioritized establishment of 'Cinema Story Bank' in all seven provinces to promote and streamline the film sector adversely affected by COVID-19 pandemic. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Prospective film shooting spots would be explored in all seven provinces and developed accordingly. Identity card for senior cine artistes is put in place while preparation was underway to implement e-commerce in postal administration to further streamline the sector. -- RSS </span></span></span><br /> <br /> <br /> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2022-08-24', 'modified' => '2022-08-24', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '15594', 'image' => '20220824100755_RS_KTM_MantriKarki-1.jpg', 'article_date' => '2022-08-24 10:07:16', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 14 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '15852', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Government forms High-level Commission to Review Salary of Civil Servants ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'August 24: The government has decided to form a high-level salary and facilities commission to review the minimum salary, allowances, remuneration and facilities of the civil servants and workers. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">August 24: The government has decided to form a high-level salary and facilities commission to review the minimum salary, allowances, remuneration and facilities of the civil servants and workers. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">A meeting of the Council of Ministers held on August 22 has constituted the commission under the convenorship of former Chief Secretary Leelamani Paudyal for carrying out necessary study for revising the salary, allowance, remuneration and facilities of government employees and workers. 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| 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
