Nepal
Oil Corporation slashes petrol, diesel prices :
Petrol cheaper by Re1 per litre, diesel and
kerosene by Rs2 (kp 01/10/2024)
Food
prices mirror past highs despite drop in
inflation : Nepal’s central bank updates
consumer price index base year to 2023-24
(kp 27/09/2024), Consumer
price inflation moderated to 4.10 percent last
month due to stable prices of non-food and
services (rep 27/09/2024)
NRB
adopting new measures to estimate 'Consumer
Price Index' (rep 26/09/2024)
Nepali
traders hike food prices riding the festive wave
: Although prices are stable in India, Nepal’s
main supplier, opportunistic traders are
exploiting weak market monitoring, by
Krishana Prasain (kp 24/09/2024), Costly
festivals : The unnatural increases in prices of
everything from edibles to travel tickets must
be curbed (kp 26/09/2024)
Inflation
Hits Celebration Of Festivals, by Lok Deep
Thapa (rn 20/09/2024)
NOC
slashes price of petrol by Rs 4 per liter and
diesel by Rs 5 per liter (rep 15/09/2024), Petrol
to cost Rs 159 per liter from today (kh
16/09/2024)
As
festivals near, onion prices soar : On Monday,
the wholesale price of onion in the Kalimati
vegetables market was Rs128 per kg. In retail,
it costs Rs170 to Rs180 per kg (kp
10/09/2024)
NOC
reduces petroleum product prices (kh
01/09/2024)
Egg
prices hiked again within five days (rep
29/08/2024)
Egg
prices increased as demand surges following
Bhadra (kh 24/08/2024)
Consumer
price inflation in FY 2023/24 recorded at 5.44
percent (rep 18/08/2024)
Despite
regular supply, prices of vegetables in
Kathmandu rise : Due to the rising cost of
vegetables, most Nepalis have cut the
recommended intake of vegetables from their
plate (kp 16/08/2024)
NOC
lowers fuel prices (kh 15/08/2024), Petrol
to cost Rs 165 per liter from today (kh
16/08/2024)
Govt
directs water bottlers not to charge over Rs 47
for a jar of water (rep 08/08/2024)
Chicken
meat prices drop nationwide (kh 23/07/2024)
The
humble egg prices reach historic highs : In
Nepal, millions of consumers rely heavily on
affordable eggs for their protein intake, as
meat and plant protein sources are costly,
by Krishana Prasain (kp 16/07/2024)
NOC
hikes petrol price (kh 15/07/2024)
Inflation
down to 4.2% from 6.8% last year (rn
11/07/2024)
Floods,
landslides push veggie prices to new highs :
Most retail prices crossed Rs100 per kg in two
days. Prices may rise again with large areas
inundated, and landslides affecting the supply
chain (kp 08/07/2024)
Nepal
Oil Corporation jacks up fuel prices : Petrol is
now costlier by Rs2 per litre and diesel and
kerosene by Rs5 (kp 01/07/2024), NOC
hikes prices of petroleum products, petrol now
priced at Rs 167 per liter (rep 01/07/2024)
Monsoon
pushes up vegetable prices : According to
central bank, vegetable prices rose 23 percent
in pre-monsoon period. Traders say prices hit
higher in June (kp 01/07/2024)
NOC
slashes fuel prices (rep 16/06/2024)
NOC
slashes petrol price by Rs 3 per liter, diesel
and kerosene by Rs 1 per liter (rep
31/05/2024)
EVs’
prices likely to go up by at least 10 percent
with revised tax rates in budget for FY 2024/25
(rep 30/05/2024)
Price
hike of iron blade riles grill and steel
entrepreneurs, job security demanded (kh
24/05/2024)
Vegetable
prices rise due to poor rains, low yields and
Indian export taxes : Labour shortages in rural
areas caused by youth migration have hit
production, by Krishana Prasain (kp
22/05/2024)
NOC
slashes price of petrol by Rs 7 per liter,
diesel and kerosene by Rs 5 per liter (rep
15/05/2024)
Consumer
price inflation moderated to 4.61 percent in
March-April: NRB (rep 12/05/2024), Inflation
dips in Kathmandu Valley, holds steady in Terai,
notable increase seen in Hilly region (kh
12/05/2024)
NOC
slashes prices of fuel (kh 01/05/2024)
Rice
prices hit record high amid Indian ban : Food
inflation continues to simmer in Nepal largely
due to higher rice prices and other food items
(kp 23/04/2024)
Rising
food prices cause business slowdown (rep
16/04/2024)
NOC
hikes prices of petrol, diesel, and kerosene
(kh 15/04/2024)
Inflation
at 30-month low. Yet food prices refuse to come
down : Traders attribute high food costs to
upcoming India elections, as neighbour slashes
rates, by Krishana Prasain (kp 08/04/2024)
Prices
of tomatoes, potatoes surge (rn 07/04/2024)
Inflation
moderated to 4.82 percent during mid-February
and mid-March (rep 05/04/2024)
WB
projects inflation to remain at 6.7 percent in
2024 (ae 04/04/2024)
World
Bank predicts Nepal’s inflation to stay at 6.7%
in 2024 (kh 03/04/2024)
Knowing
the prices of fruits and vegetables in Kalimati
today (kh 01/04/2024)
NOC
raises petrol price (kh 31/03/2024)
Government
sets minimum support price for winter paddy
(kh 29/03/2024)
Petrol,
diesel prices experience decline (kh
15/03/2024)
Large
cardamom price recovers to Rs2,075 per kg :
Prices are expected to rise further, but since
farmers have already sold their cash crops, they
will receive little benefit, by Laxmi Gautam
(kp 15/03/2024)
Nepal
saw consumer price inflation dip to 5.01% in
Magh (rep 10/03/2024)
NOC
announces petroleum prices remain unchanged
despite price hike by IOC (rep 01/03/2024)
NEA
mulling over increasing electricity tariff rate
by 10 to 15 percent (rep 28/02/2024), NEA
makes Rs. 15.36 billion profit, nearly 5 billion
more than last year (rn 28/02/2024) [Such an increase in profits
is obviously a good reason to drastically
increase tariffs!]
Nepal
faces inflation risk from Red Sea disruption,
by Krishana Prasain (kp 27/02/2024)
Cardamom
price hike pleases producers in Taplejung
(kh 24/02/2024)
Sugar
price soars despite abundance in sugarcane
crushing season : The retail price of sweetener
has increased by Rs15 per kg to Rs100 per kg in
the market (kp 19/02/2024)
Winter
drought pushes veggie prices higher : Amid low
production, imposition of VAT on vegetable
import has increased people’s kitchen expenses
(kp 18/02/2024)
NOC
increases prices of diesel petrol and kerosene
(rep 16/02/2024)
Consumer
inflation rate held steady at 5.26 percent
(kh 06/02/2024), Inflation
moderated to 5.26 percent last month due to
decline in price hike of edibles (rep
06/02/2024)
Nepal
Oil Corporation jacks up fuel prices : Petrol is
now costlier by Rs4 per litre, diesel/kerosene
by Rs2 and LP gas by Rs15 a cylinder (kp
01/02/2024)
NOC
increases price of petroleum products (kh
31/01/2024)
Onion
price drops on hassle-free imports despite
India’s export ban : As Indian farmers worry
about plummeting onion prices in Indian markets,
New Delhi is planning to review its export ban
(kp 22/01/2024)
India’s
restrictions make rice pricier in Nepal, despite
record harvest : Leading Asian exporters expect
sustained high prices so long as Delhi continues
its ban, by Krishana Prasain (kp 19/01/2024)
NOC
slashes petroleum price by Rs 1 per liter
(kh 15/01/2024)
Data
show inflation easing but people don’t feel it :
According to Nepal Rastra Bank, the year-on-year
consumer price inflation moderated to 4.95
percent in the mid-November to mid-December
period (kp 14/01/2024)
Large
cardamom prices reach near-record levels : The
spice, which is among the most expensive in the
world, was treated at Rs2,150 per kg in the
domestic market this week (kp 10/01/2024)
Onion
smuggling thrives after Indian export ban : The
staple has become expensive in Nepal. Due to the
price differences in Nepal and India, it has
become a lucrative business for smugglers,
insiders say (kp 08/01/2024)
Price
of cardamom increases threefold (kh
07/01/2024)
Onion
price decreases with entry of Chinese
onion (rn 01/01/2024)
Unexpected
dip puts official inflation figures in
doubt : Central bank says mid-October to
mid-November inflation rate dropped
sharply to 5.38 percent, a 22-month low,
by Krishana Prasain (kp 16/12/2023)
NOC
reduces petrol and diesel prices (kh
15/12/2023)
Soaring
demand and falling yields propel large cardamom
price to double : Nepali traders expect the
spice to break price records in the upcoming
months, by Laxman Gautam (kp 13/12/2023)
Onions
tear-inducingly pricey after India’s ban :
Traders fear by year’s end, prices may breach
November 2020 record when consumers paid Rs250 a
kilo, by Krishana Prasain (kp 11/12/2023)
Vegetable
prices drop sharply in Kathmandu : Cauliflower,
a common winter season vegetable, was priced at
a multi-year low of Rs15 per kg in the Kalimati
fruits and vegetable market on Tuesday (kp
23/11/2023)
Soaring
Consumer Prices, by Dixya Poudel (rn
22/11/2023)
No
review on fuel prices as auto pricing fails : On
October 1, Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal
ordered the cancellation of the increased price
of cooking gas, rendering the auto pricing
mechanism defunct, by Krishana Prasain (kp
21/11/2023), NOC
maintains petrol, diesel prices citing gas
deficit as reason for non-adjustment (rep
21/11/2023)
Nepali
coffee prices rise on heels of increasing
imports : Coffee imports jumped 155 percent to
Rs325.86 million in the last fiscal year. Nepal
imported 450.29 tonnes of coffee in the review
period, by Krishana Prasain (kp
18/11/2023)
Y-o-Y
Consumer Price Inflation surges in Ktm Valley
and Mountain region: NRB (rep 15/11/2023)
Onions
become pricier after India moves to curb exports
: Householders are paying Rs150 per kg for the
pungent bulb, which is indispensable in Nepali
kitchens, by Krishana Prasain (kp
01/11/2023)
Bada
Inflation at Bada Dasain (nt 20/10/2023)
Inflation
is driving cost of living, by Kamal Dev
Bhattarai (ae 18/10/2023)
Government
depot selling goats at last year’s price : Food
Management and Trading Company started selling
live animals from its Thapathali outlet on
Tuesday at the rate of Rs680 per kg (kp
18/10/2023)
Inflation
surges beyond target, Kitchen expenses pound
alarmingly (kh 17/10/2023), Consumer
inflation rate reaches 8.19 percent (rep
17/10/2023)
Why
Consumer Confidence Is Key to Bringing Down
Inflation, by Hari Prasad Shrestha (rep
17/10/2023)
NOC
reduces prices of petrol by Rs 11 per liter and
diesel by Rs 5 per liter (rep 15/10/2023)
Nepalis
brood over rising prices as festivals near :
With incomes stagnating due to a comatose
economy, people are forced to stretch every
rupee, by Subin Adhikari (kp 06/10/2023)
No
hike in transportation fare before festivals,
penalty for overcharging: Ministry (rn
06/10/2023)
Oil
price anomalies : The only alternative to
auto-pricing of imported fuel is a better
auto-pricing mechanism (kp 04/10/2023)
NOC
hikes price of all sorts of petroleum fuels from
Saturday midnight (rep 30/09/2023),
Govt instructs NOC to withdraw price hike of
petroleum products (rep 01/10/2023), NOC
reverses petroleum price hike (rep
01/10/2023),
Gasoline prices rolled back at PM’s order : On
Saturday, state-owned monopoly Nepal Oil
Corporation had jacked up fuel prices by Rs2 to
Rs6 per litre, by Krishana Prasain (kp
02/10/2023)
Nepalis
count their paisas as prices take off :
Inflation has gone over 7 percent, leading
people to become stingy even during festivals,
by Krishana Prasain (kp 29/09/2023)
Surging
sugar prices leave bitter taste, by Sangay
Sherpa (ht 27/09/2023) [In
any case, it would be better if Nepalis reduced
their sugar consumption somewhat. Maybe the
higher prices will help!]
