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17/02/2024

ANI – US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi held “candid and constructive” discussion during their meeting at the Munich Security Conference on Friday. According to US State Department Spokesperson Matthew Miller, the discussion on the sidelines of the summi...

17/02/2024

KATHMANDU : The World Health Organization (WHO) has congratulated Nepal for formulating a law restricting levels of industrially produced trans-fatty acids in food items. In a recent press statement, Saima Wazed, Regional Director for Southeast Asia, lauded Nepal for taking steps to curb the product...

11/02/2024

The Chinese Lunar New Year is coming. Recently, there has been heavy snowfall in the south, but the bad weather won’t stop people from rushing home. According to estimates from the Ministry of Transport, the number of cross-regional trips around the country during this year’s Spring Festival wil...

11/02/2024

At least 25 Palestinians were killed in an Israeli bombing of a house in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah on Sunday, according to the official Palestinian news agency WAFA. Many displaced people were living in the house at the time of the bombing, and dozens of others were injured, according to...

11/02/2024

The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) announced on Sunday the complete results of the country’s 2024 general election held on February 8. According to the election results announced for the National Assembly, or the lower house of the country’s parliament, independent candidates got 101 seat...

11/02/2024

(Xinhua) – China’s natural gas consumption registered a steady increase in 2023 amid the country’s efforts to promote green development, official data showed. Last year, apparent consumption of natural gas stood at 394.53 billion cubic meters, up 7.6 percent year on year, according to the Nati...

09/02/2024

KATHMANDU – Nepal and Australia have signed the Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA). The signing event occurred in the margins of the Seventh Indian Ocean Conference, held in Perth, Australia, from February 9–10. Australia’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, Senator Penny Wong, and Nep...

08/02/2024

KATHMANDU – Preparations are going on to hold the 16th Conference of the World Social Forum (WSF) in Kathmandu from February 15 to 19. According to WSF Nepal 2024 organising committee, the event is taking place with the theme ‘Another World is Possible’. It is said that 1,665 organisations hav...

08/02/2024

KATHMANDU – As Nepal’s cricket captain took four wickets against Canada, Nepal won the match with seven wickets in the competition held at Tribhuvan University (TU) Cricket Stadium on Thursday. Batting first after losing the toss, Nepal gave a moderate target of 225 runs to Canada, but the latte...

07/02/2024

Gopal Khanal Vice Minister Sun Haiyan of the International Department of the Communist Party of China (CPCID) visited Nepal during the last week of January 2024. During her four-day visit, she engaged in meaningful discussions with the leaders of major political parties, addressing various aspects o...

07/02/2024

NAWALPUR : The expansion of the Narayangadh-Butwal road section under the East-West Highway has been completed by only 46 percent in five years since the work began. The contract of the road project has already been extended twice but the work is far from over said, Information Officer of Narayangad...

07/02/2024

KATHMANDU, 7 FEBRUARY- Minister for Foreign Affairs, Narayan Prakash Saud, will be leaving here for Perth, Australia this evening to attend the 7th Indian Ocean Conference being jointly organized by the Government of Australia and India Foundation on February 9-10. The Minister is scheduled to addre...

07/02/2024

KATHMANDU, 7 FEBRUARY – Today’s meeting of the House of Representatives unanimously approved the Bill on Anti-Money Laundering. Earlier in the meeting, Minister for Law, Justice, and Parliamentary Affairs, Dhanraj Gurung, presented a proposal seeking the endorsement of the bill to amend acts and...

24/01/2024

China created a total of 12.44 million jobs in its urban areas in 2023, official data showed Wednesday. Last year’s 5.2 percent growth in gross domestic product was pivotal to job creation, with the service sector leading the economic recovery, Yun Donglai, an official with the Ministry of Human R...

24/01/2024

Israel’s rejection of the idea of a two-state solution with the Palestinians is unacceptable and could prolong the war in Gaza, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said Tuesday. “Last week’s clear and repeated rejection of the two-state solution at the highest levels of the Israeli governmen...

