Current Happenings in Nepal: 2010

Tuesday

Nepal Telecom to provide prepaid SIM at Rs. 200

Nepal Telecom (NT) is going to provide pre-paid SIM card at Rs 200 in recent future. The existing price of the SIM card is Rs 1135 with talk time worth Rs 500.

Customers will get the talk value of Rs 100 in the purchase of the SIM card at Rs 200.

According to one of the directors at NT, the board has also decided to provide a replacement SIM card in case of lost and damage for Rs 100.

The new cheaper SIM cards will be introduced once the existing stocks are sold out, according to an NT source. (Source:ktm2day)

New loadshedding Timetable

The Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) has decided to increase the load shedding from the present 12 hours to 29 hours per week, which will be effective from November 17.

The new schedule published by NEA today mentioned that maintenance work on Middle Marsyangdi (70 MW) hydro project is the reason for the increment. “The maintenance work of the turbines will start from Wednesday for which experts from Germany are already in town and have asked for at least three weeks for the work to complete so we are obliged to increase the load shedding hours,” said Chijranjivi Paudel, Chief, Load Dispatch Center, NEA.
There are two turbines each of capacity 35 MW in Middle Marsyangdi and generate 70 MW when operated at full capacity. The load shedding hours are likely to increase more than that in coming days as NEA had already predicted up to 16 hours load shedding for this winter. “We are not sure whether load shedding will decrease after three weeks or not because the flow of water is decreasing as the winter has already started. So, it depends upon the production of electricity across the nation by the time maintenance will be completed,” added Paudel.
The present demand of electricity in the nation is 886 MW and the supply is 605MW. After the closure of Middle Marsyangdi the total supply will be only 535 MW.(Source:THT)

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Friday

Live news from on going political circumstances in Nepal

Nagarik news and my republica from the Nepal Republic Media Pvt. Ltd. has been doing live blogging on the on going circumstances in Nepal.Currently the live blogging is undergoing through nagariknews.com only.
Its a good effort done by nagarik team as they are trying to update live with texts,images and videos from different corners of Nepal predominantly kathmandu valley.Thnks to their team for starting a new taste of live blogging.
Here is the link to view the live blogging page where every new live update appears on the users screen without refreshing the web page.Its really a good experience.

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