Inflation
marginally increases to 7.52 percent during
mid-July and mid-August compared to the previous
month (rep 17/09/2023)
NOC
raises prices of petroleum products (kh
15/09/2023)
NOC
hikes petroleum prices by a notable amount
(rep 31/08/2023)
Nepalis
hit by rising prices every which way : As if
costlier food was not enough, the government has
been finding new ways to tax its
inflation-stricken citizens, by Krishana
Prasain (kp 28/08/2023)
Bagmati
government ups public transport and cargo fares
: As per the new fares, passengers travelling in
public vehicles operating in the Valley have to
pay Rs19 for a five-kilometre ride (kp
25/08/2023)
Onion
price surged by 29 percent (ae 22/08/2023)
Wholesale
price of tomatoes, fruits, vegetables and fish
sees a marginal decline today (with list)
(rep 21/08/2023)
Indicators
of inflation, foreign direct investment bad in
FY 2022/23 (rep 19/08/2023)
NRB
fails to control consumer inflation (rep
18/08/2023)
Soaring
tomato exports push up prices in Nepal :
Shipments could reach the annual export figure
in a few weeks the way warehouses are being
emptied, traders say, by Krishana Prasain
and Jyoti Shrestha (kp 16/08/2023), Shortages
and good neighbourliness : India’s food
inflation rose to 11.5 percent in July due to
increasing commodity prices, by Smruti S
Pattanaik (kp 17/08/2023)
NOC
increases prices of petroleum products : Price
of diesel, kerosene increase by Rs 14 per liter,
petrol by Rs 5 (kh 15/08/2023)
India
bans rice exports, Nepali consumers feel the
impact : Price of rice of non-basmati variety
has increased by up to Rs 250 per sack in Nepali
market after the government of India imposed
export ban on July 20, by Kalpana Ghimire
(nlt 08/08/2023)
Tomatoes
cost Rs 180 a kg in Pokhara (rep
06/08/2023), Why
tomatoes have become so expensive in Nepal : A
tomato scarcity in India has sent prices soaring
to unreal heights, and Nepali traders are
scrambling to export their stocks, by
Krishana Prasain (kp07/08/2023)
Struggle
to exist : While the traders attribute the
recent price hike to global inflationary
pressures, a recent report says otherwise
(kp 04/08/2023)
Consumer
price rise in Nepal tops global trend :
Advocates of consumer rights have urged the
government to cancel the 40 percent import duty
imposed on sugar, by Krishana Prasain (kp
02/08/2023)
Nepal
sees mixed fuel price shift: Petrol up by Rs
8.5/l, diesel Rs 7.5/l, LPG drops by Rs
100/cylinder (rep 01/08/2023), NOC
hikes prices of petroleum products; LPG cheaper
(kh 01/08/2023)
Traders
hike rice prices as India orders export halt :
New Delhi said it was imposing a ban on the
export of non-Basmati white rice to keep its
food reserve intact, by Krishana Prasain (kp
30/07/2023)
Bagmati
Province slashes public transport and cargo
fares : As per the new fare, passengers
travelling in public vehicles plying in Valley
have to pay Rs18 for five kilometres (kp
28/07/2023)
Nepal
Oil revives auto pricing of fuel : Jet fuel,
however, is left out of the pricing system,
drawing condemnation from experts, by
Krishana Prasain (kp17/07/2023), Public
transport fare decreases with implementation of
Automated Pricing System in petroleum products
(kh 17/07/2023), Public
transport fare reduced by approx 3 percent
(kh 17/07/2023)
Inflation
moderated to 6.83 percent last month: NRB
(rep 10/07/2023)
Homemakers
become stingy as veggie prices surge : Vegetable
prices have jumped three-fold in two weeks in
Kathmandu Valley on reduced deliverie, by
Krishana Prasain (kp 10/07/2023), Kitchen
sink realism : Households are now having to cut
the number of daily curry servings as the price
of vegetables has rocketed (kp 11/07/2023)
Ginger
prices soar on low output in India : Exports
almost doubled to 21,098 tonnes valued at
Rs997.76 million in the first 11 months of the
fiscal year, by Pradeep Menyangbo (kp
04/07/2023)
NOC
slashes prices of petroleum products (kh
03/07/2023)
Chicken
becomes costlier as hot weather hits output :
Lower production due to heat stress has pushed
up prices. Chicken farmers say the government
has not been compensating them for the losses
(kp 01/07/2023)
FinMin
Mahat clarifies that govt imposes VAT on potato
and onion to protect and boost the domestic
production (rep 28/06/2023)
NOC
reduces prices of aviation fuel (rep
21/06/2023)
Fewer
onions, more tears, by Sangay Sherpa (ht
15/06/2023)
Traders
stop potato, onion imports after VAT decision :
Consumer rights activists say revenue-hungry
government is taxing everything, at the cost of
inflation-hit Nepalis, by Krishana Prasain
(kp 12/06/2023), VAT
makes the poor food insecure, say experts :
Nepal relies heavily on imported onions and is
gradually becoming a net importer of potatoes,
by Pawan Pandey (kp 13/06/2023)
Consumer
price inflation remains at 7.41 percent against
the 7 percent target (kdh 09/06/2023)
Sugar
price to fall as govt reduces customs duty
(rep 30/05/2023)
Transportation
fare decreases in Bagmati Province (kh
25/05/2023), Bagmati
Province’s reduction in bus fares has not been
implemented, commuters complain : The Bagmati
provincial Ministry of Labour, Employment and
Transport slashed bus fares last week, by
Anup Ojha (kp 29/05/2023)
Govt
slashes fare for long-distance public transport
(kh 17/05/2023), Transport
fare decreases (kh 17/05/2023)
NOC
slashes prices of diesel and kerosene (kh
16/05/2023)
Doctors' consultation fees
increase 14 percent (rep 15/05/2023)
Inflation
at 7.76 per cent (ht 11/05/2023)
NOC
receives reduced import prices for petrol and
diesel (rep 02/05/2023)
Costly
country : One of the poorest states in the world
has also become arguably among the most
expensive to live in (kp 25/04/2023)
Stubborn
inflation haunts Nepali consumers :
Higher-than-expected inflation has been reducing
household purchasing power and dragging growth,
by Krishana Prasain (kp 20/04/2023)
Inflation
exceeds cap of 7.44 percent (kh 11/04/2023)
Airfare
reduced following NOC’s decision to slash
aviation fuel price (rep 06/04/2023), Domestic
airlines reduce airfares (ht 06/04/2023)
Price
of petroleum products down by almost Rs
10 effective Monday midnight : Petrol to
cost Rs 175 per liter, diesel and
kerosene Rs 165 per liter (kh
03/04/2023), Nepal
Oil accused of profiteering at the
expense of consumers : The state-owned
oil monopoly is the country’s largest
enterprise with an annual turnover of
nearly Rs400 billion, by Krishana
Prasain (kp 04/04/2023)
India
sends revised list with reduced fuel
price : Despite reduced fuel costs, the
oil monopoly has kept prices unchanged
stating the outstanding dues it has to
pay to the IOC (kp 02/04/2023)
Costly
existence : With the official inflation rate now
up to 7.68 percent—and the unofficial rate
perhaps much higher—those with well-paying jobs
fret about the rising prices too, by Cilla
Khatry (ae 28/03/2023)
Government
rolls back decision to increase fertiliser
prices : The decision came on a day when Prime
Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal was set to face yet
another vote of confidence in Parliament (kp
21/03/2023)
Nepalis
forced to pay more for rice, no one knows why :
According to market observers, the price of the
most common food grain in Nepali homes has gone
up by Rs100 to Rs700 per bag, by Krishana
Prasain (kp 19/03/2023)
IOC
slashes petrol price by 86 paisa/l and diesel by
Rs 1.50/l for Nepal (rep 17/03/2023)
DDC
increases milk price (kh 16/03/2023), DDC
hikes milk prices : A half-litre of milk in a
blue packet now costs Rs48.50, green packet Rs65
and yellow packet at Rs58 (kp 17/03/2023)
Systemic
failure : The way the Nepal Oil Corporation
currently sets the prices of petroleum products
makes no sense (kp 14/03/2023)
Nepal
hikes chemical fertiliser prices to curb
subsidies : Nepal’s chemical fertiliser subsidy
bill is likely to shoot up to a record Rs38.50
billion this fiscal year as import prices have
swelled tremendously (kp 14/03/2023)
Y-o-Y
consumer price inflation increases over 1
percent in seven months (kh 12/03/2023)
Milk
has become expensive. Now, it’s the turn of
state-owned DDC to hike rates : Sources say that
the state-owned dairy corporation has proposed a
hike to what the private sector has increased,
by Krishana Prasain (kp 12/03/2023)
Govt
hikes price of milk by Rs 9 per liter (rep
04/03/2023)
More
Nepalis expect inflation to increase : Perceived
price rises among Nepali consumers over the next
12 months hit a new high of 12 percent, the
central bank says, by Krishana Prasain
(19/02/2023)
Consumers
expect inflation to continue (rn 15/02/2023)
NOC
hikes fuel prices (ht 08/02/2023)
India
tax exemptions may make EVs cheaper in Nepal :
The Indian government has waived taxes on
several inputs through the budget for the fiscal
year 2023-24, by Krishana Prasain (kp
05/02/2023)
Tomato
prices plunge as imports from India soar : The
cold wave has reduced domestic output and
increased imports from India have made the
vegetable cheaper, by Om Prakash Thakur (kp
30/01/2023)
Waiver
of ten percent service charge will not bring
down price, by Santosh Pokharel (rep
30/01/2023)
Inflation
falls to 9-month low due to base effect :
Consumers only know that groceries have become
costlier, and they couldn't care less about
complex statistics, observers say, by Sangam
Prasain (kp 14/01/2023)
Rising
prices of fast food leave consumers feeling sick,
by Aashish Mishra (rn 06/01/2023)
Dairy
businesspersons not to increase milk price
(kh 02/01/2023), No
price hike in dairy products for now (kh
04/01/2023)
Nepal:
Sliding Slowly into the Slippery Slope of
Hyperinflation!, by Pradip Kumar Kafle (rep
28/12/2022)
‘Inflation
will remain high in the foreseeable future’,
interview with Keshav Acharya, economist and
former executive director of the Nepal Rastra Bank
(kp 19/12/2022)
NOC
slashes prices of petroleum products (kh
16/12/2022), Too
little, too late : Consumers feel cheated as NOC
flouts its own promise to enforce auto-pricing
system, by Rajesh Khanal (rep 18/12/2022)
Inflation
makes Kathmandu an expensive dining destination
: Cost of dining in restaurants and hotels rose
15 percent year-on-year in the first quarter, a
central bank report says, by Krishana
Prasain (kp 08/12/2022)
Inflation
may continue into next year, central bank says :
Inflation was recorded at 8.5 percent in October
2022 compared to 4.24 percent in the same month
last year, according to Nepal Rastra Bank,
by Krishana Prasain (kp 30/11/2022)
Market
prices rocket while officials busy themselves
with election : Consumer activists and
economists say that the recent increase in
prices is the result of lack of market
inspection, by Krishana Prasain (kp
20/11/2022)
Remittance
and tourism will cushion Nepal against
inflation, banker says : As per Mashreq Bank
executive James Pearson, 2023 will be a
challenging year for many economies and
consumers, by Himendra Mohan Kumar (kp
18/11/2022)
Consumer
inflation hits 8.50 percent: NRB (kh
17/11/2022)
Rising
dollar makes winter clothes more expensive :
Prices of clothes and footwear rose by 7.68
percent in the first two months of this fiscal
year, the central bank said, by Krishana
Prasain (kp 08/11/2022)
Outstanding
dues prompt NOC to maintain fuel prices (ht
04/11/2022)
Paddy
prices likely to cool after India clears
shipment : The market has been up since the
southern neighbour imposed export curbs nearly
two months ago (kp 03/11/2022)
Consumers
in remote districts hard hit by skyrocketing
inflation (rn 26/10/2022)
Nepal
inflation skyrockets to 8.64 percent; double
compared to last year (nlt 21/10/2022), Consumer Price
Inflation remains at 8.64 percent (kh
21/10/2022), Nepal’s
inflation hit 74-month high in September : Price
rises in the month more than doubled to 8.64
percent from 3.49 percent in the same month last
year, according to Nepal Rastra Bank, by
Krishana Prasain (kp 22/10/2022)
NOC
not to adjust petrol price, gets profit of
Rs14.56 per liter on petrol (kh 17/10/2022),
Fuel
still expensive despite fall in international
prices : Nepal Oil Corporation says it cannot
slash prices because of massive accumulated
losses, by Krishana Prasain (kp 18/10/2022),
Squeezing
the public : It is criminal to continue with
levies that contribute to inflation and bring
hardship to people’s lives (kp 19/10/2022)
Nepal’s
economic growth will reach 4.2 percent and price
growth 8.1 percent this year: IMF (kh
12/10/2022)
Govt
fixes price of 1ltr bottled water at Rs 16 and a
20 ltr jar at Rs 47 (rep 12/10/2022)
Post-pandemic
price hike hit Dashain (kp 01/10/2022)
Stagflation
: Or a bumpy inflation in Nepal?, by Kanchan
Rauniyar (ht 26/09/2022)
Goat
prices may rise this Dashain despite the supply
glut, by Krishana Prasain (kp 26/09/2022)
Rice
eaters face rising prices after India strangles
supply : The southern neighbour initiated the
move to boost supplies and calm prices after
below-average monsoon rainfall curtailed
planting, by Krishana Prasain (kp
25/09/2022)
Food
Management and Trading Company reduces prices of
food items as Dashain nears (rep 24/09/2022)
Finance
ministry’s negligence makes sugar expensive in
festive season, by Dilip Poudel (nag
22/09/2022)
Ever-rising
prices spoil Dashain shopping mood : The prices
of food, clothes, footwear and electronic
accessories could increase by 20-30 percent this
Dashain, traders say, by Krishana Prasain
(kp 07/09/2022)
NOC
ups prices of diesel and kerosene (kh
02/09/2022)
Campaign
spending expected to increase inflationary
pressure : Nepal’s inflation was recorded at
8.08 percent in July when the fiscal year
closed, which is double last year’s figure,
by Krishana Prasain (kp 20/08/2022)
Nepal
Oil says will not reduce fuel prices despite
fall in import prices : The oil monopoly reports
it is still in the red with losses falling from
billions to millions, by Krishana Prasain
(kp 17/08/2022), NOC
is still at a Rs 50 billion loss. Who is
then making the profit from higher prices of
petroleum products? (rep 17/08/2022)
Nepal
Oil Corporation’s Price Stabilization Fund: Have
Nepalis benefited from it? What use is the 13
billion rupees fund if we, the consumers, still
have to pay high prices for fuel?, by Anjila
Shrestha (nlt 08/08/2022)
Can’t
adjust price of petroleum products, NOC says
(kh 03/08/2022)
Keeping
down prices : We have become a commodity
importing nation, and global inflation easily
passes on to us, by Rabindra Maharjan (kp
01/08/2022)
Households
feel the heat as kitchen gets expensive with
rising food prices : People are cutting down
budget for meals, as plates have become more
expensive in what is termed ‘lunchflation’,
by Pawan Pandey (kp 25/07/2022)
Public
transport fares increased (rep 24/07/2022)
Reluctance
to implement adjusted transport fares (rep
17/07/2022)
Nepal
Telecom reduces service charges (kh
17/07/2022)
Inflation
close to double-digit mark : Central bank report
shows year-on-year inflation hit 8.56 percent in
the first 11 months of this fiscal year, by
Krishana Prasain (kp 12/07/2022), Inflation
at 8.56 percent this fiscal breaks records of
last five years (kh 12/07/2022)
DoTM
hikes public transport fare (nlt
12/07/2022), Passenger
and cargo fares hiked, again : The passenger
transport fare has been hiked by 1.97 percent.
