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Nepal’s incumbent fixed line operator, state-owned Nepal Telecom (NT), has launched an ambitious network rollout project designed to connect even the remotest parts of the country with telephone lines. According to a report from local newspaper Republika, the project began in late January this year with the aim of bridging the so-called ‘digital divide’ between [...]
CRT/Nepal is working to upgrade traditional water-mills in Nepal, improving the lives of both the millers and those who use them. Their 2007 Ashden Award recognises the value of their work. Visit the website for Centre for Rural Technology, Nepal Author & copyright: The Ashden Awards Source: http://www.green.tv/centre_for_rural_technology
KATHMANDU, March 30 (Xinhua) — Nepali people will not be free from the problem of power load shedding until 2019, local newspaper The Rising Nepal reported on Monday. Load shedding will remain until 2015 for low economic growth, until 2016 for medium economic growth and until 2019 for high economic growth, the Ten-Year Hydropower Development [...]
Government of Nepal in consultation with Nepalese travel trade sector and concerned organizations/experts decided on October 25, 2008 to launch a national tourism campaign “Nepal Tourism Year 2011″. This announcement reflects the government’s anticipation to bring into Nepal at least one million international tourists by the year 2011 and tourism industry’s exigency to organize a tourism [...]
KATHMANDU, March 26: At a time when Nepal boasts of being the first nation in South Asia to introduce third generation (3G) telecom services, a report released by the World Economic Forum (WEF) has identified the country as one of the least networked in the world. The report, titled Global Information Technology Report 2008-09, has [...]
Nepal slipped 25 places down to rank 121st on the list of the world’s best countries for business, compiled by the Forbes. Nepal lost ground in areas like property rights, innovation, technology, red tapism and personal freedom. Nepal has moved down from its previous 96th position in Forbes’ annual list, which ranks 127 nations on [...]
Mason scientist Barry Haack in the Middle Hills of Nepal near Nagarkot. Photo by Ellen Haack By Tara Laskowski When Barry Haack looks out the window of his second office in Kathmandu, the Nepali capital, and sees the massive expanse of the Himalayas with Mt. Everest rising off in the distance, he thinks how grateful he [...]
A delegation of Nepali Americans and friends of Nepal visited the office of the chair of the South Asia Sub committee of the Foreign Relations Committee of the US senate and discussed various issues including the removal of travel advisory on Nepal with foreign policy legislative assistant Jofi Joseph and congressional fellow on US policies [...]
Nepal Telecom (NT) is planning to deploy a range of alternative power supplies for its base stations in the face of continuing supply problems from the national electricity grid. The mobile network operator has been blaming the ever-increasing power-cuts, which hit 20 hours a day last week, for its deteriorating GSM service. “It’s high time [...]
One of the world’s largest crocodilian species is also its rarest. With just a few hundred individuals left, the critically endangered gharial (Gavialis gangeticus) faces an uncertain future in its remaining river habitats in India and Nepal. Once common, gharials were hunted into near extinction for their skins in the early 20th century. Since then, [...]
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