Nepal Telecom (NT) has backtracked from its earlier decision to invest Rs 6 billion in loan for the construction of Upper Tamakoshi hydro-electric project, Nagarik daily reported. NTC backtracked from its decision after Minister for Information and Communications Shankar Pokhrel directed it not to invest in the project unless equity share worth the amount is given [...]

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KATHMANDU: It takes 73 days to fulfil six procedures to get an electricity connection in Nepal, according to a World Bank pilot project. The same can be done in 22 days and four procedures in Iceland but takes 424 days in Afghanistan. Getting Electricity — the two-and-a-half-year project — presents findings on the constraints entrepreneurs around [...]

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BIRGUNJ: Minister for Energy Prakash Sharan Mahat said today that the country would face power-cuts for at least three more years. Speaking at a press conference organised by Nepal Press Union Parsa, he said, “The dark hours will stay here as high capacity transmission line for electricity from India to Nepal won’t be in place before [...]

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Pashupatinagar, Oct 22 :Electricity in the remote Yaktapa village has been generated with the use of improved water spin, popularly known as pani ghatta. It is the first time in the whole eastern region that pani-ghatta has been used to generate water-mill power. The active involvement of the residents of Yaktapa and Phakaphok has been able [...]

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Video Courtesy : Dipesh Vikram Shahi, Dhangadhi

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Water project in Taiwan is causing widespread discontent in a local community affected by this month’s Typhoon Morakot. The angry residents of the southern village of Hsiaolin say that a massive government project that diverts water from a river to a local dam has aggravated the already devastating mudslides that have recently killed hundreds of people [...]

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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

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I would like to quote John F. Kennedy who said, “One who solves the problem of water is worth two Nobel prizes; one for peace and one for science.” It’s been over three decades since Kennedy expressed his view over the gravity of the problem related to water. However, it seems that our leaders still consider it child’s play. The problems related to water are multidimensional —economic, social and political. Even the immediate cause of World War II was related to water —the issue of access to the Polish Shipping Corridor

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सोमबारदेखिको अविरल बर्षाका कारण पहिरोमा परेर बुधबार १७ जनाको मृत्यु भएको छ। बाढीपहिरोमा परेर दाङ, रुकुम, अछाम र बर्दियामा ९ जना बेपत्ता छन् भने सयौं सर्वसाधारण विस्थापित भएका छन्। यो सँगै पहिरोमा मृत्यु हुनेको संख्या अछाममा २०, बझाङमा ७, डोटीमा २, डडेल्धुरामा १२, बैतडीमा १ सहित ४२ पुगेको छ। पश्चिम, मध्यपश्चिम र सुदूरपश्चिमका अधिकांश क्षेत्रमा यातायात [...]

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काठमाडौ, २०६६ आश्विन २२ - वित्तीय व्यवस्थापन हुन नसकेका कारण निर्माणमा ढिलाइ भइरहेको बहुचर्चित माथिल्लो तामाकोसी -४५६ मेगावाट) मा नेपाल टेलिकमले ६ अर्ब रुपैयाँ ऋण लगानी गर्ने भएको छ । टेलिकमले ऋण सम्झौता गरेपछि माथिल्लो तामाकोसीका लागि आवश्यक लगानी पूरा हुनेछ । विद्युत प्राधिकरण र टेलिकमद्वारा गठित उच्चस्तरीय वार्ता कमिटीले बुधबार माथिल्लो तामाकोसीमा लगानी गर्न सिफारिस [...]

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