For cargo carriers plying on the Tarai and hills
routes, fares have been raised by 2.6 percent
and 2.34 percent, respectively (kp
12/07/2022)
Inflation
will surpass target in next fiscal year as well:
Governor Adhikari (rep 11/07/2022)
Veggie
prices in valley skyrocket (ht 10/07/2022)
Rising
freight rates push up food import costs : High
living costs in cities like Kathmandu have
forced people from low economic backgrounds to
cut down on consumables, including water, by
Krishana Prasain (kp 05/07/2022)
Petrol
price hiked by Rs. 2, diesel, kerosene by Rs. 9
(rn 04/07/2022), Price
of petroleum products hiked again : Petrol to
cost Rs 181 per liter, diesel and kerosene Rs
172 per liter (kh 04/07/2022)
Rising
vegetable prices hit consumers (rep
03/07/2022)
The
tango of inflation and soaring food prices : The
consumer price inflation in an import-reliant
country like Nepal is also heavily influenced by
transport cost, which in turn is determined by
fuel prices, by Anushka Nepal (ae
05/07/2022)
A
Good Gesture Of Government, by Uttam
Maharjan (rn 28/06/2022)
Government
decreases transport fare (kh 27/06/2022)
House
committee orders fuel tax cut as Nepalis
struggle with rising prices . With food and fuel
prices going through the roof, the Nepali
economy could encounter another setback, and
poverty can be expected to rise, economists say,
by Krishana Prasain (kp 25/06/2022), Govt
slashes fuel prices following widespread
criticism : The government decided to reduce
petrol price by Rs 20 per liter and diesel price
by Rs 28 per liter (nlt 25/06/2022), Govt
reduces petroleum product price, petrol Rs
179/liter and diesel Rs 163 now (kh
25/06/2022)
Rising
prices, falling morale : Constantly increasing
fuel prices have a direct effect on the cost of
essentials (kp 23/06/2022)
Fuel
prices cost dear : The government can
remove some of the taxes levied on the imported
fossil fuel at the customs points (ht
22/06/2022)
Inflation-ridden
Nepalis hit by record hike in petroleum prices :
Rising inflation has played havoc with household
budgets causing anguish to the provider of the
family, experts say, by Sangam Prasain and
Krishana Prasain (kp 21/06/2022), Surging
petroleum prices set to fuel inflation, by
Sangay Sherpa (ht 21/06/2022)
Public
transport fare goes up (nlt 20/06/2022)
Domestic
airfare goes up as NOC jacks up fuel prices to
record level (nlt 20/06/2022)
Petrol
to cost Rs 199, diesel Rs 192 from today (kh
20/06/2022)
High
inflation hits livelihood of low-income groups,
by Laxman Kafle (kp 19/06/2022)
Fuel
prices increase in new list sent by IOC (rep
17/06/2022), More
fuel price hikes loom large (ht 17/06/2022)
Shrinkflation:
You’re getting less for same price as packages
become smaller : Firms are making product
packets smaller instead of raising prices as
high production costs bite, by Krishana
Prasain and Pawan Pandey (kh 13/06/2022)
Inflation
increases two-fold in tenth month of running
fiscal compared to last year (kh 10/06/2022)
Govt
increases public transport fares (kh
10/06/2022)
NOC
hikes petro-prices yet again : Petrol to cost Rs
178 per liter, diesel and kerosene Rs 165
(kh 09/06/2022)
Oil
utility mulls reviving dual pricing on cooking
gas, insiders sceptical : Price discrimination,
which will allow households to buy LPG at a
subsidised price and commercial users to pay the
cost price, was envisioned 10 years ago, by
Krishana Prasain (kp 07/06/2022)
Public
transport fares slashed (nlt 03/06/2022)
Lawmakers
draw government’s attention to rising inflation
: Lawmakers accuse government of not taking any
measures to tame inflation and rising prices of
petroleum products (nlt 03/06/2022)
IOC
sends increased price list of petroleum products
(rep 02/06/2022)
Govt
slashes infrastructure tax on diesel and petrol
by Rs 10 (kh 01/06/2022)
Things
get pricier after new budget when people are
already hit hard by inflation : Both
petrol-powered and electric four-wheelers,
high-end motorcycles, alcohol and tobacco
products will become pricier due to higher taxes,
by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 01/06/2022)
Public
importance motion on price hike of petro
products filed at Parliament (nlt
24/05/2022)
Much
talk but little action to tame rising inflation
which is biting Nepalis hard : There should be
social protection schemes, fair price shops and
reduction of import duties to offset price
rises, experts say, by Sangam Prasain and
Krishana Prasain (kp 23/05/2022)
NOC
hikes fuel prices (nlt 22/05/2022), Fuel
prices up, again : Petrol costs Rs180 a litre,
diesel Rs163, cooking gas Rs1,800 per cylinder
now (kp 23/05/2022)
Crunching
effects of inflation : The adversely affected
are always those at the bottom of the economic
pile (kp 19/05/2022)
Government
hikes public transport and cargo fares, again :
Revision comes in response to last week’s hike
in fuel prices (kp 18/05/2022)
With
inflation already crossing 7 percent mark in
Nepal, petro price hike to impact consumer goods
heavily (rep 16/05/2022)
Oil
Corporation hikes fuel prices by a steep Rs10
per litre : With the revised rate, the price of
petrol and diesel will cost Rs170 per litre and
Rs153 per litre respectively (kp 15/05/2022)
Restaurateurs
fret as rising prices keep diners away :
Restaurant and hotel inflation reached 6.05
percent in the first nine months of fiscal year,
by Krishana Prasain (kp 14/05/2022)
Inflation
fears as banks report large withdrawals ahead of
local elections : Central bank expects currency
in circulation to rise by Rs10-15 billion during
the elections, by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp
11/05/2022)
Inflation
on the rise with deficit balance of payments
(kh 11/05/2022)
Home
builders reel from rising cost of building
materials : Demand for goods has jumped, but
supply remains subdued due to low production,
by Pawan Pandey (kp 08/05/2022)
Vegetable
prices declining, but still expensive for
consumers (rn 08/05/2022)
Price
hike, inflation and consumption : Restricting
imports does not promote domestic goods nor
support a free market economy, by Roshee
Lamichhane (kp 06/05/2022)
What’s
your wedding budget? Expect to spend more :
Inflation has made life hard for everyone, and
marriage has become an expensive affair, as
prices are soaring, by Krishana Prasain (kp
25/04/2022)
Petrol
price to be cheaper by four rupees : India sends
new petroleum price rate (kh 18/04/2022)
Price
of vegetables soars in Kanchanpur (rep
18/04/2022)
Price
of lemon doubles in a month (rep 17/04/2022)
Central
bank independence : Inflation can be high when
there is a problem in the central bank’s
independence, by Ram Neupane (kp 14/04/2022)
Public
transport fares increased in Kathmandu Valley
(rep 14/04/2022), Public
transport fare goes up in Bagmati Province
(nlt 15/04/2022), New
transport fares in effect, start at Rs20 :
Government decides to implement automated
pricing system—fares rise or drop whenever fuel
prices go up or down by more than 5 percent
(kp 15/04/2022)
Consumer
price inflation stood at 7.14% in last 8 months:
NRB (kh 12/04/2022), Consumer
inflation soared to 7.14 percent last month: NRB
(rep 12/04/2022), Price
Of Oil, Vegetables, Milk Products Goes Soaring :
Inflation, at over 7%, hits consumers hard
(rn 13/04/2022)
Middlemen
rake it in while farmers and consumers suffer :
Kathmandu residents pay high prices for
vegetables, but growers get little of the money,
by Pawan Pandey (kp 09/04/2022)
Valley-based
cab operators to hike fares from Thursday
(rep 09/04/2022)
Petrol,
diesel prices reach new record high in Nepal
(nlt 05/04/2022), NOC
hikes petro-prices yet again : Petrol Rs 160,
diesel and kerosene Rs 143 per liter (kh
06/04/2022)
How
to address inflation pressure amid current
economic hardship? The authorities have always
been intervening in the wrong areas to tackle
the surging price level in the economy, by
Prience Shrestha (nlt 04/04/2022)
Govt
increases fare for long routes and cargo
vehicles (nlt 03/04/2022)
Transport
fares increased up to 15 pc (rep 03/04/2022)
As
fuel prices rise, Nepalis buffeted by stagnant
incomes and high inflation : The Department of
Transport Management has allowed transport
entrepreneurs to jack up bus fares and freight
charges on inter-provincial routes by 10 to 14
percent, by Krishana Prasain (kp 02/04/2022)
Govt
decides to raise transport fares by up to 14
percent (rep 31/03/2022)
Vegetables
become dearer on higher gasoline prices :
Transportation and labour charges have swelled
by 30 percent each in the past two months,
insiders say, by Krishana Prasain (kp
27/03/2022)
First
coronavirus, and now war is making food more
expensive : Poor households that spend a big
chunk of their budgets on food and fuel will be
forced to cut back on essentials due to higher
prices, economists say, by Krishana Prasain
(kp 26/03/2022)
Sky
high fuel price hits Nepal’s tourism, airlines :
Fallout of Ukraine war knocks country’s aviation
as it struggles to recover from pandemic (nt
25/03/2022)
Gear
up for yet another hike in bus fares : As the
government prepares to hike long-route bus fares
by 11 percent, consumer rights activist decries
plan. This will be the second increase in less
than a year, by Anup Ojha (kp 23/03/2022)
Buying
summer clothes? You may sweat : Increased
freight charges and customs duty mean higher
price tags, retailers say, by Krishana
Prasain (kp 19/03/2022)
NOC
increases price of petroleum products (kh
16/03/2022)
Domestic
airfare goes up (nlt 05/03/2022)
Nepali
consumer hit by higher cooking oil prices as
Ukraine-Russia war rages : Nepal imports most of
its crude sunflower oil requirement from
Ukraine, and shipments have stopped since the
fighting began, by Krishana Prasain (kp
03/03/2022)
Price
of petroleum products hiked by Rs 5; petrol to
cost Rs 150 per liter (kh 03/03/2022)
Feeling
the inflationary heat : Policymakers have done
nothing much to contain inflation, which is
primarily import driven (kp 24/02/2022)
Price
of cement down by Rs 20 (kh 23/02/2022)
Petroleum
prices rise to record levels in the wake of
Russia-Ukraine crisis : The repercussions of
rising prices could be much bigger in countries
like Nepal that depend on imported fuel, by
Krishana Prasain (kp 23/02/2022)
Elections
and soaring fuel prices may trigger
hyperinflation, economists say : Inflation
breached the central bank’s 6.5 percent
tolerance limit and crossed 7 percent in the
first five months of 2021-22, by Krishana
Prasain (kp 21/02/2022)
NOC
hikes petro-prices yet again : Petrol Rs 145,
diesel and kerosene Rs 128 per liter (kh
20/02/2022)
Nepalis
expect double-digit inflation over next one year
: Although government figures show a relatively
modest inflation, people are feeling increasing
inflationary pressure, by Prithvi Man
Shrestha (kp 17/02/2022)
Consumer
price of milk hiked by Rs 9 per liter (rep
10/02/2022), Price
of milk increased by Rs 9 per liter effective
from today (kh 11/02/2022), State-owned
DDC hikes milk prices : Now the 500ml blue
packet will cost Rs42.50, yellow packet Rs51 and
green packet will cost Rs57 in Kathmandu (kp
11/02/2022)
Fuel
prices hiked again (rep 02/02/2022)
NOC
hikes fuel prices; petrol, diesel dearer by Rs 3
per liter (nlt 19/01/2022), FNNTE
demands withdrawal of price hike of petroleum
products (kh 25/01/2022)
National
Dairy Development Board recommends increasing
price of milk by Rs 10 per liter (kh
16/01/2022), Government
preparing to adjust price of milk (ht
21/01/2022)
Inflation
soars to 7.11 percent in the fifth month of
current FY, general people hit hard as prices of
daily essentials reach five-year high (rep
13/01/2022), Inflation
on the rise, remittance dwindling and foreign
exchange reserve depleting (kh 13/01/2022),
Amid
a virus crisis, Nepalis grapple with an
inflation burst : Inflation hits a 64-month high
to 7 percent. Prices are going through the roof,
which could affect the overall standards of
living and hamstring economic growth, by
Krishana Prasain (kp 14/01/2022)
Taxi
fare in Valley to increase by 20 percent from
mid-January (rep 10/01/2022), Bagmati
Province hikes taxi fare effective from Jan 15 :
Flag-drop charge increased to Rs60 from existing
Rs14 and fare fixed at Rs9.80 per 200 metres
from Rs7.80, by Anup Ojha (kp 11/01/2022)
Taking
economic growth rate to 7 percent is
challenging: Governor Adhikari (kh
09/01/2022)
Sugarcane
price up 8 percent to Rs590 per quintal : From
2018, the government started fixing the floor
price of sugarcane in a bid to end constant
confrontation between sugarcane farmers and
sugar producers (kp 07/01/2022), Govt
Fixes Minimum Support Price Of Sugarcane At Rs.
590 Per Quintal (rn 07/01/2022)
Global
inflation and Nepal : Greater electricity use
can not only cut the fuel bill, but also clip a
potential source of imported inflation, by
Paban Raj Pandey (kp 27/12/2021)
Tame
the inflation, ensure greatest good of the
greatest number of Nepalis : Why should we, the
commoners, suffer at the hands of the few
unscrupulous business people? Should not the
state guarantee the greatest good to the
greatest number of the commoners?, by Jivesh
Jha (nlt 19/12/2021)
Sharp
rise in poultry feed mars farmers (kh
17/12/2021)
Nepali
consumers are being hit on two fronts, rights
activists say : The current price hike in the
market is caused by normal inflation, and there
is no artificial pricing, officials say, by
Krishana Prasain (kp 10/12/2021)
Food
prices soar but farmers left out of the bonanza
: Far from getting high prices for their paddy
as had been forecast, Kanchanpur farmers are
having a hard time even finding buyers, by
Bhawani Bhatta (kp 07/12/2021)
Manufacturers
lower prices of iron bars (rep 29/11/2021)
Oil
Price Hike in Nepal: Some Critical Observations,
by Shankar Man Singh (rep 26/11/2021)
Consumer
prices likely to rise on higher container
shipping rates : A global surge in freight
charges could raise consumer prices by 2.2
percent in the least developed countries, UNCTAD
says, by Krishana Prasain (kp 26/11/2021)
Inflation
expectations among Nepali consumers hit new
highs : A majority of people expect average
prices of goods and services to rise by a
staggering 11.3 percent over the next year,
according to the Inflation Expectation Survey
released on Sunday, by Krishana Prasain (kp
22/11/2021)
Price
Of Mutton Goes Up In Surkhet (rn 21/11/2021)
Coffee
prices in Nepal stagnate while global market
sees record multi-year highs : According to the
National Tea and Coffee Development Board, there
are 31,340 coffee farmers in Nepal, by
Krishana Prasain (kp 18/11/2021)
Six
students unions demand immediate withdrawal of
hike made in the prices of petroleum products
(rep 17/11/2021)
Control
Artificial Price Hike, by Narayan Upadhyay
(rn 16/11/2021)
Govt
hikes prices of petroleum products, yet again
(rep 11/11/2021), Chand-led
CPN announces nationwide strike against recent
hike in prices of petroleum products (rep
11/11/2021), Students’
unions gherao NOC against petro-price hike
(kh 12/11/2021), Nepal
Oil proposes to utilise stabilisation fund : The
state-owned monopoly has sought to use money
from the fund to subsidise costs as protests
erupt over high fuel prices, by Krishana
Prasain (kp 15/11/2021), Chand’s
banda is a dud, but the general public is at the
receiving end : General strikes are a thing of
the past and such old ways of protest must be
shunned, observers say, by Anup Ojha and
Shuvam Dhungana (kp 17/11/2021) [Bandhs are always crimes
against the people!]
