Training on LC organised

Kathmandu (RSS):The month-long training on Letter of Credit (L.C.) organised by the Rastriya Banijya Bank (RBB) for the assistant level employees of the bank concluded here Tuesday.

Giving away certificates to the participants of the training, RBB chairman Punya Prasad Dahal said that the training would be useful in taking ahead the concept of modern banking.

Twenty bank employees participated in the training programme.

Hailstorm damage fruits

Dailekh (RSS):A hailstorm is reported to have caused extensive damage various fruits, vegetables and seedlings of grains at the agriculture research centre, Dailekh last Saturday.

According    to   chief   of    the   centre    Dil   Bahadur   Gurung, two varieties of fruits, eight of vegetables and nine of wheat which are grown experimentally at the centre were affected 30 to 100 per cent.

  Orange and tangerine on cross-breeding, radish, onion, cauliflower, swiss vegetable seedlings and Annapurna-1 and Annapurna-2 varieties of wheat were also damaged. The centre works as technology development centre for various hill districts of mid-western and far western development regions.

Lauda Air to operate its service in Nepal

BY A STAFF REPORTER

Kathmandu, May 3:Famous European airliner Lauda Air Company (LAC) is soon to operate its services in Nepal, said a press release from The Explorer Nepal, the authorised LAC representative in Nepal.

The international airliner would begin Vienna-Kathmandu-Vienna direct flight from May 4 with its 258-seater Boeing 767, the press release said.

"There   will   be   one    flight per week from May through September   and   three    flights per week in the months of October, November, March and April."

According to the press release, the new flight operation is expected to increase 20 per cent European tourists inbound to Nepal.

Named after famous car racer Nikki Lauda in 1979, the airliner flies to most of big cities across the globe, including Asia, Europe and America, the press release said.