WASHINGTON : US President Donald Trump said Thursday he would impose an additional 10 percent tariff on Chinese imports while moving ahead with levies on Canada and Mexico next week, citing "unacceptable" drug smuggling. Markets opening in Asia on Friday tracked losses across...

  Kathmandu : The Ministry of Finance has formed the budget drafting committee to draft the annual budget for the fiscal year 2082/083 BS. Chief of Budget Division of the Ministry, Shreekrishna Nepal, is the coordinator of the drafting committee comprising Foreign Assistance Division Chie...

  Kathmandu :  An earthquake of local magnitude 6.1 occurred with its epicenter at Bhairabkunda in Sindhupalchowk district this morning, the National Earthquake Monitoring and Research Center confirmed. The Center stated that the earthquake happened at 2:51 am with its shock fel...

  Kathmandu : Minister for Health and Population, Pradip Paudel, has said the draft of the Health Service Act is in final phase.   Stressing the need of moving head making systematic health policy, he shared that activities are underway to formulate the policy incorporating t...

  Damauli : The task of opening 'track' of the alternative road of Muglin-Narayangadh section has started. The opening of the track (Muglin-Gaighat-Dasdhunga-Thimura-Gaindakot road) has started as an alternative route. In this connection, the Department of Roads has allocated...

  Kavrepalanchowk : The Road Division Office Bhaktapur has terminated the contract of under-construction Dhulikhel-Khawa road section along the Araniko Highway. In a public notice issued today, the office informed that the contract for the four-kilometer road, which is under expansio...

  Birgunj : Goods worth Rs 40 billion 345 million and 979 thousand have been exported through Birgunj customs point in the last seven months of the current fiscal year, 2024/25. The export through the border point has more than doubled in the same period of the current fiscal year as...

  Kathmandu : Home Minister Ramesh Lekhak has said the post-quake reconstruction efforts have been intensified. In the 29th meeting of the Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Executive Committee held in Singha Durbar today, the Minister said the post-quake reconstruction efforts i...