Jump
in inflation sparks worries about economic
recovery : October floods have made some food
items costlier for consumers already feeling
heat of rising energy prices, by Krishana
Prasain (kp 01/11/2021)
NOC
hikes fuel prices (rep 30/10/2021), Students
demand withdrawal of price hike in petroleum
products (ht 01/11/2021)
Vegetable
prices soar due to heavy rains : Traders say
prices will rise further as production has been
affected in India and Nepal. Vegetable fields
that were ready for harvest were flooded
by the rainfall, by Krisdhana Prasain (kp
24/10/2021)
Global
coal supply shortage may hit Nepal too,
manufacturers say : They have warned prices of
building materials could skyrocket during
the peak construction season, by Krishana
Prasain (kp 11/10/2021)
Fare
of public transport in Kathmandu Valley hiked
(kh 07/10/2021), CFN,
passengers concerned about transport fare
increment ((kh 08/10/2021)
NOC
may hike petroleum prices any time as fuel
prices have soared in int’l market (rep
04/10/2021)
Price
Hike Of Goods On Eve Of Dashain Worries
Consumers, by Laxman Kafle (rn 03/10/2021)
After
Covid-19 pandemic, it’s price rise that is
biting Nepalis hard : There is a government but
there is no governance, say experts, as the
administration has failed to limit inflation
ahead of festivals and elections, by
Krishana Prasain (kp 28/09/2021)
Public
transport fare goes up as Dashain nears (kh
25/09/2021)
Nepal’s
inflation hit 4.35 percent in first month of
current FY (rep 23/09/2021)
Attention
drawn towards increasing internet price (kh
22/09/2021)
Government
subsidised stores open across country : The
scheme will not help to control prices, nor will
it benefit the targeted groups, activists say,
by Krishana Prasain (kp 18/09/2021)
ISP
companies to increase internet prices (rep
17/09/2021)
Price
of cooking oil increases (rep 16/09/2021)
Supply
chain goes haywire as constant rain soaks
country : Vegetable prices soar with the start
of festival season while traders blame shortages
as usual. If the rains continue, prices will
keep on rising, they say, by Krishana
Prasain (kp 04/09/2021)
Consumers
continue to be battered by rising prices :
Market intervention to ensure fair prices and
quality of food items has never been a priority
for the government, rights activists say, by
Krishana Prasain ( kp 27/08/2021)
NOC
increases price of petroleum products (kh
23/08/2021), NOC
increases fuel prices breaching auto-pricing
mechanism (rep 25/08/2021), Oil
Price Hike, Again!, by Shanker Man Singh
(rep 29/08/2021)
Inflation
is biggest worry for consumers after virus cuts
incomes : According to an Inflation Expectation
Survey Report, the majority of surveyed people
expect the average prices of goods and services
to grow by 10 percent in a year, by Krishana
Prasain (kp 23/07/2021)
NOC
slashes petro-prices by Rs 1 per liter (kh
15/07/2021)
Students
unions obstruct petro supplies from Thankot
Depot (kh 14/07/2021)
Passenger
fare of public transport hiked by 28 percent
(kh 14/07/2021), Public
transport fare goes up by 28% (kh
15/07/2021), Sher
Bahadur Deuba administration starts off with
hike in transport fares : Consumer activists
denounce the move as piling burdens on people
who are already suffering due to the lockdown,
by Sangam Prasain (kp 15/07/2021)
Skyrocketing
price-hike in daily commodities hits consumers,
by Sabina Karki (kh 11/07/2021)
State-owned
companies withdraw discount on groceries citing
end of lockdown : Finance Ministry says it has
given no such instruction as general public
continues to suffer from pandemic curbs, by
Krishana Prasain (kp 24/06/2021)
NOC
hikes petrol, diesel prices (kh 23/06/2021),
Student
Unions’ to continue nationwide agitation against
fuel price hike and other issues (kh
10/07/2021)
Vegetables
cost more due to incessant rain, lockdown
restrictions (kp 19/06/2021)
NOC
reduces price of international aviation fuel
(kh 07/06/2021), Nepal
Oil slashes jet fuel price by 20 percent, by
Sangam Prasain (kp 08/06/2021)
Cooking
oil price hike in local market attributed to
international causes ( ht 02/06/2021)
Nepalis
facing rising edible oil prices amid pandemic :
The price of essential items like cooking oil
has almost doubled in recent weeks, consumer
rights activists say, by Krishana Prasain
(kp 29/05/2021)
NOC
at loss even after repeatedly hiking prices of
petroleum products (rep 17/05/2021)
Inflation
at 3.10 per cent (ht 13/05/2021)
Consumers
face pain as prices of household essentials soar
: Experts blame lack of government inspection
for the rise in prices despite ample stock,
by Krishana Prasain (kp 06/05/2021)
Retail
prices of vegetables jump despitestable
wholesale rates in the Valley : Prices have
increased because of transportation difficulties
and higher freight charges, traders say, by
Krishana Prasain (kp 01/05/2021)
Retailers
urge government to probe rising food prices :
Essential goods have become costlier in the past
few days despite sufficient stocks and regular
supply, by Krishana Prasain (kp 24/04/2021)
Why
fuel prices have been rising and rising in Nepal
: Nepal imported Rs164 billion worth of
petroleum products in the last fiscal year ended
mid-July, by Krishana Prasain (kp
22/04/2021)
Govt
starts monitoring surge in chicken price (ht
21/04/2021)
NOC
hikes fuel price (rep18/04/2021)
Chicken
price surges due to low production (ht
17/04/2021)
Home
appliances become dearer as input costs soar :
According to electronic goods dealers, prices
have increased by up to 30 percent in the local
market, by Krishana Prasain (kp 31/03/2021)
Chicken
prices jump as supply falters due to travel
restrictions : Hatcheries import hens and
roosters to produce fertilised eggs which hatch
into broiler chicks. Production of chicks has
plunged to 2.5 million birds per week from 4
million, by Krishana Prasain (kp 24/03/2021)
Prices
of petroleum products hiked again; NOC says they
are still selling at a loss (rep 17/03/2021)
Falling
prices drive demand for gold but officials say
no to increasing import quota : Prices are
expected to go down but increasing the quota
could dent foreign currency reserves, central
bank officials say, by Krishana Prasain (kp
28/02/2021)
Rising
petroleum prices could lead to costlier
food items, traders say : Nepal Oil Corporation
has jacked up the price of diesel thrice in one
month citing global trends, by Krishana
Prasain (kp 23/02/2021)
NOC
raises fuel prices twice in a week on the
pretext of implementing automated pricing system
: State-owned oil monopoly is blamed for being
reluctant to reduce prices while it quickly
decides to hike prices to secure its profits
(rep 18/02/2021)
Automobile
prices poised to rise on higher metal costs :
Nepal imported vehicles and parts worth Rs44
billion in the first half of the current fiscal
year, by Krishana Prasain (kp 16/02/2021)
The
price of rice continues to increase and
cartelling is partly to blame, observers say :
Due to poor governance and political
instability, opportunists are hiking the price
of the Nepali staple for which the country is
dependent on imports, by Krishana Prasain
(kp 14/02/2021)
Ordinary
people are hit hard as food prices see a massive
surge, by Rajesh Khanal (rep 26/01/2021)
With
political instability, market prices soar : When
elections approach, market monitoring gets lax
and prices remain high, activists and experts
say, by Krishana Prasain (kp 24/01/2021)
Onion
prices still on high side despite resumption of
import : Traders say that prices are not
dropping due to high demand in the global market,
by Krishana Prasain (kp 14/01/2021)
With
reliance on imports, prices continue to go up :
Local production has been declining and fulfils
only 10-15 percent of the current requirement,
leading to increased reliance on imports,
merchants say, by Krishana Prasain (kp
08/01/2021) [This is
also a consequence of the Oli government's
misguided agricultural policy during the
pandemic: farming allowed, but marketing
prevented!]
Prices
swell as economy bounces back : Industrialists
cite higher cost of raw materials and freight
charges for the upsurge in market prices, by
Madhav Dhungana (kp 06/01/2021)
Onion
price expected to drop in 2021 (ht
01/01/2021)
Domestic
steel and iron prices rise as India seeks ban :
Nepal has been majorly importing raw material
for iron and steel and finished products from
India mainly for construction purposes, by
Krishana Prasain (kp 27/12/2020)
Floor
prices for coffee raised by 5 percent : The new
pricing will ensure a 22 percent profit for
farmers, excluding their cost of production,
by Lal Prasad Sharma (kp 24/11/2020)
Traders
jack up vegetable prices on the pretext of Tihar
festival : Prices expected to stabilise as
seasonal vegetables arrive in larger volumes,
by Krishana Prasain (kp 18/11/2020)
Prices
of dried fruits remain stable in run-up to
Tihar, by Krishana Prasain (kp 10/11/2020)
Prices
of essential kitchen ingredients surge ahead of
Tihar buying rush : The proliferation of market
offences is due to the government’s weak
inspection system, activists say, by
Krishana Prasain (kp 07/11/2020)
Marigold
flowers are going to be rarer and dearer this
Tihar, traders say : Celebrators can expect to
pay Rs20 more per garland because marigolds will
be hard to come by after the growing season,
by Krishana Prasain (kp 02/11/2020)
Onion
prices refuse to drop despite imports from China
: Wholesalers at the Kalimati Fruits and
Vegetable Market are charging Rs130 per kg for
Chinese onions and Rs135 per kg for the Indian
product, by Krishana Prasain (kp 30/10/2020)
Shoppers
snap up goats at government outlet : The price
of live goats was fixed at Rs550 per kg, which
is Rs100 per kg less than the market price,
by Krishana Prasain (kp 21/10/2020)
With
income disrupted for most, Dashain economy
unlikely to do well : The prices of food items
like rice, lentils, legumes, edible oil too have
increased by Rs10 per kg on an average, by
Krishana Prasain (kp 18/10/2020)
Chicken
retail price drops by 30 percent in the Valley :
Demand, especially from hotels and restaurants,
has dried up completely, traders say, by
Krishana Prasain (kp 16/10/2020)
Vegetable
prices to remain high until new harvest : Stock
of rainy season vegetables brought from
neighbouring districts have sold out and
shipments from Tarai and India have yet to
arrive, officials say, by Krishana Prasain
(kp 06/10/2020), Vegetable
price skyrockets, by as much as 300 percent,
by Dilip Poudel (rep 07/10/2020)
Vegetable
prices skyrocket as sellers seek hefty profits
(kp 03/10/2020)
Consumer
price inflation slows to 3.49pc (ht
26/09/2020)
Dashain
shoppers will have to brace for higher prices :
A hike in import duty, weakened Nepali rupee
against the dollar and higher transportation
costs prompted by the virus outbreak have made
goods dearer, by Krishana Prasain (kp
25/09/2020)
Onion
prices continue to shoot skyward despite
market inspection, by Krishana Prasain (kp
18/09/2020)
Potato
prices hit new highs as rain disrupts harvests :
Palung potato, the most sought after variety,
costs Rs110 per kg, up from Rs90 two weeks ago
while Mude potato now costs Rs100 per kg, up
from Rs80, by Krishana Prasain (kp
17/09/2020)
As
India bans onion export, prices in Nepal jump 50
percent : The restriction comes six months after
it was lifted in March as rains damaged crops in
southern India and wholesale prices there
trebled in a month amid inadequate supply,
by Krishana Prasain (kp 16/09/2020)
Nepalis
pay Rs 104.53 for 1GB mobile data use: Report
(rep 15/09/2020)
Food
prices unlikely to fall after last month’s steep
rise : Traders say that prices will not go down
in the short run with festivals around the
corner, by Krishana Prasain (kp 12/09/2020)
DoCSCP
Starts Monitoring Vegetable Stalls To Check
Price Hike (rn 28/08/2020)
Veggie
prices soar as production, supply decline
(ht 25/08/2020)
Government
sets maximum retail price of bottled water: The
new price will come into effect from August 26
in three districts of Kathmandu valley including
Kavrepalanchok, by Krishana Prasain (kp
11/08/2020), Maximum
retail price set for bottled water not to apply
to premium brands: Traders charging more than
the maximum retail price may be fined Rs 200,000
to Rs 300,000, officials say, by Krishana
Prasain (kp 12/08/2020)
The
festival season gets underway with high prices,
low footfall and weak price monitoring: The
government lacks adequate competent personnel to
conduct regular market inspection, say officials.,
by Krishana Prasain (kp 07/08/2020)
Sugar
shortage hits Valley as festival season nears:
The household sweetener cost Rs 72 per kg before
the lockdown, and now the retail price has
crossed Rs 100 per kg, by Krishana Prasain
(kp 04/08/2020) [A
reduced consumption of sugar is better for
health either!]
