Sunday, August 9, 2009

2007: April

Apr 1
Biz News Briefs (Laxmi Bank completes 5 years, CG completes 136 years) (eKantipur.com)
Locals intimidate officials of Melamchi project (Nepalbiznews.com)
LG gas supply worsens in valley (Nepalbiznews.com)
Floriculture Trade Fair to kick off from April 5 (Nepalbiznews.com)
Nepal Tourism Board (NTB) organises sales mission in China (Nepalnews.com)

Company Profile
Moving Ahead:United Insurance (eKantipur.com)

Apr 2
Nepal allowed to import from third country (eKantipur.com)
Chinese apples displace Indian ones (eKantipur.com)
Discotheque business in record slump (eKantipur.com)
Asian Paints closes down (eKantipur.com)
Maruti Zen's new avatar launched (eKantipur.com)
Share market registers sound growth (Nepalbiznews.com)
Supply of LP Gas worsens in valley (Nepalnews.com)
No curb on foreign investment in media now: Minister Mahara (Nepalnews.com)

Apr 3
International tour companies returning (eKantipur.com)
Nepal to go it alone on Raxaul-Amlekhgunj pipeline (eKantipur.com)
Substandard medicines still widespread (eKantipur.com)
Maoist cadres beat up GEFONT officials (Nepalbiznews.com)
NEA further reduces load shedding hours (Nepalnews.com)
NPC unveils three-year plan for rural reconstruction (Nepalnews.com)

Apr 4
Yami against privatizing water utility (eKantipur.com)
Surkhet airport blacktopped after 41 years (eKantipur.com)
Melamchi staff halt work, demand security (eKantipur.com)
No civil registration for MA-60 aircraft (eKantipur.com)
Alico declares bonus at flat rate (eKantipur.com)
Nepal SBI Bank declares 5pc dividend (eKantipur.com)
India to bring custom rate to zero (Nepalbiznews.com)

Apr 5
Garment export declines 55 pc (eKantipur.com)
Nepal’s largest business complex to open April 14 (eKantipur.com)
Tourist arrival surges in March (Nepalbiznews.com)


Apr 6
Tourist arrivals jump by 33.5 pc (eKantipur.com)
Improve NEPSE, say experts (eKantipur.com)
Garment export declines by 47 percent in March (Nepalnews.com)
Nepal Tourism Board (NTB) launches new promotion campaign in India (Nepalnews.com)
NT suspends distribution of pre-paid SIM-cards (Nepalnews.com)

Apr 7
FNCCI prez faces forgery charge (eKantipur.com)
Smuggling out of sandalwood unabated (eKantipur.com)
New leadership at Society of Economic Journalists of Nepal (SEJON) (eKantipur.com)
Nepal Credit and Commerce (NCC) Bank to raise paid-up capital (eKantipur.com)
Cooking gas supply dries up (eKantipur.com)
India plans to extend railway network to Nepal (Nepalbiznews.com)

Apr 8
Panchakanya starts production of Panmix (eKantipur.com)
Biz News Briefs (NCC Bank, UWTC, Nepal SBI, Annapurna Lifan, DSFPPL) (eKantipur.com)
Gas dealers to resume gas supply from Monday (Nepalbiznews.com)

Commentary
Gorakhkali eyes B'deshi market (eKantipur.com)
‘Nepal needs economic diplomacy’ - Sahana Pradhan (eKantipur.com)

Apr 9
Terai banda paralyzes life (eKantipur.com)
Rural infrastructure project to spend Rs 57b (eKantipur.com)
Workers close Jyoti Farm (eKantipur.com)
NOC to increase petrol storage capacity (eKantipur.com)
All-in-one event center unveiled (eKantipur.com)
60 Nepali workers stranded in Qatar (Nepalnews.com)

Apr 10
Govt to introduce Rs 159b budget (eKantipur.com)
Inflation on high trajectory (eKantipur.com)

Apr 11
Employment package for Karnali residents launched (eKantipur.com)
‘No new financial institutions this fiscal year’, NRB (eKantipur.com)
NIC Sajilo Karza unveiled (eKantipur.com)
Cybernetics becomes sole Lenovo distributor (eKantipur.com)
Biz News Briefs (Standard Chartered Bank, Global Bank, Ohm Solution) (eKantipur.com)
NPC aims for 5.5 percent growth (Nepalnews.com)

