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World Bank projects Nepal’s growth rate to limit at 0.6 percent this year

Kathmandu / Jan 6: The World Bank (WB) has projected that Nepal’s economy will grow by a meager 0.6 percent in the current fiscal year. Reaffirming its projection made earlier in October, the international lending institution has stated that Nepal’s economic growth rate will remain at less than one percent in 2020/21. The low growth […]


Foreign employment returnee finds Niche in hotel business back home

Chitwan / Jan 6 : A foreign employment returnee has found a niche in hotel entrepreneurship back home. Guru Poudel of Ramgram Municipality-5 in East Nawalparasi district has utilized his six years of skills he gained in the United Kingdom by pursuing hotel business. Now he has opened a hotel named Guru Greenery Restaurant and […]


COVID-19 tally hits 263,193 with 409 new cases

Kathmandu / Jan. 6: With 409 new cases of the novel coronavirus confirmed on Wednesday, the national COVID-19 tally has reached 263,193. “In 6,706 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests done in the last 24 hours, 409 persons were found infected with SARS-CoV-2,” informed Dr. Jageshwor Gautam, spokesperson of the Ministry of Health and Population […]


As air quality worsens, Department of Environment urges children, elderly in Kathmandu Valley to stay inside

Kathmandu / Jan 5: The Department of Environment has urged children and old people in the Kathmandu Valley to stay inside their houses unless it is absolutely necessary to go outside. The department’s direction comes following the worsening air quality in the Valley. The air quality of Kathmandu Valley on Tuesday was ranked the worst […]


Nepali Army launches unification March from Gorkha

Narendra Dhakal / Gorkha, Jan. 5: Started as a way of remembering and commemorating the historic unification campaign of Nepal by King Prithvi Narayan Shah, the Nepal Army is organising the unification march this year as well. History has it that the National Hero King Prithvi Narayan Shah’s conquest of Kathmandu started from Gorkha moving […]


COVID-19 update: 522 new cases, 578 recoveries and eight fatalities

Kathmandu / Jan. 5: With 522 new cases of the novel coronavirus confirmed on Tuesday, the national COVID-19 tally has reached 262,784. “In 4,551 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests done in the last 24 hours, 522 persons, 184 females and 338 males, were found infected with SARS-CoV-2,” informed the Ministry of Health and Population […]


Kobit Baniya wins the Global Student Entrepreneur award

Kathmandu / Jan. 4: Kobit Singh Baniya, a student of Patan Multiple Campus, won the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards (GSEA) Nepal competition. The GSEA Nepal competition was successfully organised virtually on January 3, 2021. Baniya also won a cash prize of Rs. 100,000 in GSEA Nepal Finals. Kobit’s company Leaf Plus is a socio-economic enterprise […]


Supreme Court issues show cause notice to PM Oli for cabinet expansion

Kathmandu / Jan 04: The Supreme Court has issued a show cause notice to the Office of the Prime Minister and the Council of Ministers seeking an explanation on the recent expansion of the cabinet. The apex court has asked the government to furnish its reasons for inducting new Ministers to the cabinet even after […]


403 new COVID-19 cases, 594 recoveries and seven fatalities

Kathmandu / Jan. 4: With 403 new cases of the novel coronavirus confirmed on Monday, the national COVID-19 tally has reached 262,262. “In 4,401 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests done in the last 24 hours, 403 persons were found infected with SARS-CoV-2,” informed the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) in its daily update. […]


PM reiterates timely elections; NC announces protest against house dissolution

Kathmandu / Jan 3: Ruling out any possibility of the revival of parliament, Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli on Sunday said that the midterm elections will take place on the stipulated dates. Addressing a gathering of students close to his faction in the ruling Nepal Communist Party, Oli said that the midterm elections will be […]




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