Central bank sees signs of recovery, but private sector still wary

Kathmandu, Jan. 1 -- A day after the private sector said business confidence has sunk to a historic low, Nepal Rastra Bank struck a more optimistic note, saying the economy has begun to show gradual s... Read More

Central bank sees signs recovery, but private sector still wary

Kathmandu, Jan. 1 -- A day after the private sector said business confidence has sunk to a historic low, Nepal Rastra Bank struck a more optimistic note, saying the economy has begun to show gradual s... Read More

Elections, economy, and the weight of youth expectations

Nepal, Jan. 1 -- The interim government headed by Prime Minister Sushila Karki says it is fully prepared to conduct parliamentary elections on March 5-a task that stands as the administration's centra... Read More

Why Nepal is launching a system to track foreign nationals

Kathmandu, Dec. 24 -- Over the past year, Nepal's immigration authorities have dealt with a growing number of cases where foreign nationals entered the country for one declared purpose but engaged in ... Read More

Pradeep Adhikari's flight to power-and the turbulent fall

Kathmandu, Dec. 21 -- Does anyone voluntarily demote themselves? In a bureaucracy built on hierarchy, power, and survival, such an act is almost unheard of. Yet a few months ago, something extraordina... Read More

Nepal rolls out first five-year Everest cleanup plan

Kathmandu, Dec. 18 -- In 2000, Japanese climber Ken Noguchi launched what is widely regarded as the first organised clean-up campaign on Mount Everest, the 8,848.86-metre peak long celebrated as the u... Read More

Nepal set to allow Indian high-value notes after a decade-long ban

Kathmandu, Dec. 10 -- Nepal is preparing to allow the circulation of Indian currency notes above INR100 after India formally gave the go-ahead-nearly a decade after the high-denomination notes were ba... Read More

Far-western settlements rejoice as clean water reaches homes

Kanchanpur, Dec. 10 -- year-old Kanti Das of Radhakrishna Tole in Bhimdutta Municipality, life has taken a turn she once believed impossible. Since October, each morning now begins with a simple pleas... Read More

Farwestern settlements rejoice as clean water reaches homes

Kanchanpur, Dec. 9 -- year-old Kanti Das of Radhakrishna Tole in Bhimdutta Municipality, life has taken a turn she once believed impossible. Since October, each morning now begins with a simple pleasu... Read More

Record graft case filed over China-funded Pokhara airport

Kathmandu, Dec. 8 -- graft body on Sunday filed a corruption case at the Special Court against 55 individuals, including five former ministers and 10 former secretaries, as well as a company over irre... Read More

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