Apr 12
All Pokhara hotels booked for New Year (eKantipur.com)
Lack of law stalls Bhairahawa SEZ (eKantipur.com)
‘Promulgate NRN Act soon’ (eKantipur.com)
Govt asks embassies to cancel visa of 80 bank defaulters (Nepalnews.com)

Apr 13
India can give only 35 MWs more to Nepal (eKantipur.com)
Govt to review air service agreement (ASA) (eKantipur.com)

Apr 14
Handicraft exports decline by 5 percent (eKantipur.com)
Exports to India to face competition (eKantipur.com)
Country’s largest shopping mall inaugurated (Nepalnews.com)

Apr 15
NIC Sajilo Karza launched (eKantipur.com)

Apr 16
NOC's gas loss widens (eKantipur.com)

Apr 17
Maoists demand Rs 500m for PLA (eKantipur.com)
Airport tax being siphoned off (eKantipur.com)
Businessmen cry foul over scrap duty (eKantipur.com)
Tough industrial security policy in pipeline (eKantipur.com)
Rupee touches 9-year high (eKantipur.com)
BoK to enter rural areas (eKantipur.com)

Apr 18
Locals padlock Upper Tamakoshi project office (eKantipur.com)
Economy to grow by 4 pc: UN (eKantipur.com)
CIAA orders govt to check sandalwood smuggling (Nepalbiznews.com)
BoK's projects 20 pc increase of profit; gives priority to small investors (Nepalnews.com)

Apr 19
Mountaineers flock to Nepal (eKantipur.com)
Drivers' strike triggers petroleum shortage (eKantipur.com)

Apr 20
136,805 leave for foreign jobs (eKantipur.com)
Citizens Bank begins operations (eKantipur.com)

Apr 21
Tata genuine parts company set up (eKantipur.com)
Rupee firms against major currencies, gold price falls (eKantipur.com)
'Women occupy less than 10 percent of managerial positions' (Nepalnews.com)
14th BIMSTEC meeting in Thimpu (Nepalnews.com)
Tankers' strike ends (Nepalnews.com)

Apr 22
Experts suggest 1950 treaty review (eKantipur.com)
Gorkha beer now in Japan (eKantipur.com)
Tata Ace launched (eKantipur.com)
Biz News Brief - New Chevy Aveo in market (eKantipur.com)

Apr 23
ISP, VSAT license fees to go down by 99 pc (eKantipur.com)
Civil Savings Cooperative fined Rs 31.4 million (eKantipur.com)
Carpet export dips by 3.05 pc (eKantipur.com)

Apr 24
Nepal Airlines' Boeings grounded (eKantipur.com)
Biz News Brief - Directory of construction industry published (eKantipur.com)
Employees demand passage of Civil Service Act (Nepalnews.com)

Apr 25
Govt decides to invest in West Seti (eKantipur.com)
Air seat shortage spoils tourism revival (eKantipur.com)
Spices import posts double-digit rise (eKantipur.com)
CAN Softech 2007 from May 2 (eKantipur.com)

Commentary
Traffic jams and our failed development (eKantipur.com)

Apr 26
Industrial output growth dismal at 2.1 percent (eKantipur.com)
Little interest in securing Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) (eKantipur.com)
‘New act to facilitate M&A’ (eKantipur.com)
First neuro hospital opened (Nepalnews.com)
Nepal in Dhaka Tourism Mart (Nepalnews.com)

Apr 27
GMR Group suggested for Arun III, Upper Karnali (eKantipur.com)
Industrialist Khetan dies at 61 (eKantipur.com)
Employees stress NRB reform (eKantipur.com)

Apr 28
Transport workers' strike disrupts traffic in the Valley (Nepalnews.com)

Apr 29
Projects worth 885 MW get licenses (eKantipur.com)
Yeti Airlines adds Jetstream to its fleet (eKantipur.com)
Surya Nepal launches Springwood apparel (Nepalbiznews.com)

Apr 30
Decide projects in hydro by consensus: House committee (eKantipur.com)
Domestic flights packed (eKantipur.com)
Amendment in foreign labor act proposed (eKantipur.com)
Revenue collection is handsome (Nepalnews.com)