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Century Bank is focused on quality service and reward, not in ranking : CEO Gautam

Posted by | Jan 24, 2020 | ,

Tulasi Ram Gautam, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Century Commercial Bank Limited   How is Century Commercial Bank taking ahead its pace ? Apart from regular financial activities, we are also giving attention to other works. We have involved ourselves in expanding the business staying under the norms and regulations of the Central bank. Our slogan itself is “Bigger and Better Century”. Bigger stands for business expansion, branch networks and profit among others, and better denotes the quality of our service. This is how we have been working. Where has Century Bank reached in terms of network expansion ? We have expanded across 53 districts with 120 branches. The number of our employees has reached almost 1,000. As per the directive of the Central Bank, we have reached various places in rural areas. Branch expansion at various places is currently on progress. Given the proper access to transport, electricity and the internet, we will further expand our services. Looking at your past works, you are known as the CEO who makes any banking institutions successful. What changes are you bringing in Century Bank ? I am not sure if the ranking itself is proper. However, Century Bank was in 28th rank when there was a total of 32 commercial banks. Then, as per our announcement, we left 25 banks behind and reached to around 8-9 number. At that time, 10-14 banks were...

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National team declared for one-day series under ICC World Cricket League-2

Posted by | Jan 24, 2020 |

The national team has been announced for the first one-day series under the ICC World Cricket League-2 to be played in the domestic ground. The 14-member team captained by Gyanendra Malla has been announced by the Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN) for the triangular series taking place among Nepal, Oman and the United States of America. The team was picked among 24 players in the closed training. Dipendra Singh Airee, Paras Khadka, Sandeep Lamichhane, Karan KC, Aarif Sheikh, Binod Bhandari, Abhinash Bohara, Kushal Malla, Kamal Singh Airee, Sushan Bhari, Rohit Poudel, Sharad Veswakar and Lalit Rajbanshi are those members representing the country in the series. Kamal Singh Airee who is known as a fast bowler has been first time selected in the national team. He had already played on behalf of the national team under 19. Pawan Sarraf, Suwash Khakurel, Sandeep Jora and Kishor Mahato are the substitute players for the match. The event has been scheduled at the Tribhuvan University Ground from coming February 5 to 12....

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Government to conduct sanitation audit at 10 major airports

Posted by | Jan 24, 2020 | ,

The government is set to carry out a sanitation audit at 10 main airports of the country as part of the Visit Nepal Year, 2020. The audit will take place on coming February 11, and an agreement in this regard had been reached acting on directions made following a discussion between Minister for Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation, Yogesh Bhattarai and representatives of the Non-Resident Nepali Association (NRNA) recently. The Ministry will conduct the audit in coordination with concerned agencies. The airports where the audit would take place are Tribhuvan International Airport (both domestic and international), Biratnagar Airport, Chandragadhi Airport, Janakpur Airport, Simara Airport, Bharatpur Airport, Gautam Buddha International Airport, Pokhara International Airport, Nepalgunj Airport and Dhangadhi Airport, according to a statement released by the ministry. As per the agreement, assigned volunteers are tasked with carrying out a field visit at the 10 airports, taking stock of airports’ situation and submitting the report to the ministry within one month (from March 3 to April 1). A clean up campaign and other progressive activities would be organised at airports and cultural tourist destinations of the country acting on the report, reads the...

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International media briefed about Sagarmatha Sambad

Posted by | Jan 24, 2020 | ,

The government has briefed that representatives of international media about the programme ‘Sagarmatha Sambad’, going to be organised with an objective of holding extensive discussion about the national, regional, international and global-level issues of contemporary and common interests. Sagarmatha Sambad is being held from April 2 to 4 in Kathmandu. A team of senior journalists of India was briefed about the programme, its relevance and participation. The team of Indian senior journalists is on Nepal visit at the invitation of the government with an objective of providing information about the global-level discussion, going to be held for the first time in Nepal, and promotional publicity of Visit Nepal Year-2020. At an interaction organised among Nepal representatives of the international media, the Rastriya Samachar Samiti and visiting Indian Journalists team at the Foreign Ministry here today, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Pradeep Kumar Gyawali said that the government has invited neighbouring countries, South Asian countries, BIMSTEC-member countries, mountain-countries affected by climate change and small island countries to participate in Sagarmatha Sambat programme. Noting the topic of the discussion of the first series of the programme, to be held in every two years, would be ‘Climate Change, Mountain Eco-System and Future of Human Beings’, Minister Gyawali said that though Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, has also been invited, response from New Delhi has not been received yet. Minister Gyawali stated that...

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Kathmandu Valley experiencing cold even during sunny days

Posted by | Jan 24, 2020 | ,

Although Kathmandu Valley has been witnessing sunny days for the past few days, the Valley dwellers have been experiencing chilling cold. Mainly, the cold is being experienced in the morning and evening. Meteorologist Shanti Kandel said that though no specific weather system has developed, this situation would remain for few days more. Kandel shared that temperature of Kathmandu Valley would not drop to the freezing point and the temperature would increase gradually. Other parts of the country have also been experiencing cold in recent period along with Kathmandu Valley.Thick fog takes place in Tarai area, causing cold during morning and evening hours. Meteorologist Kandel added that fog is taking place in Tarai area at present while skies of some places of east and central parts of the country have remained partly cloudy. As per the latest bulletin of the Meteorological Forecasting Division, today’s minimum temperature in Kathmandu Valley is 2.8 degrees Celsius and maximum temperature is 18.5 degrees Celsius. According to the Division, weather will remain generally clear throughout the country for next few...

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