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KATHMANDU: Federation of Nepalese Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FNCCI), the umbrella organisation of the Nepali private sector, has given top-priority to hydropower development. FNCCI has suggested the government to take hydropower development as a top-priority programme in the upcoming budget. Other priority programmes in FNCCI’s wishlist are tourism, infrastructure development, agro industries, promotion of [...]
Almost after three decades, the country’s sole government body working to promote research on science and technology has got its own laboratory.
“It took us so long to get a building. Now we need high-tech equipment and scientists then only we can boast of a laboratory,” said Dr Hom Nath Bhattarai, Vice Chancellor, Nepal Academy of Science and Technology (NAST).
KATHMANDU] Nepal is set to finalise a draft national wind policy in the coming months, to harness wind energy’s potential as a solution to its current energy crisis. The policy, prepared by Nepal’s national wind task force (NWTF), will be finalised in the next three months, said NWTF member Manoj Kumar Mishra at a national [...]
The government has floated a plan to end load-shedding by 2015 through in-house generation from mega hydro-projects like the 456 MW Upper Tamakoshi. It has proposed to generate 230 MW of electricity through 15 hydro-power projects by 2012. Speaking at a press meet organized at the Ministry of Energy (MoE) Wednesday, Energy Minister Dr Prakash [...]
KATHMANDU, Dec. 29 — The government is set to conduct a survey of the information and communication technology-based (ICT) industry in the country to see how it is doing. The High Level Commission for Information Technology is preparing the terms of reference and plans to entrust the job to any eligible consultant by January 2010. [...]
KATHMANDU, Aug. 30 (Xinhua) — Nepali government is speeding work to introduce tissue-cultured anti-rabies vaccine for humans within two years. Presently the bio-technology is in its trial phase, local media reported on Sunday. Lat Narayan Chaudhary, assistant zoonotic at Epidemiology and Disease Control Division under the Ministry of Health and Population, said they are sending [...]
KATHMANDU, May 13: Representatives of local bodies and private sector on Wednesday signed a letter of understanding to jointly promote small and medium-scale hydropower projects in rural areas. Representatives of the Federation of Nepalese Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FNCCI), Federation of District Development Committee, Nepal (FDDCN), Municipalities´ Association of Nepal (MuAN) and National Federation [...]
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