24/01/2024

KATHMANDU – The Department of Immigration, under the Ministry of Home Affairs, has recently issued a 13-point travel advisory along with a six-point procedure for individuals travelling abroad on visit and tourist visas. The issuance of the travel advisory was prompted by increasing reports of Nep...

24/01/2024

KATHMANDU – The government has formed a panel under the leadership of Joint-Attorney General Dhruba Kumar Chauhan to probe into the elections and other issues relating to the International Coordination Council of Non-Resident Nepali Association (NRNA). A meeting of the Council of Ministers held on...

21/01/2024

“The Red Sea Crisis Proves China Was Ahead of the Curve,” reads a headline in Foreign Policy on Saturday. The article, which says, “The Belt and Road Initiative wasn’t a sinister plot. It was a blueprint for what every nation needs in an age of uncertainty and disruption,” is written by an...

21/01/2024

Fighting raged across Gaza and Israeli units raided the West Bank on Sunday after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has faced growing domestic criticism, rejected calls for post-war “Palestinian sovereignty”. Alongside fierce fighting in southern Gaza and across the besieged territory, stri...

21/01/2024

With just a day left for the grand opening of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya, Acharya Satyendra Das, the chief priest of Shri Ram Janmbhoomi Temple, shared his joy ahead of the ‘Pran Pratishtha’ saying it would be a moment of ‘great happiness’ for him to ceremonially restore the deity to His birt...

21/01/2024

KATHMANDU – Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ has said he raised voices for the interest of the developing nations in the 19th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) held in Kampala of Uganda. At a news conference organised at Tribhuvan International Airport upon returning home a...

16/01/2024

KATHMANDU – Prime Minister Mr. Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ is leaving for Kampala, the Republic of Uganda on 18 January 2024, leading a Nepali delegation to the 19 th Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) being held from 19 to 20 January 2024. Issuing a p...

16/01/2024

While electricity trade between India and Nepal appears to give the former a commanding advantage against China in Nepal’s hydropower sector, there is also growing concern as to whether India’s geopolitical game of edging China out could jeopardize Nepal’s power projects and energy supply ambi...

14/01/2024

KATHMANDU – Japanese Ambassador to Nepal, Yutaka Kikuta said there has been special relations between Nepal and Japan, laying emphasis on the crucial role of JICA Alumni Association of Nepal (JAAN) in consolidating the persisting ties. Ambassador Kikuta said this at a Sakura (Japanese Cheery) plan...

14/01/2024

KATHMANDU – A meeting of the Nepal-India Inter-Governmental Sub-Committee (IGSC) on Trade, Transit and Cooperation to Control Unauthorised Trade concluded in Kathmandu. The two-day meeting that ran on January 12 and 13 aimed to promote bilateral cooperation and trade relations and transit by preve...

14/01/2024

KATHMANDU – Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ is leaving here for Kampala, the Republic of Uganda, on coming January 18, leading a Nepali delegation to the 19th Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM). The Summit is being held in Kampala on January...

10/01/2024

KATHMANDU – The newly-appointed Secretary-General of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC), Md Golam Sarwar, paid a courtesy call on President Ramchandra Paudel at the Rastrapati Bhawan, Sheetal Niwas, today. During the meeting, President Paudel said that Nepal, as the found...

10/01/2024

KATHMANDU – The World Bank (WB) has projected five percent economic growth rate of Nepal for the fiscal year, 2024/25. Issuing a ‘Global Economic Prospectus, 2024’, the WB estimated positive development in economic status in 2024/25 as compared to the previous year. However, in the current fis...

05/01/2024

United Nations – Global economic growth is projected to slow down from an estimated 2.7 percent in 2023 to 2.4 percent in 2024, according to the UN World Economic Situation and Prospects 2024 report, launched on Thursday. Weakening global trade, high borrowing costs, elevated public debt, persiste...

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