Kathmandu / Aug. 05: The Ministry of Health and Population has recorded 381 new cases of the coronavirus infection on Wednesday, taking the nationwide count to 21,390. The new infections were confirmed after testing 6,359 specimens through PCR method across the nation in the last 24 hours. Among the new cases, 62 have been reported […]
Kathmandu / Aug. 5: Entry to Singhadurbar, the main administrative centre of the country, has been prohibited with increasing COVID-19 infection. The Ministry of Home Affairs said entry of persons other than those with essential work has been restricted to the federal government secretariat premises. “There is no problem entering the Singhadurbar for essential work […]
Kathmandu / Aug 5: Fortified rice, lentils and vegetable oil, totalling to nearly 1,500 MT, donated by the United States have been distributed by the UN World Food Programme (WFP) and the Government of Nepal to school children (from Grade 1-8) in rural areas, according to the WFP. The children are missing out on nutritious […]
Kathmandu / Aug. 4: The Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) has confirmed 259 new cases of COVID-19 today. In 7,687 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests done in the last 24 hours, as many as 259 persons were identified with the virus infection, said Dr. Jageshwor Gautam, spokesperson of the ministry in the daily […]
Kathmandu / Aug 4: As coronavirus cases are increasing at an alarming rate after the government lifted the nationwide lockdown, public health experts have suggested to the government to change the modality of the lockdown, and impose curfews only in the affected areas to curb the spread of the virus. During a four-hour long meeting […]
Kathmandu / Aug.04: The Ministry of Health and Population on Tuesday announced 14 swab collection centres to facilitate extensive testing of coronavirus infection in Kathmandu valley at a time when new cases have been on the rise. MoHP has urged the public to visit the swab collection centres from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm everyday […]
Kathmandu / Aug. 3: The Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) has confirmed 418 new cases of COVID-19 today. In 7,637 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests done in the last 24 hours, as many as 418 persons were identified with the virus infection, said Dr. Jageshwor Gautam, spokesperson of the ministry in the daily […]
Sanchita Ghimire / Kathmandu, Aug. 3: Technical error is to blame for the breaking of one of the sluice gates on the tunnel of the Melamchi Water Supply Project while carrying out test run by relaseing water. A project’s engineer and driver died due to the flood resulting from the breakage of the sluice gate […]
Tokyo / Aug 3 : The Non-Resident Nepalis Association (NRNA) Japan has concluded its regional convention in Nagoya city in spite of the COVID-19 risk. Some 70 persons, including the representatives of nine regional committees and of political parties throughout Japan, attended the regional assembly. The date fixed for the regional meet before this had […]
Nepalgunj / Aug 2 : Timely transplantation of paddy saplings along with sufficient rainfall is expected to increase paddy production in Banke this year. The Agriculture Knowledge Centre, Banke has said that 1.4 million quintals of paddy is expected to be produced this year. The centre has estimated that the production of paddy will be […]
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