Gauri Singh Rawal, Mayor, Patan Municipality and Shri Avinash Kumar Singh, First Secretary, Embassy of India, Kathmandu laid the foundation stone for the construction of Shree Bhumeshwor Secondary School Building at Patan Municipality-4, Baitadi District, Nepal. It is being built with Government of India’s financial assistance at the tendered cost of Rs 31.05 million under...
hina Aid has joined hands with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) to support schools and communities in Madhesh Province of Nepal. As part of the assistance, a special project to “Support for schools and communities in remote areas for Pandemic Prevention and Green Recovery” was unveiled in Barahathawa Municipality in Sarlahi district on Thursday....
KATHMANDU, April 6: Chinese construction companies have been delaying the construction of significant and strategically important road projects in Nepal, with several issues arising in road projects contracted to Chinese firms. A prime example is the delayed progress in the second phase of the ring road expansion project in Kathmandu. Despite promises, the Chinese company...
Are the stalled Nepal-China ties finally getting some momentum? Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs Narayan Kaji Shrestha has some ideas on that score. Shrestha says he has proposed building Nepal-China economic and development corridors with Chinese officials. The objective, he said, is to boost economic growth, trade, tourism, and connectivity between Nepal...
Nepal and India on Thursday undertook a comprehensive review of the status of bilateral ties and discussed a wide range of issues of mutual concern during the seventh meeting of Nepal-India Joint Commission held in Kathmandu. Foreign Minister NP Saud and his Indian counterpart S Jaishankar co-chaired the meeting, where the two sides discussed trade...
Nepal will have a chance to export more hydroelectricity to India as the southern neighbour introduces a new rule allowing Indian distributors to incorporate imported hydropower into the renewable energy quota set for them. In a new notification issued last week, India’s power ministry set a new quota of renewable energy that distribution companies should...
India has agreed in principle to invest more for the development of the Pancheshwar Multipurpose Project, a move that could pave the way for the development of the mega bilateral undertaking, according to a senior official at the Ministry of Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation. With the southern neighbour benefiting more from the project’s development,...
Chinese Ambassador to Nepal Chen Song has said that Chinese airlines are preparing to launch direct flights to the newly-built airports in Pokhara and Bhairahawa. In response to the request made by Finance Minister Barsha Man Pun at his office in Singha Durbar on Tuesday, Ambassador Chen underlined the need for permits for an air...
Building a pair of Nepal-China cross-border transmission lines will again be on the agenda of a bilateral Joint Working Group meeting scheduled for later this month, two officials of the Nepal Electricity Authority said. The meeting of the Joint Working Group comprising representatives of the NEA and the State Grid Corporation of China is scheduled...
Amid criticism that Chinese-funded projects have not made desired progress in Nepal and Beijing has failed to adhere to past agreements and accords, China has recently communicated its intent to expedite at least half a dozen projects across multiple sectors.“During a meeting this week with Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal, Chinese Ambassador to Nepal Chen...