New Onlinekhanar

Pokhara airport’s foundation laying slated for April 14

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ3Qz4NMyNZZaAKq5AU55JW2eYA685bHk-ZJufIujZebr8UDXF4cMWmitqka9JMbKHfLKGmP3_Hdd_A9HF3KX2Rm51v3wE7HI30Q8VkSDxCth-Ha7Og0cfBeyQOubxXPe9JlIwBk8D7Tmx/s1600/01042016090344Slide3-copy-1000x0.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ3Qz4NMyNZZaAKq5AU55JW2eYA685bHk-ZJufIujZebr8UDXF4cMWmitqka9JMbKHfLKGmP3_Hdd_A9HF3KX2Rm51v3wE7HI30Q8VkSDxCth-Ha7Og0cfBeyQOubxXPe9JlIwBk8D7Tmx/s320/01042016090344Slide3-copy-1000x0.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 11.5px; line-height: 20.7px; text-align: justify;">The foundation stone of the country’s second regional international airport in Pokhara will be laid on April 14, marking the launch of a project that has been on the drawing board for decades.</span><br />
<div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 11.5px; line-height: 20.7px; margin-bottom: 10px;">
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 20.7px;">A meeting of the Airport Construction High-Level Facilitation Committee on Thursday decided to invite Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli to do the honours.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 20.7px;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 20.7px;">The meeting chaired by lawmaker Rabindra Adhikari has also decided to request the government to name the project as Pokhara International Airport. The proposed airport site at Chinnedanda lies 3 km to the east of Pokhara’s domestic airport.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 20.7px;">On March 21, the government signed a $215.96 million loan deal with China EXIM Bank to build a new international airport in the lake city during Prime Minister Oli’s visit to Beijing.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 20.7px;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 20.7px;">According to Pradeep Adhikari, chief of the project, the civil works of the project will formally begin after the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (Caan) and the Finance Ministry sign a subsidiary loan agreement.  </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 20.7px;">In May 2014, Caan awarded the contract to China CAMC Engineering. The airport will be built under the engineering procurement and construction (EPC) model.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 20.7px;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 20.7px;">The EPC contract binds the contractor to deliver the project at the stipulated time and at the predetermined price regardless of any possible cost overruns. In November 2014, the Finance Ministry had formally requested China EXIM Bank for a soft loan of $215.96 million to build the international airport. The credit request followed the Cabinet’s go-ahead in October 2014 to construct the project with Chinese funding.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 20.7px;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 20.7px;">In 1975, the government had taken over 3,106 ropanis of land for the project. It acquired another 629 ropanis after a new study showed that the proposed airport would require more space.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 20.7px;">“More than 90 percent of landowners whose properties have been acquired have received compensation,” he said, adding that the remaining compensation payments would be distributed soon.  </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 20.7px;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 20.7px;">The bank has agreed to provide 25 percent of the loan without interest. The government will have to pay 2 percent interest per annum on the rest of the loan. The loan repayment period has been set at 20 years, including a seven-year grace period when no interest will be charged.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 20.7px;">Caan had invited bids for the project in February 2012. As per the feasibility report, the airport, which will be spread over 200 hectares, will have a 2,500-metre-long and 45-metre-wide runway. It will accommodate medium category jets like the Boeing 757 and the Airbus 320.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 20.7px;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 20.7px;">Likewise, the government will be upgrading Gautam Buddha Airport in Bhairahawa to a regional international airport. It is scheduled to come online by 2017.</span></div>
<br />
<br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 11.5px; line-height: 20.7px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 11.5px; line-height: 20.7px;" /><a href="http://bit.ly/1UXE9qX" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 11.5px; line-height: 20.7px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;">s</a>ource: h<a href="ttp://kathmandupost.ekantipur.com/">ttp://kathmandupost.ekantipur.com/</a>

Pokhara airport’s foundation laying slated for April 14

The foundation stone of the country’s second regional international airport in Pokhara will be laid on April 14, marking the launch of a p...

