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नेपाल विद्युत प्राधिकरणका कार्यकारी निर्देशक कुलमान घिसिङ लोडसेडिङ हटिहाल्यो भनेर ढुक्क हुने अवस्था नरहेको बताएका छन्। आफूले प्राधिकरणको नेतृत्व सम्हालेको वर्ष दिन पुगेको अवसरमा बिहीबार पत्रकार सम्मेलन गर्दै घिसिङले एक वर्षमा गरेका काम र आगामी योजना सुनाए। ‘कार्यकारी निर्देशकको ‘हट चियर’ मा बस्दा मेरा सामू एकातिर समस्या र चुनौतीका चाङ थिए भने अर्कातिर मुलुकको ऊर्जा क्षेत्र सुधारका अवसर पनि उत्तिकै थिए,’ घिसिङले भने, ‘अहिले लोडसेडिङ हटेको छ तर लोडसेडिङ हटिहाल्यो भनेर ढुक्क भएर बस्यौं भने आउने दिन झन् अन्धकार हुन सक्छन्।’ त्यस्तो अन्धकार आउन नदिन र देशलाई बिजुलीमा आत्मनिर्भर बनाउन आफू र प्राधिकरणले काम गरिरहेको घिसिङले बताए।प्रस्तुत छ पत्रकार सम्मेलनमा घिसिङले राखेका धारणाको सम्पादित अंशः मैले जिम्मेवारी सम्हाल्दा वर्षात्को समयमा समेत ६ देखि ८ घन्टाको लोडसेडिङ हुने कहाली लाग्दो यथार्थ थियो। हिउँदमा त दैनिक १२ घन्टासम्म लोडसेडिङ गर्नु पर्ने प्रक्षेपण थियो। सरकारले मलाई दिएको मुख्य जिम्मेवारी पनि लोडसेडिङ अन्त्य र प्राधिकरणको सुधार नै थियो। लोडसेडिङ सदाका लागि बिदा गरी ‘उज्यालो

NEW DELHI:  India’s consumer price inflation rose more than expected to a five-month high in August, fueled by strong gains in prices of food items, dampening chances of a rate cut by the central bank in a policy review next month amid weak economic growth. India’s consumer price index (CPI) INCPIY=ECI rose 3.36 percent in August from a year earlier, data released by the Ministry of Statistics on Tuesday showed.Analysts polled by Reuters had expected CPI inflation would edge up to 3.20 percent, compared with 2.36 percent in July. Last month, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) cut its main policy rate by 25 basis points to 6 percent, the lowest since 2010, while keeping its policy stance at “neutral”. Analysts said a rise in inflation for two straight months has reduced the chances of another rate cut by the Reserve Bank of India, which has a central inflation target of 4 percent. “We are of the opinion that RBI will not deliver any rate cut this calendar year,” said Hitesh Jai

अर्थ मन्त्रालयले जलाशययुक्त बूढीगण्डकी जलविद्युत् आयोजनाको मुआब्जा वितरणका लागि ऊर्जा मन्त्रालयलाई अख्तियारी दिएको छ । अर्थले सोमबार मुआब्जा वितरणका लागि चालु आवमा विनियोजित रु १० अर्ब रकम स्थानीय प्रभावितलाई वितरणका लागि अख्तियारी दिएको हो । बूढीगण्डकी आयोजना विकास समिति खारेज भइसकेको र आयोजना ऊर्जा मन्त्रालयको मातहतमा रहेकाले संरचनागत रुपमा कसलाई रकम दिने भन्नेमा समस्या उत्पन्न भएको भन्दै बजेट विनियोजन हुन सकेको थिएन । ऊर्जा मन्त्रालयका सहसचिव चिरञ्जीवी चटौतले अर्थबाट स्वीकृति प्राप्त भएको जानकारी आएको र केही समयदेखि रोकिएको मुआब्जा वितरणको प्रक्रिया अगाडि बढ्ने जानकारी दिए। चालु आवका लागि विनियोजित बजेटसमेत वितरण नभएको भन्दै स्थानीयले प्रधानमन्त्री शेरबहादुर देउवा, ऊर्जामन्त्री महेन्द्रबहादुर शाहीलगायतसँग गुनासो गर्दै आएका थिए । “ऊर्जा मन्त्रालयबाटै मुआब्जा वितरणका लागि अर्थले बजेट स्वीकृति भएको छ, त्यसको आधिकारिक पत्र आउने क्रममा छ, स्थानीयको असन्तुष्टिलाई यसले सम्बोधन गर्ला भन्ने विश्वास छ”–सहसचिव चटौतले भने।सरकारले आव २०७३÷७४ मा सो आयोजना प्रभावितका लागि पाँच अर्ब २५ कर

