Dilip Paudel

The current facility at Sinamangal fails to meet international standards, poses safety concerns, and lacks expansion capacity, prompting the plan to relocate the depot to the northeastern Guheshwari area of the airport.  

The government formulated a plan to mix ethanol into petroleum products two decades ago but has not implemented it yet. If the government mixes ethanol into petrol, it could reduce petrol imports by about Rs 1.25 billion annually, but the plan remains stalled.

Although the government has formally scraped the ‘Constituency Infrastructure Development Program,’ the Ministry of Finance (MoF) has indirectly allocated a budget of over Rs 50 billion to projects benefiting ‘MPs and senior leaders’ personal interests.

As domestic food output remains insufficient and the country imports rice, the government has set a target to increase paddy production by around 1.2 million tons in the upcoming fiscal year 2025/26.

The government has spent four decades discussing the establishment of a chemical fertilizer factory in Nepal, but it still has not made a decision. The high investment required to set up the factory has kept the government in a state of uncertainty.

Nepal's exports have surged to a historic high, thanks largely to a spike in soybean and sunflower oil trade. In the first 10 months of the current fiscal year (mid-July to mid-April), the country exported goods worth about Rs 217.91 billion—the highest export value ever recorded.

The National Planning Commission (NPC) has tightened the noose on the Project Bank after a rising trend of inserting fragmented or unprepared projects under political pressure. After identifying low-priority and unprepared projects, the commission has removed them from the Project Bank, keeping arou...

The Department of Revenue Investigation (DRI)  has filed a lawsuit against a construction company, demanding nearly Rs 1.2 billion in damages on charges of tax evasion.

As part of its preparation for the fiscal year (FY) 2025/26 budget, the government has started collecting project proposals worth Rs 210 million from each lawmaker. Despite the Supreme Court's earlier halt on the "Constituency Infrastructure Development Program," the government now plans to allocate...

Teachers from across the nation have been protesting in the capital for the past four weeks, and the Ministry of Education has stated that the government will incur an additional financial obligation of around Rs 65 billion to address all of their demands. This includes both immediate and long-term...