Washington, June 23: The powerful US Chambers of Commerce has launched a massive campaign to address the acute shortage of skilled and professional workforce in America, prominent among which includes urging the Biden administration and Congress to double the number of H-1B visas and eliminate per-country quota for the Green…
Kathmandu, May 29: The government has hiked the monthly senior citizen allowance to Rs 4,000.
Unveiling the annual budget for fiscal year 2021/22, Finance Minister Bishnu Poudel stated that the monthly senior citizen allowance has been increased to Rs 4,000.
Prior to this, the monthly senior citizen allowance was Rs…
India-Nepal 20th DG-level talks on customs cooperation begins
Kathmandu, Apr. 21: Officials of Nepal and India held dialogue at Director General (DG)-level virtually Monday.
The dialogue is part of regular interaction between customs officials of the two neighbors. Today’s talks kicked off 20th discussion on customs cooperation.
The talks are aimed at strengthening bilateral cooperation to facilitate cross…
India’s Union Budget 2021: Sitharaman doubles health-care spending, imposes new agri cess
New Delhi, Feb. 1: Finance Minister of India Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday proposed more than doubling of healthcare spending while imposing a new agri cess on certain imported goods and raising customs duty on items ranging from cotton to electronics in a bid to pull the economy out of the…
Global economy expected to expand by 4 per cent in 2021: World Bank
Washington, Jan. 6: As the COVID-19 vaccine started rolling out in many countries, the World Bank expects that the global economy will expand four per cent in 2021, but will still remain more than five per cent below its pre-pandemic trend.
“The global economy appears to be emerging from one…
UK plans to ban unhealthy ‘buy 1 get 1 free' food promos as part of anti-obesity drive
London, Dec. 29: The UK government has set out plans to ban unhealthy promotions on food and drinks high in fat, salt or sugar from April 2022 as part of a wider anti-obesity drive.
The new rules, confirmed on Monday, will prohibit retailers from offering multibuy promotions such as “buy…
Biden names Indian-American Bharat Ramamurti as National Economic Council member
Washington, Dec. 22: US President-elect Joe Biden on Monday named Indian American Bharat Ramamurti as the deputy director of the National Economic Council, which is the White House advisory agency to the President on domestic and global economic policymaking.
Joelle Gamble, who is in the Biden-Harris Transition’s domestic economic policy…
EU-UK trade talks slog on past another Brexit deadline
Brussels, Dec. 21: Problems increased on Monday in the bid to put a trade deal between the European Union and the United Kingdom on the rails before a Brexit transition period ends on New Year’s Day, with the EU legislature insisting ever more it will not have time to vet…
New Delhi, Dec. 14: The Real Time Gross Settlement System (RTGS) for high-value transactions will become available round-the-clock from 00:30 hours Monday onwards, making India one of the few countries in the world to operate the system 24X7. In October, the RBI had announced that RTGS will be available round-the-clock…
Meeting of India-Nepal Inter-Governmental Committee on Trade, Transit and Cooperation
Kathmandu, Dec. 7: The Commerce Secretaries of Nepal and India co-chaired the meeting of the Inter-Governmental Committee (IGC) on Trade, Transit and Cooperation to Control Unauthorized Trade that was held through video conferencing today.
Anup Wadhawan, Commerce Secretary, Government of India was accompanied by the Ambassador of India to Nepal…
London, July 31: British car production fell by more than an annual 40% in the first half of the year to the lowest level since 1954 as the coronavirus pandemic shut factories and dealerships, an industry body said on Thursday.
Plants and retailers closed in March and only some gradually…
India extends financial assistance of Rs 37.23 million for construction of Sanitation Facility at Pashupati
Kathmandu, June 16: Embassy of India, Ministry of Federal Affairs and General Administration and the Kathmandu Metropolitan City on Monday signed an Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the construction of Sanitation facility within the Pashupati Area Temple Complex, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1979.
The project will be funded under Nepal-Bharat…
India To Re-build 56 Higher Secondary Schools In Nepal
Kathmandu, June 9: The Embassy of India and the Central Level Project Implementation Unit (CLPIU) of the Ministry of Education Nepal signed 7 Memorandum of Understandings (MoUs) for re-building 56 higher secondary schools located in Gorkha, Nuwakot, Dhading, Dolakha, Kavrepalanchowk, Ramechhap and Sindhupalchok districts of Nepal. These schools will be…
