Yalu Joshi, Kathmandu, Mar. 10: Among various specialties of Maha Shivaratri, the presence of sadhus or hermits is one of them. This year the Pashupati Area Development Trust (PADT) has not officially invited hermits because of which the number of hermits visiting the temple has gone down compared to previous years. The hermits who visit […]
Kathmandu / Mar. 10: The Ministry of Health and Population on Wednesday confirmed 104 new cases of COVID-19, taking the nation’s novel coronavirus tally to 274,973. “In 3,488 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests done in the last 24 hours, 104 persons were found infected with SARS-CoV-2,” informed Dr. Jageshwor Gautam, spokesperson of the Ministry […]
Kathmandu / Mar 9: The Election Commission (EC) on Tuesday asked the recently-revived Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxit Leninist) and Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Center) to come up with a new name and election symbol of the party if they decide to merge the two parties again. A meeting of the poll body […]
Kathmandu /March 9: A population of 24 million 735 thousand has access to the internet service in Nepal. Statistics for the six months of the current fiscal year recently released by Nepal Telecommunications Authority (NTA) states that 388 thousand more internet users have been recorded in the month of Poush compared to Mangsir. A total […]
Kathmandu / Mar. 9: The Ministry of Health and Population on Tuesday confirmed 59 new cases of COVID-19, taking the nation’s novel coronavirus tally to 274,869. “In 2,715 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests done in the last 24 hours, 59 persons were found infected with SARS-CoV-2,” informed the Ministry of Health and Population in […]
Kathmandu / March 8 : The water drawn from the Melamchi river in Sindhupalchok district has been discharged into the Bagmati river so as to increase the water level in the holy river in view of the upcoming Shivaratri festival. The water diverted from Melamchi through 26.5 kilometers tunnel to Sundarijal water processing center has […]
Kathmandu / March 8: Five companies have been shortlisted for carrying out study required for placing Nepal’s own satellite in orbit. Out of the nine companies that submitted letters of intent for that purpose, Nepal Telecommunications Authority (NTA) has selected the five, NTA spokesperson Meen Prasad Aryal said. NTA cancelled the previous proposals and called […]
Kathmandu / Mar. 8: The Ministry of Health and Population on Monday confirmed 89 new cases of COVID-19, taking the nation’s novel coronavirus tally to 274,810. “In 4,399 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests done in the last 24 hours, 89 persons were found infected with SARS-CoV-2,” informed the Ministry of Health and Population in […]
Kathmandu / March 07: The party name ‘Nepal Communist Party’ has been accorded to Rishi Kattel as per today’s verdict of the Supreme Court.The verdict was issued by a division bench of justices Bam Kumar Shrestha and Kumar Regmi on Sunday. Following the unification of the then CPN-UML and CPN-Maoist Centre, the Election Commission had […]
Kathmandu / Mar. 07: JICA Alumni Association of Nepal (JAAN) marked its 47th annual function and annual general meeting on Saturday in Kathmandu. Vice-president Nanda Bahadur Pun inaugurated the annual function as a chief guest. Milan magazine published by JAAN was also launched. The magazine contains articles on Covid-19 pandemic by 17 writers—who were felicitated […]