With cash inflow at its lowest, start-up owners worry Kathmandu’s burgeoning start-up community will collapse.

Other shopping destinations in Kathmandu are also seeing fewer customers, say traders.

The government lacks adequate competent personnel to conduct regular market inspection, say officials.

The survey showed that half of the companies’ business is financed by debt and as a result, they were unable to pay their employees as their cash flow dried up.

The yellow metal added Rs1,600 per tola on Wednesday to reach Rs101,400 per tola.

But Nepal Rastra Bank says as China’s demand for oil will create jobs in Gulf countries, Nepal may not see a big contraction on remittance earnings despite the pandemic.

The household sweetener cost Rs 72 per kg before the lockdown, and now the retail price has crossed Rs 100 per kg.

Decrease in foreign loans, coupled with the coronavirus pandemic, has slowed down many development projects.

Government not backing down on decision to tax books published in West based on their original value even as importers pay discounted Indian prices.

The Youth and Small Entrepreneurs Self-Employment Fund has issued nearly Rs5 billion in loans.

Nepal exported footwear worth Rs 2.36 billion in the fiscal year 2014-15, this declined to Rs 767 million in the fiscal year 2019-20.

People planning weddings and gold dealers are hit hard, but small investors and the central bank are smiling.

With no sales for months, and record low demands, Nepali clothing brands find themselves in an unfamiliar position.

The country manager of International Finance Corporation on the institution’s strategy for Nepal, how it is assessing Nepal in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic and how it wants to support the country in its recovery.

Elephant rides, jeep safaris and canoe tours will resume in Bagmara and Kumroj buffer zone community forests.

The central bank has adopted a lenient policy in terms of both amount and loan conditions to hasten recovery.

According to domestic producers, tea prices in Nepal are expected to increase by 25 to 30 percent.

Networking businesses in the past had swindled billions by illegally expanding their network in a pyramid style.

As the garment sector was recovering from years of downturns, the virus pandemic has emerged as a big setback for the sector.

Four bottling plants in Kathmandu were also sealed for failing to comply with consumer protection regulations while two were fined.