SAFTA meeting to be held in Kathmandu Kathmandu, February 19:High profile delegates from the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) countries will land in the capital this weekend for the second of South Asian Free Trade Area (SAFTA) meet that is going to be held in the... 19 Feb, 2007
SAARC Car Rally launched Kathmandu, February 15:The SAARC Car Rally 2007 was officially launched in all the eight SAARC members nations today.The rally is aimed at strengthening the bond between the people, promote goodwill among South Asian Association for Regional... 16 Feb, 2007
Is Nepal suffering from capital flight? Kathmandu, February 1:Stories of royalists, armymen and a powerful section of the business community siphoning off money from Nepal for investments outside the country have been doing the rounds in recent times. While the fear of confiscation of... 01 Feb, 2007
Nepal can be model on environment front, says minister Kathmandu, January 26:State Minister for Environment, Science and Technology Man Bahadur Bishwakarma today said Nepal would work as a model country in the South Asia in the coming years in the field of environment conservation.Nepal is chairing the... Travel 27 Jan, 2007
Cricket included in Dhaka SAG Dhaka, December 13:The South Asian Games scheduled to be held in Bangladesh in 2008 will feature cricket for the first time, an official said today.“We have decided to include cricket in the next South Asian Games in Dhaka,” Ishtiaq Ahmed Karen,... 14 Dec, 2006
Women leaders want 33 pc seats in interim parliament secured Kathmandu, November 26:Women activists and women leaders of various political parties today stressed the need to prepare themselves to secure 33 per cent representation of women in the constituent assembly, before the formulation of election law and... Horoscopes 26 Nov, 2006
SAARC eyes uniform quality standards Kathmandu, November 24:Senior government officials from South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) have started preparing a homogeneous quality standard for products in the region to expedite trade and business to cope up with global... 24 Nov, 2006
Delhi to host S Asian film fest Seven Nepali films to be screenedNew Delhi:The first South Asian Film Festival is to be held in the Indian capital from October 24-30.Seventy films from countries like Nepal, India, Afghanistan, Bhutan, the Maldives, Bangladesh and Pakistan will be... Travel Abroad 15 Oct, 2006
Nepal ranks low in competitiveness Kathmandu, September 29:World Economic Forum (WEF) has stated that competitiveness among business organisations in Nepal has been found to be very low. The survey done by WEF has stated that out of the total 125 countries’ business competitiveness... 30 Sep, 2006
Cooperatives key to battling poverty in S Asia Kathmandu, September 19 :South Asian experts at a regional conference being held in Lalitpur district on ‘Rural Financing Institutions and Cooperatives’ have stressed that the region needs to expedite cooperative movement for reducing high levels... 19 Sep, 2006
Govt ‘doing little’ to push Nepal as medical education centre Kathmandu, September 8:Nepal is booming as a regional centre for medical education but the government is least bothered to cash in on the “quality medical education” here by bringing more foreign students.Statistics made available by the Ministry... Travel 08 Sep, 2006
India is top reformer in South Asia: WB Washington, September 7 :India is the top reformer in South Asia making it easier to do business there, according to a new report by the World Bank and the International Finance Corporation (IFC).‘Doing Business 2007: How to Reform’ finds that... 07 Sep, 2006