Taskforce to amend Online Media Operation Guideline

anup 0 11:39 PM

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHvUJwVNWIW88ghwpKsKSATlKAx9N85NodiFiyOpX471pBgdkWD-AshgyzL9BRZP1zXDv3F4B0LQ01Z6nPAFOjQfZohdrM9f3ikNK930PdM7gmVrEmmzbwD5qwJctLMFFRpAxobWGF4QvM/s1600/21062016044553FNJ-online-1000x0.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="157" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHvUJwVNWIW88ghwpKsKSATlKAx9N85NodiFiyOpX471pBgdkWD-AshgyzL9BRZP1zXDv3F4B0LQ01Z6nPAFOjQfZohdrM9f3ikNK930PdM7gmVrEmmzbwD5qwJctLMFFRpAxobWGF4QvM/s320/21062016044553FNJ-online-1000x0.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
<div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 11.5px; line-height: 20.7px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 1.6;">The Ministry of Information and Communications has formed a three-member taskforce for amending the Online Media Operation Guidelines-2073. </span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 11.5px; line-height: 20.7px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;">
The taskforce comprises the chairman of the Press Council Nepal, the president of the Federation of Nepali Journalists and a representative from the online media. </div>
<div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 11.5px; line-height: 20.7px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;">
Minister for Information and Communications Sherdhan Rai formed the taskforce on Tuesday immediately after the Federation drew his attention that some of the points mentioned in the Guidelines clashed with the constitutional provisions. </div>
<div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 11.5px; line-height: 20.7px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;">
Minister Rai said that it was beyond thinking that the government would take any decision contrary to the spirit of the constitution and the implication of the press freedom. He expressed the commitment to revise the Guideline within two days based on the opinion of the related sector and have it implemented. </div>
<div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 11.5px; line-height: 20.7px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;">
FNJ president Mahendra Bista urged the government not to bring any guidelines against the spirit of the constitution and to make the online media self-regulated.</div>
<br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
source :<a href="http://kathmandupost.ekantipur.com/">http://kathmandupost.ekantipur.com/</a>

Taskforce to amend Online Media Operation Guideline

The Ministry of Information and Communications has formed a three-member taskforce for amending the Online Media Operation Guidelines-207...

Dharan set to host Miss Purbanchal

anup 0 11:34 PM

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSKKYKxbJcfQplc8bxZL1RfDQbsH1mSsX-dP2pqmH6GAq2Xf2Eg8eF68uU1vcw2MpVkd8qR5uXS42aMxflm0vOOLtyb3XsR-aXd8FGtaSZQ1CiAu2pu5YODfa5vshjY0qURZf4c6yo6nOI/s1600/21062016083314miss-purbanchal-1000x0.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="202" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSKKYKxbJcfQplc8bxZL1RfDQbsH1mSsX-dP2pqmH6GAq2Xf2Eg8eF68uU1vcw2MpVkd8qR5uXS42aMxflm0vOOLtyb3XsR-aXd8FGtaSZQ1CiAu2pu5YODfa5vshjY0qURZf4c6yo6nOI/s320/21062016083314miss-purbanchal-1000x0.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
<div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 11.5px; line-height: 20.7px; margin-bottom: 10px;">
<span style="line-height: 1.6; text-align: justify;">The number of beauty pageants in Nepal has been on the rise of late. The authenticity of many of these pageants may be debatable, but the sense of excitement it evokes among enthusiasts, and contestants alike, is unquestionable.</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 11.5px; line-height: 20.7px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;">
Currently, the city of Dharan has been gripped by the Miss Purbanchal fever—which is set to conclude with a gala event later this week. Competing for the crown are 19 women of ages 17-24.</div>
<div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 11.5px; line-height: 20.7px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;">
If you were to ask them the significance of the event, they’d all voice in unison, “Beauty pageants are for women empowerment… Events like these help boost the confidence of women; and also help us hone our leadership qualities.”</div>
<div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 11.5px; line-height: 20.7px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;">
The ladies will be up against each other during the Gala Finale scheduled to take place at the Dharan Sabhagriha, on Saturday, June 25. The finale will be choreographed by Priya Rani Lama.</div>
<div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 11.5px; line-height: 20.7px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;">
In a recently concluded Talent Round, the ladies, on an event recently held at Birat Chowk, showcased their skills; some danced, some recited their poems while some drew paintings. The contestants, who have been part of a month-long closed-camp, have been working on skills such as personality development, stage presence, arts and culture, among others. They have also taken part in several social work activities around town including a cleanup campaign, a blood donation event and traffic education.</div>
<div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 11.5px; line-height: 20.7px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;">
According to the event manager Saurabh Shrestha, the title winner will bag a Yamaha Facino scooty along with tickets to travel overseas. While the first runner-up will bag a cash purse of Rs 51,000; second runner-up Rs 31,000; and the individual title winners will bag Rs 10,000 each.</div>
<br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 11.5px; line-height: 20.7px;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 11.5px; line-height: 20.7px;">source :</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11.5px; line-height: 20.7px;"><a href="http://kathmandupost.ekantipur.com/">http://kathmandupost.ekantipur.com/</a></span></span></div>
<br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 11.5px; line-height: 20.7px;" /><br />