NOC
hikes petrol, diesel prices (kh 01/08/2020)
Tea
growers set to reap virus bonanza as prices soar
amid lower production: According to domestic
producers, tea prices in Nepal are expected to
increase by 25 to 30 percent, by Krishana
Prasain (kp 28/07/2020)
Vegetable
prices rise sharply in the Valley as Tarai
floods slash supply: Traders say prices would
likely remain on the high side until the next
harvest due in about three months, by
Krishana Prasain (kp 24/07/2020), Vegetable
prices rise significantly due to floods,
landslides (ht 27/07/2020)
Inflation
at 14-month low of 4.54 per cent (ht
17/07/2020)
Consumer
rights activists, commuters criticise public
transport fare hike: The decision puts extra
burden on members of the public, who are already
stressed financially due to the Covid-19
pandemic and the lockdown, observers say, by
Anup Ojha (kp 12/07/2020)
Wholesale
prices of vegetables jump as supply shrinks:
Production has fallen due to constant rain
resulting in reduced deliveries, officials say,
by Krishana Prasain (kp 06/07/2020)
Chicken
price skyrockets to Rs 460 per kg in the Valley
(rep 04/07/2020), Middlemen
are jacking up chicken and egg prices amidst a
poultry shortage: The price of chicken meat has
risen to Rs 430 per kg compared to Rs 350 per kg
last week, by Krishana Prasain (kp
05/07/2020)
Retailers
continue to gouge customers despite a fall in
wholesale prices of most food items: Due to the
lack of government inspection, retail shops have
continued to raise prices, by Krishana
Prasain (kp 28/06/2020)
Vegetable
prices plunge as lockdown keeps customers away
from market: About 600 tonnes of fresh produce
arrive daily at the Kalimati wholesale bazaar,
officials said, by Krishana Prasain (kp
04/06/2020)
People
suffer as groceries become scarce and costly
under lockdown: Prices continue to rise even as
livelihoods have been taken away by the
restrictions enforced to tackle the pandemic,
by Krishana Prasain (kp 23/05/2020)
Meat
gets costlier with rising demand, falling supply
(ht 21/05/2020), Food
prices slightly up (ht 21/05/2020)
Veggie
prices drop on supply of local products (ht
03/05/2020)
Retailers
continue to raise vegetable prices despite
wholesale rates hitting rock bottom: Retail
prices of cauliflower, cabbage, squash, bitter
gourd, pumpkin and tomato have increased by Rs
25-30 per kg, by Krishana Prasain (kp
26/04/2020)
Farmers
likely to raise price of eggs after lockdown
(ht 26/04/2020)
Inflation
stood at 6.7pc in mid-March (ht 21/04/2020)
With
disruptions to supply chains and public
movement, inflation was only to be expected:
Despite the government’s assurances to keep
prices steady and supplies flowing, markets have
reported a steady rise in prices ever since the
lockdown was instituted, by Sangam Prasain
(kp 19/04/2020)
Mutton
prices increase sharply as lockdown enters its
fourth week: The price of the popular goat meat
in Kathmandu Valley has hit Rs1,500-1,800 per kg,
by Krishana Prasain (kp 14/04/2020)
Food
prices surge 15 percent in Kathmandu: Consumer
rights activists said that prices of food items
have increased as retailers are taking undue
advantage of the lockdown, by Krishana
Prasain (kp 12/04/2020)
Petrol,
diesel prices cut by Rs 10/litre: ‘Prices should
have come down by Rs 30 per litre’ (ht
02/04/2020), Fuel
dealers seek compensation from NOC (ht
03/04/2020)
Veg
prices escalate in Bhaktapur amid lockdown,
by Krishna KC (rep 30/03/2020)
Inflation
at 6.87pc in mid-February (ht 19/03/2020), Rising
food prices push up inflation to 6.87 percent
(rep 19/03/2020)
Days
after the biggest global price fall, Nepal Oil
Corporation slashes fuel prices: The decision
does not really bring relief to consumers as the
oil monopoly is still busy counting profits and
losses, economists and consumer rights activists
say, by Krishana Prasain (kp
17/03/2020)
Scant
chance of Nepalis benefiting from global oil
price plunge (rep 15/03/2020)
Govt
raises infrastructure tax on petrol, diesel by
Rs 5 per liter (rep 28/02/2020) [??]
Customers
snap up mushroom as price plunges to decade low:
On Sunday, the price of the vegetable rose to Rs
95-100 per kg, but it is still a bargain, by
Krishana Prasain (kp 24/02/2020)
Hatcheries
and feed factories agree to lower their prices
from Sunday: Poultry entrepreneurs had submitted
a petition to the government on Tuesday, by
Krishana Prasain (kp 21/02/2020)
Price
of Chinese dry garlic hits record high of Rs 720
per kg (rep 20/02/2020)
DoCSCP
to probe arbitrary hike in chicken price (ht
18/02/2020)
Petrol,
diesel prices down by Rs 2 (rep 18/02/2020)
Inflation
quickened to 6.82pc in mid-January (ht
17/02/2020), Inflation
surpasses govt target to reach 6.41% (rep
17/02/2020) [Why again
different numbers?]
Veg
prices moderate on improved supplies (rep
17/02/2020)
Following
government’s warnings of action, chicken
retailers lower prices to Rs 385 per kilo:
Chicken prices shot up to Rs 420 per kilo from
Rs 250 per kilo in mid-December due to supply
shortages, by Krishana Prasain (kp
10/02/2020)
Poultry
producers cite drop in output and higher feed
costs for price rise: Chicken meat now costs Rs
450 per kilo in the retail market compared to Rs
240 per kilo two months ago, by Krishana
Prasain (kp 05/02/2020), Chicken
price rises to Rs 410 per kg (rep
05/02/2020)
Chinese
dry garlic prices more than double on loss of
supplies: Outbreak of coronavirus in China has
brought cross-border trade from the northern
neighbour to a complete halt, by Krishana
Prasain (kp 02/02/2020), Dry
garlic skyrockets to Rs 560 a kilo as import
from China stops, by Sujita Pradhan (rep
03/02/2020)
Chicken
price rises to Rs 360 per kg (rep
29/01/2020)
Manufacturers
of building materials fail to give reason for
price hike: The Department of Commerce, Supplies
and Consumer Protection Management had given
them until Monday to provide an explanation,
by Krishana Prasain (kp 28/01/2020)
Consumer
price inflation at 6.55pc (ht 20/01/2020), Inflation
jumps to 6.33% Government has set a target of
containing inflation below 6% (rep
20/01/2020)
Consumers
find relief as onion prices come down (rep
18/01/2020)
Prices
of lentils, dried beans, edible oil, and flour
are up by almost one-third in the last 15 days:
The government is inactive in regulating the
prices of daily essentials, consumer activists
say, by Krishana Prasain (kp 12/01/2020)
Fuel
prices up by Rs 2 per liter (rep 02/01/2020)
Chicken
prices soar as cold snap descends on Nepal:
Chicken and egg producers insist they had no
option but to hike prices, by Krishana
Prasain (kp 27/12/2019), Eggspensive:
Poultry prices up after farmers’ foul play: Govt
remains a mute spectator as millions of chicks
culled (ht 27/12/2019), Chicken
price up by Rs 30 a kg (rep 30/12/2019)
NOC
hikes petrol, diesel, kerosene prices by Rs 2 a
liter (rep 03/12/2019)
Onion
prices hit record Rs200 per kg as Indian supply
dries up: India’s ban on onion exports has sent
prices soaring across Asia, by Krishana
Prasain (kp 25/11/2019), Onion
jumps to Rs250 per kg, costing the same as
chicken: The price of the essential vegetable
started rising after India banned exports due to
a domestic shortage, by Krishana Prasain (kp
27/11/2019), Onion
priced at record high of Rs 230 per kg, a 318 pc
surge in three months, by Arpana Ale Magar
(ht 27/11/2019)
Inflation
outpaces govt target, jumps to 6.44% (rep
22/11/2019)
NTCDB
sets coffee support price (ht 18/11/2019)
Nepal
isn't just importing two-thirds of its needs
from India, it’s also importing inflation: With
the Indian economy slowing and the Indian rupee
falling, Nepal could face increasing pressure on
its foreign exchange reserves, by Himendra
Mohan Kumar (kp 14/11/2019)
Vegetable
prices continue to rise : No respite for
vegetable consumers even after festival season
is over, by Sujeeta Pradhan (rep 09/11/2019)
One
kilo onions priced at eye-watering Rs 150,
by Arpana Ale Magar (06/11/2019)
Market
prices in Humla plunge with trucks moving cargo:
Goods are being brought in by trucks from China
through the border town of Hilsa, by Chhapal
Lama (kp 04/11/2019)
NEA
proposes to reduce power tariff (ht
04/11/2019), NEA
moves to lower premium tariff for commercial
users: Proposes a 30% premium on power supplied
through dedicated feeders, trunk lines (rep
04/11/2019)
Vegetable
prices continue to soar in Kathmandu amid
inadequate supply: Consumer rights activists
blame traders for the artificial price hike,
by Krishana Prasain (kp 02/11/2019)
Prices
of dried fruits jump as Tihar begins: Traders
point out market manipulation behind the sharp
increase in prices, by Krishana Prasain (kp
28/10/2019)
Marigold
prices likely to rise this season, say
merchants: A one-metre-long flower garland is
expected to cost Rs60-70, according to traders,
by Krishana Prasain (kp 22/10/2019)
Slump
in production and imports sends vegetable prices
soaring: Traders attributed the price rise to a
decline in local output, but consumer rights
activists accuse middlemen of inflating the
price, by Krishana Prasain (kp 19/10/2019)
Agriculture
Ministry proposes to hike paddy floor price by 7
percent this year: The ministry has recommended
a minimum support price of Rs26 per kg for
common paddy, by Rajesh Khanal (kp
18/10/2019)
Vegetable
prices increase by up to 80% in Surkhet (rep
13/10/2019)
Government
boosts dairy supply for Dashain: High-level
inspections which will continue during Dashain
to prevent unnecessary price hikes on dairy
products, by Krishana Prasain (kp
06/10/2019)
Fruit
prices soar by over 100 percent in Kathmandu:
Government has not conducted a single market
inspection of fruit markets in the Capital,
by Krishana Prasain (kp 05/10/2019)
Costly
Dashain: Regular market monitoring – not just
during festival time – could have prevented this
Dashain from turning sour for many Nepalis
(ht 04/10/2019)
Onion
prices spike on short supply, by Sujeeta
Pradhan (rep 04/10/2019)
State-owned
company says its goats are cheaper than the
market price: Food Management and Trading
Company has fixed the price of live goat at
Rs550 per kg, by Krishana Prasain (kp
01/10(2019)
Veggie,
meat prices unlikely to drop till festivities
end: Price of mutton is likely to reach Rs 1,500
per kg, by Arpana Ale Magar (ht 01/10/2019),
Government
sets price for goats, mountain goats (ht
01/10/2019)
As
prices soar, Nepal may be looking at a Dashain
with far fewer onions: As the country imports
almost all of its onions from India, an Indian
ban on exports means onion prices are likely to
rise exponentially in the coming days, by
Krishana Prasain (kp 30/09/2019)
Customers
say goods cheaper in the market than at fair
price shops: Supermarkets are wooing festive
shoppers by offering their own discounts, by
Krishana Prasain (kp 28/09/2019)
With
inflation at a three-year high of 6.95 percent,
consumers are looking at a dearer Dashain:
Prices for farm produce, including fruits,
vegetables and meat, have all gone up, as have
clothing and footwear prices, by Prithvi Man
Shrestha (kp 26/09/2019)
Inflation
at almost three-year-high of 6.95pc: Unnatural
price hike hints weak governance: Economists,
by Sujan Dhungana (ht 25/09/2019)
Vegetables
prices shoot up due to lack of market
inspection: The retail price of vegetables has
increased by up to Rs66 per kg, by Krishana
Prasain (kp 24/09/2019)
State
of real estate: How is it possible that land
prices in Nepali cities with poor infrastructure
are close to land prices in London, New York,
Tokyo and Shanghai?, by Ajaya Kusum Adhikari
(rep 11/09/2019)
Milk
to cost Rs38 per packet from Saturday: Dairy
Development Corporation has agreed to jack up
the price of milk by Rs6 per litre to Rs76 per
litre, by Rajesh Khanal (kp 06/09/2019), Milk
price up to Rs 10 per litre effective from
tomorrow (ht 06/09/2019)
Brace
yourself for expensive festivals, traders say:
Food prices spike due to tax hikes and shrinking
domestic production, by Krishana Prasain (kp
19/08/2019)
Milk
price may go up by Rs 10 per litre (ht
17/08/2019)
Consumer
rights activists slam Pathao's extra charge: The
ridesharing company says the extra cost is
operational charge, by Krishana Prasain (kp
14/08/2019)
MoALD
preparing to raise milk price (ht
12/08/2019)
Fruit
prices soar with festivals just around the
