by Prithvi Man Shrestha in The Kathmandu Post, Jue 26, 2023Nepal is all set to sell 200 megawatts of electricity to India under a five-year deal in what would be the first-ever longer-term trading of power between the two countries, according to a senior official of the Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA). “The state-owned power utility and NTPC Vidyut Vyapar Nigam Limited (NVVN) of India signed an agreement on May 23, paving the way for the…
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by Janakraj Sapkota in The Kathmandu Post, June 25, 2023Bharat Budha, chair of Putha Uttarganga Rural Municipality’s ward 10, knows that many youths from his village have made it to the United States via ‘tallo bato’—backdoor route—and that many are still on the way. He also knows that eight of them have been deported from the country and that they have lost a cumulative Rs45 million in the process. The deported youths say that they…
FrontReport in The Himalayan Times, June 25, 2023Although the top leaders of the Socialist Front comprising the CPN-MC, CPN- US, Janata Samajwadi Party-Nepal and Communist Party of Nepal said this front would be different from past alliances as they had built ideological congruence on many issues, political analysts believe the front is for bargaining on the basis of political power in the Parliament. The three parties of the front – CPN-MC, CPN (US) and JSP-N…
By Prithvi Man Shrestha in The Kathmandu Post, June 25, 2023Nepal’s power generation capacity increased to 2,700 megawatts (MW) from 2,200 a year ago, but there has been no increase in the export quota that India has already approved for Nepal, which currently stands at 452.6MW. This has raised concerns over possible spillages of electricity as without urgent approvals by India for an increase in Nepal’s electricity supply quota, that is the most plausible outcome.…
By Anup Ojha in The Kathmandu Post, June 20, 2023Police on Monday briefly detained Tribhuvan University assistant professor Prem Chalaune after he launched a hunger strike inside the premises of the Kathmandu District Court. He was protesting last week’s government decision to withdraw a case against a group of students who physically assaulted him three years ago. Police said Chalaune was arrested shortly after he and his supporters ‘created disturbance’ inside the District Court premises.…
by Sangam Prasain & Krishana Prasain in The Kathmandu Post, June 20, 2023Nepal is staring at stagflation, a scenario where an economy faces high inflation, low growth and high unemployment—all at the same time, economists said on Monday. Nepal’s efforts to stamp out a surge in inflation have slowed the economic growth rate sharply. At the start of the current fiscal year, the government had pompously declared that the economy would grow by an astounding…
report in The Kathmandu Post, updated June 19, 2023 at 15:25 hrsThe screening of the Indian movie ‘Adipurush’ has been stalled nationwide citing issues of law and order. Kathmandu Mayor Balendra Shah, on Sunday, had taken to his Twitter and Facebook accounts to announce the metropolis’ decision to bar all Indian movies from screening at cinemas within Kathmandu Metropolitan City. The move came after Shah’s call to rectify a particular statement used in the film…
By Anup Ojha in The Kathmandu Post, June 22, 2023A dispute between the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN) and the Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) over a piece of land has escalated to a new level. The dispute started after CAAN barred the KMC from developing a park for children and elderly on a piece of land at Sinamangal. Later, the municipal police led by its chief Raju Nath Pandey reached the area and removed…
By Anil Giri & Sangam Prasain in The Kathmandu Post, June 22, 2023On December 31 last year, on the eve of Pokhara International Airport inauguration by Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal, the Chinese Embassy wrote on its Twitter account that “This [Pokhara airport] is the flagship project of the China-Nepal BRI cooperation.” Six months after the airport’s opening, a Sichuan Airlines charter flight landed in Pokhara on Wednesday with 84 passengers on board the Airbus…