January 30: Snowfall has been taking place in higher belt of Karnali since last Tuesday. The Rara Lake has turned further majestic with the snowfall covering the…
January 30: Snowfall has been taking place in higher belt of Karnali since last Tuesday. The Rara Lake has turned further majestic with the snowfall covering the…
January 30: The Election Commission (EC) has fixed the date for the election of the president and vice…
January 30: The weather will be cloudy throughout the country today due to the influence of the Westerly low pressure system with chances of light rain and snowfall at some places of Sudurpaschim and Karnali…
January 30: Minister for Labor, Employment and Social Security Dol Prasad Aryal has pledged that he will take initiatives to end forced…
January 30: The Ministry of Finance has prepared an action plan for implementation of the policy priorities and common minimum programme of the…
January 30: The locals and various organizations of Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) have decried the ways Mayor Balendra Shah is functioning.…
January 30: The Public Procurement Monitoring Office (PPMO) has black listed 12 companies.…
Following the infrastructure construction and publicity, tourist sites have witnessed rise of tourist arrivals in…
January 29: The Indian movie 'Uunchai', which was shot in Nepal, has been shown in India, America, Malaysia, Australia and other countries, and now Nepal is being discussed all over the…
A training on how to make slippers meant for women has started off in Chitwan. The training is aimed at developing women entrepreneurship and promoting their…
January 29: The import of wheat from Birgunj, the country's main trade port, has come to a standstill in the first six months of the current fisccal year.…
January 29: As per the data published by the National Center for Potato, Vegetable and Spice Crop Development, Nepal needs about 350,000 metric tons of potatoes to be self-sufficient in potato production.…
January 29: The currency in circulation in the market has declined by Rs 16 billion as of mid-January this year compared to the same period of last…
January 29: The private sector has raised serious concerns regarding a spike in suicide cases mainly due to ‘banking…
January 29: Farmers in Bhojpur district have been attracted to orange farming with the yield generating good…
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The Rara Lake has turned further majestic with the snowfall covering the region. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">January 30: Snowfall has been taking place in higher belt of Karnali since last Tuesday. The Rara Lake has turned further majestic with the snowfall covering the region. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Snowfall has added picturesque values to the region which has been an attractive tourism destination. Domestic and foreign tourists are increasingly crowding up in the area for snow fun. Tourists are thronging Rara for taking joy of snowfall without caring about the chilling cold. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">There is up to two feet snow in the surrounding area of Rara. All trees and plants around the majestic lake are apparently whitish with snow. Everything seems covered in a blanket of white snow in and around the majestic lake. With abundant snowfall, it seems as if a white quilt has been placed in the corner of the lake. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Snow has added further attraction to the lake which changes its forms in different colours in the winter season. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Ram Shah, a domestic tourist who turned up here to take joy of the mesmerizing Rara, commented that he was fortunate to get an opportunity to view the scenic beauty of Rara, rarely manifested in this season. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Tourists said the season was appropriate for Rara visit as one could observe the snow-covered Rara and the mind-blowing ambience in the surrounding. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The Rara Lake spread in an area that is five-km in length, around three-km in breadth and is 167 metres deep. Rara is a home to rare species of snow trout fish and trout frog as well as 300 species of birds. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">According to the Rara National Park office, the lake has been considered a special place to observe different wildlife, including musk deer, red panda, Himalayan black bear and wild dog. -- RSS</span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-30', 'modified' => '2023-01-30', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16629', 'image' => '20230130041341_800px-Rara_Lake_and_the_forests_covered_with_the_coats_of_snow._❄️.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-30 16:12:43', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 1 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16890', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => ' President's Election Scheduled for March 9 ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'January 30: The Election Commission (EC) has fixed the date for the election of the president and vice president. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">January 30: The Election Commission (EC) has fixed the date for the election of the president and vice president. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">According to the EC, the presidential election will take place on March 9, Thursday and that of the vice president on March 17, Friday. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Chief Election Commissioner Dinesh Kumar Thapaliya said the Election Commission will publish the election schedule based on a decision to this effect. The EC through the Chief Secretary will write about this decision to the Government of Nepal, Council of Ministers. The term of incumbent President Bidya Devi Bhandari ends on March 12, 2023. -- RSS </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-30', 'modified' => '2023-01-30', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16628', 'image' => '20230130041516_EC.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-30 16:14:15', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 2 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16888', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Light Rain and Snowfall Likely at Some Places Today ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'January 30: The weather will be cloudy throughout the country today due to the influence of the Westerly low pressure system with chances of light rain and snowfall at some places of Sudurpaschim and Karnali provinces. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Light Rain and Snowfall Likely at Some Places Today </span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">January 30: The weather will be cloudy throughout the country today due to the influence of the Westerly low pressure system with chances of light rain and snowfall at some places of Sudurpaschim and Karnali provinces. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The sky is cloudy across the country at present due to the general impact of the Westerly low pressure system, said Meteorologist Binu Maharjan of the Meteorological Forecasting Division under the Department of Hydrology and Meteorology. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">“The weather will be cloudy for the whole day today with the possibility of light rain at a few places of Sudurpaschim and at one or two places of Karnali province,” said Maharjan. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The division has forecast light snowfall at some places in the high hills and mountainous region of Karnali and Sudurpaschim provinces and at one or two places of the high hills and mountainous region of the rest of the provinces. The same weather pattern will prevail tonight as well, states the weather bulletin issued by the division on Monday afternoon. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The division has urged for precaution for the next 24 hours, stating there is possibility of light rain at a few places of Sudurpaschim province and at one or two places of Karnali and Lumbini provinces. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">It has also urged the general public to remain alert, saying the occurrence of fog and mist in some places of the Tarai region towards the morning is likely to have general impact on the daily life of people and affect the road and air transport. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The western parts of Nepal has already witnessed rainfall this winter although it occurred a bit late this year. However, many places in central and eastern Nepal are yet to witness rainfall this year, leading to concerns that the winter crops might wilt due to the delayed rainfall-- RSS </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-30', 'modified' => '2023-01-30', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16627', 'image' => '20230130035049_weatherrrr.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-30 15:50:04', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 3 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16887', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Minister Aryal Promises to End Forced Labour', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'January 30: Minister for Labor, Employment and Social Security Dol Prasad Aryal has pledged that he will take initiatives to end forced labour.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">January 30: Minister for Labor, Employment and Social Security Dol Prasad Aryal has pledged that he will take initiatives to end forced labour. Minister Aryal made such a remark during a discussion on the protocol on forced labor and the need for a unified law for the abolition of forced labor held at the ministry on Sunday.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Minister Aryal urged all the concerned agencies to expedite the works related to the proposed bill for the prohibition and rehabilitation of forced labor in an effective manner. He said, “The laws and policies should be made to work for a long term so that they don't need to be changed as soon as the ministers and government employees change. For that, I am ready to have an in-depth discussion with the concerned parties and relevant agencies.”</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Minister Aryal said that such discussions and interaction programs held in the capital will be limited only to the cities and will not reach the target groups. He requested the concerned agencies to work in such a way that the forced labourers should not feel that they are left out.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">During the program, Labour Secretary Ek Narayan Aryal said that he is ready to help the ministry to reduce forced labor. He emphasized that economic, political and educational transformation in the country cannot take place until the end of forced labour.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">A seven-member committee has been formed under the coordination of Danduraj Ghimire, Joint Secretary of the Labor Relations and Social Security Division of the Ministry of Labor to finalize the Forced Labor (Prohibition and Rehabilitation) Bill 2079.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Nirmala Gurung, Deputy Secretary of the Ministry's Law and Judgment Implementation Branch, presented the draft of the bill in the program. Likewise, labor immigration expert and advocate Som Luitel informed about the provisions of forced labor in Nepal and the international provisions.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">According to a study report of the Nepal Labor Survey in 2018, a total of 31,338 people are involved in forced labor in Nepal. Similarly, the report of the International Labor Organization (ILO) mentions that there are 40,000 unskilled workers, 16,953 new workers, 45,065 agricultural workers and 6,229 people working in brick kilns as forced labourers.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The workers of these four sectors are included in the current Forced Labor (Prohibition and Rehabilitation) Bill 2079. Advocate Luitel said that even though there are so many people doing forced work in Nepal, not a single case has been brought to the court because of lack of procedures. Concerned agencies hope that after the bill is endorsed, it will be easier to give justice to the victims.</span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-30', 'modified' => '2023-01-30', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16626', 'image' => '20230130030419_bricks.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-30 15:03:06', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 4 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16886', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Finance Ministry Aims to Achieve Double-Digit Growth within Next Five Years', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'January 30: The Ministry of Finance has prepared an action plan for implementation of the policy priorities and common minimum programme of the government. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">January 30: The Ministry of Finance has prepared an action plan for implementation of the policy priorities and common minimum programme of the government. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">As per the action plan, the government aims to achieve double digit economic growth within the next five years.</span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">According to the ministry, the action plan mentions about making revenue collection more effective, further systematising revenue system, maintaining professional neutrality while changing the revenue rate and controlling revenue leakage. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">It also incorporates topics such as formulation of fiscal and monetary policies as well as expenditure cuts to ensure economic growth and stability. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Joint Secretary at the Finance Ministry Anand Kafle confirmed that the action plan has been prepared to implement the policy priorities and common minimum porgrammes of the government. He added that the government has set timelines to achieve the goals.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">A meeting of the council of ministers on January 18 had instructed all the ministries to prepare an action plan to implement the policy priorities and minimum programmes.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""> <br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">In line with the cabinet directive, the action plan proposes identification of projects that are incomplete and those in limbo to manage resources for them on needs basis. Moreover, it proposes the idea to launch ‘hedging service’ to manage ups and downs in foreign investment. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">It has provisions for necessary reforms in subordinate bodies of the ministry based on self-assessment reports and other reports related to foreign exchange, revenue policies, government grants, bank loan policy, and elimination of investment in money-laundering and terrorism activities. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The action plan states that the government will create a base for achieving a double-digit economic growth in the next five years.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">It also proposes coordination among the three tiers of governments, review of customs rates, and to proceed with reviving the problematic government institutions that are closed after a study. In addition to this, it talks about to undertake policy and structural reforms in the insurance sector, to revise laws relating to securities and to make the stock market more transparent and competitive. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif""> The action plan has promised sufficient budget allocated for national pride projects, and non-transfer of the budget for other projects. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The Inland Revenue Department and the Department of Customs are also required to mobilise resources as per the revenue target, and carry out policy reforms accordingly. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The action plan requires government to resolve the current problems in the economy by taking the private sector into confidence, promote exports and import substitution, resolve problems in service delivery within the jurisdiction of the finance ministry through the ministerial level and address the issues at the policy level. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">A high-level political mechanism of the ruling alliance had published the government's policy priorities and minimum programmes on January 9. </span></span></span><br /> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-30', 'modified' => '2023-01-30', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16625', 'image' => '20230130012939_finance_ministry_copy1.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-30 13:28:53', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 5 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16885', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'KMC Locals Decry Mayor’s Works ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'January 30: The locals and various organizations of Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) have decried the ways Mayor Balendra Shah is functioning. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">January 30: The locals and various organizations of Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) have decried the ways Mayor Balendra Shah is functioning. They blamed Mayor Shah of carrying out illegal works and atrocities. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">A peaceful assembly was organized by the disgruntled locals in a bid to warn KMC to immediately stop the atrocities meted out with illegal and haphazard works. The activities initiated by KMC were launched without alternative, resulting in public ire and agony, they said. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The demonstrators at Maitighar Mandala sported placards reading, ‘stop dozer terror’, ‘don’t evacuate people while expanding road’, ‘ensure rights to indigenous people’, ‘adhere to constitutional rights of citizens’, ‘KMC, stop atrocities’ etc. They said that Mayor Shah arbitrarily mobilized dozer on citizen’s property. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Central chair of the valley road expansion affected people’s struggle committee, Suman Sayami, said although Shah was elected with the aim of doing good to the city, his working style is against the people. So, the locals are forced to stage sit-in. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Sayami, who was also one of the contenders against Shah in the local level election, informed that the vigilance assembly was held to exert pressure on the KMC Mayor Shah to stop illegal works. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">If the works such as bulldozing personal property continues, the protest programmes would flare up, he warned. Various organizations including Jyapu Mahaguthi Nepal joined the protest. -- RSS </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-30', 'modified' => '2023-01-30', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16624', 'image' => '20230130124002_6F8A4783(2).jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-30 12:39:04', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 6 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16884', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'PPMO Blacklists 12 Companies ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'January 30: The Public Procurement Monitoring Office (PPMO) has black listed 12 companies. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">January 30: The Public Procurement Monitoring Office (PPMO) has black listed 12 companies. The PPMO stated in a notice that construction and supplier companies have been blacklisted from one year to three years upon the recommendation of various bodies. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Those companies included in the blacklist are Universal Multi Services Pvt Ltd, Shankhamul, Kathmandu led by Gopal Dhakal; Swargadwari Mahaprabhu Builders Pvt Ltd, Bhingri, Pyuthan of Kumar Bhandari; Shree Sukrin Construction Service, Ghorahi, Dang of Krishna Bahadur Khadka; and Shree SD Construction Janakpurdham, Dhanusha founded by Niraj Kumar Mishra. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Similarly, the PPMO has blacklisted Rastra Nirman Sewa, Bhageshwar Rural Municipality, Dadeldhura of Jagat Bahadur Jora; Muktinath Builders and Company Pvt Ltd, Tokha, Dhapasi headed by Janardan Dhital; Laxmi Nirman Sewa, Chhatradev, Arghakhanchi led by Ram Bahadur Rana; Jaleshwar Construction Service, Nilkantha, Dhading of Prakash Koirala; DV Ghimire Construction, Ichhakamana, Kurintar of Madhav Bahadur Ghimire; and Anjana Construction Service, Bharatpur, Chitwan led by Pushkar Prasad. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Also blacklisted by the PPMO are the Dilli Trading Birgunj, Parsa with Rani Kumari Rauniyar as the main person and B Management Pvt Ltd, Naya Bazaar, Pokhara of Shivahari Pudasaini. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Rastra Nirman Sewa, Bhageshwar Rural Municipality, Dadeldhura has been blacklisted for three years and the remaining construction and supplier companies have been blacklisted for one year. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The blacklisted companies are barred from participating in any procurement activities of the public bodies during the designated time period, the PPMO said. -- RSS </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-30', 'modified' => '2023-01-30', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16623', 'image' => '20230130104718_20221130061311_ppmo.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-30 10:46:30', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 7 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16883', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Infrastructure Development Leads to Increase of Tourist Attraction in Myagdi ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => ' Following the infrastructure construction and publicity, tourist sites have witnessed rise of tourist arrivals in Myagdi.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">January 30: Following the infrastructure construction and publicity, tourist sites have witnessed rise of tourist arrivals in Myagdi. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Construction of physical infrastructures is underway at Beni Municipality’s historical Jyamrukkot, Pulchaur, Pachhai, Singatatopani, Malika Rural Municipality’s Devisthan, and Ngala Rural Municipality’s Barnaja and Annapurna Rural Municiplaity’s Khopara, among others.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">A road that connects to tourist site Gaikharka Lake located at Devisthan of Malika Rural Municipality has been constructed. </span></span><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Consumers’ Commitete chair Rabindra Rana Magar says that they had constructed the road with Rs 2 lakhs budget allocated by the rural municipality and labour donation worth Rs 50,000 by the locals.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">According to Magar, 750-meter long road from Hansh khola to Gaikhara has been completed. “We have constructed the road for the promotion of the tourist lake,” said former ward chair Pipala Budhathoki Magar. </span></span><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Construction of a temple has started off targeting the tourists by allocating the budget from the ward office, said Pipala Magar.