News tagged 'Hydro'

DoED revokes licences of 129 hydro projects of 3,330 MW

Aug 5, 2020

KATHMANDU, AUGUST 4 The government has revoked the licence of 129 hydropower projects with total installed capacity of 3,330 megawatts so far as they failed to submit their progress reports and pay due fees on schedule. As per Department of Electricity Development (DoED), in the last 10 years it has cancelled licence of these projects with capacity...

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Land compensation for Budhigandaki hydel at almost Rs 34 billion so far

Aug 5, 2020

KATHMANDU, AUGUST 4 Budhigandaki Hydropower Project has so far distributed almost Rs 34 billion in land compensation. Though compensation for a majority of the land to be affected by the hydropower project has already been distributed, affected locals have been agitating at Gorkha’s Aarughat and Aarkhet, and Dhading’s Khahare bazaar d...

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House panel seeks Khimti Hydropower Project study report

Jul 28, 2020

KATHMANDU, JULY 27 As the government has been dilly-dallying in acquiring 50 per cent ownership of the 60-megawatt Khimti Hydropower Project, the Agriculture, Cooperatives and Natural Resources Committee under the Federal Parliament forwarded a letter on Sunday to the Ministry of Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation (MoEWRI) directing it to submi...

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WHO halts hydroxychloroquine, HIV drugs in COVID trials after failure to reduce death

Jul 5, 2020

GENEVA: The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Saturday that it was discontinuing its trials of the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine and combination HIV drug lopinavir/ritonavir in hospitalised patients with COVID-19 after they failed to reduce mortality. The setback came as the WHO also reported more than 200,000 new cases globally of the dise...

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UK OKs resumption of hydroxychloroquine trial

Jun 30, 2020

LONDON: Britain’s medical regulatory agency has approved the resumption of a trial testing whether hydroxychloroquine, the malaria drug favored by US President Donald Trump, might help prevent health workers from contracting the coronavirus. The Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency had suspended enrollment into the trial after...

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Rains trigger fear of water-induced disasters

Jun 26, 2020

Kathmandu, June 25 The entire country will witness active monsoon for the next three days, the Department of Hydrology and Meteorology said. Rainfall will occur in most of the places in the country. It rained in different areas of the country throughout the day today. According to meteorologist Barun Poudel, there is possibility of more rain during...

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Nepal, China to develop cross-border power transmission lines

Aug 5, 2017

Nepal has sent a draft of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to China for the joint development of cross-border transmission lines between the two countries, a senior official of Nepal's Energy Ministry said Friday. The power-line connectivity between the two countries is expected to pave the way for electricity trade in the future between ...

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जलस्रोत कब्जा गर्ने भारतीय रणनीति

Mar 22, 2017

सरकारको अापत्ति काठमाडौं : नेपालका नदीनालामा भारतीय सरकार र उसà¤�...

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३ वर्षमा १२ सय मेगावाट बिजुली थपिँदै, जडित क्षमता २१ सय मेगावाट नाघ्ने

Mar 19, 2017

काठमाडौं । आगामी ३ वर्षमा नेपालमा थप १ हजार २ सय मेगावाट बिजुली उत्à�...

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