Dharan set to host Miss Purbanchal

The number of beauty pageants in Nepal has been on the rise of late. The authenticity of many of these pageants may be debatable, but the...

Euro 2016 delights merchandise traders

anup 0 8:56 PM

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1pNo87hBhIrQqPgjSKvshmJiLlJETWoW9DFf_O-LtHZoeHzG4PqHpHzx7SMvvm1gG18_2-q8IEYZwWvus7kHQwc8YHbMzn2ewODk6w0iREQficYPAbCbt-4vCQCwG-wbpYex8mjsiNo45/s1600/13062016083412Gersys-1000x0.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="204" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1pNo87hBhIrQqPgjSKvshmJiLlJETWoW9DFf_O-LtHZoeHzG4PqHpHzx7SMvvm1gG18_2-q8IEYZwWvus7kHQwc8YHbMzn2ewODk6w0iREQficYPAbCbt-4vCQCwG-wbpYex8mjsiNo45/s320/13062016083412Gersys-1000x0.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
<div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 11.5px; line-height: 20.7px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 20.7px;">The quadrennial European football gala, UEFA Euro 2016, has delighted sport merchandise traders as football fans continue to splurge on products of their favourite teams.</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 11.5px; line-height: 20.7px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;">
According to the traders, turnover from sales of merchandise such as jerseys, backpacks, shoes, slippers, flags, footballs and souvenirs has increased by 15 percent in recent weeks.</div>
<div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 11.5px; line-height: 20.7px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;">
“Customer inflow can be expected to rise further as the competition gains momentum after the group stages,” said Kishor Kumar Joshi, owner of Sports Universe in New Baneshwor, Kathmandu. “We have run a 15 percent discount scheme to boost sales by 30 percent this football season.”</div>
<div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 11.5px; line-height: 20.7px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;">
According to Joshi, most of the sales are coming from jerseys of Germany, France, England and Spain. Customers can find jerseys of different quality grades with prices ranging from Rs950 to Rs1300.</div>
<div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 11.5px; line-height: 20.7px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;">
Apart from the usual football frenzy, this year’s Euro cup has kicked off just at the right time as SLC candidates and high school students on a vacation.</div>
<div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 11.5px; line-height: 20.7px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;">
“Teams play their matches in France while we play futsal out here wearing jerseys of different countries,” said Suraj Adhikari, a student who was purchasing a kit in Tripureshwor. “We are also planning to play a tournament under the Euro theme.”</div>
<div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 11.5px; line-height: 20.7px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;">
The Euro 2016, second fiddle only to the World Cup, is a major market driver of sports merchandise after usual football leagues and world tournaments.</div>
<div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 11.5px; line-height: 20.7px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;">
 “We are receiving orders for flags from hotels, pubs and futsal grounds around the Valley,” said Ravi Gurung, owner of Sports Centre at the United World Trade Center in the Capital. “Although the customer flow is less compared to the World Cup, we are keeping up with its sales expectations,” he said.</div>
<div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 11.5px; line-height: 20.7px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;">
According to Gurung, flags and jerseys have contributed the most in generating sales. Jerseys are priced at Rs1300 in the store.</div>
<div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 11.5px; line-height: 20.7px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;">
“The market for sports kit during the Euro Cup has seen a modest growth,” said BK Sapkota, owner of Bhadrakali Sports Center in Kathmandu. “We have sold 500-600 jerseys and a few other merchandise since the tournament kicked off. Currently, the sales are dominated by jerseys of France, Germany and England.”</div>
<div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 11.5px; line-height: 20.7px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;">
Stores ranging from umbrella shops to specialised sport stores have put up jerseys of major teams on display as the football frenzy takes its toll on Valley denizens.</div>
<br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 11.5px; line-height: 20.7px;">Source : <a href="http://kathmandupost.ekantipur.com/">http://kathmandupost.ekantipur.com/</a></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 11.5px; line-height: 20.7px;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>