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Local people’s representatives say that rural municipality has invested large amount of money for the promotion of tourist sites. </span></span><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Two homestays have been brought into operation with assistance of province government in the rural municipality.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Similarly, ward office, municipality and province government are constructing physical structures to make historical Khadgabhwani kot premises located at Jyamrukkot of Beni Municipality-2. </span></span><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Three tiers of the government have collaborated to construct 250-meter long trekking route.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">“We have broken two tough cliffs and constructed two-meter wide trekking route,” said consumers’ committee chairman Om Bahadur BK. The route has made it easy for the visitors to get to the Kot Mandir and lured many toursits for the sightseeing. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""> </span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-30', 'modified' => '2023-01-30', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16622', 'image' => '20230130060159_collage (97).jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-30 05:49:38', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '42' ) ), (int) 8 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16881', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Foreign Films Shot in Nepal Contribute to Tourism Promotion', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'January 29: The Indian movie 'Uunchai', which was shot in Nepal, has been shown in India, America, Malaysia, Australia and other countries, and now Nepal is being discussed all over the world.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">January 29: The Indian movie 'Uunchai', which was shot in Nepal, has been shown in India, America, Malaysia, Australia and other countries, and now Nepal is being discussed all over the world.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The reason for that is that the filming of 'Uunchai' is at the highest place in the world. The movie was filmed at Everest base camp and has contributed to the promotion of tourism in Nepal. The film shows spectacular views of the world's highest peak, Mount Everest, as well as the tourist areas such as Manang, Lukla and Kathmandu.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Starring Bollywood actors Amitabh Bachchan, Boman Irani and Anupam Kher, Uchai was released last October. The film made at a cost of INR 450 million earned Rs 500 million in the box office. Although it is an average film in terms of earnings, its story has touched the hearts of the audience. More than that, the place where the film was shot has touched the hearts of many.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The shooting of a film featuring famous Bollywood actors in Nepal after a long gap has raised hopes of boosting Nepal's tourism business, which has been sluggish of late. In the past too, when Indian films shot in Nepal were screened, there used to be an increase in the number of Indians visiting Nepal.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Dozens of Bollywood and Hollywood movies have been shot in Nepal's tourist destinations such as Kathmandu, Pokhara, and Mustang. When movies shot in Nepal are screened in other countries, the number of tourists visiting Nepal increases significantly.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Most of the tourists coming to Nepal are Indians. According to the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation, from 2010 to 2019, a total of 83,32,000 thousand tourists came to Nepal. Among them, 18.67 percent (15,54,000) were Indians. Stakeholders say that the films shot in the background of the Himalayan region of Nepal has a strong potential to contribute to the improvement of Nepal's tourism.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">More than 70 films from India, China, Hong Kong, Spain, France, America and other countries have been shot in Nepal. When films shot in Nepal are shown in different countries, it has a direct impact on Nepal’s tourism.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">'Up to His Years', shown in 1965, was the first movie shot in Nepal.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The year the film was aired, 9,388 tourists came to Nepal. The following year, 12,537 tourists arrived in Nepal. The increase in tourist arrivals by more than 33 and a half percent the year after the movie was released is considered a positive effect of the movie.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Nepal does not have the data of exactly how many tourists came from France and Italy the year after the release of the film. However, experts believe that at that time more tourists came from that country than at any other time.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Similarly, after the performance of 'The Touch' in 2002, tourist arrivals increased by 22.74 percent. In 2002, the tourist arrival was 275,468 and in 2003 it reached 338,132.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Statistics show that every time there is a screening of foreign films shot in Nepal, the number of tourists has increased.</span></span></span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-29', 'modified' => '2023-01-29', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16621', 'image' => '20230129035356_amitabh_bachchan_uunchai_.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-29 15:53:16', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 9 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16882', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Slipper Making Training for Women Entrepreneurship Starts in Chitwan ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'A training on how to make slippers meant for women has started off in Chitwan. The training is aimed at developing women entrepreneurship and promoting their capacity.', 'content' => '<p><br /> <span style="font-size:18px">January 29: A training on how to make slippers meant for women has started off in Chitwan. The training is aimed at developing women entrepreneurship and promoting their capacity.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">Women Beauty Parlour and Skill Development Programme Consumers’ Committee is organising the training with assistance from Bharatpur Metropolitan City, ward No 16, according to the committee’s chairperson Srijana Pandey.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">Ram Krishna Dhakal, Secretary of ward no 26, said that his ward was helping the committee in different ventures to make women self-dependent. <br /> Making slippers is easy and convenient for women. This training will enhance their skills and help them become financially capable and independent, said Dhakal. As many as 50 women are participating in the one-week long training. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">Committee chairperson Pandey says that the training will impart skills on how to make slippers for the women from Divyanagar of ward-16. “This will help local women to be self-reliant and financially free”, she added. </span><br /> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-29', 'modified' => '2023-01-29', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16620', 'image' => '20230129052905_collage (95).jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-29 17:23:11', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '42' ) ), (int) 10 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16878', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Import of wheat comes to a Standstill', 'sub_title' => 'Import of Rice, Millet, Barley also Decline', 'summary' => 'January 29: The import of wheat from Birgunj, the country's main trade port, has come to a standstill in the first six months of the current fisccal year. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">January 29: The import of wheat from Birgunj, the country's main trade port, has come to a standstill in the first six months of the current fisccal year. The data of Birgunj Customs shows that no wheat was imported from mid-July to mid-January due to India's policy to restrict on food exports. The lack if initiative of the Government of Nepal is also to blame for the short supply.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">As a result, the price of wheat flour in the domestic market has skyrocketed. Chief Customs Officer Dhan Bahadur Baruwal informed that during the review period of the previous year, 16,334,000 kg of wheat worth Rs 516.1 million was imported through Birgunj customs alone.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Due to the Russia-Ukraine war, India adopted a policy of restricting food exports while considering the possibility of food shortages around the world. India has adopted a policy of controlling prices even by halting exports.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">After India adopted the policy of restricting the export of wheat, paddy, rice, sugar and other food items to control prices, Nepal has been facing problems in importing those items.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Even though India asked 20 countries including Nepal for the required quota of wheat, the government did not send the quota within the deadline. Although the government sought for the requirement of wheat from the industrialists, it did not communicate with India on time even after receiving the requirement of the domestic industries.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">India recently pledged a quota of 50,000 tons of wheat to Nepal. The government has already received 30,000 tons of wheat under this quota and has already distributed it to some industries. India also imposed an additional duty of 20 percent on the export of paddy and rice. At the request of the Government of Nepal, India waived such duty on 600,000 tons of rice.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> According to customs data, 38 percent more paddy has been imported in six months of this year than the corresponding period of last fiscal year. During the first six months of last fiscal year, 681,000 tons of rice was imported. Now that the import of rice has decreased by 30 percent while the prices have increased.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The import of rice granules also dropped significantly. According to data, the import of rice granules decreased by 71 percent. As per the customs data, the import of corn, millet, barley has also decreased significantly.</span></span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-29', 'modified' => '2023-01-29', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16617', 'image' => '20230129024615_wheatttttt.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-29 14:45:15', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 11 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16877', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Nepal Needs to Produce Additional 350,000 Tons of Potatoes to become Self Sufficient', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'January 29: As per the data published by the National Center for Potato, Vegetable and Spice Crop Development, Nepal needs about 350,000 metric tons of potatoes to be self-sufficient in potato production. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">January 29: As per the data published by the National Center for Potato, Vegetable and Spice Crop Development, Nepal needs about 350,000 metric tons of potatoes to be self-sufficient in potato production. According to the center, Nepal can become self-sufficient in potatoes if it can increase its production by 342,000 metric tons a year.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The center, informed that 3,325,231 metric tons of potatoes are produced annually in 198,700 hectares of land in Nepal while the market demand is 3,667,256 tons. Looking at the figures, 342,000 tons is insufficient for Nepal, which is imported from countries including India.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">According to the head of the center Basudev Kafle, the productivity of potatoes is now 16.05 metric tons per hectare. The cultivation area should be expanded by 20,400 hectares with an increase in the current state of productivity to 18.44 metric tons per hectare to become self sufficient.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Potato, which is convenient for growing in all geographical terrains and all seasons, contributes 5.96 percent to the gross domestic production. Annual per capita potato consumption in Nepal is 111.8 kg. According to the centre, 18% of potatoes are produced in the highlands, 42% in the mid-hills and 40% in the Terai. According to the government data, the maximum 30 percent of potato is produced in Province 1 and the lowest 7 percent in Karnali Province.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">In terms of productivity, Nepal's potato productivity is only one place ahead of Bhutan, which is at the bottom in South Asia. Potato productivity in Bhutan is 11.02 metric tons per hectare. Pakistan has the highest productivity of 22.52 metric tons per hectare in South Asia.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Bijaya Kumar Giri, office chief of the National Potato, Vegetable and Spice Crops Development Center, Nigale, informed that the government recently conducted a potato seed self-sufficiency program to become self-sufficient in potato seeds. He said that since the fiscal year 2073/74, four private companies established new tissue culture and screen houses in different parts of the country. Seed potato program is launched in 40 districts covering all the geographical areas from Terai to high mountains. In addition to this, in the current fiscal year, Rs 147.8 million has been allocated for 97 local levels for potato promotion and Rs 33.34 million in 22 local levels for potato seed promotion program.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""> </span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-29', 'modified' => '2023-01-29', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16616', 'image' => '20230129020151_potatoes-411975_1280-1024x682.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-29 14:00:15', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 12 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16876', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Currency in Circulation Declines by Rs 16 Billion', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'January 29: The currency in circulation in the market has declined by Rs 16 billion as of mid-January this year compared to the same period of last year.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">January 29: The currency in circulation in the market has declined by Rs 16 billion as of mid-January this year compared to the same period of last year. According to Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB), the use of paper money is declining due to the growing use and volume of digital transaction.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The central bank sad that around Rs 616 billion was in circulation in the market during mid-January 2022 which dropped to Rs 600 billion this year.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">According to the financial statement of NRB, banknotes worth Rs 312 billion was in circulation by mid-July last year which increased to Rs 649 in mid-October and then it started declining gradually.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Besides the increase in use of digital transaction, NRB’s credit line to banks and financial institutions also declined in mid-December to mid-January resulting in a decline in currency in circulation in the market.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The central bank had invested Rs 271.72 billion on BFIs in mid-July which dropped to Rs 62.26 billion by mid-January. The latest figure includes repo (repurchase agreement) worth Rs 50 billion, refinancing of Rs 12.21 billion and Standing Liquidity Facility (SLF) worth Rs 60 million.</span></span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-29', 'modified' => '2023-01-29', 'keywords' => 'currency, circulation, Nepal , Rastra, bank, digital transaction', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16615', 'image' => '20230129125601_currency.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-29 12:55:20', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 13 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16874', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Private Sector Expresses Concern over ‘Banking Terror’', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'January 29: The private sector has raised serious concerns regarding a spike in suicide cases mainly due to ‘banking terror’.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">January 29: The private sector has raised serious concerns regarding a spike in suicide cases mainly due to ‘banking terror’. Issuing a statement on Thursday, the Kathmandu Chamber of Commerce said that cases of suicide are rising of late due to ‘banking terror’.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The chamber issued the statement in the wake of self-immolation of Prem Prasad Acharya of Ilam, who wrote on social media about extreme hardship in this entrepreneurial journey before committing suicide.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">“The private sector is in grief due to the self-immolation of Ilam’s Prem Acharya who took such extreme step due to financial hardship and also the suicide of Mohan Niraula, an electronics businessman of Biratnagar, due to alleged banking terror. The private sector is also serious towards this issue,” reads the statement.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""> Stating that social media is overflowing with messages that businessmen are under extreme pressure from banks and financial institutions (BFI) and have to bear injustice, the chamber urged all concerned government bodies to implement the rules and policies as well as government directives and circulars related to the economic sector to boost the morale of the entrepreneurs and also to ensure such tragic incidents do to repeat again.</span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-29', 'modified' => '2023-01-29', 'keywords' => 'banking, terror, hardship, suicide, self, immolation', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16613', 'image' => '20230129112723_From-Property-Improvement-To-Banking-Misconduct-In-Nepal.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-29 11:26:31', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 14 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16872', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Bhojpur Farmers Find their Calling in Orange Farming ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'January 29: Farmers in Bhojpur district have been attracted to orange farming with the yield generating good income.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">January 29: Farmers in Bhojpur district have been attracted to orange farming with the yield generating good income. Road connectivity is a major factor that helped expand the market beyond the locality, thus benefiting the farmers financially, say government authorities. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">A farmer who is engaged in commercial farming of oranges earned income from Rs 600,000 to Rs 1 million annually, they said. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">"I have grown 400 orange trees in my garden. I have been earning sufficiently from the sales of orange. Commercial orange farming yields good income," said Chandal Kumar Rai, a farmer of Khawa Kerabari in Temkemaiyung-5. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Rai is involved in the farming of citrus fruit for 44 years. "Now, it can be taken as a medium of pension for my retired and sedentary life," he observed. An orange tree can bear fruit for 100 years, according to him. He said he generated up to Rs 1 million in income annually from the sales of oranges and its saplings. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Most of the villagers here are farmers, and orange farming has become their main income source, said another farmer Devraj Rai. The market is reliable, as oranges produced here are in high demand, he said. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">"The main income source of over 70 percent of households here is orange farming. It is the season for orange harvesting, and farmers are busy," he said. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Now, there are 400 orange trees in his garden, and he is planning to expand it because of the good yield. "I am drawing from Rs 1.5 million to Rs 2 million annually from it. I aim to increase my income by some Rs 1 million to Rs 1.2 million annually in some years," he shared. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Villages where oranges are produced in high quantity are Khawa Kerabari, Annapurna, Chhinamakhu, Kot and Gogane of Temkemaiyung Rural Municipality, Dawa, Bomikh and Pokhare of Bhojpur Municipality, Shadananda Municipality, Hatuwagadhi Rural Municipality and Ram Prasad Rai Rural Municipality. The main market for oranges produced here are Dharan, Itahari, Biratnagar and Kathmandu. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Traders and suppliers reach the gardens and buy oranges. However, farmers could get more value for their produce if they can directly sell them in the market in the district and outside, said Chandal Kumar. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Devraj said better income could be made if emphasis could be laid on development of modern technology and irrigation, adding many youths of these areas are involved in expansion of commercial orange farming in recent days. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">He further pointed out the need of establishing chilling centres to store the produced oranges. “Farmers have been facing problem to store the oranges. Farmers could be able to earn more if they have proper storage so that the fruit remains fresh for long,” mentioned Rai. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Chairperson of Ward-5, Sunil Rai, said local levels were carrying out activities to benefit the orange farmers of that areas. “Khawa has the best terrain for orange farming. We have been running some programmes supportive to the farmers. Efforts are on to address the irrigation problem voiced by them.” </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Chairperson Saroj Basnet expressed the view that they were also working to make Temkemaiyung Rural Municipality self-sufficient in agriculture. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">They had set a plan to encourage farmers in agro and animal husbandry along with cash crop farming, he added. "All the nine wards of Temkemaiyung Rural Municipality produce oranges and farmers make adequate income from it. The rural municipality has a target to run incentive-oriented programme by collecting data on farmers involved in other works as well to encourage them towards orange farming.” </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">According to Agriculture Knowledge Centre, a total of 6,293 metric tonnes of oranges were produced in Bhojpur district this year. Orange farming is done in 920 hectares of land in the district. -- RSS</span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-29', 'modified' => '2023-01-29', 'keywords' => 'Orange, farming, Bhojpur, market, yield, income, good', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16611', 'image' => '20230129104602_YB_BHOJPUR_SUNTALA.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-29 10:45:17', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '34' ) ) ) $current_user = null $logged_in = falseinclude - APP/View/Elements/side_bar.ctp, line 60 View::_evaluate() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 971 View::_render() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 933 View::_renderElement() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 1224 View::element() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 418 include - APP/View/Articles/index.ctp, line 157 View::_evaluate() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 971 View::_render() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 933 View::render() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 473 Controller::render() - CORE/Cake/Controller/Controller.php, line 968 Dispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/Cake/Routing/Dispatcher.php, line 200 Dispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/Cake/Routing/Dispatcher.php, line 167 [main] - APP/webroot/index.php, line 117
