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Nepal directly enters global qualifier for ICC T20 world cup

Posted by | Jan 24, 2020 | ,

Nepal has gained direct entry into the Global Qualifiers for the ICC T20 Men’s Cricket World Cup 2021. Nepal will play the global qualifiers to be held in India next year. The global qualifying games will be participated in by 16 countries. This year the T20 World Cup is taking place in Australia. According to the ICC statement, “The bottom four teams from the ICC T20 Men’s World Cup 2020 will join the regional qualifiers in the global qualification events along with the next four best T20 ranked teams as of 1 January 2020: Zimbabwe, Nepal, UAE and Hong Kong”. This means Nepal does not need to play Asian Qualifiers for the world cup qualification, the statement reads. The 16-team Men’s T20 World Cup 2021 which replaces a previously scheduled eight team ICC Champions Trophy, will see 11 regional qualification events take place across the five ICC regions (Africa, Asia, America, East Asia Pacific and Europe) with eight teams progressing to one of two global qualifying events, the ICC...

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NA Chair Timilsina urges entrepreneurs for spurring investment

Posted by | Jan 24, 2020 |

National Assembly chairperson Ganesh Prasad Timilsina has urged the investors to flow their investment in a confident manner given the improved investment climate in the country. Inaugurating the sixth Parbat festival organized under the aegis of Parbat Chamber of Commerce and Industry on Thursday, he asked the entrepreneurs to spur their investment in business ventures for the sake of country’s prosperity. “It is not the State which makes all investment. The entrepreneurs should also come up with the plans for investment”, asserted chairperson of the upper House of the federal parliament. “The state would facilitate the process if the entrepreneurs want to draw money from banks on collateral for investment purpose”, he assured. Festival main organizing committee coordinator and Parbat chamber of commerce and industry chair Kedarnath Sharma expressed his confidence that the event would help identify the local products and bring them to market. He shared the festival has set a target to raise Rs 15 million. There are 200 stalls in the...

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Man arrested on rape charge

Posted by | Jan 23, 2020 |

Saptari, Jan 23 :  Area Police Office Kalyanpur here has arrested one person on the charge of raping a four-year-old girl. The arrestee is Rambhagat Chaudhary, 25, of Khadak municipality in the district. Chaudhary was accused of raping the girl by luring her on January 17. He was arrested on the basis of a complaint filed against him by the girl’s...

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State-2 periodic plan approach paper to bring quality change in people’s living standard

Posted by | Jan 23, 2020 |

Janakpurdham, Jan 23 : The State-2 government has set a target to reduce poverty rate by achieving high economic growth within next five years in order to bring quality change in the living standard of the State’s citizens. The state-2 government has prepared periodic plan approach paper to achieve 11 per cent growth from the existing 6.53 per cent growth within next five years with the goal of high-human development index and prosperous Medhes society for the same.  A strategy has been adopted to reduce overall poverty rate of the state to 21 per cent from the existing 27.7 per cent. As per the Economic Survey 2075 BS, a target has been set to achieve economic growth rate of 11 per cent till the end of the first provincial planning increasing economic growth by 0.5 per cent every year taking the gross domestic product of the state of the fiscal year 2018/19 as the basis. The GDP of the state in the previous fiscal year was Rs 444.49 billion. Agricultural production, growth in productivity, creating employment to human resources of the state, increasing local production and linking it to industrialization, quality health and investment in education have been identified as main objective for the same.  The approach paper mentioned that private sector would be encouraged to establish and run the industries addressing agriculture and tourism sectors, modern and new...

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Nepalgunj sub-metropolis becoming neat and clean with operation of landfill site

Posted by | Jan 23, 2020 |

Banke, Jan 23 : The Nepalgunj Sub-Metropolitan City has become neat and clean these days with the coming into operation of a landfill site. The main city of the mid-western region has now changed its face.  The landfill site has been constructed with the assistance from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) at a cost of more than Rs 380 million.  About 32 tonnes waste is collected from the city and carried by 17 trucks to the dumping site. The compost fertilizer that is made out of the biodegradable waste is sold, said Shiva Lamichhane, an employee of the Waste Collection Contracting Company. According to him, an income of around Rs 30 thousand to Rs 40 thousand is made by selling glass, plastic, bottles and tyre collected from the waste. Sub-Metropolitan City’s sanitation section officer Ashok KC said seven percent of the waste is dumped in the dumping site. Nepalgunj Sub-Metropolitan City mayor Dr Dhawal Shumsher Rana said the sub-metropolis is becoming the best in waste management as the people are now becoming more aware when it comes to sanitation and the operation of a systematic landfill site. The sub-metropolis has been segregating the waste into biodegradable and non-degradable waste and selling it. It has also been conducting awareness programmes for reducing the household...

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