Euro 2016 delights merchandise traders

The quadrennial European football gala, UEFA Euro 2016, has delighted sport merchandise traders as football fans continue to splurge on p...

No talks until PM makes up his mind: Rai

anup 0 8:45 PM

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj89tXuPARKidoOMd4PRsWh_2UHk9lw_HU_DQe1t9XAZ28RAi4tOLiUDjbgnk_xtSxy3A4S29K2XhQEOXIraJzvsdKP9hhxMfMzRKeD2goFN2KwLAkwQSTt1r93g4z5OVxar_m0nPvg7J5u/s1600/13062016063503Ashok-Rai-1000x0.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="208" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj89tXuPARKidoOMd4PRsWh_2UHk9lw_HU_DQe1t9XAZ28RAi4tOLiUDjbgnk_xtSxy3A4S29K2XhQEOXIraJzvsdKP9hhxMfMzRKeD2goFN2KwLAkwQSTt1r93g4z5OVxar_m0nPvg7J5u/s320/13062016063503Ashok-Rai-1000x0.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 11.5px; line-height: 1.6; text-align: justify;">Senior leader Ashok Rai of Sanghiya Samajwadi Forum Nepal, a constituent of agitating Sanghiya Gathabandhan, has said that the agitating sides will not join the talks table until Prime Minister KP Oli makes up his mind for an effective dialogue.</span><br />
<div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 11.5px; line-height: 20.7px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;">
Leader Rai made such remark a day after PM Oli issued a letter inviting Sanghiya Gathabandhan for talks. He opined that PM Oli should make his position clear on the 26-point charter of demands put forward by the Gathabandhan before inviting them for talks.</div>
<div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 11.5px; line-height: 20.7px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;">
The Sanghiya Gathabandha—an alliance of Janajati and Madhesi parties—has been staging a relay hunger strike at Khullamanch in Kathmandu after their months long border blockade and a recent Capital-centric protests could not yield result.</div>
<div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 11.5px; line-height: 20.7px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;">
Leader Rai, who is also taking part in the hunger strike, said, if PM Oli wants solution through talks and dialogues, he should demonstrate it through action rather than speeches. </div>
<br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 11.5px; line-height: 20.7px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 11.5px; line-height: 20.7px;" />Source : <a href="http://kathmandupost.ekantipur.com/">http://kathmandupost.ekantipur.com/</a>

No talks until PM makes up his mind: Rai

Senior leader Ashok Rai of Sanghiya Samajwadi Forum Nepal, a constituent of agitating Sanghiya Gathabandhan, has said that the agitating s...