The government’s study panel has found that Pappu Construction — the contractor that built the Jabdighat Bridge over the Babai River in Bardiya — deviated from the design approved by the government during the construction process of the bridge, which resulted in its collapse during heavy floods on Babai River on August 21. The probe panel formed by the Department of Roads (DoR) has concluded that the contractor had not followed through on the design approved by the government during construction of the 425-metre-long bridge. According to Ayodhya Prasad Shrestha, coordinator of the probe panel and chief of Mid-western Regional Road Directorate Surkhet, the contractor’s negligence is one of the major reasons for collapse of the bridge even before it had been handed over to the government authority. “In our preliminary study, we found that the distance between the pillars of the bridge is inconsistent to the approved design. The gap between the pillars should have been 25 metres, b

SHANGHAI:  China’s Big Four state-owned banks have stopped providing financial services to new North Korean clients, according to branch staff, amid US concerns that Beijing has not been tough enough over Pyongyang’s repeated nuclear tests. Tensions between the United States and North Korea have ratcheted up after the sixth and most powerful nuclear test conducted by Pyongyang on September 3 prompted the United Nations Security Council to impose further sanctions on Tuesday.Chinese banks have come under scrutiny for their role as a conduit for funds flowing to and from China’s increasingly isolated neighbour. China Construction Bank (CCB) has “completely prohibited business with North Korea”, said a bank teller at a branch in the northeastern province of Liaoning. The ban started on Aug. 28, the teller said. Frustrated that China had not done more to rein in North Korea, the Trump administration was mulling new sanctions in July on small Chinese banks and other firms doing bu

KATHMANDU:   A meeting of the Industry, Commerce and Consumer Rights Relations Committee of the Legislature-Parliament has submitted a report concluding that irregularities were carried out in the land purchase deal commissioned by the Nepal Oil Corporation. A sub-committee formed by the Committee to prepare the details on the reported irregularities in the land procurement came up with a report stating that the land plots were purchased by paying 10 fold more cash than the market price.The NOC had bought lands in Jhapa, Sarlahi, Chitwan and Rupandehi for building infrastructure to store petroleum products. Committee President Bhishma Raj Angdembe said that decision was made to send the report to the Ministry of Supplies directing action after necessary investigation as per the clause 182 of the Legislature-Parliament Regulations. Coordinator of the sub-committee Subas Chandra Thakuri said that financial embezzlement was confirmed as a vast difference was reported in the amou

SHANGHAI:  As a flood of unregulated cash swirls through the Chinese economy, Beijing has been taking aim at the trust companies whose unrestrained lending practices are worrying regulators. The trusts, at the heart of a vast shadow banking industry, are being pressured to step up compliance and background checks, and are being pushed towards greater transparency.    But the fast-growing 20 trillion yuan ($3 trillion) industry, whose lending operations are cloaked behind opaque structures, will be tough to rein in, according to employees at some trusts. A regulatory sanction against one trust, Shanghai International Trust, and a legal case against another, National Trust, offer rare insights into the industry, and reveals just how hard it will be to police it. Shanghai Trust was fined 200,000 yuan for selling a product that violated leverage rules, according to a regulator’s notice in January. Regulators provided no further details about the case. Under these rules, property

Kathmandu, September 7 The Ministry of Energy has instructed the chiefs of the generation projects being developed under Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) to ensure early completion of the projects. Citing inefficiency of most of the projects as they have already missed the deadline several times, Minister for Energy Mahendra Bahadur Shahi had summoned the projects’ chiefs today.          Minister Shahi urged the chiefs of the projects to initiate serious efforts to complete the projects within the desired time frame. Due to delay in the construction of generation project, cost of the project balloons, while the power utility has been losing huge amount of revenue at the same time. The energy minister also assured the project heads that he will take the lead in resolving the problems they are facing in a bid to expedite the projects. Chiefs of the 11 generation projects, namely Upper Tamakoshi, Chameliya, Kulekhani III, Rahughat, Upper Trishuli 3A, Lower Sanjen, Upper Sanjen, R

Kathmandu, September 9 Transport entrepreneurs have finally relented to open pre-booking of bus tickets for  Dashain  from Tuesday through all the booking points across  the country.  After a meeting with Minister for Physical Infrastructure and Transport Bir Bahadur Balayar and other top government officials at the Department of Transport Management (DoTM) today, transport entrepreneurs and the government have agreed to open the pre-booking of bus tickets. According to Tok Raj Pandey, spokesperson for DoTM, bus tickets booking process will be opened for the long- and medium-route vehicles. The DoTM has sent its nine-point directive to the Federation of Nepalese National Transport Entrepreneurs (FNNTE) to manage the pre-booking of tickets for the festive season. As per the government’s directive, entrepreneurs should open the pre-booking of tickets and they have to clearly inform the passengers about the charge and distance of the route. Likewise, entrepreneurs are only allow