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Qatar Airways Introduces New Payment Options

Qatar Airways announced the introduction of an enhanced booking feature where customers can pay for reservations made on www.qatarairways.com at any Qatar Airways local office.

The new solution offers greater flexibility to passengers who can now create bookings online and pay for these bookings in cash at a local Qatar Airways reservations and ticketing office. The payment must be completed within 24 hours of creating the booking on www.qatarairways.com. Once payment for the booking is made, passengers can then check-in online and also select their preferred seat and meals. Passengers who prefer to pay with credit cards can still complete their travel arrangements online.

Qatar Airways Chief Executive Officer Akbar Al Baker said that the new feature was introduced to give passengers more payment choices. “Our passengers want to be able to book online 24/7 and instantly access our latest offers. So, this solution is both user friendly and gives passengers greater flexibility.”

Doha-based Qatar Airways recently launched its new-look, customer-focused, interactive website, designed for a complete user-friendly experience. The website ensures seamless, easy and quick navigation through various pages, making booking with Qatar Airways effortless. Clicking on the interactive route map, passengers can easily choose their next travel destination and directly proceed to booking. In addition to getting updated on their current flight status, passengers can select additional services with various hotel and car partners and even book a holiday package.

Ani Choying Drolma and Shristi Shrestha Brand Ambassadors of BB Airways

 BB Airways brought beauty and Buddha together signing Miss Nepal 2012 Shristi Shrestha, and singer and philanthropist Ani Choying Drolma as its brand ambassadors. “Drolma is an icon of Buddhism in modern Nepal and Shrestha represents the beauty of Nepal,” said Shishir Bhatta, the Managing Director of BB Airways. He added, “It goes with our motto of combining spiritualism with modernity.”

BB Airways is promoted by Non-resident Nepali entrepreneur Bhaban Bhatta who owns numerous businesses in Japan and Nepal. He is the treasurer of the International Coordination Council of Non-Resident Nepali Association and has been Japan chairman of the association.

Oktoberfest at Radisson

Radisson Hotel hosted Oktoberfest at its newest outlet, The Terrace Garden, on Fridays and October 12 and 13. The celebration included festive specialty buffet from German cuisine for Rs 1,299 plus taxes per person including free flow of Carlsberg beer from 6pm to 10pm.

“Oktoberfest at Radisson is for tourists to make them feel at home during the festive season and to promote our newly opened outlet The Terrace Garden which has a seating capacity of 70 people,” said Kabir Jung Thapa, Director of Food and Beverage at Radisson, adding, “The buffet includes imported meat items, mostly sausages with varieties of bread.”

Starters, soups, live barbeque, carving station and desserts included German potato salad, mixed grain salad; roasted beetroot, walnut and goat cheese salad, red slow salad, homemade Sauerkraut, Sauerkraut Beer Soup with Frankfurters, Gammon with grain mustard, Frankfurter, Bratwurst and Whitwurst, Getreide Meal Laib (meat loaf), barbeque pork ribs, Bratwurst, Dark Beer marinated barbeque chicken, Speck Kuchen (Bacon Cake), Chicken Paprikash, Grilled Snapper with almond butter, Bavarian Cream with Plum Compote, Apple and Rum Custard Cake.

The celebration included festive specialty buffet from German cuisine for Rs 1,299 plus taxes per person including free flow of Carlsberg beer from 6pm to 10pm.

Everest Bank Announces 17 % Net Profit

The Board of Directors of Everest Bank Limited, in a Board Meeting held on 20 September, approved and signed the audited Balance Sheet for the year ended Asadh 2069. The Board noted that the Bank has highest EPS (Earning per Share) of Rs 88.55 among all the Banks in the country; highest reserves (as percentage of Paid-Up Capital) at 228 per cent and one of the lowest NPA. It further noted that the net profit of the Bank has gone up by 17 per cent to Rs 109.05 crores.

he Board also noted that as part of its innovative services, the Bank has recently opened five automatic Cash Deposit Kiosks and started trial innovative banking services through mobile phones (branded as Mobile ATM).

Fiat Free Check-up Camp

Batas Brother Motors Pvt Ltd, the sole distributor of FIAT cars for Nepal, organized Free Check-up Camp for all FIAT cars on 2nd and 3rd of October in their modern service center situated at Basundhara, Kathmandu. All FIAT customers had free vehicle check-up, special discounts on top up of oils, coolants, battery fluids, spare parts and labour charges.

