Kathmandu / Dec 18: The government has formed a rapid response team to check possible manoeuvring in the foreign employment sector. The rapid response team was formed under direct monitoring of the Director-General of the Department of Foreign Employment with representatives from concerned bodies as members. The Director of the Department is the coordinator of […]
Kathmandu / Dec. 18: With 158 new cases of COVID-19 confirmed on Saturday, the nation’s novel coronavirus tally has reached 825,603. In 5,483 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 / Dec. 17: Multidimensional poverty, vulnerability to shocks including the economic slowdown from COVID-19 and weak infrastructure all impede the progress towards reducing undernutrition, a report states. According to the National Planning Commission (NPC)’s study, thirty-two per cent of children in Nepal are chronically malnourished while seventeen per cent of Nepalese women are overweight […]
Kathmandu / Dec. 17: The government has decided to form a team to receive 14 million USD in grant provided by the World Bank under the COVID-19 Emergency Response and Health Systems Preparedness Project. Similarly, a meeting of the Council of Ministers on Thursday also approved the Teachers Service Commission 11th Amendment Rules 2078 BS, […]
Kathmandu / Dec. 17: With 269 new cases of COVID-19 confirmed on Friday, the nation’s novel coronavirus tally has reached 825,176. In 7,691 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests done in the past 24 hours, a total of 269 persons were found infected with SARS-CoV-2, informed the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) in its […]
Kathmandu / Dec. 16: Home Minister Bal Krishna Khand has assured to address the problems faced by Nepali migrant workers in the countries of destination. At a meeting with the Nepali Congress (NC) general convention representatives arriving from different countries and office bearers of the Non-Resident Nepalis Association (NRNA), Minister Khand said that the government […]
Kathmandu / Dec. 16: The Nepal Telecom (NTC) will provide telecom and broadband internet service to all government offices at local levels across the country. To this effect, an agreement has been reached between Joint Secretary of the Ministry of Federal Affairs and General Administration Dr Gobinda Krishna Khanal and the NTC general director Dilliram […]
Kathmandu / Dec. 16: With 160 new cases of COVID-19 confirmed on Thursday, the nation’s novel coronavirus tally has reached 825,176. In 7,230 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests done in the past 24 hours, a total of 160 persons were found infected with SARS-CoV-2, informed the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) in its […]
Kathmandu / Dec 15: The Government of Nepal and the Government of the Republic of Korea have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the establishment of a polytechnic institute for construction workforce development in Province 2. The Government of Korea will spend US dollars 8.6 million (equivalent to Rs 1.03 billion) to undertake the […]
Kathmandu / Dec 15: Consumer price inflation surged to 5.32 percent during the one month period from mid-October to mid-November this year compared to 4.05 percent during the same period last year. The four months’ report on ‘Current Macroeconomic and Financial Situation of Nepal’ released by the Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) on Wednesday, shows that […]