corner: Importers are raising prices to offset
losses incurred during chemical testing, by
Krishana Prasain (kp 11/08/2019)
Vegetable
prices skyrocketing (ht 03/08/2019)
Vegetable
prices increase because of middlemen, by
Rekha Bhusal (rep 27/07/2019), Middlemen
are raising vegetable prices even though there's
no disruption in the supply chain: Middlemen see
no resistance from the government when hiking
prices, by Krishana Prasain (kp 29/07/2019),
Vegetable
prices in valley skyrocket, by Arpana Ale
Magar (ht 29/07/2019)
Mutton
and chicken prices rise, by Muna Sunuwar
(rep 27/07/2019)
Service
providers withdraw 13% TSC levied on internet
users, by Muna Sunuwar (rep 27/07/2019)
Meat
sales, and price, shoot up despite occurrence of
holy month: Traders said the traditional
meat-free month could have been disregarded due
to the lunar eclipse, by Krishana Prasain
(kp 23/07/2019)
Subdued
inflation soars to 6.2 percent: Inflation
expectation, increment in the wages, and price
rise in India accelerate inflation (rep
20/07/2019)
Internet
prices likely to go up from mid-July, by
Muna Sunuwar (rep 16/07/2019), Internet
access to become costlier due to addition of
service charge: Service providers will be adding
13 percent to the bill as telecommunication
service charge from Wednesday, by Krishana
Prasain (kp 17/07/2019)
Fresh
vegetables are becoming scarcer in Kathmandu
Valley: Deliveries of farm products shrink as
floods wipe out crops, causing prices to jump,
by Krishana Prasain (kp 15/07/2019), Veggie
prices on rise due to supply
constraint (ht 16/07/2019)
Vegetable
prices increase by almost 33% in a day (rep
14/07/2019)
Import
of live goat declines, price skyrockets (ht
13/07/2019)
Veggie
prices going down slightly (ht 23/06/2019)
Internet
prices likely to go up from mid-July, by
Zenith Shah (rep 19/06/2019)
Public
transportation fares go up 20 percent: Commuters
in Kathmandu Valley will now have to pay a
minimum of Rs 17 for short commutes, up from Rs
14, by Prahlad Rijal (kp 14/06/2019), Govt
hikes transport fare, rolls it back (ht
14/06/2019)
Retail
prices in Province 5 rise steeply after release
of budget, by Ghanashyam Gautam, Thakur
Singh Tharu, Madhav Aryal and Rupa Gahatraj (kp
13/06/2019)
Value
added tax shoots prices of essentials: Rice,
pulses, sugar and flour have become dearer after
the budget, by Rajesh Khanal (kp 10/06/2019)
Inflation
set to rise with new taxes, by Umesh Poudel
(ht 07/06/2019)
Internet
service providers say data charges will go up
from next fiscal: The average monthly cost of an
internet connection will jump from Rs1,400 to
Rs1,680 from July 17 (kp 05/06/2019)
Lime
prices up 41 percent on high demand, low supply,
by Zenith Shah (rep 27/05/2019)
Consumer
inflation moderates to 4.4pc (kp
21/05/2019), Inflation
moderates to 4.4 percent on subdued food prices:
Average inflation of nine months at 4.2 percent,
lower than the government's target 6.5 percent
(rep 22/05/2019)
Tomato
retail price hits the roof at Rs 125 per kg in
Kathmandu, by Krishana Prasain (kp
20/05/2019)
Vegetable
prices nearly double to record highs (rep
18/05/2019)
Bird
flu havoc: Chicken price, demand drop
drastically (ht 09/05/2019)
Fall
in imports, bird flu scare drive up price of
goat meat, by Krishana Prasain (ht
04/05/2019)
Vegetable
prices plunge up to 50pc in past week, by
Krishana Prasain (kp 09/04/2019)
Inflation
moderates to 4.4% (rep 17/03/2019)
Vegetable
prices jump up to 66 percent after seeing steep
fall, by Krishana Prasain (kp 16/03/2019)
DoTM
likely to hike public transport fare (ht
27/02/2019)
Rose
prices surge ahead of Valentine’s Day, by
Krishana Prasain (kp 03/02/2019)
Rainfall
sinks veggie prices in the Capital, by
Krishana Prasain (kp 25/01/2019)
ISPs
threaten to hike charges: Cite the 500pc hike in
fee for use of NEA’s electricity poles (ht
20/01/2019)
Veggie
prices ease on sufficient production, by
Krishana Prasain (kp 12/01/2019)
Airfare
lowered as NOC reduces aviation fuel price by Rs
10 (rep 12/01/2019)
Sand,
aggregate prices fall on slow demand, improved
supplies (rep 08/01/2019)
Non-food
and service inflation rose faster as food
inflation moderated (rep 08/01/2019)
Nepal
Oil
says it needs to recover huge losses:
International oil prices had risen sharply a few
months ago, but the government forbade it from
jacking up gasoline prices
commensurately because it was the festival season,
by Rajesh Khanal (kp 05/01/2019)
Fuel
prices to come down further (ht 02/01/2019)
Govt
preparing to hike taxi fare (ht 02/01/2019)
Average
wholesale prices of vegetables down 24pc, by
Krishana Prasain (kp 01/01/2019)
Inflation
rises to 4.2 percent: NRB data shows price index
of vegetables, sugar products, pulses fell in
mid-November (rep 25/12/2018)
Domestic
price of precious metals increase (rep
16/12/2018)
Supply
glut drops veggie prices in Kathmandu, by
Krishana Prasain (kp 08/12/2018)
NOC
slashes fuel prices by Rs2 a litre: The prices of
aviation fuel and cooking gas remain unchanged
(kp 04/12/2018)
Stronger
dollar makes home devices costlier, by
Krishana Prasain (kp 04/12/2018)
NOC
reluctant to reduce price even as international
rates fall (ht 28/11/2018)
Inflation
without
cause: In the past two decades, food price has
blazed through the roof to unimaginable heights
and yet the government has done nothing to pull it
down, by Ajaya Kusum Adhikari (rep 27/11/2018)
Veggie
prices ease as winter harvests arrive, by
Krishana Prasain (kp 19/11/2018)
Nepali
coffee
prices hiked to support farmers: The Prime
Minister Agriculture Modernisation Project has
announced Gulmi, Syangja, Arghakhachhi, Pyuthan
and Palpa as coffee super zones, by Lal Prasad
Sharma (kp 18/11/2018)
Vegetable
prices
cooling down as supplies pick up: Kalimati Market,
which is the major supplier of vegetables in
the Valley, receives 700-750 tonnes of vegetables
daily, by Krishana Prasain (kp 11/11/2018)
Fruit
prices increase as Tihar festival kicks off,
by Krishana Prasain (kp 07/11/2018)
NOC
hints at fuel price hike, by Sujan Dhungana
(ht 05/11/2018)
Fuel
prices likely to go up after festivals, by
Rajesh Khanal (kp 31/10/2018)
Prices
of dried fruits rise on strong dollar, by
Krishana Prasain (kp 31/10/2018)
Marigold
prices to see rise this Tihar, by Krishana
Prasain (kp 30/10/2018)
Major
veggies become cheaper as supply rises (ht
26/10/2018)
egetable
prices rise on higher festival demand (kps
23/10/2018)
Panel
to study sugar pricing an eye-wash, by Pushpa
Raj Acharya (ht 16/10/2018)
Consumers
not benefiting despite 39% drop in sugar prices in
int’l market (kp 14/10/2018)
Food
prices soar amid festival buying spree (kp
13/10/2018)
Happy
‘inflated’ Dashain! Food, shopping and travelling
to cost more this festive season, by Sujan
Dhungana (ht 12/10/2018)
NFC
fixes goat price at Rs 510 per kg for Dashain:
Customers to get Rs 10 per kg discount on the
given rate (ht 12/10/2018)
Task
force to examine sugar price jump (kp
08/10/2018)
Public
accounts committee directive: Government told to
cap sugar price at Rs63/kg (kp 05/10/2018)
Transport
operators impose increased fares in Khotang
(rep 26/08/2018)
Nepal
Rastra Bank revises WPI calculation method (ht
24/09/2018)
Govt
raises
transportation fare by 10 per cent: Transport
entrepreneurs plan to open booking of bus tickets
for Dashain from tomorrow (ht 24/09/2018)
Sugar
price shoots up after import quota, by Rajesh
Khanal (kp 24/09/2018)
Strong
dollar makes imports dearer as festivals approach,
by Bibek Subedi (kp 22/09/2018)
Ballooning
prices set to hit festive spirit, by Sujan
Dhungana (ht 19/09/2018)
Birtamode-Taplejung
cargo fare hiked, by Ananda Gautam (kp
17/09/2018)
Vegetable
prices remain constant despite government
monitoring (rep 08/09/2018)
NOC
hints at increase in price of gasoline, by
Rajesh Khanal (kp 03/09/2018)
Apple
price reaches Rs 60 per kg in Jumla, by DB
Budha (rep 03/09/2018)
Government
to zero in on vegetable price anomalies (kp
02/09/2018)
Rupee
devaluation to hit inflation, growth rate, by
Sujan Dhungana (htm 01/09/2018)
Inflation
falls to 14-year low of 4.2%, by Sagar
Ghimire (rep 22/08/2018)
Expensive
travel: Hike in fuel surcharge pushes up
airfares (kp 21/08/2018)
NOC
hikes fuel prices (ht 20/08/2018)
Vegetable
prices go through the roof in Kathmandu,
by Krishana Prasain (kp 19/08/2018), Clampdown
on overcharging: Angry vegetable traders
manhandle inspection team (kp 21/08/2018)
Govt
to regulate pricing of goods at TIA (ht
17/08/2018)
Himalayan
Bank dismisses Max Money’s allegation (ht
17/08/2018)
Wedding
planning firms find love from couples: It now
costs more than Rs1.5 million for a complete
wedding package, by Krishana Prasain (kp
27/07/2018)
NOC
mulls daily adjustment of fuel price (ht
25/07/2018)
Prices
of four-wheelers hiked up in Nepal, by
Krishana Prasain (kp 18/07/2018)
Consumer
price inflation hit 4.1 percent in June: Report
(kp 17/07/2018)
Birgunj
vegetable prices jump as monsoon begins, by
Shankar Acharya (kp 12/07/2018)
Rise
in fuel price, interest rates to hit public
transport fares (ht 11/07/2018)
Internet,
voice calls to become dearer: Internet fee
likely to be raised by almost 14pc, by Sujan
Dhungana (ht 09/07/2018)
Veggie
prices jump as heavy rain takes its toll (kp
07/07/2018)
Mango
prices soar as production falls, by Bhawani
Bhatta (kp 02/07/2018)
FinMin:
Price rise not due to budget: Prices of essentials
shot up following the release of the annual
financial plan on May 29 ostensibly due to higher
taxes (kp 29/06/2018) [??]
With
onset of monsoon, vegetable prices rise, by
Ayam Shrestha (rep 24/06/2018)
Mango
prices down Rs 16, by Ayam Shrestha (rep
21/06/2018)
NOC
slashes fuel prices (kp18/06/2018)
Budget
tax hike shoots up motorcycle prices, by
Ajeeja Limbu (kp 13/06/2018)
Retailers
see sugar price going down (rep 12/06/2018)
Soaring
fuel prices to raise public transport fare
(ht 09/06/2018)
‘Bird
flu’ fear brings down consumption, price of
chicken in the country (ht 06/06/2018)
Tax
revision may raise consumer prices (ht
04/06/2018)
NOC
hikes fuel prices yet again (kp 03/06/2018),
NOC
hikes prices of petroleum products (ht
03/06/2018), Surging
fuel prices to likely stall growth, spike
inflation, by Rajesh Khanal (kp 04/06/2018),
Continuous
fuel price hike to affect livelihoods (ht
04/06/2018), Domestic
airfares could increase (ht 04/06/2018), Domestic
airlines hike fuel surcharge, by Susheel
Bhattarai (rep 04/06/2018), NOC
ups fuel price while int’l price falls
marginally, by Ayam Shrestha (repm
05/06/2018), Protest
against
fuel price hike: Students affiliated to Nepali
Congress announces protest programme that
includes torch rally, banning govt vehicles
around campus and burning PM’s effigy (kp
09/06/2018)
Daily
consumable items likely to be dearer soon
(ht 03/06/2018)
Mustard
oil to become dearer by Rs 15 per liter (rep
01/06/2018)
Fresh
veggie prices double in past year (kp
30/05/2018)
Brace
for another fuel price hike, by Sujan
Dhungana (ht 26/05/2018)
Consumer
price inflation at 5.3pc (ht 18/05/2018)
NOC
hikes fuel prices (kp 03/05/2018)
End
of transport syndicate can bring down price of
daily consumables, by Rudra Pangeni (rep
23/04/2018)
Egg
price up by Re 1, by Ayam Shrestha (rep
22/04/2018)
Inflation
at 17-month high of 6 percent (kp
13/04/2018)
Valley
onion price drops to lowest in eight months,
by Ayam Shrestha (rep 19/03/2018)
The
price of onion drops to normal levels (rep
02/03/2018)
Nepal
Oil Corp reluctant to slash fuel prices (ht
19/02/2018)
NRB
revises annual inflation target to 6 percent
(rep 13/02/2018)
Eggs
down to Rs 12 a unit, by Ayam Shrestha (rep
12/02/2018)
Vegetable
prices spike as cold wave grips Tarai belt,
by Naresh Neupane (kp 08/02/2018)
Airlines
hike fuel surcharge (kp 03/02/2018)
NOC
hikes fuel prices (kp 02/02/2018)
Land
prices in provincial capitals jump up to
four-fold: Each IT officer to receive minimum Rs
40,000 salary per month, by Kushal Basnet
(rep 24/01/2018)
Cement
factories told to roll back price hike within
three days (rep 23/01/2018)
Transportation
blamed for inflated vegetable, fruit prices,
by Ayam Shrestha (rep 20/01/2018)
Fuel
prices increased (kp 18/01/2018), No
change in transport fare despite fuel price hike
(ht 19/01/2019)
Ginger
acreage
shrinks with prices in free fall: the price of
the spicy root has plunged to Rs25 per kg from