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The Rara Lake has turned further majestic with the snowfall covering the region. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">January 30: Snowfall has been taking place in higher belt of Karnali since last Tuesday. The Rara Lake has turned further majestic with the snowfall covering the region. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Snowfall has added picturesque values to the region which has been an attractive tourism destination. Domestic and foreign tourists are increasingly crowding up in the area for snow fun. Tourists are thronging Rara for taking joy of snowfall without caring about the chilling cold. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">There is up to two feet snow in the surrounding area of Rara. All trees and plants around the majestic lake are apparently whitish with snow. Everything seems covered in a blanket of white snow in and around the majestic lake. With abundant snowfall, it seems as if a white quilt has been placed in the corner of the lake. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Snow has added further attraction to the lake which changes its forms in different colours in the winter season. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Ram Shah, a domestic tourist who turned up here to take joy of the mesmerizing Rara, commented that he was fortunate to get an opportunity to view the scenic beauty of Rara, rarely manifested in this season. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Tourists said the season was appropriate for Rara visit as one could observe the snow-covered Rara and the mind-blowing ambience in the surrounding. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The Rara Lake spread in an area that is five-km in length, around three-km in breadth and is 167 metres deep. Rara is a home to rare species of snow trout fish and trout frog as well as 300 species of birds. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">According to the Rara National Park office, the lake has been considered a special place to observe different wildlife, including musk deer, red panda, Himalayan black bear and wild dog. -- RSS</span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-30', 'modified' => '2023-01-30', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16629', 'image' => '20230130041341_800px-Rara_Lake_and_the_forests_covered_with_the_coats_of_snow._❄️.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-30 16:12:43', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 1 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16890', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => ' President's Election Scheduled for March 9 ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'January 30: The Election Commission (EC) has fixed the date for the election of the president and vice president. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">January 30: The Election Commission (EC) has fixed the date for the election of the president and vice president. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">According to the EC, the presidential election will take place on March 9, Thursday and that of the vice president on March 17, Friday. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Chief Election Commissioner Dinesh Kumar Thapaliya said the Election Commission will publish the election schedule based on a decision to this effect. The EC through the Chief Secretary will write about this decision to the Government of Nepal, Council of Ministers. The term of incumbent President Bidya Devi Bhandari ends on March 12, 2023. -- RSS </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-30', 'modified' => '2023-01-30', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16628', 'image' => '20230130041516_EC.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-30 16:14:15', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 2 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16888', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Light Rain and Snowfall Likely at Some Places Today ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'January 30: The weather will be cloudy throughout the country today due to the influence of the Westerly low pressure system with chances of light rain and snowfall at some places of Sudurpaschim and Karnali provinces. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Light Rain and Snowfall Likely at Some Places Today </span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">January 30: The weather will be cloudy throughout the country today due to the influence of the Westerly low pressure system with chances of light rain and snowfall at some places of Sudurpaschim and Karnali provinces. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The sky is cloudy across the country at present due to the general impact of the Westerly low pressure system, said Meteorologist Binu Maharjan of the Meteorological Forecasting Division under the Department of Hydrology and Meteorology. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">“The weather will be cloudy for the whole day today with the possibility of light rain at a few places of Sudurpaschim and at one or two places of Karnali province,” said Maharjan. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The division has forecast light snowfall at some places in the high hills and mountainous region of Karnali and Sudurpaschim provinces and at one or two places of the high hills and mountainous region of the rest of the provinces. The same weather pattern will prevail tonight as well, states the weather bulletin issued by the division on Monday afternoon. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The division has urged for precaution for the next 24 hours, stating there is possibility of light rain at a few places of Sudurpaschim province and at one or two places of Karnali and Lumbini provinces. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">It has also urged the general public to remain alert, saying the occurrence of fog and mist in some places of the Tarai region towards the morning is likely to have general impact on the daily life of people and affect the road and air transport. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The western parts of Nepal has already witnessed rainfall this winter although it occurred a bit late this year. However, many places in central and eastern Nepal are yet to witness rainfall this year, leading to concerns that the winter crops might wilt due to the delayed rainfall-- RSS </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-30', 'modified' => '2023-01-30', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16627', 'image' => '20230130035049_weatherrrr.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-30 15:50:04', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 3 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16887', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Minister Aryal Promises to End Forced Labour', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'January 30: Minister for Labor, Employment and Social Security Dol Prasad Aryal has pledged that he will take initiatives to end forced labour.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">January 30: Minister for Labor, Employment and Social Security Dol Prasad Aryal has pledged that he will take initiatives to end forced labour. Minister Aryal made such a remark during a discussion on the protocol on forced labor and the need for a unified law for the abolition of forced labor held at the ministry on Sunday.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Minister Aryal urged all the concerned agencies to expedite the works related to the proposed bill for the prohibition and rehabilitation of forced labor in an effective manner. He said, “The laws and policies should be made to work for a long term so that they don't need to be changed as soon as the ministers and government employees change. For that, I am ready to have an in-depth discussion with the concerned parties and relevant agencies.”</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Minister Aryal said that such discussions and interaction programs held in the capital will be limited only to the cities and will not reach the target groups. He requested the concerned agencies to work in such a way that the forced labourers should not feel that they are left out.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">During the program, Labour Secretary Ek Narayan Aryal said that he is ready to help the ministry to reduce forced labor. He emphasized that economic, political and educational transformation in the country cannot take place until the end of forced labour.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">A seven-member committee has been formed under the coordination of Danduraj Ghimire, Joint Secretary of the Labor Relations and Social Security Division of the Ministry of Labor to finalize the Forced Labor (Prohibition and Rehabilitation) Bill 2079.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Nirmala Gurung, Deputy Secretary of the Ministry's Law and Judgment Implementation Branch, presented the draft of the bill in the program. Likewise, labor immigration expert and advocate Som Luitel informed about the provisions of forced labor in Nepal and the international provisions.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">According to a study report of the Nepal Labor Survey in 2018, a total of 31,338 people are involved in forced labor in Nepal. Similarly, the report of the International Labor Organization (ILO) mentions that there are 40,000 unskilled workers, 16,953 new workers, 45,065 agricultural workers and 6,229 people working in brick kilns as forced labourers.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The workers of these four sectors are included in the current Forced Labor (Prohibition and Rehabilitation) Bill 2079. Advocate Luitel said that even though there are so many people doing forced work in Nepal, not a single case has been brought to the court because of lack of procedures. Concerned agencies hope that after the bill is endorsed, it will be easier to give justice to the victims.</span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-30', 'modified' => '2023-01-30', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16626', 'image' => '20230130030419_bricks.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-30 15:03:06', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 4 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16886', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Finance Ministry Aims to Achieve Double-Digit Growth within Next Five Years', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'January 30: The Ministry of Finance has prepared an action plan for implementation of the policy priorities and common minimum programme of the government. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">January 30: The Ministry of Finance has prepared an action plan for implementation of the policy priorities and common minimum programme of the government. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">As per the action plan, the government aims to achieve double digit economic growth within the next five years.</span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">According to the ministry, the action plan mentions about making revenue collection more effective, further systematising revenue system, maintaining professional neutrality while changing the revenue rate and controlling revenue leakage. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">It also incorporates topics such as formulation of fiscal and monetary policies as well as expenditure cuts to ensure economic growth and stability. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Joint Secretary at the Finance Ministry Anand Kafle confirmed that the action plan has been prepared to implement the policy priorities and common minimum porgrammes of the government. He added that the government has set timelines to achieve the goals.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">A meeting of the council of ministers on January 18 had instructed all the ministries to prepare an action plan to implement the policy priorities and minimum programmes.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""> <br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">In line with the cabinet directive, the action plan proposes identification of projects that are incomplete and those in limbo to manage resources for them on needs basis. Moreover, it proposes the idea to launch ‘hedging service’ to manage ups and downs in foreign investment. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">It has provisions for necessary reforms in subordinate bodies of the ministry based on self-assessment reports and other reports related to foreign exchange, revenue policies, government grants, bank loan policy, and elimination of investment in money-laundering and terrorism activities. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The action plan states that the government will create a base for achieving a double-digit economic growth in the next five years.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">It also proposes coordination among the three tiers of governments, review of customs rates, and to proceed with reviving the problematic government institutions that are closed after a study. In addition to this, it talks about to undertake policy and structural reforms in the insurance sector, to revise laws relating to securities and to make the stock market more transparent and competitive. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif""> The action plan has promised sufficient budget allocated for national pride projects, and non-transfer of the budget for other projects. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The Inland Revenue Department and the Department of Customs are also required to mobilise resources as per the revenue target, and carry out policy reforms accordingly. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The action plan requires government to resolve the current problems in the economy by taking the private sector into confidence, promote exports and import substitution, resolve problems in service delivery within the jurisdiction of the finance ministry through the ministerial level and address the issues at the policy level. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">A high-level political mechanism of the ruling alliance had published the government's policy priorities and minimum programmes on January 9. </span></span></span><br /> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-30', 'modified' => '2023-01-30', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16625', 'image' => '20230130012939_finance_ministry_copy1.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-30 13:28:53', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 5 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16885', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'KMC Locals Decry Mayor’s Works ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'January 30: The locals and various organizations of Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) have decried the ways Mayor Balendra Shah is functioning. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">January 30: The locals and various organizations of Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) have decried the ways Mayor Balendra Shah is functioning. They blamed Mayor Shah of carrying out illegal works and atrocities. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">A peaceful assembly was organized by the disgruntled locals in a bid to warn KMC to immediately stop the atrocities meted out with illegal and haphazard works. The activities initiated by KMC were launched without alternative, resulting in public ire and agony, they said. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The demonstrators at Maitighar Mandala sported placards reading, ‘stop dozer terror’, ‘don’t evacuate people while expanding road’, ‘ensure rights to indigenous people’, ‘adhere to constitutional rights of citizens’, ‘KMC, stop atrocities’ etc. They said that Mayor Shah arbitrarily mobilized dozer on citizen’s property. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Central chair of the valley road expansion affected people’s struggle committee, Suman Sayami, said although Shah was elected with the aim of doing good to the city, his working style is against the people. So, the locals are forced to stage sit-in. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Sayami, who was also one of the contenders against Shah in the local level election, informed that the vigilance assembly was held to exert pressure on the KMC Mayor Shah to stop illegal works. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">If the works such as bulldozing personal property continues, the protest programmes would flare up, he warned. Various organizations including Jyapu Mahaguthi Nepal joined the protest. -- RSS </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-30', 'modified' => '2023-01-30', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16624', 'image' => '20230130124002_6F8A4783(2).jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-30 12:39:04', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 6 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16884', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'PPMO Blacklists 12 Companies ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'January 30: The Public Procurement Monitoring Office (PPMO) has black listed 12 companies. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">January 30: The Public Procurement Monitoring Office (PPMO) has black listed 12 companies. The PPMO stated in a notice that construction and supplier companies have been blacklisted from one year to three years upon the recommendation of various bodies. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Those companies included in the blacklist are Universal Multi Services Pvt Ltd, Shankhamul, Kathmandu led by Gopal Dhakal; Swargadwari Mahaprabhu Builders Pvt Ltd, Bhingri, Pyuthan of Kumar Bhandari; Shree Sukrin Construction Service, Ghorahi, Dang of Krishna Bahadur Khadka; and Shree SD Construction Janakpurdham, Dhanusha founded by Niraj Kumar Mishra. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Similarly, the PPMO has blacklisted Rastra Nirman Sewa, Bhageshwar Rural Municipality, Dadeldhura of Jagat Bahadur Jora; Muktinath Builders and Company Pvt Ltd, Tokha, Dhapasi headed by Janardan Dhital; Laxmi Nirman Sewa, Chhatradev, Arghakhanchi led by Ram Bahadur Rana; Jaleshwar Construction Service, Nilkantha, Dhading of Prakash Koirala; DV Ghimire Construction, Ichhakamana, Kurintar of Madhav Bahadur Ghimire; and Anjana Construction Service, Bharatpur, Chitwan led by Pushkar Prasad. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Also blacklisted by the PPMO are the Dilli Trading Birgunj, Parsa with Rani Kumari Rauniyar as the main person and B Management Pvt Ltd, Naya Bazaar, Pokhara of Shivahari Pudasaini. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Rastra Nirman Sewa, Bhageshwar Rural Municipality, Dadeldhura has been blacklisted for three years and the remaining construction and supplier companies have been blacklisted for one year. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The blacklisted companies are barred from participating in any procurement activities of the public bodies during the designated time period, the PPMO said. -- RSS </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-30', 'modified' => '2023-01-30', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16623', 'image' => '20230130104718_20221130061311_ppmo.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-30 10:46:30', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 7 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16883', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Infrastructure Development Leads to Increase of Tourist Attraction in Myagdi ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => ' Following the infrastructure construction and publicity, tourist sites have witnessed rise of tourist arrivals in Myagdi.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">January 30: Following the infrastructure construction and publicity, tourist sites have witnessed rise of tourist arrivals in Myagdi. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Construction of physical infrastructures is underway at Beni Municipality’s historical Jyamrukkot, Pulchaur, Pachhai, Singatatopani, Malika Rural Municipality’s Devisthan, and Ngala Rural Municipality’s Barnaja and Annapurna Rural Municiplaity’s Khopara, among others.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">A road that connects to tourist site Gaikharka Lake located at Devisthan of Malika Rural Municipality has been constructed. </span></span><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Consumers’ Commitete chair Rabindra Rana Magar says that they had constructed the road with Rs 2 lakhs budget allocated by the rural municipality and labour donation worth Rs 50,000 by the locals.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">According to Magar, 750-meter long road from Hansh khola to Gaikhara has been completed. “We have constructed the road for the promotion of the tourist lake,” said former ward chair Pipala Budhathoki Magar. </span></span><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Construction of a temple has started off targeting the tourists by allocating the budget from the ward office, said Pipala Magar.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Local people’s representatives say that rural municipality has invested large amount of money for the promotion of tourist sites. </span></span><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Two homestays have been brought into operation with assistance of province government in the rural municipality.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Similarly, ward office, municipality and province government are constructing physical structures to make historical Khadgabhwani kot premises located at Jyamrukkot of Beni Municipality-2. </span></span><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Three tiers of the government have collaborated to construct 250-meter long trekking route.