ECONOMY
Flight bound for Pokhara forced to return to Kathmandu due to technical issues
Flight bound for Pokhara forced to return to Kathmandu due t...
KATHMANDU, Oct 2: A flight originally destined for Pokhara had to abort its journey and return to Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) due to communication equipment issues at Pokhara Regional International Airport.
Oct 02, 2023
OPINION
Tertiary Education at a Crossroads in Nepal
Tertiary Education at a Crossroads in Nepal
In recent years, a growing number of students have approached me for migration certificates or recommendation letters to leave the country and study abroad. To the questions, ‘Why do you want to leave your parents and homeland and go abroad? Why don’t you study in Nepal?’, they had answers or counte...
Oct 02, 2023
WORLD
Netherlands halts extraction from Europe's biggest gas field
Netherlands halts extraction from Europe's biggest gas field
THE HAGUE, Oct 2: The Netherlands halted extraction from Europe's biggest gas field on Sunday, which was resulting in earthquakes that have shaken local residents for decades and threaten to persist.
Oct 02, 2023
WORLD
Suicide bomber detonates a device in the Turkish capital. A second assailant is killed in...
Suicide bomber detonates a device in the Turkish capital. A...
ANKARA, Turkey Oct 2 : A suicide bomber detonated an explosive device in the heart of the Turkish capital, Ankara, on Sunday A second assailant was killed in a shootout with police, the interior minister said.
Oct 02, 2023
ECONOMY
NOC withdraws fuel price hike decision following govt’s instruction
NOC withdraws fuel price hike decision following govt’s inst...
Kathmandu, Oct 2: Within 24 hours after increasing the price of petroleum products, the Nepal Oil Corporation (NOC) took a U-turn and reversed its decision. The state-owned oil monopoly announced its decision to hike the price of petroleum products effective from Sunday midnight (October 2).
Oct 02, 2023
Editorial
Prioritize Local Skill Development and Reverse Migration s
Prioritize Local Skill Development and Reverse Migration s
In a recent interactive session on 'Policy Discourse: Skill Development' organized by the Confederation of Nepalese Industries (CNI), key stakeholders voiced their deep-seated concerns regarding the acute shortage of skilled labor in Nepal's industrial sector. The primary reason behind this shortage...
Oct 02, 2023
SOCIETY
Tourism Minister Kirati insists on implementing new approach for tourism development
Tourism Minister Kirati insists on implementing new approach...
KATHMANDU, Oct 1: Minister for Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation, Sudan Kirati, has stressed the need for applying a new approach in the development of Nepal's tourism industry.
Oct 01, 2023
ECONOMY
Around 800,000 tourists enter Nepal in the first nine months of 2023
Around 800,000 tourists enter Nepal in the first nine months...
KATHMANDU, Oct 1: Around eight hundred thousand foreign tourists have entered Nepal in the first nine months of the year 2023.
Oct 01, 2023
POLITICS
DPM Shrestha calls for enhancing road safety
DPM Shrestha calls for enhancing road safety
KATHMANDU, Oct 1: Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Home Affairs, Narayan Kaji Shrestha, has said all sides are expected to contribute equally for addressing the heart-wrenching situation caused by road accidents.
Oct 01, 2023
WORLD
Government shutdown averted with little time to spare as Biden signs funding before midnig...
Government shutdown averted with little time to spare as Bid...
WASHINGTON, Oct 1: The threat of a federal government shutdown suddenly lifted late Saturday as President Joe Biden signed a temporary funding bill to keep agencies open with little time to spare after Congress rushed to approve the bipartisan deal.
Oct 01, 2023