हत्या आरोपमा दुई पक्राउ

anup 0 5:04 AM

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi09aYrs2pAA4bFyjic4ywmNMHQshtvaEotKSwoYp3bvpvoijHEbvEO9HcHZXElAlUB6S7xtsSC-uKSH6tapf9K3oqSu-o9Zq9KdOEnJhwRaKHwJ-kFuWOM2DU1LQadvywagI9snCYKPR7D/s1600/arest-750-218x150.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi09aYrs2pAA4bFyjic4ywmNMHQshtvaEotKSwoYp3bvpvoijHEbvEO9HcHZXElAlUB6S7xtsSC-uKSH6tapf9K3oqSu-o9Zq9KdOEnJhwRaKHwJ-kFuWOM2DU1LQadvywagI9snCYKPR7D/s320/arest-750-218x150.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
<div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; text-align: justify;">
बैतडी, ३१ जेठ । तल्लादेही–९ धारीका ८२ वर्षीय अजी धामीको हत्याको आरोपमा छोरासहित दुई जनालाई प्रहरीले आज पक्राउ गरेको छ ।</div>
<div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; text-align: justify;">
पक्राउ पर्नेमा मृतकका २९ वर्षीय छोरा जयबहादुर र अर्का छिमेकी २० वर्षीय हिराबहादुर धामी रहेको प्रहरीले जनाएको छ । आइतबार राति ८ बजेतिर छोरा जयबहादुर र हीराबहादुरबीच भएको झगडा छुट्याउन गएका वृद्धको ज्यान गएको हो ।</div>
<div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; text-align: justify;">
अभियुक्त दुवैलाई जिल्ला प्रहरी कार्यालय बैतडी ल्याइँदैछ । घटनास्थल सदरमुकामबाट एक दिनको पैदल दूरीमा पर्छ । रासस</div>
<div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; text-align: justify;">
source :<a href="http://www.np.sabkura.com/">http://www.np.sabkura.com/</a></div>

हत्या आरोपमा दुई पक्राउ

बैतडी, ३१ जेठ । तल्लादेही–९ धारीका ८२ वर्षीय अजी धामीको हत्याको आरोपमा छोरासहित दुई जनालाई प्रहरीले आज पक्राउ गरेको छ । पक्राउ पर्नेमा ...