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">“We have broken two tough cliffs and constructed two-meter wide trekking route,” said consumers’ committee chairman Om Bahadur BK. The route has made it easy for the visitors to get to the Kot Mandir and lured many toursits for the sightseeing. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""> </span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-30', 'modified' => '2023-01-30', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16622', 'image' => '20230130060159_collage (97).jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-30 05:49:38', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '42' ) ), (int) 8 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16881', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Foreign Films Shot in Nepal Contribute to Tourism Promotion', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'January 29: The Indian movie 'Uunchai', which was shot in Nepal, has been shown in India, America, Malaysia, Australia and other countries, and now Nepal is being discussed all over the world.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">January 29: The Indian movie 'Uunchai', which was shot in Nepal, has been shown in India, America, Malaysia, Australia and other countries, and now Nepal is being discussed all over the world.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The reason for that is that the filming of 'Uunchai' is at the highest place in the world. The movie was filmed at Everest base camp and has contributed to the promotion of tourism in Nepal. The film shows spectacular views of the world's highest peak, Mount Everest, as well as the tourist areas such as Manang, Lukla and Kathmandu.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Starring Bollywood actors Amitabh Bachchan, Boman Irani and Anupam Kher, Uchai was released last October. The film made at a cost of INR 450 million earned Rs 500 million in the box office. Although it is an average film in terms of earnings, its story has touched the hearts of the audience. More than that, the place where the film was shot has touched the hearts of many.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The shooting of a film featuring famous Bollywood actors in Nepal after a long gap has raised hopes of boosting Nepal's tourism business, which has been sluggish of late. In the past too, when Indian films shot in Nepal were screened, there used to be an increase in the number of Indians visiting Nepal.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Dozens of Bollywood and Hollywood movies have been shot in Nepal's tourist destinations such as Kathmandu, Pokhara, and Mustang. When movies shot in Nepal are screened in other countries, the number of tourists visiting Nepal increases significantly.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Most of the tourists coming to Nepal are Indians. According to the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation, from 2010 to 2019, a total of 83,32,000 thousand tourists came to Nepal. Among them, 18.67 percent (15,54,000) were Indians. Stakeholders say that the films shot in the background of the Himalayan region of Nepal has a strong potential to contribute to the improvement of Nepal's tourism.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">More than 70 films from India, China, Hong Kong, Spain, France, America and other countries have been shot in Nepal. When films shot in Nepal are shown in different countries, it has a direct impact on Nepal’s tourism.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">'Up to His Years', shown in 1965, was the first movie shot in Nepal.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The year the film was aired, 9,388 tourists came to Nepal. The following year, 12,537 tourists arrived in Nepal. The increase in tourist arrivals by more than 33 and a half percent the year after the movie was released is considered a positive effect of the movie.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Nepal does not have the data of exactly how many tourists came from France and Italy the year after the release of the film. However, experts believe that at that time more tourists came from that country than at any other time.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Similarly, after the performance of 'The Touch' in 2002, tourist arrivals increased by 22.74 percent. In 2002, the tourist arrival was 275,468 and in 2003 it reached 338,132.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Statistics show that every time there is a screening of foreign films shot in Nepal, the number of tourists has increased.</span></span></span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-29', 'modified' => '2023-01-29', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16621', 'image' => '20230129035356_amitabh_bachchan_uunchai_.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-29 15:53:16', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 9 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16882', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Slipper Making Training for Women Entrepreneurship Starts in Chitwan ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'A training on how to make slippers meant for women has started off in Chitwan. The training is aimed at developing women entrepreneurship and promoting their capacity.', 'content' => '<p><br /> <span style="font-size:18px">January 29: A training on how to make slippers meant for women has started off in Chitwan. The training is aimed at developing women entrepreneurship and promoting their capacity.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">Women Beauty Parlour and Skill Development Programme Consumers’ Committee is organising the training with assistance from Bharatpur Metropolitan City, ward No 16, according to the committee’s chairperson Srijana Pandey.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">Ram Krishna Dhakal, Secretary of ward no 26, said that his ward was helping the committee in different ventures to make women self-dependent. <br /> Making slippers is easy and convenient for women. This training will enhance their skills and help them become financially capable and independent, said Dhakal. As many as 50 women are participating in the one-week long training. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">Committee chairperson Pandey says that the training will impart skills on how to make slippers for the women from Divyanagar of ward-16. “This will help local women to be self-reliant and financially free”, she added. </span><br /> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-29', 'modified' => '2023-01-29', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16620', 'image' => '20230129052905_collage (95).jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-29 17:23:11', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '42' ) ), (int) 10 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16878', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Import of wheat comes to a Standstill', 'sub_title' => 'Import of Rice, Millet, Barley also Decline', 'summary' => 'January 29: The import of wheat from Birgunj, the country's main trade port, has come to a standstill in the first six months of the current fisccal year. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">January 29: The import of wheat from Birgunj, the country's main trade port, has come to a standstill in the first six months of the current fisccal year. The data of Birgunj Customs shows that no wheat was imported from mid-July to mid-January due to India's policy to restrict on food exports. The lack if initiative of the Government of Nepal is also to blame for the short supply.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">As a result, the price of wheat flour in the domestic market has skyrocketed. Chief Customs Officer Dhan Bahadur Baruwal informed that during the review period of the previous year, 16,334,000 kg of wheat worth Rs 516.1 million was imported through Birgunj customs alone.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Due to the Russia-Ukraine war, India adopted a policy of restricting food exports while considering the possibility of food shortages around the world. India has adopted a policy of controlling prices even by halting exports.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">After India adopted the policy of restricting the export of wheat, paddy, rice, sugar and other food items to control prices, Nepal has been facing problems in importing those items.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Even though India asked 20 countries including Nepal for the required quota of wheat, the government did not send the quota within the deadline. Although the government sought for the requirement of wheat from the industrialists, it did not communicate with India on time even after receiving the requirement of the domestic industries.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">India recently pledged a quota of 50,000 tons of wheat to Nepal. The government has already received 30,000 tons of wheat under this quota and has already distributed it to some industries. India also imposed an additional duty of 20 percent on the export of paddy and rice. At the request of the Government of Nepal, India waived such duty on 600,000 tons of rice.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> According to customs data, 38 percent more paddy has been imported in six months of this year than the corresponding period of last fiscal year. During the first six months of last fiscal year, 681,000 tons of rice was imported. Now that the import of rice has decreased by 30 percent while the prices have increased.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The import of rice granules also dropped significantly. According to data, the import of rice granules decreased by 71 percent. As per the customs data, the import of corn, millet, barley has also decreased significantly.</span></span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-29', 'modified' => '2023-01-29', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16617', 'image' => '20230129024615_wheatttttt.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-29 14:45:15', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 11 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16877', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Nepal Needs to Produce Additional 350,000 Tons of Potatoes to become Self Sufficient', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'January 29: As per the data published by the National Center for Potato, Vegetable and Spice Crop Development, Nepal needs about 350,000 metric tons of potatoes to be self-sufficient in potato production. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">January 29: As per the data published by the National Center for Potato, Vegetable and Spice Crop Development, Nepal needs about 350,000 metric tons of potatoes to be self-sufficient in potato production. According to the center, Nepal can become self-sufficient in potatoes if it can increase its production by 342,000 metric tons a year.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The center, informed that 3,325,231 metric tons of potatoes are produced annually in 198,700 hectares of land in Nepal while the market demand is 3,667,256 tons. Looking at the figures, 342,000 tons is insufficient for Nepal, which is imported from countries including India.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">According to the head of the center Basudev Kafle, the productivity of potatoes is now 16.05 metric tons per hectare. The cultivation area should be expanded by 20,400 hectares with an increase in the current state of productivity to 18.44 metric tons per hectare to become self sufficient.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Potato, which is convenient for growing in all geographical terrains and all seasons, contributes 5.96 percent to the gross domestic production. Annual per capita potato consumption in Nepal is 111.8 kg. According to the centre, 18% of potatoes are produced in the highlands, 42% in the mid-hills and 40% in the Terai. According to the government data, the maximum 30 percent of potato is produced in Province 1 and the lowest 7 percent in Karnali Province.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">In terms of productivity, Nepal's potato productivity is only one place ahead of Bhutan, which is at the bottom in South Asia. Potato productivity in Bhutan is 11.02 metric tons per hectare. Pakistan has the highest productivity of 22.52 metric tons per hectare in South Asia.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Bijaya Kumar Giri, office chief of the National Potato, Vegetable and Spice Crops Development Center, Nigale, informed that the government recently conducted a potato seed self-sufficiency program to become self-sufficient in potato seeds. He said that since the fiscal year 2073/74, four private companies established new tissue culture and screen houses in different parts of the country. Seed potato program is launched in 40 districts covering all the geographical areas from Terai to high mountains. In addition to this, in the current fiscal year, Rs 147.8 million has been allocated for 97 local levels for potato promotion and Rs 33.34 million in 22 local levels for potato seed promotion program.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""> </span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-29', 'modified' => '2023-01-29', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16616', 'image' => '20230129020151_potatoes-411975_1280-1024x682.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-29 14:00:15', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 12 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16876', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Currency in Circulation Declines by Rs 16 Billion', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'January 29: The currency in circulation in the market has declined by Rs 16 billion as of mid-January this year compared to the same period of last year.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">January 29: The currency in circulation in the market has declined by Rs 16 billion as of mid-January this year compared to the same period of last year. According to Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB), the use of paper money is declining due to the growing use and volume of digital transaction.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The central bank sad that around Rs 616 billion was in circulation in the market during mid-January 2022 which dropped to Rs 600 billion this year.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">According to the financial statement of NRB, banknotes worth Rs 312 billion was in circulation by mid-July last year which increased to Rs 649 in mid-October and then it started declining gradually.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Besides the increase in use of digital transaction, NRB’s credit line to banks and financial institutions also declined in mid-December to mid-January resulting in a decline in currency in circulation in the market.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The central bank had invested Rs 271.72 billion on BFIs in mid-July which dropped to Rs 62.26 billion by mid-January. The latest figure includes repo (repurchase agreement) worth Rs 50 billion, refinancing of Rs 12.21 billion and Standing Liquidity Facility (SLF) worth Rs 60 million.</span></span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-29', 'modified' => '2023-01-29', 'keywords' => 'currency, circulation, Nepal , Rastra, bank, digital transaction', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16615', 'image' => '20230129125601_currency.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-29 12:55:20', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 13 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16874', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Private Sector Expresses Concern over ‘Banking Terror’', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'January 29: The private sector has raised serious concerns regarding a spike in suicide cases mainly due to ‘banking terror’.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">January 29: The private sector has raised serious concerns regarding a spike in suicide cases mainly due to ‘banking terror’. Issuing a statement on Thursday, the Kathmandu Chamber of Commerce said that cases of suicide are rising of late due to ‘banking terror’.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The chamber issued the statement in the wake of self-immolation of Prem Prasad Acharya of Ilam, who wrote on social media about extreme hardship in this entrepreneurial journey before committing suicide.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">“The private sector is in grief due to the self-immolation of Ilam’s Prem Acharya who took such extreme step due to financial hardship and also the suicide of Mohan Niraula, an electronics businessman of Biratnagar, due to alleged banking terror. The private sector is also serious towards this issue,” reads the statement.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""> Stating that social media is overflowing with messages that businessmen are under extreme pressure from banks and financial institutions (BFI) and have to bear injustice, the chamber urged all concerned government bodies to implement the rules and policies as well as government directives and circulars related to the economic sector to boost the morale of the entrepreneurs and also to ensure such tragic incidents do to repeat again.</span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-29', 'modified' => '2023-01-29', 'keywords' => 'banking, terror, hardship, suicide, self, immolation', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16613', 'image' => '20230129112723_From-Property-Improvement-To-Banking-Misconduct-In-Nepal.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-29 11:26:31', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 14 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16872', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Bhojpur Farmers Find their Calling in Orange Farming ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'January 29: Farmers in Bhojpur district have been attracted to orange farming with the yield generating good income.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">January 29: Farmers in Bhojpur district have been attracted to orange farming with the yield generating good income. Road connectivity is a major factor that helped expand the market beyond the locality, thus benefiting the farmers financially, say government authorities. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">A farmer who is engaged in commercial farming of oranges earned income from Rs 600,000 to Rs 1 million annually, they said. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">"I have grown 400 orange trees in my garden. I have been earning sufficiently from the sales of orange. Commercial orange farming yields good income," said Chandal Kumar Rai, a farmer of Khawa Kerabari in Temkemaiyung-5. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Rai is involved in the farming of citrus fruit for 44 years. "Now, it can be taken as a medium of pension for my retired and sedentary life," he observed. An orange tree can bear fruit for 100 years, according to him. He said he generated up to Rs 1 million in income annually from the sales of oranges and its saplings. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Most of the villagers here are farmers, and orange farming has become their main income source, said another farmer Devraj Rai. The market is reliable, as oranges produced here are in high demand, he said. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">"The main income source of over 70 percent of households here is orange farming. It is the season for orange harvesting, and farmers are busy," he said. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Now, there are 400 orange trees in his garden, and he is planning to expand it because of the good yield. "I am drawing from Rs 1.5 million to Rs 2 million annually from it. I aim to increase my income by some Rs 1 million to Rs 1.2 million annually in some years," he shared. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Villages where oranges are produced in high quantity are Khawa Kerabari, Annapurna, Chhinamakhu, Kot and Gogane of Temkemaiyung Rural Municipality, Dawa, Bomikh and Pokhare of Bhojpur Municipality, Shadananda Municipality, Hatuwagadhi Rural Municipality and Ram Prasad Rai Rural Municipality. The main market for oranges produced here are Dharan, Itahari, Biratnagar and Kathmandu. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Traders and suppliers reach the gardens and buy oranges. However, farmers could get more value for their produce if they can directly sell them in the market in the district and outside, said Chandal Kumar. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Devraj said better income could be made if emphasis could be laid on development of modern technology and irrigation, adding many youths of these areas are involved in expansion of commercial orange farming in recent days. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">He further pointed out the need of establishing chilling centres to store the produced oranges. “Farmers have been facing problem to store the oranges. Farmers could be able to earn more if they have proper storage so that the fruit remains fresh for long,” mentioned Rai. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Chairperson of Ward-5, Sunil Rai, said local levels were carrying out activities to benefit the orange farmers of that areas. “Khawa has the best terrain for orange farming. We have been running some programmes supportive to the farmers. Efforts are on to address the irrigation problem voiced by them.” </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Chairperson Saroj Basnet expressed the view that they were also working to make Temkemaiyung Rural Municipality self-sufficient in agriculture. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">They had set a plan to encourage farmers in agro and animal husbandry along with cash crop farming, he added. "All the nine wards of Temkemaiyung Rural Municipality produce oranges and farmers make adequate income from it. The rural municipality has a target to run incentive-oriented programme by collecting data on farmers involved in other works as well to encourage them towards orange farming.” </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">According to Agriculture Knowledge Centre, a total of 6,293 metric tonnes of oranges were produced in Bhojpur district this year. Orange farming is done in 920 hectares of land in the district. -- RSS</span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-29', 'modified' => '2023-01-29', 'keywords' => 'Orange, farming, Bhojpur, market, yield, income, good', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16611', 'image' => '20230129104602_YB_BHOJPUR_SUNTALA.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-29 10:45:17', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '34' ) ) ) $current_user = null $logged_in = falsesimplexml_load_file - [internal], line ?? include - APP/View/Elements/side_bar.ctp, line 60 View::_evaluate() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 971 View::_render() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 933 View::_renderElement() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 1224 View::element() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 418 include - APP/View/Articles/index.ctp, line 157 View::_evaluate() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 971 View::_render() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 933 View::render() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 473 Controller::render() - CORE/Cake/Controller/Controller.php, line 968 Dispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/Cake/Routing/Dispatcher.php, line 200 Dispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/Cake/Routing/Dispatcher.php, line 167 [main] - APP/webroot/index.php, line 117
