Country Profile: Nepal

Ahmedabad based poultry vaccine manufacturer Hester Biosciences has signed a memorandum of understanding with Kathmandu based Golchha Organisation to set up a joint venture in Nepal to manufacture animal biologicals at an investment of around Rs 15 crore.

India’s rupee is now in an exclusive club – it joins Japan, Britain, the European Union and the U.S. as the only currencies to have globally recognized symbols.

The new symbol, shown in the picture, came out of a contest held by the Indian government that attracted more than 3,000 entries. A student at the Indian Institute of Technology was the winner.

Along with its role in global commerce, the new symbol will standardize currency communication across India, where 15 languages are commonly spoken. The government also hopes the symbol will set it apart from other countries with currencies of the same name, among them Pakistan, Nepal, Indonesia and Sri Lanka.

The rupee symbol combines ancient Hindi.....

Love is borderless. A Taiwanese medical mission consisting of twelve medical staff and volunteers headed for Nepal Sunday to carry out 12 days of free

Dhaka, July 16 : Bangladesh and Nepal have revived a deal signed more than three decades ago to work out a transit route through which landlocked Nepal can acce (Nepal)ss the Mongla port.

Bangladesh and Nepal have moved again on a deal signed more than three decades ago. The deal -- if it is ratified by both countries -- will allow Nepal to use Mongla Port to transport goods. The lates...

After months of scrutiny and scanning over 3,000 entries, the government today approved the symbol of the Indian currency which will differentiate it from currencies used in countries such as Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Mauritius.

South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc) will hold a meeting of environment and foreign ministers in Nepal next month ahead of the heads of state and government's global Tiger Summit s...

Commerce secretaries of Bangladesh and Nepal began a fresh round of talks in Dhaka yesterday after about three years to finalise the much-anticipated transport connectivity between the two countries f...

Syful IslamCommerce secretaries of Bangladesh and Nepal will sit together today in the city to discuss various bilateral issues where connectivity and transit will get top priority, official sources s...

Despite an expected record crop this season, apple farmers in Himachal Pradesh are spending sleepless nights. Reason: acute shortage of labour from Nepal.

The murder of a communist leader hit Nepal's peace process with a key meeting yesterday among the three top parties, that could have paved the way for a new government, being put off.Chhabi Karki, a l...

Nepal police on Friday arrested a Bangladeshi national in Kathmandu for possessing fake Indian currency worth about three million rupees.

BEIJING: China has decided to treat exports from Bangladesh and Nepal on the basis of zero duty giving exporters in these countries much better incentives to tap the Chinese market as compared to I...

NEW YORK: If anything, the just concluded New York Fancy Food Show (NYFFS) would appear to highlight a rising trend in the US towards vegetarianism and veganism, or, as some like to call it, "nature-based foods". At the three-day NYFFS that took off on June 27, there was an increase in the number of US and foreign companies offering vegetarian food products ranging from fresh and frozen foods to ready-to-eat products such as cookies and crackers made from vegetable fats. Suppliers from Taiwan, Thailand, India, Japan, Nepal, Sri Lanka and other countries have long recognised that the vegetarian segment in what is veritably the world's largest food market, holds good business potential. The vegetarian pie, so to speak, is becoming bigger and bigger by the year. What.....

DHAKA (June 29 2010): Bangladesh and Nepal have joined hands in protesting seizure by the Indian police of a Karachi-bound ship carrying arms and military equipment returned to Bangladesh, Nepal and P...

OMAN AIR, the national carrier of Oman, has started flying non-stop to Muscat, its capital city, from Kuala Lumpur four times a week since May 1 and may increase the frequency if demand stays strong. Its chief executive officer Peter Hill said the new flights on the Kuala Lumpur-Muscat route will operate on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Sundays. "We just introduced the flights last month and so far, the response have been very encouraging with some flights fully booked. With good response like this, in time we may even look at increasing the flight frequency to a daily operation," he told Business Times in an interview recently. The idea of opening up a route to Kuala Lumpur came about after it was learnt that many Omanis were travelling to the city.....