Nepal, July 15 -- Nepal Oil Corporation (NOC) has permitted bottlers plants to sell fully filled liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) cylinders nationwide from Wednesday.

Issuing a press statement on Tuesday, the NOC announced that it would be resuming the nationwide distribution of full 14.2 kg cooking gas cylinders from July 15, ending the temporary practice of supplying half-filled cylinders introduced earlier.

After the US-Iran war broke out, the state-owned oil monopoly had ordered the gas bottling companies to sell only half-filled cylinder (7.1 kg) of LPG to rationalize the distribution citing the possible crisis of the cooking gas. LPG bottlers, however, have been pressing the NOC to resume gas distribution in its original modality, r...