Kathmandu / Dec 25: President Bidya Devi Bhandari has administered oath of office and secrecy to eight newly-appointed ministers amidst a special function held at the Shital Niwas Friday evening. In the first cabinet reshuffle made after the dissolution of the House of Representatives (HoR) last week, Prime Minister has relieved one minister and one […]
Kathmandu / Dec. 24: With 608 new cases of novel coronavirus confirmed on Wednesday, the national COVID-19 tally has surged to 257,200. “In 4,142 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests done in the last 24 hours, as many as 608 persons, 237 females and 371 males, were found to have been infected with SARS-CoV-2,” the […]
Kathmandu, Dec. 23: The Supreme Court today refused to give interim order against the 12 writ petitions regarding the dissolution of the House of Representatives. Hearings of all writ petitins were conducted by the single bench of Chief Justice Cholendra Shumsher JB Rana. All the writ petitions have sent to the constitutional bench where the […]
Achyut Regmi / Kathmandu, Dec. 23: The number of patients at government and private sector hospitals has decreased amidst COVID-19. This trend is seen since March 24 after the government enforced nationwide lockdown to stem the spread of coronavirus infection. The Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital (TUTH) at Maharajgunj is a case in point. It used […]
Kathmandu, Dec. 23: With 743 new cases of novel coronavirus confirmed on Wednesday, the national COVID-19 tally has surged to 255,979. “In 6,559 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests done in the last 24 hours, as many as 743 persons, 279 females and 464 males, were found to have been infected with SARS-CoV-2,” the Ministry […]
Kathmandu / Dec 22: A meeting of the Central Working Committee members of a faction of the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) led by Chairman and Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has decided to hold the party’s ‘unity’ convention in November 2021. Pradeep Gyawali, the new spokesperson, chosen by the same meeting of the faction, […]
Kathmandu / Dec 22 : The Government of Nepal and the World Bank signed a $80 million (around NPR 9.3 billion) project today to bolster Nepal’s agriculture sector by strengthening rural market linkages and promoting entrepreneurship while creating jobs to support post-COVID-19 recovery. The Rural Enterprise and Economic Development Project (REED) project was signed Monday […]
Kathmandu / Dec. 22: With 722 new cases of novel coronavirus confirmed on Tuesday, the national COVID-19 tally has surged to 255,236. “In 7,000 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests done in the last 24 hours, as many as 733 persons, 310 females and 412 males, were found to have been infected with SARS-CoV-2,” the […]
Kathmandu / Dec 21: Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has said although the dissolution of the House of Representatives appears unexpected and a sudden move on the surface, it is an incident resulting from the selfishness for power of some leaders within the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) since long. Prime Minister Oli, who is […]
Doti / Dec 21: The drive to demolish Chhaugoth – an outdoor shed where women or girls are kept during menstruation – has resumed to put an end to the deep-rooted social taboo in the Sudurpaschim Province. The campaign of demolishing Chhaugoth structures was put on hold for some months due to the fear of […]