Rs 2.5 million awarded among four journalists for groundbreaking investigative reporting Four journalists have been awarded prestigious awards and 2.5 million rupees from Barbara Foundation Investigative Journalism Award 2024 for their contributions to investigative reporting at an event organised in Kathmandu. Kathmandu 17 May, 2024
PM calls for connecting Nepalis across the world by means of language and culture Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda' has called upon the Nepali speakers and the people of Nepali origin residing in various countries of the world to invest the skills, knowledge and capital they have earned for the motherland Nepal. Kathmandu 12 Apr, 2024
International investors have shown curiosity to invest in Nepal: Finance Minister Mahat Finance Minister and Coordinator of Investment Summit Steering Committee, Dr Prakash Sharan Mahat, has said inquiries of the international investors to invest in Nepal have been received. Business 08 Feb, 2024
EDITORIAL: Haylage export For the first time, Nepal has been able to export 82 tonnes of haylage, or animal feed, to Tibet’s Shigatse from Chitwan’s Bharatpur Metropolitan City area. Opinion 17 Jul, 2023
Turbine manufacturing in Nepal: Need and opportunities According to the Nepal Energy Sector Synopsis Report of 2022, published by the Water and Energy Commission (WECS), the energy mix in Nepal is still dominated by traditional energy types. Opinion 16 Dec, 2022
16 Nepalis 'have shell companies in tax havens' An investigative report prepared by journalists Krishna Acharya and Ramu Sapkota for the Centre for Investigative Journalism-Nepal has revealed that 16 Nepali investors, including sole Nepali billionaire Binod Kumar Chaudhary, have shell companies in tax haven countries. Nepal 05 Oct, 2021
EDITORIAL: Waiting for UTHPP While launching the “Mero Kitta”, a digital platform prepared by the Department of Survey to allow people to check land plots online and get them printed from home, in the capital on April 15, Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli was miffed at the ‘unnatural delay’ in the completion of the 456 MW Upper Tamakoshi Hydropower Project (UTHPP), a national pride project being developed solely by Nepali investors Opinion 20 Apr, 2021
EDITORIAL: Start a probe While Nepal welcomes FDI, we must see to it that there are no shady deals to circumvent the country’s laws Time and again, the multinational telecommunications company, Ncell, has been making headlines in the media, and always for the wrong reason,... 11 Jan, 2021
Nepali investors make millions from opaque share deals KATHMANDU, JANUARY 9 A handful of Nepali investors have made fortunes buying and selling Ncell shares using funds which appear to have flowed covertly to them via tax havens from the Malaysian telecom giant, Axiata, and Sweden’s Telia. Some... Travel 10 Jan, 2021
20 per cent local stake in Ncell needs to be probed KATHMANDU, JANUARY 9 The controversy surrounding share transactions of Ncell seems to have gotten murkier, with a new investigation finding that even the 20 per cent shares owned by Nepali investors involve shady deals and that the government needs... Travel 10 Jan, 2021
Soaltee Crowne Plaza now under complete Nepali ownership KATHMANDU, SEPTEMBER 27 The Soaltee Crowne Plaza hotel has now become an entity completely owned by Nepali shareholders after Soaltee Enterprises Pvt Ltd bought all the shares being held by the international company, InterContinental Hotels... 28 Sep, 2020
Nepse soars on coronavirus windfall Kathmandu, February 29 The outbreak of coronavirus that has battered the world stock market has provided a sudden windfall to the local bourse, causing the Nepal Stock Exchange (Nepse) to surge week-on-week by a whopping 13.77 per cent or 197.61... 01 Mar, 2020
