Nepali politicians have managed to constantly block long-term socio-economic development of the country

Going by the past records, there are reasons to doubt the claimed spike in adult literacy rate

Three foreign firms—one Chinese and two Indian—have expressed interest to construct the 76-km Kathmandu-Tarai Fast Track project

Potential foreign investors will be even more reluctant now to put money in the project as a new study has downgraded expected traffic

Construction work on a 320-km section of the Postal Highway Project has been at a standstill for the last eight months after the Indian contactors abandoned it without notice.

The government has finally decided to assign a route permit to the Bindhabasini Transport Entrepreneurs Committee of Pokhara which has brought Euro III standard buses

The Ministry of Forest and Soil Conservation has given the go-ahead to conduct a detailed project report (DPR) of the proposed Simara-Tamsariya railway line.

The government is considering restarting registration of new taxies in Bagmati Zone within the current fiscal year.

It has been five months since potential bidders abandoned the Kathmandu-Tarai Fast Track Road project, but the government has not been able to finalise its development and financial modality

Major infrastructure projects have seen little government spending and physical progress in the first half of the current fiscal year 2013-14.

NT licence renewal fee issue has heated up once again, with the NTA on Monday directing the state-owned company to pay Rs 20 billion

Nepal Telecom (NT) has applied to renew its mobile licence by fixing the renewal fee on its own after getting tired of waiting for the government to do so.

NPBC, which is building the high-priority Kathmandu-Kulekh-ani-Heta-uda Tunnel Highway, has cancelled the Rs 1 million ceiling set for institutional investors as it goes into fund-raising.

The government is not in a position to assure the quality of cooking oil due to the lack of technology to determine the quantity of different components of the oil.

The government has collected Rs 1.2 billion in frequency fees from telecom companies for service use during the last fiscal year.