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The Rara Lake has turned further majestic with the snowfall covering the region. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">January 30: Snowfall has been taking place in higher belt of Karnali since last Tuesday. The Rara Lake has turned further majestic with the snowfall covering the region. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Snowfall has added picturesque values to the region which has been an attractive tourism destination. Domestic and foreign tourists are increasingly crowding up in the area for snow fun. Tourists are thronging Rara for taking joy of snowfall without caring about the chilling cold. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">There is up to two feet snow in the surrounding area of Rara. All trees and plants around the majestic lake are apparently whitish with snow. Everything seems covered in a blanket of white snow in and around the majestic lake. With abundant snowfall, it seems as if a white quilt has been placed in the corner of the lake. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Snow has added further attraction to the lake which changes its forms in different colours in the winter season. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Ram Shah, a domestic tourist who turned up here to take joy of the mesmerizing Rara, commented that he was fortunate to get an opportunity to view the scenic beauty of Rara, rarely manifested in this season. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Tourists said the season was appropriate for Rara visit as one could observe the snow-covered Rara and the mind-blowing ambience in the surrounding. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The Rara Lake spread in an area that is five-km in length, around three-km in breadth and is 167 metres deep. Rara is a home to rare species of snow trout fish and trout frog as well as 300 species of birds. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">According to the Rara National Park office, the lake has been considered a special place to observe different wildlife, including musk deer, red panda, Himalayan black bear and wild dog. -- RSS</span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-30', 'modified' => '2023-01-30', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16629', 'image' => '20230130041341_800px-Rara_Lake_and_the_forests_covered_with_the_coats_of_snow._❄️.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-30 16:12:43', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 1 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16890', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => ' President's Election Scheduled for March 9 ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'January 30: The Election Commission (EC) has fixed the date for the election of the president and vice president. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">January 30: The Election Commission (EC) has fixed the date for the election of the president and vice president. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">According to the EC, the presidential election will take place on March 9, Thursday and that of the vice president on March 17, Friday. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Chief Election Commissioner Dinesh Kumar Thapaliya said the Election Commission will publish the election schedule based on a decision to this effect. The EC through the Chief Secretary will write about this decision to the Government of Nepal, Council of Ministers. The term of incumbent President Bidya Devi Bhandari ends on March 12, 2023. -- RSS </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-30', 'modified' => '2023-01-30', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16628', 'image' => '20230130041516_EC.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-30 16:14:15', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 2 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16888', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Light Rain and Snowfall Likely at Some Places Today ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'January 30: The weather will be cloudy throughout the country today due to the influence of the Westerly low pressure system with chances of light rain and snowfall at some places of Sudurpaschim and Karnali provinces. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Light Rain and Snowfall Likely at Some Places Today </span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">January 30: The weather will be cloudy throughout the country today due to the influence of the Westerly low pressure system with chances of light rain and snowfall at some places of Sudurpaschim and Karnali provinces. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The sky is cloudy across the country at present due to the general impact of the Westerly low pressure system, said Meteorologist Binu Maharjan of the Meteorological Forecasting Division under the Department of Hydrology and Meteorology. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">“The weather will be cloudy for the whole day today with the possibility of light rain at a few places of Sudurpaschim and at one or two places of Karnali province,” said Maharjan. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The division has forecast light snowfall at some places in the high hills and mountainous region of Karnali and Sudurpaschim provinces and at one or two places of the high hills and mountainous region of the rest of the provinces. The same weather pattern will prevail tonight as well, states the weather bulletin issued by the division on Monday afternoon. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The division has urged for precaution for the next 24 hours, stating there is possibility of light rain at a few places of Sudurpaschim province and at one or two places of Karnali and Lumbini provinces. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">It has also urged the general public to remain alert, saying the occurrence of fog and mist in some places of the Tarai region towards the morning is likely to have general impact on the daily life of people and affect the road and air transport. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The western parts of Nepal has already witnessed rainfall this winter although it occurred a bit late this year. However, many places in central and eastern Nepal are yet to witness rainfall this year, leading to concerns that the winter crops might wilt due to the delayed rainfall-- RSS </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-30', 'modified' => '2023-01-30', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16627', 'image' => '20230130035049_weatherrrr.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-30 15:50:04', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 3 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16887', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Minister Aryal Promises to End Forced Labour', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'January 30: Minister for Labor, Employment and Social Security Dol Prasad Aryal has pledged that he will take initiatives to end forced labour.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">January 30: Minister for Labor, Employment and Social Security Dol Prasad Aryal has pledged that he will take initiatives to end forced labour. Minister Aryal made such a remark during a discussion on the protocol on forced labor and the need for a unified law for the abolition of forced labor held at the ministry on Sunday.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Minister Aryal urged all the concerned agencies to expedite the works related to the proposed bill for the prohibition and rehabilitation of forced labor in an effective manner. He said, “The laws and policies should be made to work for a long term so that they don't need to be changed as soon as the ministers and government employees change. For that, I am ready to have an in-depth discussion with the concerned parties and relevant agencies.”</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Minister Aryal said that such discussions and interaction programs held in the capital will be limited only to the cities and will not reach the target groups. He requested the concerned agencies to work in such a way that the forced labourers should not feel that they are left out.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">During the program, Labour Secretary Ek Narayan Aryal said that he is ready to help the ministry to reduce forced labor. He emphasized that economic, political and educational transformation in the country cannot take place until the end of forced labour.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">A seven-member committee has been formed under the coordination of Danduraj Ghimire, Joint Secretary of the Labor Relations and Social Security Division of the Ministry of Labor to finalize the Forced Labor (Prohibition and Rehabilitation) Bill 2079.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Nirmala Gurung, Deputy Secretary of the Ministry's Law and Judgment Implementation Branch, presented the draft of the bill in the program. Likewise, labor immigration expert and advocate Som Luitel informed about the provisions of forced labor in Nepal and the international provisions.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">According to a study report of the Nepal Labor Survey in 2018, a total of 31,338 people are involved in forced labor in Nepal. Similarly, the report of the International Labor Organization (ILO) mentions that there are 40,000 unskilled workers, 16,953 new workers, 45,065 agricultural workers and 6,229 people working in brick kilns as forced labourers.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The workers of these four sectors are included in the current Forced Labor (Prohibition and Rehabilitation) Bill 2079. Advocate Luitel said that even though there are so many people doing forced work in Nepal, not a single case has been brought to the court because of lack of procedures. Concerned agencies hope that after the bill is endorsed, it will be easier to give justice to the victims.</span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-30', 'modified' => '2023-01-30', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16626', 'image' => '20230130030419_bricks.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-30 15:03:06', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 4 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16886', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Finance Ministry Aims to Achieve Double-Digit Growth within Next Five Years', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'January 30: The Ministry of Finance has prepared an action plan for implementation of the policy priorities and common minimum programme of the government. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">January 30: The Ministry of Finance has prepared an action plan for implementation of the policy priorities and common minimum programme of the government. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">As per the action plan, the government aims to achieve double digit economic growth within the next five years.</span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">According to the ministry, the action plan mentions about making revenue collection more effective, further systematising revenue system, maintaining professional neutrality while changing the revenue rate and controlling revenue leakage. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">It also incorporates topics such as formulation of fiscal and monetary policies as well as expenditure cuts to ensure economic growth and stability. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Joint Secretary at the Finance Ministry Anand Kafle confirmed that the action plan has been prepared to implement the policy priorities and common minimum porgrammes of the government. He added that the government has set timelines to achieve the goals.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">A meeting of the council of ministers on January 18 had instructed all the ministries to prepare an action plan to implement the policy priorities and minimum programmes.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""> <br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">In line with the cabinet directive, the action plan proposes identification of projects that are incomplete and those in limbo to manage resources for them on needs basis. Moreover, it proposes the idea to launch ‘hedging service’ to manage ups and downs in foreign investment. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">It has provisions for necessary reforms in subordinate bodies of the ministry based on self-assessment reports and other reports related to foreign exchange, revenue policies, government grants, bank loan policy, and elimination of investment in money-laundering and terrorism activities. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The action plan states that the government will create a base for achieving a double-digit economic growth in the next five years.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">It also proposes coordination among the three tiers of governments, review of customs rates, and to proceed with reviving the problematic government institutions that are closed after a study. In addition to this, it talks about to undertake policy and structural reforms in the insurance sector, to revise laws relating to securities and to make the stock market more transparent and competitive. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif""> The action plan has promised sufficient budget allocated for national pride projects, and non-transfer of the budget for other projects. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The Inland Revenue Department and the Department of Customs are also required to mobilise resources as per the revenue target, and carry out policy reforms accordingly. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The action plan requires government to resolve the current problems in the economy by taking the private sector into confidence, promote exports and import substitution, resolve problems in service delivery within the jurisdiction of the finance ministry through the ministerial level and address the issues at the policy level. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">A high-level political mechanism of the ruling alliance had published the government's policy priorities and minimum programmes on January 9. </span></span></span><br /> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-30', 'modified' => '2023-01-30', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16625', 'image' => '20230130012939_finance_ministry_copy1.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-30 13:28:53', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 5 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16885', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'KMC Locals Decry Mayor’s Works ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'January 30: The locals and various organizations of Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) have decried the ways Mayor Balendra Shah is functioning. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">January 30: The locals and various organizations of Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) have decried the ways Mayor Balendra Shah is functioning. They blamed Mayor Shah of carrying out illegal works and atrocities. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">A peaceful assembly was organized by the disgruntled locals in a bid to warn KMC to immediately stop the atrocities meted out with illegal and haphazard works. The activities initiated by KMC were launched without alternative, resulting in public ire and agony, they said. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The demonstrators at Maitighar Mandala sported placards reading, ‘stop dozer terror’, ‘don’t evacuate people while expanding road’, ‘ensure rights to indigenous people’, ‘adhere to constitutional rights of citizens’, ‘KMC, stop atrocities’ etc. They said that Mayor Shah arbitrarily mobilized dozer on citizen’s property. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Central chair of the valley road expansion affected people’s struggle committee, Suman Sayami, said although Shah was elected with the aim of doing good to the city, his working style is against the people. So, the locals are forced to stage sit-in. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Sayami, who was also one of the contenders against Shah in the local level election, informed that the vigilance assembly was held to exert pressure on the KMC Mayor Shah to stop illegal works. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">If the works such as bulldozing personal property continues, the protest programmes would flare up, he warned. Various organizations including Jyapu Mahaguthi Nepal joined the protest. -- RSS </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-30', 'modified' => '2023-01-30', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16624', 'image' => '20230130124002_6F8A4783(2).jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-30 12:39:04', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 6 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16884', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'PPMO Blacklists 12 Companies ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'January 30: The Public Procurement Monitoring Office (PPMO) has black listed 12 companies. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">January 30: The Public Procurement Monitoring Office (PPMO) has black listed 12 companies. The PPMO stated in a notice that construction and supplier companies have been blacklisted from one year to three years upon the recommendation of various bodies. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Those companies included in the blacklist are Universal Multi Services Pvt Ltd, Shankhamul, Kathmandu led by Gopal Dhakal; Swargadwari Mahaprabhu Builders Pvt Ltd, Bhingri, Pyuthan of Kumar Bhandari; Shree Sukrin Construction Service, Ghorahi, Dang of Krishna Bahadur Khadka; and Shree SD Construction Janakpurdham, Dhanusha founded by Niraj Kumar Mishra. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Similarly, the PPMO has blacklisted Rastra Nirman Sewa, Bhageshwar Rural Municipality, Dadeldhura of Jagat Bahadur Jora; Muktinath Builders and Company Pvt Ltd, Tokha, Dhapasi headed by Janardan Dhital; Laxmi Nirman Sewa, Chhatradev, Arghakhanchi led by Ram Bahadur Rana; Jaleshwar Construction Service, Nilkantha, Dhading of Prakash Koirala; DV Ghimire Construction, Ichhakamana, Kurintar of Madhav Bahadur Ghimire; and Anjana Construction Service, Bharatpur, Chitwan led by Pushkar Prasad. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Also blacklisted by the PPMO are the Dilli Trading Birgunj, Parsa with Rani Kumari Rauniyar as the main person and B Management Pvt Ltd, Naya Bazaar, Pokhara of Shivahari Pudasaini. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Rastra Nirman Sewa, Bhageshwar Rural Municipality, Dadeldhura has been blacklisted for three years and the remaining construction and supplier companies have been blacklisted for one year. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The blacklisted companies are barred from participating in any procurement activities of the public bodies during the designated time period, the PPMO said. -- RSS </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-30', 'modified' => '2023-01-30', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16623', 'image' => '20230130104718_20221130061311_ppmo.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-30 10:46:30', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 7 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16883', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Infrastructure Development Leads to Increase of Tourist Attraction in Myagdi ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => ' Following the infrastructure construction and publicity, tourist sites have witnessed rise of tourist arrivals in Myagdi.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">January 30: Following the infrastructure construction and publicity, tourist sites have witnessed rise of tourist arrivals in Myagdi. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Construction of physical infrastructures is underway at Beni Municipality’s historical Jyamrukkot, Pulchaur, Pachhai, Singatatopani, Malika Rural Municipality’s Devisthan, and Ngala Rural Municipality’s Barnaja and Annapurna Rural Municiplaity’s Khopara, among others.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">A road that connects to tourist site Gaikharka Lake located at Devisthan of Malika Rural Municipality has been constructed. </span></span><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Consumers’ Commitete chair Rabindra Rana Magar says that they had constructed the road with Rs 2 lakhs budget allocated by the rural municipality and labour donation worth Rs 50,000 by the locals.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">According to Magar, 750-meter long road from Hansh khola to Gaikhara has been completed. “We have constructed the road for the promotion of the tourist lake,” said former ward chair Pipala Budhathoki Magar. </span></span><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Construction of a temple has started off targeting the tourists by allocating the budget from the ward office, said Pipala Magar.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Local people’s representatives say that rural municipality has invested large amount of money for the promotion of tourist sites. </span></span><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Two homestays have been brought into operation with assistance of province government in the rural municipality.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Similarly, ward office, municipality and province government are constructing physical structures to make historical Khadgabhwani kot premises located at Jyamrukkot of Beni Municipality-2. </span></span><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Three tiers of the government have collaborated to construct 250-meter long trekking route.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">“We have broken two tough cliffs and constructed two-meter wide trekking route,” said consumers’ committee chairman Om Bahadur BK. The route has made it easy for the visitors to get to the Kot Mandir and lured many toursits for the sightseeing. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""> </span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-30', 'modified' => '2023-01-30', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16622', 'image' => '20230130060159_collage (97).jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-30 05:49:38', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '42' ) ), (int) 8 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16881', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Foreign Films Shot in Nepal Contribute to Tourism Promotion', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'January 29: The Indian movie 'Uunchai', which was shot in Nepal, has been shown in India, America, Malaysia, Australia and other countries, and now Nepal is being discussed all over the world.