by Rejaul Karim Byron in Daily Star,Dec 21, 2023Bangladesh’s debt service to revenue ratio is projected to cross the 100 percent mark for the first time owing to rising loans and lower tax and export receipts, highlighting the growing risk to the country’s capacity to repay. The debt service-to-revenue and grants ratio stood at 58.7 percent in the fiscal year of 2020-21 but it surged to 72 percent in FY22 and 71.8 percent in the…
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by Prithvi Man Shrestha in The Kathmandu Post, July 31, 2023Nepal plans to export 370 megawatt (MW) of electricity to India through low-capacity transmission lines besides the existing only high-capacity 400kV Dhalkebar-Muzaffarpur line as other under-construction high-capacity transmission lines have not been completed. Nepal can export a maximum of 1,000 MW through the Dhalkebar-Muzaffarpur Cross-Border Transmission and the two countries had agreed to transmit a maximum 800 MW during the Secretary-level Joint Steering Committee (JSC)…
by Anup Ojha in The Kathmandu Post, July 24, 2023The government’s decision to allow district courts to handle cyber crimes comes as a respite for service seekers but there are doubts if the lower-rung courts have the capacity to look into the cases and deliver justice. Prior to the decision, the Nepal Police cyber bureau at Bhotahity had the sole mandate to investigate internet-related cases. That meant people from all over the country had to…
Report in Dawn, February 19th, 2023• Urges world to help Afghan authorities build capacity to counter terrorism• Calls for opening Kabul’s banking channels, unfreezing its funds• Top Chinese official says Beijing firmly supports Islamabad in maintaining security ISLAMABAD: Even if the Afghan rulers demonstrate the will to counter terrorism, they certainly don’t have the capacity to do so, Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari said on Saturday, warning that the threat will soon spill over outside the…