712 climbers allowed to scale peaks in Nepal
A total of 712 climbers have received permission by Wednesday to climb 29 mountains in Nepal during the fall climbing season.
A total of 712 climbers have received permission by Wednesday to climb 29 mountains in Nepal during the fall climbing season.
South Korea will provide $500,000 in humanitarian aid to Nepal to help its relief efforts following devastating floods and landslides, Seoul's foreign ministry said on Tuesday.
The bank is expecting Nepal's private sector to contribute more to its growth by taking advantage of the central bank's loosening of monetary policies and easing of regulatory requirements
The Nepali government has decided to provide 200,000 Nepali rupees ($1,497) in compensation to each of the bereaved families, as the death toll from monsoon rain-induced floods and landslides hit 209.
A total of 148 people have been confirmed dead in monsoon rain-induced landslides and floods in Nepal by Sunday afternoon, police said.
A meeting of the ruling coalition has now decided to ratify the MCC agreement by incorporating the Government’s answers and “interpretative declaration” of the questions raised in Parliament. That declaration had stated that Nepal will not be part of the US-led Indo-Pacific Strategy. Nor for that matter will Nepal be part of any military alliance.
In 2021, tourist arrivals were 149,833, versus record 1.2 million in 2019; last month, 16,975 tourists were welcomed. To preserve the depleting reserves, the central bank in recent months has introduced several measures to discourage imports. This is a Catch-22.
The statistics published by the Department of Tourism in 2020 show that 171,937 people among the total number of tourists who visited Nepal came for mountaineering and trekking purposes. Even though the number of mountaineers and trekkers is on the rise, no study has been done to determine whether the current number of mountaineering staff is sufficient to handle the growing number of mountaineers.
Lack of adequate and regular training and facilitation has always acted as a motivational dampener to tea farmers. For a long time, due to lack of Nepal's own independent home brand names, most of the tea that is exported to India is sold under other brand names.
"As inflation contributes to a fall in the purchasing power of people, it has affected the livelihoods of many downtrodden people."
