Amar Raj Naharki, Tanahun, Dec. 11: Farmers of Umachowk Village in Myagde Rural Municipality-2 have become millionaires this year through orange farming. After orange farming in Umachowk Village started to thrive, the farmers of neighbouring villages in Myagde-1 and 3 also started commercial orange farming in association with the Umachowk Orange Block Operation Committee. They […]
Kathmandu / Dec 11 : The Kathmandu Metropolitan City is at work to make bricks out of dust collected from the city, said the KMC. So far approximately 6,500 tonnes of dust has been collected from the city as the KMC has been cleaning city roads using broomer machines for the past two years. To […]
Kathmandu / Dec. 11: The Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) on Friday confirmed 1,044 new cases of COVID-19, taking the national tally to 246,694. “A total of 1,044 persons were found with the novel coronavirus infection in the last 24 hours,” informed the MoHP in its daily update. Currently, there are 12,148 active cases […]
Kathmandu / Dec. 10: The government has a plan to innoculate 72 per cent of the country’s total population against COVID-19. It is said vaccinating more than two-thirds of the population would work as immune power at the community level and the rest of the population need not be vaccinated. Vaccine has not been tested […]
Kathmandu / Dec. 10: The government has issued Social Security Ordinance-2077 in order to clear some legal obstacles to distributing social security allowances to the people of specific groups and categories. A meeting of the Council of Ministers held on December 3 recommended President Bidya Devi Bhandari to issue and certify the ordinance. The ordinance […]
Kathmandu / Dec. 10: The Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) on Thursday confirmed 1,217 new cases of COVID-19, taking the national tally to 245,650. “In 7,232 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction Tests (RT-PCR) tests done in the last 24 hours, as many as 1,217 persons, 443 females and 774 males, were found with the novel […]
Kathmandu / Dec 9: Minister for Communications and Information Technology Parbat Gurung today said the government was fully committed to safeguarding human rights of Nepali citizens. “The government wants to ensure human rights of the people. It has worked to maintain peace and security. Now there is the right of people to be safe from […]
Kathmandu / Dec 9: The Central Bureau of Statistics is making preparations to conduct the 12th national census from June 8 to 22 and it will be inclusive, officials said. This is going to be the first national census after the country adopted federalism. “This census is going to be crucial for the three-tier government […]
Pokhara / Dec 9 : The Paschimanchal Hotel Association (PHA) Pokhara has launched a four-day ‘Visit Pokhara Campaign’ in a bid to revive tourism marred by ongoing global Covid-19 pandemic. This campaign taking place from today aims to revive and promote domestic tourism, said President of the PHA, Pokhara, Bikal Tulachan. The campaign covering main […]
Kathmandu, Dec. 8: The updated height of Mount Everest, the highest peak in the world, is 8,848.86 meters. The new height was disclosed jointly by Nepal and China amid a special ceremony on Tuesday. The height was measured by Nepal for the first time by using its manpower and resources in coordination with Chinese technicians […]