up to Rs190 per kg two years ago, by Ramesh
Chandra Adhikari (kp 15/01/2018)
Pulse
prices continue to fall, by Arpana Ale Magar
(rep 14/01/2018)
Cement
and steel rod price hike: DoSM begins aggressive
market monitoring drive (kp 10/01/2018), Price
hike of construction materials spark protests
(kp 11/01/2018)
Contractors
flay ‘artificial hike’ in cement, steel prices
(rep 08/01/2018)
Toll
tax on most road sections from next fiscal,
by Sabin Mishra (ht 03/01/2018)
Size
of PSF balloons to Rs 3.5bn while fuel prices
rise constantly, by Sujan Dhungana (ht
03/01/2018)
Fuel
prices go up (kp 02/01/2018), ‘Prices
may rise again as losses still high’ (kp
03/01/2018), Demand
for rolling back fuel price hike (kp
05/01/2018)
Building
materials dearer on higher freight rates, by
Madhav Dhungana (kp 02/12/2018)
Inflation
wedge between KTM and rest of country widens
(kp 31/12/2017)
Cement
price in domestic market hiked abruptly (ht
28/12/2017), Cement,
steel rod prices go up after elections, by
Santosh Neupane (rep 29/12/2017)
Fuel
dearer by Rs1 per litre (kp 20/12/2017)
Demanding
their rupees’ worth, by Priyanka Gurung (rep
15/12/2017)
Consumable
goods becoming cheaper after elections (ht
14/12/2017)
Cartels
control vegetables prices in Kalimati market:
Farmers, by Rudra Pangeni (rep 14/12/2017)
NOC
hikes
fuel prices: The state-owned monopoly has
decided to increase Rs 2 per litre in petrol
and Rs3 per litre in diesel and kerosene;
price of a LPG cylinder has gone up by Rs25
(kp 09/12/2017), Airline
fuel
surcharges to go up from Tuesday: Fuel
surcharges are normally charged to passengers to
cover part of the cost increases that are
associated with jumps in the price of aviation
fuel (kp 11/12/2017)
MoAD
finalises paddy support price: Ministry has set
Rs 2,200 for thick, Rs 2,400 for medium-sized
variety (ht 09/12/2017)
Veggie
prices drop by up to 31pc in Capital, by
Abhishek Chitrakar (kp 08/12/2017)
‘Onions
dearer due to price rise in India’ (kp
05/12/2017)
Commodity
prices fall after Dudh Koshi bridge opens,
by Dambar Singh Rai (kp 02/12/2017)
Adjust
prices:
Smuggling of fuels cannot be stopped unless the
government and NOC adjust prices of imported
petroleum products in line with prices in
bordering Indian states (ht 01/12/2017)
Onion
prices bring tears to Nepali eyes, by Sujan
Dhungana (ht 28/11/2017)
Price
of precious metals dips (ht 26/11/2017)
Orange
prices jump as hail hits output, by Pradip
Mayangbo (kp 24/11/2017)
Government
yet to fix support price for paddy: 80pc of
harvesting of the cereal crop already completed
across country (ht 24/11/2017)
Paddy
minimum
support price not fixed citing elections: The
Supplies Ministry says that the Cabinet had sent
back the proposal it had submitted last week
citing provincial and federal elections (kp
21/11/2017)
Govt
fails to control surging vegetable prices
(ht 21/11/2017)
Tame
runaway prices: Activities of intermediaries,
who deceive farmers and end-consumers, must be
monitored (kp 14/11/2017)
NOC
hikes prices of petroleum products (kp
02/11/2017), NOC
rolls back gasoline prices (kp 03/11/2017)
Consumer
prices rise by 3.4 percent (kp 30/10/2017)
Veggie
prices soar by up to 246pc in KTM, by
Abhishek Chitrakar (kp 27/10/2017), Low
output triggers price hike of vegetables in
Kathmandu, by Kushal Basnet (rep 30/10/2017)
Petroleum
prices not adjusted since July 2 (ht
26/10/2017)
Nepalis
spending 13% of daily income for a food-plate
(rep 23/10/2017), Plate
tectonics: Cost of food in Nepal (rep
24/10/2017)
Price
of LED bulbs down by 20% (rep 18/10/2017)
'Dry
fruits price to won't increase this Tihar'
(rep 11/10/2017)
Vegetable
prices go up (ht 09/10/2017)
Prices
of Mustang apples double on high demand , by
Prakash Baral (kp 03/10/2017)
Inflation
cools down to 2.3pc (kp 24/09/2017)
Price
of veggies, rice soar ahead of Dashain (ht
23/09/2017)
Price
hike hits rural folks hard (ht 20/09/2017)
NFC
likely to fix goat price todayGoats sold by the
state entity to cost around Rs 460 per kg this
Dashain (ht 20/09/2017), NFC
sets goat prices: it has fixed the price at
Rs455 per kg for goats and Rs675 per kg for
mountain goats (kp 21/09/2017)
NEPA
determines egg prices to prevent further price
drops, by Ramesh Kumar Paudfel (rep
19/09/2017)
Tomatoes
cost Rs 180 a kg in Bajhang, by Jagat Khadka
(rep 13/09/2017)
Goat
prices likely to rise on higher freight costs
(kp 12/09/2017)
Large
cardamom price expected to fall further, by
Arjun Rajbanshi (kp 11/09/2017)
Veggie
prices decline as regular supplies resume,
by Yamini Bantawa (kp 31/08/2017)
Tomato
price hits the roof, by Muna Sunuwar (rep
25/08/2017)
Annual
inflation coolsto 12-yr low of 4.5pc (kp
22/08/2017), Inflation
falls to 12-year low of 4.5 percent (rep
22/08/2017)
DDC
hikes milk prices (ht 17/08/2017)
Veggie
prices start to spike (ht 14/08/2017), Veggies
dearer as floods cripple transportation (kp
16/08/2017), Veg
prices in Ktm rise despite hike in supply
(kp 19/08/2017), Vegetables
get costlier as supply dwindles (ht
22/08/2017)
Vegetable
prices double in Biratnagar, by Binod
Bhandari (kp 12/08/2017)
Chicken
prices tumble as holy month begins (kp
28/07/2017)
Escalating
monsoon brings down price of veggies (ht
25/07/2017)
Govt
may hike milk price as production cost rises
(ht 21/07/2017)
Inflation
at 13-yr low (kp 19/07/2017), Inflation
at record-low of 2.8pc as supply situation
improves (ht 19/07/2017), Inflation
falls further to 2.8% (rep 19/07/2017)
Vegetable
prices up as season end nears, by Muna
Sunuwar (rep 19/07/2017)
Ginger
price falls as export to India decreases, by
Muna Sunuwar (rep 13/07/2017)
Construction
materials
dearer by up to 20pc (kp 11/07/2017)
Widely
differing
vegie prices upset consumers (kp 05/07/2017)
NOC
slashes
gasoline prices (kp 03/07/2017)
Vegetable
prices
soar by up to 66pc in KTM (kp 27/06/2017)
MoS
amending
auto pricing directive (ht 27/06/2017)
Nepalis
paying
more for fuel despite fall in global prices
(kp 24/06/2017)
NOC
slashes
fuel prices (kp 17/06/2017), Petrol,
diesel,
kerosene gets cheaper by Rs 1.5 per litre
(ht 17/06/2017), NOC
draws flak for keeping huge profit margin,
by Ashim Neupane (rep 19/06/2017)
Panel
report
on sugar mills overcharging to be reviewed: Salt
Trading Corporation retails sugar at Rs82 per kg
while consumers pay up to Rs100 per kg (kp
14/06/2017)
Economy
cannot
tolerate inflation of over 6.4pc: NRB, by
Rupak D. Sharma (kp 06/06/2017)
NOC
reluctant
to revise fuel price despite Rs 300m monthly
profit (ht 06/06/2017)
Oversupply
drops
chicken prices in Kathmandu Valley: The price had
soared to Rs360 per kg in mid-April and dropped to
Rs340 in mid-May, by Aagat Ruchi Sapkota (kp
03/06/2017)
Tobacco,
alcohol
items dearer up to 10pc: Manufacturers now need to pay
Rs110-1,100 in excise duty on alcoholic products
instead of Rs100-1,000 (kp 30/05/2017)
Veggie
prices
tumble as rains boost output, by Aman Koirala (kp
29/05/2017)
Bumper
harvests
drive vegetable prices down, by Poonam Regmi (kp
27/05/2017)
Milk
prices
hiked up by 9 - 14 percent, by Madhav Aryal (kp
20/05/2017)
iPhone
prices drop in Nepal (rep 18/05/2017)
No
plans
to slash prices amid profit jump: NOC (kp
18/05/2017)
Consumer
prices
rise by 3.8pc in April (kp 17/05/2017)
Producers
raise
cement price due to clinker crunch (ht 05/05/2017)
Large
cardamom
price plunges three-fold, by Anand Gautam (kp
15/04/2017)
NOC
not
to adjust fuel price daily (ht 14/04/2017)
Inflation
moderates
to 2.9 percent (kp 10/04/2017)
Rise
in
cement prices will be reviewed: NCMA (kp
10/04/2017)
Cement
Assoc
told to review price hike (kp 07/04/2017)
Steep
fall
in potato price hits farmers, by Pratap
Bista (kp 26/03/2017)
Food
inflation
at negative 0.2 per cent (ht 18/03/2017) [This caused by the extremely
high prices during the border blockade last
year!]
Consumer
price
index rise at lowest pace (kp 17/03/2017)
LPG
gets
dearer by Rs 25 (kp 11/03/2017), NOC
hikes LPG price to Rs 1,375 (ht 11/03/2017),
Consumer
body flays decision to hike LPG price (rep
13/03/2017)
IOC
to
reduce marketing charge on fuel products by 0.5
percentage point: The move would help NOC to
save Rs 1bn annually and bemnefir consumers,
by Sujan Dhungana (ht 09/03/2017)
Sugar
hits
Rs95 per kg amid cartelling charges, by
Rajesh Khanal (kp 03/03/2017)
Bill
to regulate electricity prices approved by
cabinet, by Rudra Pangeni (rep 02/03/2017)
Sugar
price
skyrockets as govt delays procuring commodity
(ht 28/02/2017)
NOC
to
amend automatic fuel pricing bylaw (kp
25/02/2017)
Veggie
price
falls on surplus supply (ht 25/02/2017)
Reviewed
transportation
fare yet to be enforced (ht 25/02/2017)
Ginger
farmers
squeezed as price more than halves, by
Chandra Karki (kp 25/02/2017)
Inflation
hits
12-yr low of 3.2pc in Jan (kp 18/02/2017) [compared to the high-price
phase during the Indian blockade!]
Vegetable
prices
plunge due to bumper harvests, by Sakchham
Karki (kp 17/02/2017)
Bottled
water
set to be cheaper by 10pc (kp 14/02/2017)
LPG
prices
up Rs25 a cylinder (kp 02/02/2017)
Govt
plans
to hike price of iodised salt, by Sujan
Dhungana (kp 02/02/2017)
Inflation
wedge
with India narrows (ht 31/01/2017)
Egg
farm prices down a bit after highs, by
Ramesh Kumar Paudel (rep 21/01/2017)
Price
of
LPG in west slashed to Rs1,305 (kp
20/01/2017)
Inflation
moderates
to 12-year low of 3.8 percent: Central Bank
(kp 17/01/2017), Inflation
cools
down to 3.8 percent; Base effect, improved
supply system brought inflation down: NRB
(rep 17/01/2017)
Jewellers
fleecing
customers with impunity: Surging gold demand
gives them licence to hike prices, by Sujan
Dhungana (ht 17/01/2017)
Orange
prices
double as middlemen join in, by Raj Kumar
Karki (kp 13/01/2017)
Energy
Ministry
fixes power purchase rates (kp 10/01/2017)
Surging
demand
causes maize price to skyrocket 30 per cent:
Cheap rice imported from India helped stabilised
price of paddy in the last five years (ht
08/01/2017)
Nepal
Oil
Corp refuses to reduce fuel price: Says hike is
in line with IOC's revised rate (ht
06/01/2017)
Veggie
prices
plunge on glut, by Sakchham Karki (kp
05/01/2017)
NOC:
No
fuel price hike despite rise in India (kp
03/01/2017)
Government
to
finally implement auto-pricing for cooking gas
from January 1, by Sujan Dhungana (ht
28/12/2016), Auto-pricing
system (ht 29/12/2016)
For
one
kg salt, Phorche locals fork out Rs 180 (kp
20/12/2016)
Petrol,
diesel,
kerosene dearer by Rs 4.50/litre (ht
19/12/2016), Increment
in
price of petroleum products draws criticism
(ht 20/12/2016), Ministry,
NOC
told to roll back fuel price hike: Lawmakers say
the oil monopoly did not follow due procedures
while taking the decision (kp 23/12/2016), Fuel
price
will be adjusted only in January, says NOC
(ht 24/12/2016), Explanation
sought
on fuel price hike (kp 26/12/2016), NOC
likely
to cut fuel prices (kp 30/12/2016)
Inflation
rises
at slowest pace in almost 10 years (kp
16/12/2016), Inflation
slows to 4.8 percentt: Analysts say it is still
a huge increment, by Sagar Ghimire (rep
17/12/2016) [This is
compared to the blockade phase last year that
had brought extreme price rise!]
Paddy
floor
price hiked to Rs2,100 per quintal (kp
17/12/2016)
Air
tickets
to cost more from Monday (kp 16/12/2016)
Interest
on
deposit trumps inflation, by Sagar Ghimire
(rep 10/12/2016)
Govt
cuts chemical fertilizer prices: Offers Rs 4.74
million in subsidy on fertilizers, by Dilip
Poudel (rep 16/12/2016)
Flights
could
become cheaper as fuel prices cut (kp
06/12/2016)
Price
list
of textbooks for new academic session made
public (ht 06/12/2016)
Subsidised
fertiliser
prices slashed on global decline (kp
01/12/2016)
Inflation
moderates
to over eight-year low: Prices of food and
beverage grew at relatively slower pace of 5.7pc
in Oct as against 9.7pc recorded in the same
month a year ago (kp 19/11/2016)
Chicken
prices
drop as festive sales fall flat (kp
08/11/2016)
Marigold
prices
plunge 33pc on glut in supply (kp
03/11/2016)
Automatic
LPG
pricing to take hold after Tihar, by Sujan
Dhungana (ht 29/10/2016)
Adequate
supplies
keep prices of dried fruits stable (kp
28/10/2016)
Prices
rise
at faster pace in hilly region (kp
23/10/2016)
Flower
prices
likely to be stable during Tihar (kp
22/10/2016)
Country
may
face shortage of construction materials: Crisis
could trigger spike in prices once rebuilding
activities start gathering pace, by Rupak D.
