Kathmandu / Jan 20: Nepal achieved globally renowned progress in reducing child stunting and scaling up nutrition services during the Millennium Development Goals era (2002 -2016), despite periods of political and economic instability, according to a special supplement of the Maternal and Child Nutrition Journal published on Thursday. However, the country still faces considerable nutrition-related […]
Kathmandu / Jan 20: The government is preparing to make adjustments in the price of milk. The Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development had formed a committee to carry out a study to that connection after the Central Dairy Cooperative Association Limited Nepal requested for increasing the price of milk reasoning that they were not […]
Kathmandu, Jan 20: With 10,052 new cases of COVID-19 confirmed on Thursday, the nation’s novel coronavirus tally has reached 868,215. In 21,007 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests done in the past 24 hours, a total of 10,052 persons were found infected with SARS-CoV-2, informed the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) in its regular […]
Kathmandu / Jan 19: Owners of electric vehicles (EVs) can now keep additional electric equipment to charge their vehicles at their home or office as Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) has now decided to allow people concerned to upgrade electricity supply for the purpose. By enforcing the Electricity Distribution Bylaw 2022, the state-owned power utility has […]
Kathmandu / Jan 19: Arrangement for those voters infected with the novel coronavirus has been made for the National Assembly election which is scheduled for January 26. Issuing 19-point health-related measures for the election on Wednesday, the Election Commission, Nepal, made such an arrangement. A separate ballot box will be arranged for voting by the […]
Kathmandu / Jan 19: A record 9,502 people have been found infected with the novel coronavirus through the PCR test in a single day in Nepal in the last 24 hours. When combined with the number of people found infected with the same virus through the antigen test, the total number of infected people amounts […]
Kathmandu / Jan 18: A meeting of the five-party coordination committee formed to run the government has agreed that the upcoming local elections should be held in April as provided in the constitution. The agreement was reached at a meeting chaired by senior Congress leader Ram Chandra Poudel in the presence of Prime Minister Sher […]
Kathmandu / Jan 18: Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) has asked the banks and financial institutions (BFIs) to submit their plans for financial literacy programs within the first three months of every fiscal year. Enforcing a Financial Literacy Framework Directive on Monday, NRB has targeted to make it mandatory for the BFIs to invest the prescribed […]
Kathmandu / Jan 18: With 8,730 new cases of COVID-19 confirmed on Tuesday, the nation’s novel coronavirus tally has reached 868,215. In 17,872 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests done in the past 24 hours, a total of 8,730 persons were found infected with SARS-CoV-2, informed the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) in its […]
Janakpurdham / Jan. 17: Province 2 has been named the Madhesh Province. A two-thirds majority of the provincial assembly members voted for the name in the voting held at the provincial assembly meeting today. 80 provincial members voted for the name while 19 stood against the proposal put forward by provincial assembly members Shailendra Sah, […]