Why India and Nepal’s forest fires are worrying scientists

The lush-green mountains in the background usually make the famous Nainital lake in Uttarakhand state of northern India more picturesque. But for several weeks now haze from forest fires has hidden the mountains, and the...

Nepal has $9.2 billion untapped export potential: World Bank

Nepal has untapped export potential worth an estimated $9.2 billion, The Kathmandu Post reported quoting a new World Bank finding. The multilateral funding agency said Nepal could boost its exports twelvefold, which represents an opportunity...

COVID-19: EU provides debt relief to Nepal

ENepal has received a debt service relief amounting to Nepali Rupees 582 million through a trust set up by the IMF to help the poorest and the most vulnerable countries to address the COVID-19...

India to build school in Nepal under Maitri Development Partnership programme

India will construct a new building at a secondary school in Nepal under the Nepal-Bharat Maitri Development Partnership programme, the Indian embassy said on Tuesday (April 6). The project will be taken up as a...

Nepal Airlines decides to lease out or sell grounded China-made aircraft

Nepal Airlines Corporation (NAC) has reportedly decided to lease out or sell its six grounded China-made aircraft. The national flag carrier has grounded the Y12e and MA60 aircraft since July last year as these were...

Nepal elephant ride operators illegally selling animals to India

Padam does not remember when he began keeping elephants at his hotel. But he says that guests used to pay well for elephant rides in the community forests outside Nepal’s famous Chitwan National Park. Padam’s...

2 projects in Nepal inaugurated with Indian funding

The newly upgraded Fateh Bal Eye Hospital in Nepalgunj was jointly inaugurated on April 4 along with the Chairman of the Hospital and the newly built Rapti Cold Storage Building in Lamahi Bazar of...

Nepal to administer Chinese vaccines to citizens from April 7

Nepal, home to 28 million people, has recorded 277,944 coronavirus infections and 3032 deaths, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University. Nepal will start its second phase of the Covid-19 inoculation drive from April...