Kathmandu / Feb 4: Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli inaugurated the Khurkot-Dana sub-station constructed at Khurkot of Kushma Municipality-2 and Annapurna rural Municipality-3 of Myagdi district today. This is the second-largest sub-station in the country. The Prime Minister inaugurated the 220-132 KV Kushma sub-station and the 220 KV Kushma-Dana transmission line as well as the […]
Kathmandu, Feb 4: Minister for Communications and Information Technology Parbat Gurung has directed employees of Nepal Telecom (NTC) to make it professional and competitive while stressing the need for its review and transformation. “A strategy should be made to establish it as a sustainable and permanent company by reviewing whether commitments to develop it as […]
Kathmandu / February 3 : Officials of different constitutional bodies, appointed by the government, have been sworn-in on Wednesday morning. The appointed officials had been recommended by Constitutional Council’s meeting held on December 15, 2020, after the government brought an ordinance to amend the Constitutional Council Act the same day. Amid the ongoing political disturbance, […]
Parbat, Feb 3 : A water supply project has been constructed and brought into operation at Okhaldhunga settlement, Bajung of Modi rural municipality-5 in the district, with the support of the Nepali Army’s Kebaljung Campany. The project was constructed at an investment of Rs 1.2 million. Of this amount, the Nepali Army provided one million […]
Kathmandu, Feb. 3: With 142 new cases of the novel coronavirus confirmed on Wednesday, the national COVID-19 tally has reached 271,431. “In 3,597 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests done in the last 24 hours, 142 persons were found infected with SARS-CoV-2,” informed Dr. Jageshwor Gautam, spokesperson at the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) […]
Kathmandu / Feb 2: The World Wetlands Day is being observed in Nepal today by organizing various programmes under the slogan – ‘Water, Wetland and Life’ today. The World Wetlands Day is observed across the world on February 2 every year. The Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation (DNPWC) under the Ministry of Forests […]
Kathmandu / Feb 2: Nepal welcomed 8,874 foreign tourists in January, the largest number of foreign visitors in a month since the government imposed a nationwide lockdown on March 24. According to the records of the Department of Immigration (DoI), visitors from 121 countries entered Nepal during the period. Of the total number, 4,028 were […]
Kathmandu / Feb. 2: With 171 new cases of the novel coronavirus confirmed on Tuesday, the national COVID-19 tally has reached 271,289. “In 2,946 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests done in the last 24 hours, 171 persons were found infected with SARS-CoV-2,” informed the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) in its daily update. […]
Kathmandu, Jan. 31: With 105 new cases of the novel coronavirus confirmed on Sunday, the national COVID-19 tally has reached 270,959. “In 3,308 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests done in the last 24 hours, 105 persons were found infected with SARS-CoV-2,” informed Dr. Jageshwor Gautam, spokesperson at the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) […]
Lahan / Jan 31: The people’s housing programme (PHP) in Siraha and Saptari districts has been affected after the local levels failed to manage lands needed for it. The programme is aimed at building houses for Dalit, landless and squatters. If the beneficiaries have not lands to construct houses, the respective local governments are obliged […]