
Kathmandu. Due to the ongoing conflict in West Asia, the prices of petroleum products and bitumen have seen an unusual increase in the international market. While neighboring India has already made...
KATHMANDU, June 18: Paving work on the Dhulikhel–Khawa section of the upgraded Araniko Highway in Kavre has remained suspended for the past two months due to a shortage of bitumen, according to the...

Surging bitumen and petroleum prices linked to the conflict in West Asia have disrupted road construction across country, halting blacktopping works and slowing progress on several of Nepal’s large...