Kathmandu / June 22: With 3,703 new cases of COVID-19 confirmed on Tuesday, the nation’s novel coronavirus tally has reached 626,343. In 12,204 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 in the regular […]
Kathmandu / June 21: The government has approved investment worth Rs 97 billion to construct two hydropower projects. According to the Office of the Investment Board, Nepal (IBN), its 47th board meeting led by Prime Minister KP Oli on Tuesday gave the go-ahead to construct 762 MW Tamor Storage Hydroelectricity Project and 139.2 MW Manang-Marsyangdi […]
Kathmandu / June 21: With 1,584 new cases of COVID-19 confirmed on Monday, the nation’s novel coronavirus tally has reached 622,640. In 6,583 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests done in the past 24 hours, a total of 1,584 persons were found infected with SARS-CoV-2, informed the Ministry of Health and Population in the regular […]
Kathmandu / June 21: Nepal received commitments for foreign assistance worth Rs 202.28 billion in the first ten months of the current fiscal year, which is 35.3 percent more than the pledged amount in the same period last year. Of the pledged amount, 89.1 percent was loans while the remaining 10.9 percent was for grants. […]
Bhaktapur / June 21 : Vegetable farmers of Bhaktapur had to bear a huge loss this season as they were incapable of supplying produces to the market due to a prohibitory order implemented by the government against COVID-19. Different verities of vegetables like cauliflower, cabbage went rotten in the farm. The farmers have to feed […]
Mukunda Gaire / Kathmandu, June 20: A meeting of the Chief District Officer (CDO) of the three districts in the Kathmandu Valley on Sunday decided to extend the prohibitory order by a week in a partially relaxed manner. The banks, fancy clothing stores, utensil shops, will be allowed to open for a certain time while […]
Kathmandu / June 20: The stakeholders of the agriculture sector has concluded that prosperity of the country is impossible without modernization of agriculture. They have emphasised for modernisation and mechanisation as traditional, sustenance farming cannot drive the prosperity of the country. In the two-day National Conference for Modernisation of Agriculture for Prosperous Nepal organized by […]
Kathmandu / June 20: With 1,421 new cases of COVID-19 confirmed on Sunday, the nation’s novel coronavirus tally has reached 621,056. In 6,677 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests done in the past 24 hours, a total of 1,421 persons were found infected with SARS-CoV-2, informed Dr. Krishna Prasad Poudel, spokesperson at the Ministry of […]
Kathmandu / June 19: Fifteen people have been killed in floods, landslides and inundation in different parts of the country due to incessant rains from June 13 to 18. The deceased include nine men, three women, two boys and a girl. Of them, three each in Sindhupalchowk and Doti districts, and one each in Saptari, […]
Kathmandu / June 19: With 1,688 new cases of COVID-19 confirmed on Saturday, the nation’s novel coronavirus tally has reached 619,635. In 7,010 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests done in the past 24 hours, a total of 1,688 persons were found infected with SARS-CoV-2, informed the Ministry of Health and Population in the regular […]