Nepal Rastriya Dainik
July 27, 2026 ,
TRENDINGS
US Senate fails again to end Government Shutdown Inquiry Commission Chair says criminal cases from Gen Z Protests can proceed without waiting for Report The Legacy of the Nobel Prize: Honoring those who changed the World Gen Z activists launch online campaign demanding arrest of former PM Oli and Ex-Home Minister Lekhak Putin and Netanyahu discuss Middle East situation amid Gaza peace deal Hamas and Israel delegations hold talks in Egypt as Trump urges swift end to Gaza war

Pokhara International Airport is not under BRI: Yogesh Bhattarai

Posted on by नेपाल राष्ट्रिय दैनिक

Kathmandu – CPN-UML Secretary Yogesh Bhattarai has said that Pokhara International Airport is not under the BRI project.

Bhattarai, who is also the former Minister of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation, Speaking at the Aviation Meet-2024 organized by the Nepal Civil Aviation Authority on Friday, he said it is wrong to explain that Pokhara International Airport is under the BRI project.

Birendra B Basnet

Buddha Air Executive Chairman Birendra Bahadur Basnet had said that India had not granted flight permission to Pokhara International Airport because it was a project under the BRI project agreed upon with China, and that India could grant flight permission if the government said that Pokhara International Airport was not under the BRI.

‘Pokhara International Airport is not a BRI project. When the BRI framework was signed during the Prime Minister’s visit to China, everyone knows which projects were undertaken,’ he said, ‘. The 10 projects mentioned in the agreement are under the BRI project. There are projects for railways, roads, education and transmission lines.’ He also mentioned that there is no need to discuss with India when talking about the BRI.

Demand for the resignation of CAAN Director General Pradeep Adhikari

Posted on by नेपाल राष्ट्रिय दैनिक

Kathmandu: The resignation of the Director General of the Civil Aviation Authority Pradeep Adhikari has been demanded for seriously weakening air safety.

Earlier, A voice in the parliamentary committee was raised that he should resign due to frequent air accidents during his tenure. On the same issue, Nepali Congress MP Uday Shamsher Rana, while speaking at the House of Representatives meeting, demanded the resignation of the director general of the authority today.

Since the officer became the director general of the authority, there have been 7 air accidents in which more than 118 people lost their lives and moral questions have been raised, so he should resign immediately, and if he does not resign, the government should bring the director general under investigation, said rana. In the committee meeting, most of the MPs also raised questions about the ability and working style of the CAAN leadership.

“The reports of the commission made after the accident always blame the pilot, airplane and maintenance team just to clear the authority from the incident. Is the authority responsible for the air accident or not? , Why is the authority not to blame for an air accident? When should the authority take responsibility?” He said.

According to him, there have been 72 air accidents in Nepal since 1962 and 935 people lost their lives. Last Wednesday, 18 people lost their lives when a Saurya Airlines plane that was going from Kathmandu to Pokhara for maintenance crashed at Tribhuvan International Airport.

Himalaya Airlines gets ground handling permit

Posted on by नेपाल राष्ट्रिय दैनिक

Kathmandu – The Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal has given permission to Himalaya Airlines to perform ground handling of its aircraft by itself .

With the Supreme Court granting the mandate, Himalaya will get the ground handling it demanded. The Bench of Justices Dr. Manoj Kumar Sharma and Binod Sharma has issued an injunction to allow Himalaya Airlines to carry out self-ground handling.

The authority decided to provide ground handling services to Himalaya Airlines in 2077 but later on the authority did not allow Himalaya Airlines to do self-ground handling saying that there is insufficient space.Himalaya Airlines Pvt. Ltd and Vice Chairman of the company Bijay Bahadur Shrestha later on filed a case against the Civil Aviation Authority and Tribhuvan Airport Office on a basis of a provision in the ground handling and ground service operation guidelines.According to the provision,companies with 35 regular flights per week can do ground handling by themselves.

At Tribhuvan Airport, Nepal Airlines Corporation is currently handling the ground handling of the entire airport. Air India too has its self ground handling  .

In ground handling, you can do things such as putting up ladders for boarding and disembarking passengers, taking and bringing passengers from the terminal to the ship, managing passenger baggage, etc.