Kathmandu / June 23: An Indian train carrying pilgrims has reached Janakpurdham, the capital city of Madhesh Province. The train named ‘Bharat Gaurav AC Tourist’ arrived at the Janakpurdham railway station on Thursday afternoon. The train left New Delhi, the federal capital city of India, on Tuesday evening and reached the Janakpurdham railway station, after […]
Kathmandu / June 22: Around two lakh children aged 5-12 residing in the Kathmandu district will be administered a vaccine against COVID-19 from tomorrow. Basanta Adhikari, Health Chief at the District Health Office, Kathmandu, said that as many as one lakh ninety thousand children will be administered the Pfizer-BioNTech from tomorrow. The aim is to […]
Kathmandu / June 22: The construction of the Bheri-Babai Diversion Multipurpose Project, a national pride project, will take three more years to complete. Begun in 2015, the project was to be complete within 8 years, in 2023. However, the COVID-19 pandemic is said to have hit the project forcing it to extend the construction deadline. […]
Kathmandu / June 22: Minister for Industry, Commerce and Supplies, Dilendra Prasad Badu has said the price of petroleum products in Nepal has to be increased due to its rising prices in the international market. Informing the House of the reason behind the rise in the prices of petroleum products in a meeting of the […]
Kathmandu / June 21: Minister for Drinking Water Umakanta Chaudhari has said that the government will lift water from Kulekhani to distribute in the Kathmandu Valley. Some 150 million liters of water will be lifted daily for distribution by constructing a dam at the Kulekhani stream in the Makawanpur district. Minister Chaudhari was on an […]
Kathmandu / June 21: CPN-UML Chairperson KP Sharma Oli has said the country should present itself with reliable and trustworthy policies and behavior before the neighboring countries. At a dialogue with former ambassadors on Nepal’s foreign affairs organized by the Former Ambassadors’ Forum here today, former Prime Minister Oli laid emphasis on the need of […]
Kathmandu / June 21: The Airlines Operators Association of Nepal (AOAN) has threatened to halt all regular flights beginning Wednesday if their five-point demand is not addressed by the government. Organizing a press conference on Tuesday, the AOAN has announced plans to suspend regular operation of all flights including those of helicopters, demanding that the […]
Adarsha Subedi / Kathmandu: The invasion of Ukraine by Russia started on 24th February 2022 is not only affecting the countries involved in the war and their neighbors but also affecting the countries like Nepal, which are heavily reliant on the import of goods. Russia had occupied major cities like Kharkiv, Mariupol, Kherson Makarov, and […]
Kathmandu / June 20: Two more airline companies from abroad will be providing services from and to the Bhairahawa-based Gautam Buddha International Airport (GBIA). According to the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN), Air Arabia and FlyDubai have proceeded with providing their services from the GBIA that came into formal operation on May 16. Both […]
Kathmandu / June 20: For the first time in Nepal, a vaccine against COVID-19 arrived on Sunday that can be administered to children aged below 11. With American aid, 2.2 million doses of the vaccine arrived in Nepal from America on Sunday. Pfizer vaccine 9 BioNTech vaccine pediatric has arrived in Nepal. Surendra Chaurasia, chief […]