
Revealed: The intermediaries and companies behind Nepal Airlines USD 216 million Airbus purchase
Deepak Adhikari and Rudra Pangeni — 2 June, 2023
An investigative report has identified colorful international business figures and companies from Moldova, Portugal and Germany behind offshore companies that sold two Airbus jets to Nepal Airlines in 2017 for…

Nepal, India agree to add 200 MW to Dhalkebar-Muzaffarpur transmission line
NL Today — 19 February, 2023
Kathmandu: An agreement has been reached between Nepal and India to increase the power import and export capacity from the existing 600 to 800 MW through the first international Dhalkebar-Muzaffarpur…

Nepal Oil Corporation’s Price Stabilization Fund: Have Nepalis benefited from it?
Anjila Shrestha — 8 August, 2022
As a country that is utterly and unequivocally reliant on the import of refined oil (with no domestic oil extraction plants or refineries), Nepal doesn’t have the luxury of setting…

World Bank approves USD 275 million for Butwal-Chanauta road expansion
NL Today — 29 June, 2022
Kathmandu: The World Bank has approved USD 275 million as part of the Accelerating Transport and Trade Connectivity in Eastern South Asia (ACCESS) project. The project will upgrade 69 km…

Do we really need public enterprises?
Anjila Shrestha — 6 June, 2022
Going against the very spirit of a free market, Finance Minister Janardan Sharma in his budget speech announced plans to breathe life back into nine sick industries—Janakpur Cigarette Factory, Agricultural…

Using remittance for the better of the Nepali economy
Prience Shrestha — 16 May, 2022
Remittance inflows to Nepal decreased by 1.7 percent to NRs.631.19 billion in the month of March of the ongoing Fiscal Year 2021-22 from the review period in the same month…

Once a power-starved nation, how Nepal is now wasting its precious electricity
NL Today — 24 January, 2022
Kathmandu: Despite having a huge potential to generate electricity, Nepal faced a serious power shortage for a long time. From 2008 to 2016, Nepal, one of the richest countries in…

NOC minting billions in profit adding burden to consumers
Ashim Neupane — 26 April, 2021
Kathmandu: The Nepal Oil Corporation that has billions of rupees in stabilization fund has been adjusting price of petroleum products ‘haphazardly’ adding a burden to consumers. The state-owned oil monopoly…