Kathmandu / Jan 15: The government is administering a booster dose against coronavirus from Sunday. According to the Ministry of Health and Population, the booster dose will be inoculated to the frontline workers from January 16 and to all senior citizens above 60 as well as those completing six months of full-dose vaccine from January […]
Ajay Chhetri / Kathmandu, Jan. 15: Inflow of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the first five months of the current fiscal year (FY) has increased by 49.6 per cent in comparison to the review period of the previous FY. The Current Macroeconomic and Financial Situation released by Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) revealed that FDI accumulation […]
Kathmandu / Jan 15: With 3,703 new cases of COVID-19 confirmed on Saturday, the nation’s novel coronavirus tally has reached 849,204. In 10,412 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests done in the past 24 hours, a total of 3,703 persons were found infected with SARS-CoV-2, informed the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) in its […]
Kathmandu / Jan 14: Leaders of the major political parties have urged the government to declare a suitable date for holding the local elections by April 27 as proposed by the Election Commission (EC) earlier. Speaking at an all-party meeting convened by the EC on Friday to discuss the National Assembly election, voter list and […]
Kathmandu / Jan 14: Minister for Home Affairs Bal Krishna Khand and Australian Ambassador to Nepal, Felicity Volk, held a meeting today. During the meeting at the Home Ministry, they discussed the matter of further strengthening friendly relations between Nepal and Australia, according to the Home Minister’s Secretariat. On the occasion, Home Minister Khand thanked […]
Kathmandu / Jan 14: With 4,204 new cases of COVID-19 confirmed on Friday, the nation’s novel coronavirus tally has reached 829,632. In 13,474 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests done in the past 24 hours, a total of 4,204 persons were found infected with SARS-CoV-2, informed the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) in its […]
Kathmandu / Jan 13: The consumer price inflation hit 7.11 percent as of mid-December, which is 0.6 point percent higher than the government’s annual target for this fiscal year. According to Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB)’s report on Current Macroeconomic and Financial Situation, the average price has gone up at an alarming rate compared to that […]
Kathmandu / Jan 13: The government has assigned the Drug Control Officer as per the Narcotic Drugs (Control) Act, 2033 BS, said the Narcotic Control Section under the Ministry of Home Affairs. Home Minister Bal Krishna Khand initiated this. A Cabinet meeting on January 5 assigned section chief of the Narcotics Control Section and assistant […]
Kathmandu / Jan 13: As many as 2,992 people have tested positive for the novel coronavirus in the PCR test of the swab samples of 10,494 people across the country in the last 24 hours. In the meantime, 631 people were found infected with the same virus in the antigen test of 4,583 people. When […]
Kathmandu / Jan 12: The country’s gross domestic product (GDP) in the current fiscal ( 2021-22) is projected to limit at 3.9 per cent, according to the World Bank’s Global Economic Prospects report launched on Wednesday. The projection is based on the COVID-19 vaccine coverage, growth in agricultural productivity and improvements in the service sector. […]