Rs 8b high-rise hotel coming up in Kantipath

anup 0 8:15 AM

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFb-I-tPRbh63MrEHZPXIyEOaVXEEi4-A2UiE1upfltTj-4LoI68mCt4yjNKTxLn1iuWxSdqDBN0K03iadsE3WMMxEC1UiLImqrYuxEnDY4BGRWqmmfR98_ObYUjz8VM8VOTiBjPellUd-/s1600/20141010rs-8b-high-rise-hotel-coming-up-in-kantipath-600x0.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFb-I-tPRbh63MrEHZPXIyEOaVXEEi4-A2UiE1upfltTj-4LoI68mCt4yjNKTxLn1iuWxSdqDBN0K03iadsE3WMMxEC1UiLImqrYuxEnDY4BGRWqmmfR98_ObYUjz8VM8VOTiBjPellUd-/s400/20141010rs-8b-high-rise-hotel-coming-up-in-kantipath-600x0.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>
<div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23.920000076293945px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 15px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 15px;">Kathmandu will soon have a new five-star hotel, the Sheraton Kathmandu Hotel. The ground-breaking ceremony for the Rs 8 billion, 17-storey luxury property, located in the heart of the city’s posh district, is slated to be held on Saturday.</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23.920000076293945px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 15px; text-align: justify;">
The promoter MIT Group Holdings Nepal, a member of the Ghale group of companies which has diverse operations in Australia and other countries, said that Prime Minister Sushil Koirala was scheduled to lay the foundation stone of the project.</div>
<div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23.920000076293945px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 15px; text-align: justify;">
The Sheraton Kathmandu Hotel will be located on Kantipath adjacent to the office of Keshar Library, opposite the west gate of the Narayanhiti Palace Museum. The hotel, which is due to open in February 2018, will be spread over 14 ropanis of land.</div>
<div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23.920000076293945px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 15px; text-align: justify;">
US-based Starwood Hotels and Resort Worldwide Inc, one of the world’s largest hotel companies that owns, operates, franchises and manages hotels and resorts, will manage the hotel under its Sheraton brand. The MIT Group had signed an agreement with Starwood last year.</div>
<div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23.920000076293945px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 15px; text-align: justify;">
The new hotel will offer 218 suites and guest rooms, a health club, spa and retail outlets and provide 450 new jobs. It will also feature a 1,000-seat conference hall which will be the biggest hall in Kathmandu, the group claimed. In addition, there will be two conference rooms, three meeting rooms and a board room.</div>
<div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23.920000076293945px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 15px; text-align: justify;">
“We expect that Nepal will see improved business activities and economic growth in the days ahead that has encouraged us to invest in the hospitality sector,” said Shesh Ghale, an Australian-based Nepali millionaire and owner of the project.</div>
<div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23.920000076293945px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 15px; text-align: justify;">
As round-the-year occupancy of Nepal’s five-star hotels remains a big concern, Ghale said that an improved business environment was also likely to put Nepal on the map of quality tourist destinations. The Tourism Ministry’s statistics show that Nepal’s five-star hotels encountered a glut of rooms in 2013 due to a proliferation of new accommodation ranging from guest houses to home stays which pulled away potential customers from luxury properties.</div>
<div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23.920000076293945px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 15px; text-align: justify;">
The five-star hotels achieved an average occupancy of 58.85 percent last year, down from 62.76 percent in the previous year. Out of the 678,535 room nights produced last year, only 399,318 were occupied. There are 10 five-star properties in Nepal, eight of them in Kathmandu and two in Pokhara. An average hotel occupancy rate of 60 percent or below is considered to be very worrisome for the industry.</div>
<div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23.920000076293945px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 15px; text-align: justify;">
Meanwhile, the MIT Group is also holding negotiations with International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector lending arm of the World Bank Group, to mobilize capital for the project.</div>
<div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23.920000076293945px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 15px; text-align: justify;">
Ghale, who is also an incumbent president of the Non-Resident Nepali Association (NRNA), said that talks with IFC were going on but that it had not been finalized whether the group would utilize IFC capital. The project’s payback period is 15 years from the date of its formal opening.</div>
<div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23.920000076293945px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 15px; text-align: justify;">
The Sheraton Kathmandu Hotel marks the re-entry of the Sheraton brand in Nepal. It had earlier managed the Hotel Everest as the Hotel Everest Sheraton in the 1980s. After the Hyatt Regency, no other international hotel chain has come to Nepal. With domestic and inter-regional tourism aiding hotel demand, a range of leading global hotel chains have planned their presence in Nepal.</div>
<div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23.920000076293945px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 15px; text-align: justify;">
The Everest Hospitality Group, a subsidiary of the MS Group, had formally begun work to construct a 221-room five-star deluxe hotel in Nag Pokhari, Naxal under the banner of Marriott International, a leading hotel chain based in Maryland, US.</div>
<div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23.920000076293945px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 15px; text-align: justify;">
The group claimed that the proposed hotel would be the first five-star deluxe hotel in Nepal after its completion. The MS Group is currently constructing a four-star hotel in Thamel named the Fairfield. The 10-storey hotel will have 108 rooms and will be spread over two and a half ropanis.</div>
<div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23.920000076293945px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 15px; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23.920000076293945px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 15px; text-align: justify;">
Source : <a href="http://kathmandupost.ekantipur.com/">http://kathmandupost.ekantipur.com/</a></div>
<div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23.920000076293945px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 15px; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23.920000076293945px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 15px; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>

Rs 8b high-rise hotel coming up in Kantipath

Kathmandu will soon have a new five-star hotel, the Sheraton Kathmandu Hotel. The ground-breaking ceremony for the Rs 8 billion, 17-store...