Kathmandu / Feb 21: The National Youth Association, a sister organization of Nepal Communist Party (NCP), is set to expand its membership with a target to make 500,000 new members by mid-April. A two-day central committee meeting of the Association recently made the decision. Newly elected Chair of the Association Bachan Bahadur Singh said along […]
Kathmandu / Feb. 21: The Ministry of Health and Population on Sunday confirmed 80 new cases of COVID-19, taking the nation’s novel coronavirus tally to 273,431. “In 3,325 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests done in the last 24 hours, 80 persons were found infected with SARS-CoV-2,” informed Dr. Jageshwor Gautam, spokesperson at the Ministry […]
Kathmandu / Feb 20: The national identity (ID) card distribution is to begin in all local units of Taplejung district from the second week of March. The collection of details for the national ID card has been taking place through the District Administration Office. So far, 2,362 people – 1,352 males and 1010 females – […]
Kathmandu / Feb 20: The government has decided to recognise boutique and deluxe hotels as the ‘star’ hotels. The Department of Tourism, Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation has fixed symbols for such hotels after classification. Prior to this, only hotels with advanced facilities were recognised as ‘star’ hotels. ‘Star’ has been fixed as […]
Kathmandu / Feb. 20: The Ministry of Health and Population on Saturday confirmed 88 new cases of COVID-19, taking the nation’s novel coronavirus tally to 273,351. “In 2,048 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests done in the last 24 hours, 88 persons were found infected with SARS-CoV-2,” informed the Ministry of Health and Population in […]
Kathmandu / Feb. 19: The hearing on writ petition filed in the constitutional bench of Supreme Court against the dissolution of the House of Representatives has officially ended from today after both the sides completed presenting their arguments. Likewise, the constitutional bench today have ordered both plaintiff and defendant to submit their arguments in writing […]
Kathmandu / Feb 19: The Government of Japan has agreed to extend a grant assistance of Japanese Yen 364 million (about US$3.47 million /Rs.405 million) to the United Nations World Food Program (UN WFP) Nepal for implementing the Mother and Child Health and Nutrition Programme in five vulnerable districts of provinces 1 and 2. SAIGO […]
Kathmandu / Feb. 10: The Ministry of Health and Population on Friday confirmed 97 new cases of COVID-19, taking the nation’s novel coronavirus tally to 273,263. “In 2,931 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests done in the last 24 hours, 97 persons were found infected with SARS-CoV-2,” informed the Ministry of Health and Population in […]
Kathmandu / Feb 18: Minister for Communications and Information Technology, Parbat Gurung on Thursday said that the government has a plan to expand the internet service to each home, school and ward office in the country. At an interaction with journalists at Singha Durbar, the minister said that the internet service will be expanded to […]
Mahima Devkota / Kathmandu, Feb. 17: Nepal Tourism Board (NTB) has been trying its best to enhance tourism in the country despite challenges amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. Dhananjay Regmi, Chief Executive Officer of NTB, presented that the NTB has been developing local tourist places for internal tourism and building up a niche market by highlighting […]