Batas Brothers Motors Pvt Ltd has been distributing FIAT cars in Nepal and the popular models are Linea and Punto. Deputy GM Alok Josee said due to the growing popularity of FIAT vehicles, Batas Organization has been doing various activities and events to provide added services to its valued customers.

Kwiks Cheeseballs Celebrates 25 Years

To celebrate the unique taste of Kwiks Cheeseballs, Chaudhary Group launched a celebration campaign on its 25th anniversary. The Group launched the campaign with the slogan “Making people lick their fingers for last 25 years.”

BoK AGM Approves 21.32 % Cash Dividend

The 18th Annual General Meeting (AGM) of Bank of Kathmandu (BoK) Ltd held on 12th October approved five percent Bonus Share and 21.32 per cent Cash Dividend to its valued Shareholders.

While highlighting the Bank’s overall progress in the Fiscal year 2068/069, Chairman of the Bank Narendra Kumar Basnyat stated that the bank managed to earn Operating Profit of Rs 883 million out of which Net Profit stood at Rs 607.7 million in the fiscal year. The total deposits at the end of the fiscal year 2068/069 summed to Rs 24.99 billion, an increment of 18.90 per cent in comparison to corresponding figure of last fiscal year. Similarly, loans and advances increased by 7.59 per cent at the end of the fiscal year 2068/069 with total lending of Rs 19.32 billion.

During this period, the Bank also added four new branches which put the total number of its branches at 45. Moreover, the bank also runs seven extension counters throughout the country. Apart from this, the customers can utilize the facility of its network from 54 ATM counters. During the FY, the bank introduced attractive new products and services catering to different segments of customers and was actively involved in microfinance projects in various parts of the country, thus improving the microfinance business.

Harrison Wins CACCI – FNCCI Annual Golf Challenge

Keith Harrison won the CACCI – FNCCI Annual Golf Challenge at Gokarna Golf Club. Harrison playing with 4 handicap scored 37 Stableford points to win the tournament over Deepak Rajbhandari and Rene Vijay Einhaus by two strokes. Deepak Rajbhandari finished runner-up on the count back whereas Rene Vijay Einhaus, 1 handicap Golfer got the best gross award with three over gross score (33 gross points).

Rita Thapa bagged the best lady golfer award with the score of 27 points. Subodh Thapa won the group category among the CACCI members with 33 points and Pradeep Kumar Shrestha was Runner-up. Stephan Wong was winner among international participants of CACCI members. Prabhakar Adhikari received closest to the pin award, TG Shrestha got the longest drive prize and Rene Vijay Einhaus won most birdies award with five birdies.

A total of 54 players took part in the tournament organized by Confederation of Asia- Pacific Chamber of Commerce and Industries (CACCI) and Federation of Nepalese Chamber of Commerce and Industries (FNCCI). The tournament was played under Stableford format with 3/4 handicap.

Batas Appointed PETRONAS Distributor

Batas Organization has been appointed the sole selling distributor of PETRONAS Lubricants (India) Pvt Ltd for Nepal, a wholly owned subsidiary of PETRONAS that stated lubricants operation in India in 2006. The objective of entering Nepal lubricant market is to give bring value position to its valued consumers and customers viz technology, high performance engine oils Euro IV & Euro V, higher drain intervals and eco friendly oils thus conserving the natural resources and huge savings to the consumer –high performance oils, said the company.

PETRONAS Lubricants (India) Pvt Ltd is rated as the fastest growing lubricant company in India. It also plans to introduce a complete range of oils – mach-5 range for cars, URANIA for DEO range and sprinta range for MCO including SELENIA range of products and AKROS for tractors. PETRONAS , an Energy Major is ranked 68th amongst Global Fortune 500 companies.

Weekly Winners of Bajajtantra

Hansraj Hulaschand and company, an authorized distributor of Bajaj motorbikes in Nepal, announced its fourth week winners of Bajajtantra - its latest offer scheme on the auspicious occasion of Dashain and Tihar 2069. List of prizes, names of the winners and their coupon numbers were as follows:

Under this exciting offer that carried an equally exciting catchphrase ‘Vote kaslai, aafailai’, people could win an instant cash discount up to Rs 1 lakh through scratch at the time of buying any Bajaj bike and every week, seven consumers could participate on the scheme offer and win above mentioned gifts by voting for their desired prizes through lucky draw.