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">January 29: The Indian movie 'Uunchai', which was shot in Nepal, has been shown in India, America, Malaysia, Australia and other countries, and now Nepal is being discussed all over the world.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The reason for that is that the filming of 'Uunchai' is at the highest place in the world. The movie was filmed at Everest base camp and has contributed to the promotion of tourism in Nepal. The film shows spectacular views of the world's highest peak, Mount Everest, as well as the tourist areas such as Manang, Lukla and Kathmandu.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Starring Bollywood actors Amitabh Bachchan, Boman Irani and Anupam Kher, Uchai was released last October. The film made at a cost of INR 450 million earned Rs 500 million in the box office. Although it is an average film in terms of earnings, its story has touched the hearts of the audience. More than that, the place where the film was shot has touched the hearts of many.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The shooting of a film featuring famous Bollywood actors in Nepal after a long gap has raised hopes of boosting Nepal's tourism business, which has been sluggish of late. In the past too, when Indian films shot in Nepal were screened, there used to be an increase in the number of Indians visiting Nepal.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Dozens of Bollywood and Hollywood movies have been shot in Nepal's tourist destinations such as Kathmandu, Pokhara, and Mustang. When movies shot in Nepal are screened in other countries, the number of tourists visiting Nepal increases significantly.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Most of the tourists coming to Nepal are Indians. According to the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation, from 2010 to 2019, a total of 83,32,000 thousand tourists came to Nepal. Among them, 18.67 percent (15,54,000) were Indians. Stakeholders say that the films shot in the background of the Himalayan region of Nepal has a strong potential to contribute to the improvement of Nepal's tourism.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">More than 70 films from India, China, Hong Kong, Spain, France, America and other countries have been shot in Nepal. When films shot in Nepal are shown in different countries, it has a direct impact on Nepal’s tourism.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">'Up to His Years', shown in 1965, was the first movie shot in Nepal.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The year the film was aired, 9,388 tourists came to Nepal. The following year, 12,537 tourists arrived in Nepal. The increase in tourist arrivals by more than 33 and a half percent the year after the movie was released is considered a positive effect of the movie.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Nepal does not have the data of exactly how many tourists came from France and Italy the year after the release of the film. However, experts believe that at that time more tourists came from that country than at any other time.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Similarly, after the performance of 'The Touch' in 2002, tourist arrivals increased by 22.74 percent. In 2002, the tourist arrival was 275,468 and in 2003 it reached 338,132.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Statistics show that every time there is a screening of foreign films shot in Nepal, the number of tourists has increased.</span></span></span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-29', 'modified' => '2023-01-29', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16621', 'image' => '20230129035356_amitabh_bachchan_uunchai_.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-29 15:53:16', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 9 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16882', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Slipper Making Training for Women Entrepreneurship Starts in Chitwan ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'A training on how to make slippers meant for women has started off in Chitwan. The training is aimed at developing women entrepreneurship and promoting their capacity.', 'content' => '<p><br /> <span style="font-size:18px">January 29: A training on how to make slippers meant for women has started off in Chitwan. The training is aimed at developing women entrepreneurship and promoting their capacity.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">Women Beauty Parlour and Skill Development Programme Consumers’ Committee is organising the training with assistance from Bharatpur Metropolitan City, ward No 16, according to the committee’s chairperson Srijana Pandey.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">Ram Krishna Dhakal, Secretary of ward no 26, said that his ward was helping the committee in different ventures to make women self-dependent. <br /> Making slippers is easy and convenient for women. This training will enhance their skills and help them become financially capable and independent, said Dhakal. As many as 50 women are participating in the one-week long training. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">Committee chairperson Pandey says that the training will impart skills on how to make slippers for the women from Divyanagar of ward-16. “This will help local women to be self-reliant and financially free”, she added. </span><br /> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-29', 'modified' => '2023-01-29', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16620', 'image' => '20230129052905_collage (95).jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-29 17:23:11', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '42' ) ), (int) 10 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16878', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Import of wheat comes to a Standstill', 'sub_title' => 'Import of Rice, Millet, Barley also Decline', 'summary' => 'January 29: The import of wheat from Birgunj, the country's main trade port, has come to a standstill in the first six months of the current fisccal year. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">January 29: The import of wheat from Birgunj, the country's main trade port, has come to a standstill in the first six months of the current fisccal year. The data of Birgunj Customs shows that no wheat was imported from mid-July to mid-January due to India's policy to restrict on food exports. The lack if initiative of the Government of Nepal is also to blame for the short supply.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">As a result, the price of wheat flour in the domestic market has skyrocketed. Chief Customs Officer Dhan Bahadur Baruwal informed that during the review period of the previous year, 16,334,000 kg of wheat worth Rs 516.1 million was imported through Birgunj customs alone.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Due to the Russia-Ukraine war, India adopted a policy of restricting food exports while considering the possibility of food shortages around the world. India has adopted a policy of controlling prices even by halting exports.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">After India adopted the policy of restricting the export of wheat, paddy, rice, sugar and other food items to control prices, Nepal has been facing problems in importing those items.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Even though India asked 20 countries including Nepal for the required quota of wheat, the government did not send the quota within the deadline. Although the government sought for the requirement of wheat from the industrialists, it did not communicate with India on time even after receiving the requirement of the domestic industries.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">India recently pledged a quota of 50,000 tons of wheat to Nepal. The government has already received 30,000 tons of wheat under this quota and has already distributed it to some industries. India also imposed an additional duty of 20 percent on the export of paddy and rice. At the request of the Government of Nepal, India waived such duty on 600,000 tons of rice.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> According to customs data, 38 percent more paddy has been imported in six months of this year than the corresponding period of last fiscal year. During the first six months of last fiscal year, 681,000 tons of rice was imported. Now that the import of rice has decreased by 30 percent while the prices have increased.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The import of rice granules also dropped significantly. According to data, the import of rice granules decreased by 71 percent. As per the customs data, the import of corn, millet, barley has also decreased significantly.</span></span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-29', 'modified' => '2023-01-29', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16617', 'image' => '20230129024615_wheatttttt.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-29 14:45:15', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 11 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16877', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Nepal Needs to Produce Additional 350,000 Tons of Potatoes to become Self Sufficient', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'January 29: As per the data published by the National Center for Potato, Vegetable and Spice Crop Development, Nepal needs about 350,000 metric tons of potatoes to be self-sufficient in potato production. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">January 29: As per the data published by the National Center for Potato, Vegetable and Spice Crop Development, Nepal needs about 350,000 metric tons of potatoes to be self-sufficient in potato production. According to the center, Nepal can become self-sufficient in potatoes if it can increase its production by 342,000 metric tons a year.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The center, informed that 3,325,231 metric tons of potatoes are produced annually in 198,700 hectares of land in Nepal while the market demand is 3,667,256 tons. Looking at the figures, 342,000 tons is insufficient for Nepal, which is imported from countries including India.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">According to the head of the center Basudev Kafle, the productivity of potatoes is now 16.05 metric tons per hectare. The cultivation area should be expanded by 20,400 hectares with an increase in the current state of productivity to 18.44 metric tons per hectare to become self sufficient.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Potato, which is convenient for growing in all geographical terrains and all seasons, contributes 5.96 percent to the gross domestic production. Annual per capita potato consumption in Nepal is 111.8 kg. According to the centre, 18% of potatoes are produced in the highlands, 42% in the mid-hills and 40% in the Terai. According to the government data, the maximum 30 percent of potato is produced in Province 1 and the lowest 7 percent in Karnali Province.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">In terms of productivity, Nepal's potato productivity is only one place ahead of Bhutan, which is at the bottom in South Asia. Potato productivity in Bhutan is 11.02 metric tons per hectare. Pakistan has the highest productivity of 22.52 metric tons per hectare in South Asia.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Bijaya Kumar Giri, office chief of the National Potato, Vegetable and Spice Crops Development Center, Nigale, informed that the government recently conducted a potato seed self-sufficiency program to become self-sufficient in potato seeds. He said that since the fiscal year 2073/74, four private companies established new tissue culture and screen houses in different parts of the country. Seed potato program is launched in 40 districts covering all the geographical areas from Terai to high mountains. In addition to this, in the current fiscal year, Rs 147.8 million has been allocated for 97 local levels for potato promotion and Rs 33.34 million in 22 local levels for potato seed promotion program.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""> </span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-29', 'modified' => '2023-01-29', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16616', 'image' => '20230129020151_potatoes-411975_1280-1024x682.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-29 14:00:15', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 12 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16876', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Currency in Circulation Declines by Rs 16 Billion', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'January 29: The currency in circulation in the market has declined by Rs 16 billion as of mid-January this year compared to the same period of last year.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">January 29: The currency in circulation in the market has declined by Rs 16 billion as of mid-January this year compared to the same period of last year. According to Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB), the use of paper money is declining due to the growing use and volume of digital transaction.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The central bank sad that around Rs 616 billion was in circulation in the market during mid-January 2022 which dropped to Rs 600 billion this year.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">According to the financial statement of NRB, banknotes worth Rs 312 billion was in circulation by mid-July last year which increased to Rs 649 in mid-October and then it started declining gradually.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Besides the increase in use of digital transaction, NRB’s credit line to banks and financial institutions also declined in mid-December to mid-January resulting in a decline in currency in circulation in the market.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The central bank had invested Rs 271.72 billion on BFIs in mid-July which dropped to Rs 62.26 billion by mid-January. The latest figure includes repo (repurchase agreement) worth Rs 50 billion, refinancing of Rs 12.21 billion and Standing Liquidity Facility (SLF) worth Rs 60 million.</span></span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-29', 'modified' => '2023-01-29', 'keywords' => 'currency, circulation, Nepal , Rastra, bank, digital transaction', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16615', 'image' => '20230129125601_currency.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-29 12:55:20', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 13 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16874', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Private Sector Expresses Concern over ‘Banking Terror’', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'January 29: The private sector has raised serious concerns regarding a spike in suicide cases mainly due to ‘banking terror’.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">January 29: The private sector has raised serious concerns regarding a spike in suicide cases mainly due to ‘banking terror’. Issuing a statement on Thursday, the Kathmandu Chamber of Commerce said that cases of suicide are rising of late due to ‘banking terror’.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The chamber issued the statement in the wake of self-immolation of Prem Prasad Acharya of Ilam, who wrote on social media about extreme hardship in this entrepreneurial journey before committing suicide.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">“The private sector is in grief due to the self-immolation of Ilam’s Prem Acharya who took such extreme step due to financial hardship and also the suicide of Mohan Niraula, an electronics businessman of Biratnagar, due to alleged banking terror. The private sector is also serious towards this issue,” reads the statement.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""> Stating that social media is overflowing with messages that businessmen are under extreme pressure from banks and financial institutions (BFI) and have to bear injustice, the chamber urged all concerned government bodies to implement the rules and policies as well as government directives and circulars related to the economic sector to boost the morale of the entrepreneurs and also to ensure such tragic incidents do to repeat again.</span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-29', 'modified' => '2023-01-29', 'keywords' => 'banking, terror, hardship, suicide, self, immolation', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16613', 'image' => '20230129112723_From-Property-Improvement-To-Banking-Misconduct-In-Nepal.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-29 11:26:31', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 14 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16872', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Bhojpur Farmers Find their Calling in Orange Farming ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'January 29: Farmers in Bhojpur district have been attracted to orange farming with the yield generating good income.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">January 29: Farmers in Bhojpur district have been attracted to orange farming with the yield generating good income. Road connectivity is a major factor that helped expand the market beyond the locality, thus benefiting the farmers financially, say government authorities. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">A farmer who is engaged in commercial farming of oranges earned income from Rs 600,000 to Rs 1 million annually, they said. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">"I have grown 400 orange trees in my garden. I have been earning sufficiently from the sales of orange. Commercial orange farming yields good income," said Chandal Kumar Rai, a farmer of Khawa Kerabari in Temkemaiyung-5. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Rai is involved in the farming of citrus fruit for 44 years. "Now, it can be taken as a medium of pension for my retired and sedentary life," he observed. An orange tree can bear fruit for 100 years, according to him. He said he generated up to Rs 1 million in income annually from the sales of oranges and its saplings. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Most of the villagers here are farmers, and orange farming has become their main income source, said another farmer Devraj Rai. The market is reliable, as oranges produced here are in high demand, he said. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">"The main income source of over 70 percent of households here is orange farming. It is the season for orange harvesting, and farmers are busy," he said. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Now, there are 400 orange trees in his garden, and he is planning to expand it because of the good yield. "I am drawing from Rs 1.5 million to Rs 2 million annually from it. I aim to increase my income by some Rs 1 million to Rs 1.2 million annually in some years," he shared. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Villages where oranges are produced in high quantity are Khawa Kerabari, Annapurna, Chhinamakhu, Kot and Gogane of Temkemaiyung Rural Municipality, Dawa, Bomikh and Pokhare of Bhojpur Municipality, Shadananda Municipality, Hatuwagadhi Rural Municipality and Ram Prasad Rai Rural Municipality. The main market for oranges produced here are Dharan, Itahari, Biratnagar and Kathmandu. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Traders and suppliers reach the gardens and buy oranges. However, farmers could get more value for their produce if they can directly sell them in the market in the district and outside, said Chandal Kumar. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Devraj said better income could be made if emphasis could be laid on development of modern technology and irrigation, adding many youths of these areas are involved in expansion of commercial orange farming in recent days. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">He further pointed out the need of establishing chilling centres to store the produced oranges. “Farmers have been facing problem to store the oranges. Farmers could be able to earn more if they have proper storage so that the fruit remains fresh for long,” mentioned Rai. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Chairperson of Ward-5, Sunil Rai, said local levels were carrying out activities to benefit the orange farmers of that areas. “Khawa has the best terrain for orange farming. We have been running some programmes supportive to the farmers. Efforts are on to address the irrigation problem voiced by them.” </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Chairperson Saroj Basnet expressed the view that they were also working to make Temkemaiyung Rural Municipality self-sufficient in agriculture. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">They had set a plan to encourage farmers in agro and animal husbandry along with cash crop farming, he added. "All the nine wards of Temkemaiyung Rural Municipality produce oranges and farmers make adequate income from it. The rural municipality has a target to run incentive-oriented programme by collecting data on farmers involved in other works as well to encourage them towards orange farming.” </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">According to Agriculture Knowledge Centre, a total of 6,293 metric tonnes of oranges were produced in Bhojpur district this year. Orange farming is done in 920 hectares of land in the district. -- RSS</span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-29', 'modified' => '2023-01-29', 'keywords' => 'Orange, farming, Bhojpur, market, yield, income, good', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16611', 'image' => '20230129104602_YB_BHOJPUR_SUNTALA.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-29 10:45:17', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '34' ) ) ) $current_user = null $logged_in = false $xml = falseinclude - APP/View/Elements/side_bar.ctp, line 133 View::_evaluate() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 971 View::_render() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 933 View::_renderElement() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 1224 View::element() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 418 include - APP/View/Articles/index.ctp, line 157 View::_evaluate() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 971 View::_render() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 933 View::render() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 473 Controller::render() - CORE/Cake/Controller/Controller.php, line 968 Dispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/Cake/Routing/Dispatcher.php, line 200 Dispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/Cake/Routing/Dispatcher.php, line 167 [main] - APP/webroot/index.php, line 117
