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Nepali Times (stylized as NEPALI Times) is an English weekly newspaper that provides reporting and commentary on Nepali politics, business, culture, travel and society in 16 pages. The weekly is aimed at the expatriate, diplomatic and business communities in Kathmandu , and through the internet for the Nepali diaspora .
The Himalayan Times is an English-language broadsheet newspaper published and distributed daily in Nepal. Rajan Pokhrel is the acting editor. [1] In the annual newspaper classification report published by Press Council Nepal, it was placed in the A+ category, the highest possible rank. [2] The newspaper was founded on 23 November 2001. [3]
The blockade has caused the only international airport to deny foreign carriers fuel, [16] contributing to isolating the landlocked nation from the outside world at a time when the country is still reeling from ongoing landslides blocking border trade with China following the devastating 2015 Nepal earthquake. Meanwhile, none of the $4 billion ...
The emir of Qatar landed in Nepal Tuesday on his first-ever visit to the South Asian country, after visiting Bangladesh and the Philippines, where improving migrant workers' conditions in the Gulf ...
The Rising Nepal was established on 16 December 1965 (1 Poush 2022 BS) by the then Panchayat Government. [5] Barun Shumsher Rana served as the founding chief editor. [6] The newspaper was priced at 15 paisa. The launching copy of the newspaper was discovered in 2021 in the archives of Krishna Bhakta Shrestha, one of the founding reporters.
The Maoist Party joined mainstream politics following the success of the peaceful democratic revolution of 2006; [67] Nepal became a secular state, [68] and on 28 May 2008, it was declared a federal republic, [67] ending its time-honoured status as the world's only Hindu kingdom. [69]
The economy of Nepal is a developing category and is largely dependent on agriculture and remittances. [6] Until the mid-20th century Nepal was an isolated pre-industrial society, which entered the modern era in 1951 without schools, hospitals, roads, telecommunications , electric power, industry, or civil service.
Transparency International's 2023 Corruption Perceptions Index, which scored 180 countries on a scale from 0 ("highly corrupt") to 100 ("very clean"), gave Nepal a score of 35. When ranked by score, Nepal ranked 108th among the 180 countries in the Index, where the country ranked first is perceived to have the most honest public sector. [ 2 ]