Springwood Youthful Moments Declares Winners

‘Springwood Youthful Moments’, an online contest was hosted by Surya Nepal Pvt Ltd (SNPL) for its “Springwood” range of men’s garments. This contest began on 16th of July and ended on 9th of October. The participants had to take a photograph that depicted fun and exciting moments in their lives and submit it to enter the contest via an app created for Springwood’s Facebook Page. Those generating maximum likes on their uploaded photograph, were due to received gifts from Springwood. Those who sported Springwood garments for the photograph were given benefit of extra 10 per cent credit in the contest. The contest garnered huge popularity on the Springwood fan page on Facebook, which now boasts 10,149 fans.

A total of 59 participants were shortlisted and Ganesh Gurung (with 732 likes on his picture) bagged the first prize of a Springwood gift voucher worth Rs 15,000. The 2nd position went to Avishek Mali (572 likes on his picture), who received a Rs 10,000 gift voucher and the 3rd position was won by Ratna Khadka (539 likes on his picture), who received a Rs 5,000 voucher. The consolation prizes of gift vouchers worth Rs 2000 each were won by Gopal Acharya, Carol Kanodia, Nikita Saraf, Yelin Hyoju, Swastik Raj Banjara, Anusha Shrestha and Jagannath Luitel.

Rana Wins Indian Ambassador's Cup

Robin Rana won the Indian Ambassador's Cup Golf Tournament at Gokarna Golf Club. Rana playing with 14 handicap edged out Subodh Thapa by one point. Rana scored 42 stableford points to win the trophy; he got 21 points on the front nine and brought an identical score on the back nine. Thapa playing with 18 handicap scored 41 points, 21 points on the front nine and 20 points on the back nine to finish as the Runner-up.

Rene Vijay Einhaus won the best gross award with 33 gross points. Rekha Ghimire bagged Ladies trophy with 30 points and Kesang Lama finished second in the ladies with 29 points. KNS Thapa was the winner among the senior golfers aged 65 and above and Victory SJB Rana came second among the seniors.

A total of 64 golfers took part in the tournament played under stableford format with full handicap (maximum allowance 18). Indian Ambassador Jayanta Prasad, Chief of Army Staff Gaurav SJB Rana, and Vice President - Technical of Surya Nepal Pvt Ltd Sanjiv Gandhi gave away the prizes to the winners. Captain of the Gokarna Golf Club, Joseph Nathan was also present on the occasion.

Visa Cards Discounts at Bhatbhateni

Bhatbhateni Superstore provided discounts up to 10 per cent to the customers who pay their bills by Visa debit or credit card on the occasion of Dashain and Tihar. The Store provided this discount in association with Visa Worldwide. The discount could be availed at all six outlets of Bhatbhateni at Maharajganj, Patan, Bauddha, Koteswor and Bhatbhateni in Kathmandu valley and also in Pokhara. Buyers received the discount instantaneously upon paying the bill with Visa cards. The scheme started on 16 October and was valid for a month.

Bajaj Discover World’s Largest Selling Motorcycle

Bajaj informed that its motorcycle Bajaj Discover became the world’s largest selling motorcycle. The company claimed that this was the result of successful technical and marketing aspects of Discover. The company recently launched Discover 125 ST, the latest model of Discover in the market.

Sixth Real Kathmandu Marathon

The 6th Real Kathmandu Marathon for this year was held on the 13 October. The theme of this year’s marathon was “Live Green, Breathe Clean”. The marathon had several categories such as Full and Half Marathons as well as Open, School and Wheelchair Events. The marathon started at 6:00 am from Dashrath Rangashala, Tripureswor amidst a huge number of excited participants. Taking all the race categories in consideration, there were 2,000 participants in total from all walks of life.

Real School of Nepal-2012

The Grand Finale of Real School of Nepal-2012 was held on 25 September. The five regional champions that competed in the Grand Finale were Eureka Residential Higher Secondary School from Dharan, Gandaki Higher Secondary Boarding school from Pokhara, Budhanilkantha Public Boarding School from Kathmandu, Sainik Awashiya Mahavidyalaya from Bhaktapur and Ideal Model Higher Secondary School from Lalitpur.

The winner of the Real School of Nepal 2012 was Ideal Model Higher Secondary School from Lalitpur. Eureka Residential Higher Secondary School from Dharan and Sainik Awashiya Mahavidayala from Bhaktapur were declared 1st and 2nd runner up respectively.