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The Rara Lake has turned further majestic with the snowfall covering the region. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">January 30: Snowfall has been taking place in higher belt of Karnali since last Tuesday. The Rara Lake has turned further majestic with the snowfall covering the region. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Snowfall has added picturesque values to the region which has been an attractive tourism destination. Domestic and foreign tourists are increasingly crowding up in the area for snow fun. Tourists are thronging Rara for taking joy of snowfall without caring about the chilling cold. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">There is up to two feet snow in the surrounding area of Rara. All trees and plants around the majestic lake are apparently whitish with snow. Everything seems covered in a blanket of white snow in and around the majestic lake. With abundant snowfall, it seems as if a white quilt has been placed in the corner of the lake. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Snow has added further attraction to the lake which changes its forms in different colours in the winter season. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Ram Shah, a domestic tourist who turned up here to take joy of the mesmerizing Rara, commented that he was fortunate to get an opportunity to view the scenic beauty of Rara, rarely manifested in this season. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Tourists said the season was appropriate for Rara visit as one could observe the snow-covered Rara and the mind-blowing ambience in the surrounding. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The Rara Lake spread in an area that is five-km in length, around three-km in breadth and is 167 metres deep. Rara is a home to rare species of snow trout fish and trout frog as well as 300 species of birds. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">According to the Rara National Park office, the lake has been considered a special place to observe different wildlife, including musk deer, red panda, Himalayan black bear and wild dog. -- RSS</span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-30', 'modified' => '2023-01-30', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16629', 'image' => '20230130041341_800px-Rara_Lake_and_the_forests_covered_with_the_coats_of_snow._❄️.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-30 16:12:43', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 1 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16890', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => ' President's Election Scheduled for March 9 ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'January 30: The Election Commission (EC) has fixed the date for the election of the president and vice president. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">January 30: The Election Commission (EC) has fixed the date for the election of the president and vice president. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">According to the EC, the presidential election will take place on March 9, Thursday and that of the vice president on March 17, Friday. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Chief Election Commissioner Dinesh Kumar Thapaliya said the Election Commission will publish the election schedule based on a decision to this effect. The EC through the Chief Secretary will write about this decision to the Government of Nepal, Council of Ministers. The term of incumbent President Bidya Devi Bhandari ends on March 12, 2023. -- RSS </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-30', 'modified' => '2023-01-30', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16628', 'image' => '20230130041516_EC.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-30 16:14:15', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 2 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16888', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Light Rain and Snowfall Likely at Some Places Today ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'January 30: The weather will be cloudy throughout the country today due to the influence of the Westerly low pressure system with chances of light rain and snowfall at some places of Sudurpaschim and Karnali provinces. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Light Rain and Snowfall Likely at Some Places Today </span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">January 30: The weather will be cloudy throughout the country today due to the influence of the Westerly low pressure system with chances of light rain and snowfall at some places of Sudurpaschim and Karnali provinces. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The sky is cloudy across the country at present due to the general impact of the Westerly low pressure system, said Meteorologist Binu Maharjan of the Meteorological Forecasting Division under the Department of Hydrology and Meteorology. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">“The weather will be cloudy for the whole day today with the possibility of light rain at a few places of Sudurpaschim and at one or two places of Karnali province,” said Maharjan. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The division has forecast light snowfall at some places in the high hills and mountainous region of Karnali and Sudurpaschim provinces and at one or two places of the high hills and mountainous region of the rest of the provinces. The same weather pattern will prevail tonight as well, states the weather bulletin issued by the division on Monday afternoon. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The division has urged for precaution for the next 24 hours, stating there is possibility of light rain at a few places of Sudurpaschim province and at one or two places of Karnali and Lumbini provinces. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">It has also urged the general public to remain alert, saying the occurrence of fog and mist in some places of the Tarai region towards the morning is likely to have general impact on the daily life of people and affect the road and air transport. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The western parts of Nepal has already witnessed rainfall this winter although it occurred a bit late this year. However, many places in central and eastern Nepal are yet to witness rainfall this year, leading to concerns that the winter crops might wilt due to the delayed rainfall-- RSS </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-30', 'modified' => '2023-01-30', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16627', 'image' => '20230130035049_weatherrrr.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-30 15:50:04', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 3 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16887', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Minister Aryal Promises to End Forced Labour', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'January 30: Minister for Labor, Employment and Social Security Dol Prasad Aryal has pledged that he will take initiatives to end forced labour.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">January 30: Minister for Labor, Employment and Social Security Dol Prasad Aryal has pledged that he will take initiatives to end forced labour. Minister Aryal made such a remark during a discussion on the protocol on forced labor and the need for a unified law for the abolition of forced labor held at the ministry on Sunday.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Minister Aryal urged all the concerned agencies to expedite the works related to the proposed bill for the prohibition and rehabilitation of forced labor in an effective manner. He said, “The laws and policies should be made to work for a long term so that they don't need to be changed as soon as the ministers and government employees change. For that, I am ready to have an in-depth discussion with the concerned parties and relevant agencies.”</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Minister Aryal said that such discussions and interaction programs held in the capital will be limited only to the cities and will not reach the target groups. He requested the concerned agencies to work in such a way that the forced labourers should not feel that they are left out.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">During the program, Labour Secretary Ek Narayan Aryal said that he is ready to help the ministry to reduce forced labor. He emphasized that economic, political and educational transformation in the country cannot take place until the end of forced labour.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">A seven-member committee has been formed under the coordination of Danduraj Ghimire, Joint Secretary of the Labor Relations and Social Security Division of the Ministry of Labor to finalize the Forced Labor (Prohibition and Rehabilitation) Bill 2079.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Nirmala Gurung, Deputy Secretary of the Ministry's Law and Judgment Implementation Branch, presented the draft of the bill in the program. Likewise, labor immigration expert and advocate Som Luitel informed about the provisions of forced labor in Nepal and the international provisions.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">According to a study report of the Nepal Labor Survey in 2018, a total of 31,338 people are involved in forced labor in Nepal. Similarly, the report of the International Labor Organization (ILO) mentions that there are 40,000 unskilled workers, 16,953 new workers, 45,065 agricultural workers and 6,229 people working in brick kilns as forced labourers.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The workers of these four sectors are included in the current Forced Labor (Prohibition and Rehabilitation) Bill 2079. Advocate Luitel said that even though there are so many people doing forced work in Nepal, not a single case has been brought to the court because of lack of procedures. Concerned agencies hope that after the bill is endorsed, it will be easier to give justice to the victims.</span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-30', 'modified' => '2023-01-30', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16626', 'image' => '20230130030419_bricks.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-30 15:03:06', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 4 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16886', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Finance Ministry Aims to Achieve Double-Digit Growth within Next Five Years', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'January 30: The Ministry of Finance has prepared an action plan for implementation of the policy priorities and common minimum programme of the government. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">January 30: The Ministry of Finance has prepared an action plan for implementation of the policy priorities and common minimum programme of the government. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">As per the action plan, the government aims to achieve double digit economic growth within the next five years.</span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">According to the ministry, the action plan mentions about making revenue collection more effective, further systematising revenue system, maintaining professional neutrality while changing the revenue rate and controlling revenue leakage. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">It also incorporates topics such as formulation of fiscal and monetary policies as well as expenditure cuts to ensure economic growth and stability. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Joint Secretary at the Finance Ministry Anand Kafle confirmed that the action plan has been prepared to implement the policy priorities and common minimum porgrammes of the government. He added that the government has set timelines to achieve the goals.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">A meeting of the council of ministers on January 18 had instructed all the ministries to prepare an action plan to implement the policy priorities and minimum programmes.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""> <br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">In line with the cabinet directive, the action plan proposes identification of projects that are incomplete and those in limbo to manage resources for them on needs basis. Moreover, it proposes the idea to launch ‘hedging service’ to manage ups and downs in foreign investment. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">It has provisions for necessary reforms in subordinate bodies of the ministry based on self-assessment reports and other reports related to foreign exchange, revenue policies, government grants, bank loan policy, and elimination of investment in money-laundering and terrorism activities. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The action plan states that the government will create a base for achieving a double-digit economic growth in the next five years.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">It also proposes coordination among the three tiers of governments, review of customs rates, and to proceed with reviving the problematic government institutions that are closed after a study. In addition to this, it talks about to undertake policy and structural reforms in the insurance sector, to revise laws relating to securities and to make the stock market more transparent and competitive. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif""> The action plan has promised sufficient budget allocated for national pride projects, and non-transfer of the budget for other projects. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The Inland Revenue Department and the Department of Customs are also required to mobilise resources as per the revenue target, and carry out policy reforms accordingly. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The action plan requires government to resolve the current problems in the economy by taking the private sector into confidence, promote exports and import substitution, resolve problems in service delivery within the jurisdiction of the finance ministry through the ministerial level and address the issues at the policy level. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">A high-level political mechanism of the ruling alliance had published the government's policy priorities and minimum programmes on January 9. </span></span></span><br /> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-30', 'modified' => '2023-01-30', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16625', 'image' => '20230130012939_finance_ministry_copy1.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-30 13:28:53', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 5 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16885', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'KMC Locals Decry Mayor’s Works ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'January 30: The locals and various organizations of Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) have decried the ways Mayor Balendra Shah is functioning. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">January 30: The locals and various organizations of Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) have decried the ways Mayor Balendra Shah is functioning. They blamed Mayor Shah of carrying out illegal works and atrocities. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">A peaceful assembly was organized by the disgruntled locals in a bid to warn KMC to immediately stop the atrocities meted out with illegal and haphazard works. The activities initiated by KMC were launched without alternative, resulting in public ire and agony, they said. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The demonstrators at Maitighar Mandala sported placards reading, ‘stop dozer terror’, ‘don’t evacuate people while expanding road’, ‘ensure rights to indigenous people’, ‘adhere to constitutional rights of citizens’, ‘KMC, stop atrocities’ etc. They said that Mayor Shah arbitrarily mobilized dozer on citizen’s property. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Central chair of the valley road expansion affected people’s struggle committee, Suman Sayami, said although Shah was elected with the aim of doing good to the city, his working style is against the people. So, the locals are forced to stage sit-in. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Sayami, who was also one of the contenders against Shah in the local level election, informed that the vigilance assembly was held to exert pressure on the KMC Mayor Shah to stop illegal works. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">If the works such as bulldozing personal property continues, the protest programmes would flare up, he warned. Various organizations including Jyapu Mahaguthi Nepal joined the protest. -- RSS </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-30', 'modified' => '2023-01-30', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16624', 'image' => '20230130124002_6F8A4783(2).jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-30 12:39:04', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 6 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16884', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'PPMO Blacklists 12 Companies ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'January 30: The Public Procurement Monitoring Office (PPMO) has black listed 12 companies. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">January 30: The Public Procurement Monitoring Office (PPMO) has black listed 12 companies. The PPMO stated in a notice that construction and supplier companies have been blacklisted from one year to three years upon the recommendation of various bodies. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Those companies included in the blacklist are Universal Multi Services Pvt Ltd, Shankhamul, Kathmandu led by Gopal Dhakal; Swargadwari Mahaprabhu Builders Pvt Ltd, Bhingri, Pyuthan of Kumar Bhandari; Shree Sukrin Construction Service, Ghorahi, Dang of Krishna Bahadur Khadka; and Shree SD Construction Janakpurdham, Dhanusha founded by Niraj Kumar Mishra. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Similarly, the PPMO has blacklisted Rastra Nirman Sewa, Bhageshwar Rural Municipality, Dadeldhura of Jagat Bahadur Jora; Muktinath Builders and Company Pvt Ltd, Tokha, Dhapasi headed by Janardan Dhital; Laxmi Nirman Sewa, Chhatradev, Arghakhanchi led by Ram Bahadur Rana; Jaleshwar Construction Service, Nilkantha, Dhading of Prakash Koirala; DV Ghimire Construction, Ichhakamana, Kurintar of Madhav Bahadur Ghimire; and Anjana Construction Service, Bharatpur, Chitwan led by Pushkar Prasad. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Also blacklisted by the PPMO are the Dilli Trading Birgunj, Parsa with Rani Kumari Rauniyar as the main person and B Management Pvt Ltd, Naya Bazaar, Pokhara of Shivahari Pudasaini. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Rastra Nirman Sewa, Bhageshwar Rural Municipality, Dadeldhura has been blacklisted for three years and the remaining construction and supplier companies have been blacklisted for one year. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The blacklisted companies are barred from participating in any procurement activities of the public bodies during the designated time period, the PPMO said. -- RSS </span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-30', 'modified' => '2023-01-30', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16623', 'image' => '20230130104718_20221130061311_ppmo.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-30 10:46:30', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 7 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16883', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Infrastructure Development Leads to Increase of Tourist Attraction in Myagdi ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => ' Following the infrastructure construction and publicity, tourist sites have witnessed rise of tourist arrivals in Myagdi.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">January 30: Following the infrastructure construction and publicity, tourist sites have witnessed rise of tourist arrivals in Myagdi. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Construction of physical infrastructures is underway at Beni Municipality’s historical Jyamrukkot, Pulchaur, Pachhai, Singatatopani, Malika Rural Municipality’s Devisthan, and Ngala Rural Municipality’s Barnaja and Annapurna Rural Municiplaity’s Khopara, among others.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">A road that connects to tourist site Gaikharka Lake located at Devisthan of Malika Rural Municipality has been constructed. </span></span><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Consumers’ Commitete chair Rabindra Rana Magar says that they had constructed the road with Rs 2 lakhs budget allocated by the rural municipality and labour donation worth Rs 50,000 by the locals.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">According to Magar, 750-meter long road from Hansh khola to Gaikhara has been completed. “We have constructed the road for the promotion of the tourist lake,” said former ward chair Pipala Budhathoki Magar. </span></span><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Construction of a temple has started off targeting the tourists by allocating the budget from the ward office, said Pipala Magar.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Local people’s representatives say that rural municipality has invested large amount of money for the promotion of tourist sites. </span></span><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Two homestays have been brought into operation with assistance of province government in the rural municipality.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Similarly, ward office, municipality and province government are constructing physical structures to make historical Khadgabhwani kot premises located at Jyamrukkot of Beni Municipality-2. </span></span><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Three tiers of the government have collaborated to construct 250-meter long trekking route.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">“We have broken two tough cliffs and constructed two-meter wide trekking route,” said consumers’ committee chairman Om Bahadur BK. The route has made it easy for the visitors to get to the Kot Mandir and lured many toursits for the sightseeing. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""> </span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-30', 'modified' => '2023-01-30', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16622', 'image' => '20230130060159_collage (97).jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-30 05:49:38', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '42' ) ), (int) 8 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16881', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Foreign Films Shot in Nepal Contribute to Tourism Promotion', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'January 29: The Indian movie 'Uunchai', which was shot in Nepal, has been shown in India, America, Malaysia, Australia and other countries, and now Nepal is being discussed all over the world.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">January 29: The Indian movie 'Uunchai', which was shot in Nepal, has been shown in India, America, Malaysia, Australia and other countries, and now Nepal is being discussed all over the world.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The reason for that is that the filming of 'Uunchai' is at the highest place in the world. The movie was filmed at Everest base camp and has contributed to the promotion of tourism in Nepal. The film shows spectacular views of the world's highest peak, Mount Everest, as well as the tourist areas such as Manang, Lukla and Kathmandu.