Sharma (kp 14/10/2016)
Multi-stakeholder
panel
to be set up to steady prices: The move is aimed
at stabilising prices of 29 commodities that have
been identified as ‘essential’ by the government
(kp 07/10/2016)
Govt
all
set to fix MSP for paddy (kp 03/10/2016)
Government
fixes
ceiling on meat prices (kp 26/09/2016)
Tricky
inflation: In the last fiscal year inflation
soared to 9.9 percent, the highest in seven years,
and 1.5 percentage points above the set target,
by Prem Khanal (rep 22/09/2016)
Live
goats
will get dearer this Dashain (ht 22/09/2016)
Veggie
prices
go up (ht 19/09/2016), Veggie
prices
soar on rising demand, dropping supplies (kp
20/09/2016)
NOC
cuts
jet fuel prices: The fuel sold to int’l airlines
will now cost $831 per kilolitre, while domestic
airlines will pay Rs94 per litre (kp
17/09/2016)
Fruits
and
veggies become more affordable (ht 11/09/2016)
Fair
price
shops slated to open for Dashain (kp
06/09/2016)
Price
of
veggies fairly stable, fruits rise (ht
04/09/2016)
Cooking
gas
gets cheaper by Rs50 per cylinder (kp
02/09/2016)
Govt
mulls
festive discount on daily essentials (ht
29/08/2016)
Price
of
fruits, vegetables mostly stable (ht
28/08/2016)
Govt
cracks
down on overcharging retailers, by Rajesh
Khanal (kp 25/08/2016)
Iron,
steel
prices rise by up to Rs8 per kg, by Madhav
Dhungana (kp 21/08/2016)
Essentials
dearer
due to higher import costs, by Rajesh Khanal
(kp 11/08/2016)
NOC
slashes
fuel prices (kp 03/08/2016)
Sugar
prices
increase on low production, by Rajesh Khanal
(kp 01/08/2016)
Veggie
prices
soar as rain disrupts supplies (kp 28/07/2016)
NOC
likely
to cut fuel prices today (ht 19/07/2016), NOC
decides
not to revise fuel prices (ht 20/07/2016)
Inflation
at
four-month high of 11.1 per cent (ht
16/07/2016)
Stabilising
prices:
Monetary tools should be adopted to keep inflation
within 7.5 percent as projected in this year's
budget, by Tula Raj Basyal (kp 12/07/2016), Why
NRB's inflation projections always fall flat,
by Sagar Ghimire (rep 12/07/2016)
Vegetable
prices
soar over dwindling supply (kp 06/07/2016)
Vegetable
prices
soar in Valley (ht 03/07/2016)
Nepal
Oil
Corp cuts aviation fuel price (kp 02/07/2016),
Domestic
airlines
slash fuel surcharge (kp 04/07/2016)
Inflation
at
double digit, once again (ht 16/06/2016), Inflation
rises
on higher rents, school fees (kp 17/06/20167)
Real
estate
prices in Attariya jump, by DR Pant (kp
16/06/2016)
Cheer
for
householders as veggie prices drop (kp
16/06/2016)
Keeping
inflation
at 7.5 pc tough: NRB, by Rupak D. Sharma (ht
14/06/2016)
Prices
jump
following budget announcement (kp 10/06/2016)
NOC
to
resume automatic pricing mechanism soon (ht
02/06/2016)
Mobile
prices
likely to rise after rebate cut (kp
01/06/2016)
Egg
prices
soar as heat takes toll on output (kp
26/05/2016)
Shoppers
turn
backs on expensive vegetables (kp 24/05/2016)
Inflation
slows,
but still on higher side: Rate down to first digit
at 9.7 percent for first time after end of
blockade, by Bibek Subedi (kp 18/05/2016)
Chicken
prices
jump on slowed supply (kp 14/05/2016)
Price
of
vegetables soars on short-supply, fruits stable
(ht 01/05/2016)
Soaring
prices
strain household budgets, by Zenith KC (kp
30/04/2016)
Veggie
prices
fall, fruits stable (ht 24/04/2016)
Inflation
moderates
to 10.2 percent in March: The Kathmandu Valley
witnessed a relatively higher inflation rate of
12.7 percent (kp 21/04/2016), Inflation
moderates
to 10.2pc (ht 21/04/2016), Inflation
at
double digits even after lift of blockade (rep
21/04/2016)
Pulse,
rice,
edible oil prices go up (rep 21/04/2016)
Veggie,
fruit
prices soar as dry season takes toll (kp
19/04/2016)
Chicken
prices
spike as wedding season starts (kp 18/04/2016)
NOC
not
reducing fuel prices since mid-Feb: Cites open
border, by Sujan Dhundana (rep 12/04/2016)
Govt
‘closely’
monitoring market (kp 09/04/2016)
Transportation
cartels
make goods dearer, by Bhushan Yadav (kp
08/04/2016)
LPG
dealers
fleecing customers (ht 08/04/2016)
NOC
not
applying auto fuel pricing: Cites continuing
shortages for postponing implementation, by
Rajesh Khanal (kp 07/04/2016)
Edible
oil
prices still high, by Pralhad Rijal (kp
07/04/2016)
Govt
probes
price hikes, shortage of edible oils (kp
06/04/2016)
Veggie,
fruit
prices jump as supplies fall (kp 28/03/2016)
Auto
pricing
mechanism to be applied to LPG too (kp
24/03/2016)
Inflation
still
at 11.3% despite end of blockade: BOP surplus at
Rs 154.5 billion, by Sagar Ghimire (rep
17/03/2016)
Birat
selling
Euro IV petrol at Rs130 (kp 11/03/2016), Govt
still
allowing Birat to sell fuel at arbitrary rate,
by Sujan Dhungana (rep 11/03/2016), Birat
cuts
petrol price to Rs99 a ltr (kp 14/03/2016)
Setting
maximum
retail prices of imported goods: Plan takes back
seat amid embargo, by Rajesh Khanal (kp
07/03/2016)
NRB
predicts
9.5 percent inflation, by Bibek Subedi (kp
29/02/2016), NRB
revises
annual inflation target to 9.5 pc: After supply
system was disrupted by blockade at the border
points, prices of everything went up (ht
29/02/2016)
Inflation
hits
7-year high of 12.1 percent (kp 22/02/2016), Country’s
inflation
rose to 12.1pc in January (ht 22/02/2016)
Marginal
drop
in fuel despite 37.1% decline in global oil prices
(rep 22/02/2016)
Fuel
surcharge
lowered, flying gets cheaper, by Sangam
Prasain (kp 18/02/2016), Airlines
operators
cut fuel surcharge (ht 18/02/2016), Airfare
slashed
by as much as 18.31%, by Sujan Dhungana (rep
18/02/2016)
NOC
finally
reduces ATF price, by Sujan Dhungana (rep
17/02/2016)
Travel
fares
slashed (kp 10/02/2016)
MoPIT
revises
transport fares (ht 08/02/2016), Public
transport
fare slashed by 2.53 percent, by Sujan
Dhungana (rep 08/02/2016)
PMO
tells
NOC to cut prices (kp 05/02/2016), PM's
office
orders reduction in fuel prices, transport fares
(rep 05/02/2016)
Surveys
reveal
jump in prices due to embargo (kp
22/01/2016)
Transportation
fare
to go down: Officials say preparation is
underway to adjust the fare in line with the
fall in fuel prices in the international market
(kp 21/01/2016)
Karnali
folks
paying three times more for food items, by
Jay Bahadur Rokaya (kp 21/01/2016)
Inflation
at
40-month high of 11.6pc: Prices of pulses,
legumes, ghee, oil among other foodstuffs
skyrocket (kp 19/01/2016), Inflation
at
40-month high of 11.6 pc, by Rupak D. Sharma
(kp 19/01/2016), Inflation
hits
11.6 percent, by Sagar Ghimire (rep
19/01/2016), Abnormal
normal:
There is a danger of inflated prices becoming a
new normal (kp 21/01/2016)
Nepal
Oil
Corporation slashes prices of petrol, diesel,
ATF (ht 19/01/2016)
Price
of
edible oil in correction, says DoCSM (ht
14/01/2016)
Rising
price
of daily essentials hits life, by Thakur
Singh Tharu (kp 28/12/2015)
Time
to
brace for pricey bill of fare: Inflation jumps
to double digits, thanks to Tarai unrest and
blockade, by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp
17/12/2015), Central
bank
warns of stagflation as inflation stands at
three-year high, by Rupak D. Sharma (ht
17/12/2015)
Tomato
prices
double in a month in Capital (kp 07/12/2015)
Fruit
prices
jump with rise in transport fares (kp
30/11/2015)
Govt
asks
traders to clarify oil price hike (kp
28/11/2015)
Life
becomes
harder as market prices take off (kp
27/11/2015), Prices
that
have gone up may not come down after crisis
ends: Products whose demand doesn’t fall
drastically despite price hike likely to stay as
costly as they’re now, by Rupak D. Sharma
(ht 27/11/2015)
Vegetables
prices
eases in Valley (kp 22/11/2015)
Chicken
prices
rebound with wedding season (kp 21/11/2015)
Price
hike,
scarcity hit Kaski hard, by Rishiram Baral
(ht 17/11/2015)
Tihar
celebrators
moan about soaring prices, by Suman Bashyal
(kp 12/11/2015)
Consumers
hit
by arbitrary price hikes by traders, by
Madhusudan Guragain (rep 11/11/2016)
Prices
of
fry fruits jump: Many shopkeepers are found
charging 25-30pc more; Traders attribute the
hike to blockade, by Suman Bashyal (kp
09/11/2015)
Prices
swell
as blockade, unrest choke off supply, by
Suman Bashyal (kp 07/11/2015)
Prices
of
daily essentials go up in Ramechhap (ht
06/11/2015)
Traders
hike
prices of essentials as fuel crisis deepens
(ht 04/11/2015)
Vegetable
prices
down as demand remains low (kp 31/10/2015)
Prices
of
daily commodities up (ht 10/10/2015)
Prices
of
essentials soaring in eastern hills (ht
06/10/2015)
Blockade
pushing
up vegetable prices (ht 03/10/2015)
Prices
of
essentials jump on shortages (kp 29/09/2015)
Fruits,
veggie
prices soar on supply disruptions, by Suman
Bashyal (kp 28/09/2015)
Simmering
Tarai
protests heat up food prices (ht 27/09/2015)
Food
prices
shot up in landslide-hit Gorkha, by Sudip
Kaini (kp 15/09/2015)
Government
cuts
transport fares (kp 10/09/2015), Transport
fare
to come down by 2.22 per cent (ht
10/09/2015), New
transport
fare yet to be implemented, says NCF (ht
16/09/2015), Revised
transport
fares yet to be implemented (kp 25/09/2015)
Mutton
dearer,
chicken cheaper in the Valley (kp
09/09/2015)
Chinese
onions
expected to bring down prices (kp
08/09/2015)
Prices
of
daily essentials soar on shortages created by
Tarai banda, by Suman Bashyal (kp
05/09/2015)
Transportation
fares
to be revised soon, by Pushpa Raj Acharya
(ht 05/09/2015)
Veggie
prices
drop on increased shipments (kp 04/09/2015)
Central
bank
to soon introduce new CPI (ht 02/09/2015)
Onion
sales
drop with prices hitting highs, by Suman
Bashyal (kp 02/09/2015)
Supply
disruption
sends prices soaring (kp 25/08/2015)
Onion
hits
one-year high as import prices soar (kp
20/08/2015)
Fuel
prices
to be revised every month (ht 18/08/2015)
Chicken
prices
plunge as holy month hits demand (kp
15/08/2015)
Rice
prices
swell on production shortfall, by Suman
Bashyal (kp 13/08/2015)
Int’l
fuel
prices fall, but no respite for Nepalis, by
Rajesh Khanal (kp 07/08/2015)
Chinese
goods
may be dearer by ‘20pc’ (kp 06/08/2015)
AOAN
reduces
fuel surcharge: Airlines slash the fuel
surcharge when fuel prices drop by Rs4/l (kp
05/08/2015)
Onion
prices
almost double in past month (kp 05/08/2015)
NOC
slashes
fuel prices, by Rajesh Khanal (kp
03/08/2015), NOC
reduces
price of cooking gas (ht 03/08/2015)
Veggie
prices
soar on demand-supply gap, by Suman Bashyal
(kp 25/07/2015)
Onion
prices
at near two-year high: Weak monsoon rains
threaten to fuel inflation in India (ht
24/07/2015)
Prices
of
petroleum products not revised: Nepal Oil
Corporation reasons it had not jacked up the
rates when import bill had gone up after the
quake (ht 19/07/2015)
Prices
set
to drop due to lower import duty, by Suman
Bashyal (kp 16/07/2015)
Beers,
cigarettes
dearer before budget issuance, by Suman
Bashyal (kp 13/07/2015)
Vegetable
prices
soar due to falling supplies (kp 11/07/2015)
Chicken
price
up sharply as production declines (kp
09/07/2015)
Veggie
prices
jump as farmers focus on rice (kp
04/07/2015)
Rahar
leads
rise in prices of pulses (kp 26/06/2015)
Mango
price
soars as production drops, by Bharat
Jarghamahar (kp 22/06/2015)
Fruits
become
cheaper as supplies increase, by Suman
Bashyal (kp 20/06/2015)
Nepal
inflation
cools down to 7.1 percent, by Sujan Dhungana
(rep 20/06/2015)
Price
of
construction material could witness significant
hike next fiscal (ht 20/06/2015)
Tomato
prices
plunge, other veggies dearer (kp 17/06/2015)
Chicken
prices
soar on drop in output (kp 15/06/2015)
Chicken,
egg
prices rise (ht 12/06/2015)
Vegetable
prices
jump on rebound in demand (kp 09/06/2015)
Soaring
prices:
Govt to import, supply pulses, by Rajesh
Khanal (kp 08/06/2015)
Prices
of
lentils, dried beans shoot up: Wholesalers cite
shortage in India as reason for jacking up rates
(ht 07/06/2015)
Sales
of
fans soar as valley swelters (kp 04/06/2015)
NOC
hikes
fuel prices, rolls back, by Rajesh Khanal (kp
02/06/2015), Fuel
prices
to remain unchanged: Nepal Oil Corporation forced
to roll back decision to hike rates of petroleum
products due to government pressure (ht
02/06/2015)
Chicken
prices
rebound as life returns to normal (kp
01/06/2015)
Edible
oil
prices rise amid strong dollar (kp 30/05/2015)
Tomato
prices
jump more than two-fold (kp 29/05/2015)
Chicken
price
set to rise as demand grows (kp 28/05/2015)
Short
supply
sees fruit prices soar in Valley (kp
26/05/2015)
Prices
of
essentials rise due to global trends, by Suman
Bashyal (kp 25/05/2015)
Veggie
prices
fall due to exodus from Valley, by Suman
Bashyal (kp 23/05/2015)
Zinc
sheet
price may be fixed at pre-quake level (kp
22/05/2015)
Despite
duty
waiver, tarpaulin price up, by Bhusan Yadav
(kp 18/05/2015)
Pulses
dearer
by Rs 35 in a month, by Suman Bashyal (kp
15/05/2015)
Chicken
price
down by Rs 50 (kp 09/05/2015)
Vegetable
prices
go down as demand falls (rep 04/05/2015)
Vegetable
prices
go up as supply dwindles (ht 30/04/2015)
Chicken
prices
drop on plentiful supplies (kp 25/04/2015)
Fruit
prices
take off as temperature rises (kp
23/04/2015)
Fuel
prices
to remain same (ht 17/04/2015)
Vegetable
prices
up as supplies down (kp 04/04/2015)
NOC
slashes
fuel prices (kp 03/04/2015), NOC
slashes
prices of petrol, diesel and kerosene by one
rupee (ht 03/04/2015)
Tomato
prices
jump on sharp drop in supplies (kp
28/03/2015)
Chicken
prices
dip with onset of low season (kp 25/03/2015)
Taplejung
admin
enforces new transportation fares, by Ananda
Gautam (kp 21/03/2015)
Fruit
prices
soar with rising temperature (kp 10/03/2015)
NOC
hikes
fuel prices: Decision to jack up the rate by one
rupee comes after nine consecutive reductions
(ht 07/03/2015)
Fare
cuts
to come into effect from Tuesday (kp
03/03/2015)
Chicken
prices
swell on reduced supplies (kp 25/02/2015)
Vegetable
prices
drop amid ample supplies (kp 21/02/2015)
Fare
cut
in limbo due to calculation row, by Sanjeev
Giri (kp 20/02/2015)
NOC
keeps
oil price unchanged, by Rajesh Khanal (kp
19/02/2015)
Govt
prepares
to slash public transport fares (ht
06/02/2015), Transport
fares
to be cut, but not by much, by Sanjeev Giri
(kp 07/02/2015), Transportation
fare
to be reduced by 3%, by Sujan Dhungana (rep
09/02/2015), Transport
fares
slashed by 2.03pc: Minimum charge for short ride
in city roads fixed at Rs 13 (ht
11/02/2015), Government
cuts
fare: Transport operators say they will not
adhere to new fare adjustment, by Sanjeev
Giri (kp 11/02/2015)
NOC
further
slashes prices of petrol, diesel, kerosene;
Nepal Oil Corporation’s monthly profit estimated
to rise to Rs 540m (ht 03/02/2015)
Veggie
prices
plunge on higher supplies (kp 29/01/2015)
Chicken
prices
swell as output dips due to cold (kp
24/01/2015)
Govt
apathetic
to cut taxi fare: People paying rate fixed when
petrol cost Rs 123 per litre, by Ramesh
Shrestha (ht 23/01/2015)
NOC
cuts
petroleum prices: Now, petrol Rs 111.5 per litre;
diesel, kerosene Rs 88 per litre each (kp
19/01/2015), NOC
further
slashespetroleum prices (ht 19/01/2015) |