By Sanju Paudel in The Kathmandu Post, Nov 29, 2023A year and a half after the completion of the country’s second international airport in Bhairahawa in the southwest Tarai plains, the facility still stands empty. Nepal has spent nearly Rs40 billion on the construction of an airport that does not receive scheduled flights. Insiders say that the airport which was considered a landmark, and a sign of progress in this region before it was built,…
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report in Times of India online, Oct 16, 2023 at 10.49 PM ISTNEW DELHI: Nepal’s very expensive Pokhara international airport is shaping up to be an economic albatross for the cash-strapped nation and has saddled it with debt to creditors in Beijing for years to come. The fate of the airport strongly parallels that of Gwadar Port in Pakistan which was built under China’s Belt and Road initiative (BRI). The multi-billion dollar port has failed…
report in Dawn, Oct 2, 2023LAHORE: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) late on Saturday night offloaded eight alleged beggars in the disguise of Umrah pilgrims from a Kingdom of Saudi Arabia-bound flight at Multan airport, reports Dawn.com. According to a statement issued by FIA immigration officer Tariq Mehmood, it transpired during the immigration that the group was travelling to Saudi Arabia for the “purpose of begging”. The agency said the group handed over an amount…
Report in Dawn, October 1st, 2023LAHORE: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has got offloaded 16 alleged beggars in the disguise of Umrah pilgrims from Kingdom of Saudi Arabia-bound flight at Multan airport two days ago. According to the FIA, the group, consisting of 16 persons, including a child, 11 women and four men, was initially traveling on Umrah visas. The FIA officials during the immigration process questioned the passengers who confessed that they were going…
edit in The Kathmandu Post, September 28, 2023That Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal will claim to have taken Nepal-China relations to newer heights upon his arrival at the Tribhuvan International Airport is a ritual all too familiar to Nepalis. The 13-point joint statement released Wednesday, before Dahal left for Tibet en route to Nepal, is diplomatic sweet talk for the most part. In the first six points of the statement, the two sides have just…
by Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post, Aug 12, 2023The main opposition CPN-UML has been obstructing the federal Parliament since last month demanding a high-level investigation into the recent incidents of gold smuggling through the Tribhuvan International Airport. On Friday, even the ruling parties obstructed the National Assembly, protesting against the UML’s ongoing obstruction of the legislature. Both chambers of the federal parliament have been obstructed since July 26. As major parties have taken…
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…
report in Daily FT, June 7,2023 Air China has officially announced that all bookings are open for its new reinstated services between Colombo Bandaranaike International Airport and Chengdu Tianfu International Airport with 3 flights a week starting 3 July. The services are on Monday, Wednesday and Friday from Chengdu-Colombo-Chengdu (CMB/TFU – 22:15/06:15+1) (TFU/CMB – 17:35:20:15). Air China is offering a special all-inclusive Economy Class Return Fare starting Rs. 119,000 from Colombo to Chengdu Return and…
By Karoun Demirjian and Eric Schmitt in The NY Times, Apr 26, 2023WASHINGTON — The Taliban have killed the leader of the Islamic State cell responsible for the suicide bombing at the international airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, in August 2021 that killed 13 U.S. troops and as many as 170 civilians, the White House said on Tuesday. Four senior American officials said that U.S. intelligence analysts became aware in early April that the mastermind of…
Edit in Ceylon Today, March 21, 2023If the Sri Lankan Government is notorious for one thing, that is to maintain ‘white elephants’. From Provincial Councils with a hefty -maintenance cost and a questionable efficiency to ever-expanding ministries, Government institutes, that run constantly at losses and to a few establishments that hardly make any profit at all, there are lots of Government ventures that give nothing in return to drawing tax payers’ money to merely exist.…
report in The Himalayan Times, Feb 20, 2023 Chairperson KP Sharma Oli today reiterated that the candidate fielded by the UML would become the next President. Talking to media at the Biratnagar Airport, the former Prime Minister expressed the hope that there would be a consensus to make the presidential candidate fielded by the UML victorious. Stating the UML would make public the party’s presidential candidate on the day of the nomination registration, he said,…