Kathmandu

Tax authority calls global tender for excise duty stickers

As a stop-gap measure, the Inland Revenue Department has ordered Janak Education Material Centre to print nearly 100 million stickers. Nearly a year after the tax authority invited a global tender for excise duty stickers that landed in a legal dispute, the Inland Revenue Department has once again invited a global tender for the stickers. The department issued a tender ...

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The multi-billion-dollar Nijgadh Airport project hangs in the balance

The next Investment Board meeting chaired by the prime minister will decide how the project should move ahead, amid reports that the contracted Swiss company is ‘unofficially out’. Workers install a barbed wire fence at the proposed airport site in Nijgadh.  The future of the $3.45 billion Nijgadh International Airport project in Bara hangs in the balance. Amid reports that Zurich Airport ...

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Government directs IBN to seek RfP for Nijgadh airport

The Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation (MoCTCA) has directed Investment Board Nepal (IBN) to seek request for proposal (RfP) for Nijgadh International Airport (NIA). At a meeting held today, MoCTCA directed IBN to contact Zürich International Airport by the end of September. Stating that the government’s preparations for the construction of NIA have gathered momentum, MoCTCA has directed ...

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