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Norway commits to hydropower development
Posted on 31 March 2009 by editor
Nepal and Norway today signed a memorandum of understanding on developing together Nepal’s hydropower sector and reforming primary education in rural areas. Gyanchandra Acharya, Foreign Secretary of Nepal, and Deputy Secretary General Atle Leikvoll, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norway, signed the MoU in the presence of Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal and Norway’s Minister for Environment [...]
Tags: Amrit Science Campus, Naxal, Ratna Park
Protests continue as NEA extends load-shedding
Posted on 12 January 2009 by editor
Transportation was obstructed at Naxal, Ratna Park, Bagh Bazaar, New Baneshwor, Dillibazaar, Maitidevi and other areas. Likewise, transportation was affected at Lainchowr after students demonstrated in front of Saraswoti Campus and Amrit Science Campus.Meanwhile, Siraha chapter of the Nepal Students’ Union padlocked the Nepal Electricity Authority office in the district for two hours as part of its protest against the increasing load-shedding hours
थर्मलप्लान्ट घातक हुन्छ: जलस्रोतविद
Posted on 21 December 2008 by editor
नेपाल विद्युत प्राधिकरणका कार्यकारी निर्देशक उत्तरकुमार श्रेष्ठले लोडसेडिङ घटाउन डिजेलबाट विद्युत उत्पादन गर्ने थर्मलप्लान्टभन्दा अन्य विकल्प खोज्नुपर्ने बताएका छन् । ४ पौषमा रिपोर्र्टर्स क्लब नेपालको साक्षात्कारमा बोल्दै उनले तत्कालका लागि भारतबाट विजुली आयातका लागि क्षत्रि्रस्त ट्रान्समिसन लाइन पुननिर्माणमा सरकारलाई विशेष ध्यान दिन आग्रह गरे .........
१० वर्षभित्र १० हजार मेगावाट विद्युत - विष्णु पौडेल
Posted on 08 December 2008 by editor
जलस्रोतमन्त्री विष्णु पौडेलले १० वर्षभित्र १० हजार मेगावाट विद्युत उत्पादनको आधार तयार गर्न सरकार गम्भीरताका साथ लागेको बताएका छन् । २२ मंसिरमा रिपोर्र्टर्स क्लब नेपालको साक्षात्कारमा बोल्दै उनले अरुण तेस्रो, माथिल्लो कर्णालीलगायतका ठूला जलविद्युत आयोजना निर्माणका लागि द्रूत गतिमा काम अगाडि बढिसकेको उल्लेख गर्दै पश्चेश्वर परियोजनाको डिपिआर निर्माणका लागि सकारात्मक उपलब्धिहरु हासिल भएकाले लक्ष्य पूरा [...]
Tags: Bishnu Poudel, VAT
Concession in the VAT to hydel projects
Posted on 30 November 2008 by admin
Minister for Water Resources Bishnu Poudel said the present government has made some new provisions in connection with the energy sector such as providing concession in the Value Added Tax to hydroelectricity projects, removal of the provision for taking license for construction of hydroelectricity projects up to 3 megawatt capacity and the provision not requiring [...]
Photo Feature
Guest Column
Mahakali Treaty outcome of economic nationalism
By Hari Bansh Jha
It was on 12 February 1996 that the the Nepalese Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba and the then Indian Prime Minister P.V. Narsimha Rao signed an agreement on the integrated development of the Mahakali river in Delhi. The Pancheshwor Project under the Treaty was expected to produce 6,000 MW of hydro-power with the investment cost [...]
Posted in Guest Column on 01-01-2010 Comments (0)
Interview
No alternative to power purchase from India : Mahat
The meeting of the Joint Commission on Water Resources is scheduled for the first week of November and is to be followed soon after by ministerial-level talks that will take up all issues relating to the setting up of the Pancheshwar Development Authority and reach a conclusion. We have informally agreed to locate PDA headquarters in Nepal
Posted in Interview on 08-10-2009 Comments (0)
Opinoin Tank
Analysing food versus fuel
By Damodar Kanel
The future of biofuel is at a crossroads. Soaring fuel prices, debates on global climate change and environmental consequences, and sustainability and intergenerational equity concerns of fossil fuel usage have prompted governments to expand production and use of biofuels. The potential adverse impacts on food security and human suffering associated with biofuel expansion, on the [...]
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