by Bhawani Bhatta in The Kathmandu Post, Dec 27, 2023A lack of budget has affected the construction work of a four-lane bridge over the Mahakali River connecting Dodhara Chandani Municipality with Bhimdatta Municipality. Work on the bridge remains stalled for the past three months. According to the construction company Kumar Shrestha CFEC JV, the government is yet to release around Rs250 million for the work completed in the fiscal year 2022-23 and for the first…
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by Basant Pratap Singh in The Kathmandu Post, Dec 4, 2023Chatte Bohara, a local of Rupatola in ward 3 of Talkot Rural Municipality, has been working as a construction worker at the 40-kilometre Rupatola-Dhuli road section under the 117-kilometre Chainpur-Taklakot road for five years. He says he has not received his daily wages for the last four years. More than 150 other workers have not received their wages for over a year while some have…
report in The News, Nov 22, 2023ISLAMABAD: In order to make the security of foreign embassies in the federal capital Islamabad fool-proof, CDA has started the construction of a new strong security wall on all four sides of the Diplomatic Enclave. This wall is ten feet high and the length is ten kilometers. So far, six and a half kilometers of the wall have been constructed. The total cost of the project is Rs950 million…
by Prithvi Man Shrestha in The Kathmandu Post, Nov 19, 2023The long-standing dispute between the Nepal Electricity Authority and the residents of Lapsephedi in Shankharapur Municipality-3 of Kathmandu over the planned construction of a substation in the locality resulted in clashes between the police and locals on Friday. At least three police personnel, including Armed Police Force DSP Debraj Rai, were injured when the locals hurled stones at them. The police team had reached the…
by Prithvi Man Shrestha in The Kathmandu Post, Nov 19, 2023The long-standing dispute between the Nepal Electricity Authority and the residents of Lapsephedi in Shankharapur Municipality-3 of Kathmandu over the planned construction of a substation in the locality resulted in clashes between the police and locals on Friday. At least three police personnel, including Armed Police Force DSP Debraj Rai, were injured when the locals hurled stones at them. The police team had reached the…
By Habib Rahman Qooyash in ToloNews, Sept 16, 2023 at 8:18 PMThe President of Uzbekistan, Shavkat Mirziyoyev, voiced concerns over the construction of the Qush Tepa canal, saying that its “commissioning” may fundamentally change the balance of water in Central Asia. This is the first time that a regional official made a critical statement about the Qush Tepa canal. Mirziyoyev made the remarks at the fifth summit of the Central Asian Nation heads. “You are…
by Buddhika Samaraweera in The Morning, June 7, 2023**Claims construction of places of worship continuing with Army, Buddhist clergy involvementWhile President Ranil Wickremesinghe has instructed the Department of Archeology to stop new acquisitions of lands in the Northern and Eastern Provinces, and the construction of Buddhist shrines in those areas, the Department is yet to take a final decision on the matter while other parties allegedly continue with such activities together with the Army and…