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Starring Bollywood actors Amitabh Bachchan, Boman Irani and Anupam Kher, Uchai was released last October. The film made at a cost of INR 450 million earned Rs 500 million in the box office. Although it is an average film in terms of earnings, its story has touched the hearts of the audience. More than that, the place where the film was shot has touched the hearts of many.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The shooting of a film featuring famous Bollywood actors in Nepal after a long gap has raised hopes of boosting Nepal's tourism business, which has been sluggish of late. In the past too, when Indian films shot in Nepal were screened, there used to be an increase in the number of Indians visiting Nepal.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Dozens of Bollywood and Hollywood movies have been shot in Nepal's tourist destinations such as Kathmandu, Pokhara, and Mustang. When movies shot in Nepal are screened in other countries, the number of tourists visiting Nepal increases significantly.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Most of the tourists coming to Nepal are Indians. According to the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation, from 2010 to 2019, a total of 83,32,000 thousand tourists came to Nepal. Among them, 18.67 percent (15,54,000) were Indians. Stakeholders say that the films shot in the background of the Himalayan region of Nepal has a strong potential to contribute to the improvement of Nepal's tourism.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">More than 70 films from India, China, Hong Kong, Spain, France, America and other countries have been shot in Nepal. When films shot in Nepal are shown in different countries, it has a direct impact on Nepal’s tourism.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">'Up to His Years', shown in 1965, was the first movie shot in Nepal.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The year the film was aired, 9,388 tourists came to Nepal. The following year, 12,537 tourists arrived in Nepal. The increase in tourist arrivals by more than 33 and a half percent the year after the movie was released is considered a positive effect of the movie.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Nepal does not have the data of exactly how many tourists came from France and Italy the year after the release of the film. However, experts believe that at that time more tourists came from that country than at any other time.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Similarly, after the performance of 'The Touch' in 2002, tourist arrivals increased by 22.74 percent. In 2002, the tourist arrival was 275,468 and in 2003 it reached 338,132.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Statistics show that every time there is a screening of foreign films shot in Nepal, the number of tourists has increased.</span></span></span></span></p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-29', 'modified' => '2023-01-29', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16621', 'image' => '20230129035356_amitabh_bachchan_uunchai_.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-29 15:53:16', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 9 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16882', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Slipper Making Training for Women Entrepreneurship Starts in Chitwan ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'A training on how to make slippers meant for women has started off in Chitwan. The training is aimed at developing women entrepreneurship and promoting their capacity.', 'content' => '<p><br /> <span style="font-size:18px">January 29: A training on how to make slippers meant for women has started off in Chitwan. The training is aimed at developing women entrepreneurship and promoting their capacity.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">Women Beauty Parlour and Skill Development Programme Consumers’ Committee is organising the training with assistance from Bharatpur Metropolitan City, ward No 16, according to the committee’s chairperson Srijana Pandey.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">Ram Krishna Dhakal, Secretary of ward no 26, said that his ward was helping the committee in different ventures to make women self-dependent. <br /> Making slippers is easy and convenient for women. This training will enhance their skills and help them become financially capable and independent, said Dhakal. As many as 50 women are participating in the one-week long training. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px">Committee chairperson Pandey says that the training will impart skills on how to make slippers for the women from Divyanagar of ward-16. “This will help local women to be self-reliant and financially free”, she added. </span><br /> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-29', 'modified' => '2023-01-29', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16620', 'image' => '20230129052905_collage (95).jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-29 17:23:11', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '42' ) ), (int) 10 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16878', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Import of wheat comes to a Standstill', 'sub_title' => 'Import of Rice, Millet, Barley also Decline', 'summary' => 'January 29: The import of wheat from Birgunj, the country's main trade port, has come to a standstill in the first six months of the current fisccal year. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">January 29: The import of wheat from Birgunj, the country's main trade port, has come to a standstill in the first six months of the current fisccal year. The data of Birgunj Customs shows that no wheat was imported from mid-July to mid-January due to India's policy to restrict on food exports. The lack if initiative of the Government of Nepal is also to blame for the short supply.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">As a result, the price of wheat flour in the domestic market has skyrocketed. Chief Customs Officer Dhan Bahadur Baruwal informed that during the review period of the previous year, 16,334,000 kg of wheat worth Rs 516.1 million was imported through Birgunj customs alone.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Due to the Russia-Ukraine war, India adopted a policy of restricting food exports while considering the possibility of food shortages around the world. India has adopted a policy of controlling prices even by halting exports.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">After India adopted the policy of restricting the export of wheat, paddy, rice, sugar and other food items to control prices, Nepal has been facing problems in importing those items.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Even though India asked 20 countries including Nepal for the required quota of wheat, the government did not send the quota within the deadline. Although the government sought for the requirement of wheat from the industrialists, it did not communicate with India on time even after receiving the requirement of the domestic industries.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">India recently pledged a quota of 50,000 tons of wheat to Nepal. The government has already received 30,000 tons of wheat under this quota and has already distributed it to some industries. India also imposed an additional duty of 20 percent on the export of paddy and rice. At the request of the Government of Nepal, India waived such duty on 600,000 tons of rice.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> According to customs data, 38 percent more paddy has been imported in six months of this year than the corresponding period of last fiscal year. During the first six months of last fiscal year, 681,000 tons of rice was imported. Now that the import of rice has decreased by 30 percent while the prices have increased.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The import of rice granules also dropped significantly. According to data, the import of rice granules decreased by 71 percent. As per the customs data, the import of corn, millet, barley has also decreased significantly.</span></span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-29', 'modified' => '2023-01-29', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16617', 'image' => '20230129024615_wheatttttt.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-29 14:45:15', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 11 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16877', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Nepal Needs to Produce Additional 350,000 Tons of Potatoes to become Self Sufficient', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'January 29: As per the data published by the National Center for Potato, Vegetable and Spice Crop Development, Nepal needs about 350,000 metric tons of potatoes to be self-sufficient in potato production. ', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">January 29: As per the data published by the National Center for Potato, Vegetable and Spice Crop Development, Nepal needs about 350,000 metric tons of potatoes to be self-sufficient in potato production. According to the center, Nepal can become self-sufficient in potatoes if it can increase its production by 342,000 metric tons a year.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The center, informed that 3,325,231 metric tons of potatoes are produced annually in 198,700 hectares of land in Nepal while the market demand is 3,667,256 tons. Looking at the figures, 342,000 tons is insufficient for Nepal, which is imported from countries including India.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">According to the head of the center Basudev Kafle, the productivity of potatoes is now 16.05 metric tons per hectare. The cultivation area should be expanded by 20,400 hectares with an increase in the current state of productivity to 18.44 metric tons per hectare to become self sufficient.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Potato, which is convenient for growing in all geographical terrains and all seasons, contributes 5.96 percent to the gross domestic production. Annual per capita potato consumption in Nepal is 111.8 kg. According to the centre, 18% of potatoes are produced in the highlands, 42% in the mid-hills and 40% in the Terai. According to the government data, the maximum 30 percent of potato is produced in Province 1 and the lowest 7 percent in Karnali Province.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">In terms of productivity, Nepal's potato productivity is only one place ahead of Bhutan, which is at the bottom in South Asia. Potato productivity in Bhutan is 11.02 metric tons per hectare. Pakistan has the highest productivity of 22.52 metric tons per hectare in South Asia.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Bijaya Kumar Giri, office chief of the National Potato, Vegetable and Spice Crops Development Center, Nigale, informed that the government recently conducted a potato seed self-sufficiency program to become self-sufficient in potato seeds. He said that since the fiscal year 2073/74, four private companies established new tissue culture and screen houses in different parts of the country. Seed potato program is launched in 40 districts covering all the geographical areas from Terai to high mountains. In addition to this, in the current fiscal year, Rs 147.8 million has been allocated for 97 local levels for potato promotion and Rs 33.34 million in 22 local levels for potato seed promotion program.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""> </span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-29', 'modified' => '2023-01-29', 'keywords' => '', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16616', 'image' => '20230129020151_potatoes-411975_1280-1024x682.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-29 14:00:15', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => null, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 12 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16876', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Currency in Circulation Declines by Rs 16 Billion', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'January 29: The currency in circulation in the market has declined by Rs 16 billion as of mid-January this year compared to the same period of last year.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">January 29: The currency in circulation in the market has declined by Rs 16 billion as of mid-January this year compared to the same period of last year. According to Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB), the use of paper money is declining due to the growing use and volume of digital transaction.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The central bank sad that around Rs 616 billion was in circulation in the market during mid-January 2022 which dropped to Rs 600 billion this year.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">According to the financial statement of NRB, banknotes worth Rs 312 billion was in circulation by mid-July last year which increased to Rs 649 in mid-October and then it started declining gradually.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Besides the increase in use of digital transaction, NRB’s credit line to banks and financial institutions also declined in mid-December to mid-January resulting in a decline in currency in circulation in the market.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The central bank had invested Rs 271.72 billion on BFIs in mid-July which dropped to Rs 62.26 billion by mid-January. The latest figure includes repo (repurchase agreement) worth Rs 50 billion, refinancing of Rs 12.21 billion and Standing Liquidity Facility (SLF) worth Rs 60 million.</span></span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-29', 'modified' => '2023-01-29', 'keywords' => 'currency, circulation, Nepal , Rastra, bank, digital transaction', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16615', 'image' => '20230129125601_currency.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-29 12:55:20', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 13 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16874', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Private Sector Expresses Concern over ‘Banking Terror’', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'January 29: The private sector has raised serious concerns regarding a spike in suicide cases mainly due to ‘banking terror’.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">January 29: The private sector has raised serious concerns regarding a spike in suicide cases mainly due to ‘banking terror’. Issuing a statement on Thursday, the Kathmandu Chamber of Commerce said that cases of suicide are rising of late due to ‘banking terror’.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The chamber issued the statement in the wake of self-immolation of Prem Prasad Acharya of Ilam, who wrote on social media about extreme hardship in this entrepreneurial journey before committing suicide.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">“The private sector is in grief due to the self-immolation of Ilam’s Prem Acharya who took such extreme step due to financial hardship and also the suicide of Mohan Niraula, an electronics businessman of Biratnagar, due to alleged banking terror. The private sector is also serious towards this issue,” reads the statement.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""> Stating that social media is overflowing with messages that businessmen are under extreme pressure from banks and financial institutions (BFI) and have to bear injustice, the chamber urged all concerned government bodies to implement the rules and policies as well as government directives and circulars related to the economic sector to boost the morale of the entrepreneurs and also to ensure such tragic incidents do to repeat again.</span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-29', 'modified' => '2023-01-29', 'keywords' => 'banking, terror, hardship, suicide, self, immolation', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16613', 'image' => '20230129112723_From-Property-Improvement-To-Banking-Misconduct-In-Nepal.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-29 11:26:31', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '34' ) ), (int) 14 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '16872', 'article_category_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Bhojpur Farmers Find their Calling in Orange Farming ', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => 'January 29: Farmers in Bhojpur district have been attracted to orange farming with the yield generating good income.', 'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">January 29: Farmers in Bhojpur district have been attracted to orange farming with the yield generating good income. Road connectivity is a major factor that helped expand the market beyond the locality, thus benefiting the farmers financially, say government authorities. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">A farmer who is engaged in commercial farming of oranges earned income from Rs 600,000 to Rs 1 million annually, they said. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">"I have grown 400 orange trees in my garden. I have been earning sufficiently from the sales of orange. Commercial orange farming yields good income," said Chandal Kumar Rai, a farmer of Khawa Kerabari in Temkemaiyung-5. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Rai is involved in the farming of citrus fruit for 44 years. "Now, it can be taken as a medium of pension for my retired and sedentary life," he observed. An orange tree can bear fruit for 100 years, according to him. He said he generated up to Rs 1 million in income annually from the sales of oranges and its saplings. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Most of the villagers here are farmers, and orange farming has become their main income source, said another farmer Devraj Rai. The market is reliable, as oranges produced here are in high demand, he said. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">"The main income source of over 70 percent of households here is orange farming. It is the season for orange harvesting, and farmers are busy," he said. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Now, there are 400 orange trees in his garden, and he is planning to expand it because of the good yield. "I am drawing from Rs 1.5 million to Rs 2 million annually from it. I aim to increase my income by some Rs 1 million to Rs 1.2 million annually in some years," he shared. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Villages where oranges are produced in high quantity are Khawa Kerabari, Annapurna, Chhinamakhu, Kot and Gogane of Temkemaiyung Rural Municipality, Dawa, Bomikh and Pokhare of Bhojpur Municipality, Shadananda Municipality, Hatuwagadhi Rural Municipality and Ram Prasad Rai Rural Municipality. The main market for oranges produced here are Dharan, Itahari, Biratnagar and Kathmandu. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Traders and suppliers reach the gardens and buy oranges. However, farmers could get more value for their produce if they can directly sell them in the market in the district and outside, said Chandal Kumar. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Devraj said better income could be made if emphasis could be laid on development of modern technology and irrigation, adding many youths of these areas are involved in expansion of commercial orange farming in recent days. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">He further pointed out the need of establishing chilling centres to store the produced oranges. “Farmers have been facing problem to store the oranges. Farmers could be able to earn more if they have proper storage so that the fruit remains fresh for long,” mentioned Rai. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Chairperson of Ward-5, Sunil Rai, said local levels were carrying out activities to benefit the orange farmers of that areas. “Khawa has the best terrain for orange farming. We have been running some programmes supportive to the farmers. Efforts are on to address the irrigation problem voiced by them.” </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Chairperson Saroj Basnet expressed the view that they were also working to make Temkemaiyung Rural Municipality self-sufficient in agriculture. </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">They had set a plan to encourage farmers in agro and animal husbandry along with cash crop farming, he added. "All the nine wards of Temkemaiyung Rural Municipality produce oranges and farmers make adequate income from it. The rural municipality has a target to run incentive-oriented programme by collecting data on farmers involved in other works as well to encourage them towards orange farming.” </span><br /> <span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">According to Agriculture Knowledge Centre, a total of 6,293 metric tonnes of oranges were produced in Bhojpur district this year. Orange farming is done in 920 hectares of land in the district. -- RSS</span></span></span></p> ', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2023-01-29', 'modified' => '2023-01-29', 'keywords' => 'Orange, farming, Bhojpur, market, yield, income, good', 'description' => '', 'sortorder' => '16611', 'image' => '20230129104602_YB_BHOJPUR_SUNTALA.jpg', 'article_date' => '2023-01-29 10:45:17', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => true, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '34' ) ) ) $current_user = null $logged_in = false $xml = falsesimplexml_load_file - [internal], line ?? include - APP/View/Elements/side_bar.ctp, line 133 View::_evaluate() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 971 View::_render() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 933 View::_renderElement() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 1224 View::element() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 418 include - APP/View/Articles/index.ctp, line 157 View::_evaluate() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 971 View::_render() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 933 View::render() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 473 Controller::render() - CORE/Cake/Controller/Controller.php, line 968 Dispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/Cake/Routing/Dispatcher.php, line 200 Dispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/Cake/Routing/Dispatcher.php, line 167 [main] - APP/webroot/index.php, line 117
| Currency | Unit |
Buy | Sell |
| U.S. Dollar | 1 | 121.23 | 121.83 |
| European Euro | 1 | 131.65 | 132.31 |
| UK Pound Sterling | 1 | 142.47 | 143.18 |
| Swiss Franc | 1 | 124.29 | 124.90 |
| Australian Dollar | 1 | 71.69 | 72.05 |
| Canadian Dollar | 1 | 83.90 | 84.32 |
| Japanese Yen | 10 | 10.94 | 11.00 |
| Chinese Yuan | 1 | 17.17 | 17.26 |
| Saudi Arabian Riyal | 1 | 32.27 | 32.43 |
| UAE Dirham | 1 | 33.01 | 33.17 |
| Malaysian Ringgit | 1 | 27.36 | 27.50 |
| South Korean Won | 100 | 9.77 | 9.82 |
Update: 2020-03-25 | Source: Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB)
| Fine Gold | 1 tola | 77000.00 |
| Tejabi Gold | 1 tola | 76700.00 |
| Silver | 1 tola | 720.00 |
Update : 2020-03-25
Source: Federation of Nepal Gold and Silver Dealers' Association
| Petrol | 1 Liter | 106.00 |
| Diesel | 1 Liter | 95.00 |
| Kerosene | 1 Liter | 95.00 |
| LP Gas | 1 Cylinder | 1375.00 |
Update : 2020-03-25
