Kathmandu / Feb. 27: The House of Representatives of the Federal Parliament has, at last, ratified the Millennium Challenge Corporation Compact. With this development, the implementation of the Compact will now proceed. The compact was endorsed by the ruling coalition parties amid obstructions by main opposition party, CPN-UML, in the lower House. Finance Minister Janardan […]
Kathmandu / Feb 27: The Pashupati Area Development Trust (PADT) has stated that all the preparations have been completed for the Mahashivaratri festival to be observed on Tuesday in the Pashupatinath area. According to the PADT, security arrangements, sandalwood, temple night arrangements, accommodation, food, saintly hospitality, religious programs, sanitation, footwear management, health care, and volunteer […]
Kathmandu / Feb. 27: With 94 new cases of COVID-19 confirmed on Sunday, the nation’s novel coronavirus tally has reached 976,865. In 6,486 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests done in the past 24 hours, a total of 94 persons were found infected with SARS-CoV-2, informed the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) in its […]
Kathmandu / Feb 26: As many as 16,975 international tourists from 150 countries visited Nepal in January, according to the Department of Immigration. The number of tourists arriving in the country has shown signs of recovery for the tourism sector, which was hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the Department of Immigration, among […]
Kathmandu / Feb 26: Minister for Foreign Affairs Dr Narayan Khadka recognized the current pandemic as a common global problem and called for a strong push to make vaccines accessible and affordable to all. Addressing the High-Level Thematic Debate on Galvanizing Momentum for Universal Vaccination through a pre-recorded video, Foreign Minister said that universal vaccination […]
Kathmandu / Feb. 26: With 101 new cases of COVID-19 confirmed on Saturday, the nation’s novel coronavirus tally has reached 976,771. In 2,239 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests done in the past 24 hours, a total of 101 persons were found infected with SARS-CoV-2, informed the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) in its […]
Kathmandu / Feb 25: The government has formed a committee to investigate an incident relating to access of a person without a passport and a visa to the Nepal Airlines Corporation (NAC) aircraft as it was about to take off for Doha of Qatar from the Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA). The Ministry of Home Affairs […]
Kathmandu / Feb 25: Nepal and India have agreed to constitute a Joint Hydro Development Committee (JHDC) to further explore the development of viable hydropower projects in Nepal with particular focus on storage projects. The two sides reached an agreement during the Ninth Meeting of Nepal-India Joint Working Group meeting on Power Sector Cooperation held […]
Kathmandu / Feb. 25: With 158 new cases of COVID-19 confirmed on Friday, the nation’s novel coronavirus tally has reached 976,670. In 5,452 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests done in the past 24 hours, a total of 158 persons were found infected with SARS-CoV-2, informed the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) in its […]
Kathmandu / Feb 24: An agreement has been reached to form a joint task force on a proposal to construct a hydropower project to be built with joint investments of Nepal and India. The taskforce will have a maximum of three members from both the countries. As per the proposal, a company will be established […]
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