ECONOMY
NRNA expedites preparations to set up a Rs 10 bn fund for investment in infrastructure sec...
NRNA expedites preparations to set up a Rs 10 bn fund for in...
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Govt to buy 5 percent share of the fund
KATHMANDU, Feb 12: The Non-Resident Nepali Association (NRNA) is taking an initiative to set up a fund of Rs 10 billion to invest in the infrastructure sector. For that, the NRNA has started the work of registering a separate company in Nepal.
Feb 12, 2021
POLITICS, Latest Updates
Vice-President Pun extends Lhosar greetings
Vice-President Pun extends Lhosar greetings
KATHMANDU, Feb 12: Vice-President Nanda Bahadur Pun has expressed greetings on the occasion of the Lhosar festival today.
Feb 12, 2021
OPINION
How to save local news
How to save local news
Unless countries go beyond short-term support to build and nurture more resilient local-news ecosystems, the reliable and verifiable information our societies need will become increasingly difficult to find.
Feb 12, 2021
WORLD
Biden says Trump 'did not do his job' on coronavirus vaccination program, urges patience
Biden says Trump 'did not do his job' on coronavirus vaccina...
BETHESDA, Md., Feb 12: U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday said the coronavirus vaccination program he inherited from Donald Trump was in “much worse shape” than he had expected, while urging patience and also announcing the government has bought 200 million more doses.
Feb 12, 2021
POLITICS
President greets people on Sonam Lhosar
President greets people on Sonam Lhosar
KATHMANDU, Feb 12: President Bidya Devi Bhandari has expressed her best wishes for the happiness, peace and prosperity of all sisters and brothers at home and abroad on the occasion of Sonam Lhosar to be observed by the Tamang community as their New Year.
Feb 12, 2021
SPORTS, WORLD
Tokyo Olympics chief set to quit over sexist remarks in another blow to the Games
Tokyo Olympics chief set to quit over sexist remarks in anot...
TOKYO, Feb 12: Tokyo 2020 Olympics chief Yoshiro Mori is expected to resign on Friday over his sexist comments, with the mayor of the Olympic village Saburo Kawabuchi saying Mori had asked him to take over.
Feb 12, 2021
WORLD
Six die in icy Texas pileup as frigid weather blankets much of U.S
Six die in icy Texas pileup as frigid weather blankets much...
USA, Feb 12: Winter weather battered the United States from coast to coast on Thursday as a series of storms expected to last for days mixed with an Arctic air mass to bring snow and freezing rain as far south as Texas, where six people died in a multi-vehicle pileup.
Feb 12, 2021
OPINION
What is unconstitutional, what is not?
What is unconstitutional, what is not?
When we vehemently protest one unconstitutional action but let others slide, it will only serve to weaken the constitution in the long run. This is what has happened at present.
Feb 12, 2021
WORLD
If Senate does not convict Trump, 'he can do this again,' Democrats warn
If Senate does not convict Trump, 'he can do this again,' De...
WASHINGTON, Feb 12: Democratic prosecutors making the case that Donald Trump incited a deadly insurrection by encouraging his supporters to march on the U.S. Capitol warned the Senate on Thursday that if it fails to convict the former president, “he can do this again.”
Feb 12, 2021
ECONOMY
Banks’ excess liquidity drops, thanks to increased credit and govt-collected public debt
Banks’ excess liquidity drops, thanks to increased credit an...
KATHMANDU, Feb 12: Nepal’s banks and financial institutions have started facing a decline in excess liquidity with the government collecting excessive internal borrowing and due to an increasing demand for loans from the business community with falling cases of the coronavirus infection.
Feb 12, 2021