Roundup of Economic & Business News (Apr 15 - Apr 27)

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)