Kathmandu / Apr. 30: Following the extension of lockdown period, the government has reviewed the relief packages, tax waiver and other facilities announced targeting both organised and unorganised sectors and industries. A meeting of the Council of Ministers held at Prime Minister’s residence in Baluwatar on April 26 took the decision to this effect, informed […]
Kathmandu / Apr. 30: The United Arab Emirates has imported fruits from Nepal recently. According to Nepali ambassador to UAE, Krishna Prasad Dhakal, the Gulf nation imported 7 metric tons of watermelon and 1.5 metric tons of papaya from Nepal on April 29. “The UAE can fulfill the gap between Nepali farmers and market place […]
Kathmandu / Apr. 30 : The government of Japan is going to decorate senior leader of the Nepali Congress, Ram Chandra Poudel, with the ‘Grand Cordon of the order of the Rising Sun’. The Japanese government on Wednesday took the decision in this regard. Former Speaker of the House of Representatives in Nepal, Poudel, is […]
Aashish Mishra / Kathmandu, Apr. 29: Aasha Jha becomes very happy every time she goes to the roof of her house in Tahagalli, Lalitpur Metropolitan City–8, these days. Ever since the lockdown began, she has been able to clearly see the airport from her terrace. “Usually haze and smog block the view but the air […]
Kathmandu / Apr. 29: Three more persons have tested positive for coronavirus today. Director at Epidemiology and Disease Control Division under the Ministry of Health and Population, Dr Basudev Pandey, shared that coronavirus was confirmed on two persons from Bara and one from Parsa. With this, number of coronavirus infected people has reached 57 in […]
Kathmandu / Apr. 29: The government is preparing to summon the budget session of the federal legislative. Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli visited the meeting hall of the federal parliament on Wednesday, as one of the preparatory tasks to call the budget session. “The Prime Minister inspected the meeting hall to make necessary preparations for […]
Narayan Prasad Neupane / Kathmandu: The sixth session of the Federal Parliament (House of Representatives and National Assembly) has been delayed due to the adverse situation resulting from the outbreak of COVID-19 and intra-party dispute in the ruling Nepal Communist Party. As per the Constitution of Nepal, the Minister for Finance is supposed to table […]
Rautahat / Apr. 28: Two more persons have contracted the novel coronavirus, taking the number of total reported COVID-19 cases in the country to 54. According to Dr Ram Prasad Ghimire, secretary at the Province 2 Ministry of Social Development, swab samples of these two men have tested positive for the disease at the Kathmandu-based […]
Kathmandu / Apr. 28: UN Women Nepal and Rakuten Viber, the company behind the messenger and calling app Viber, have forged a partnership to use Viber ‘community’ as an innovative platform to reach out to communities in order to promote Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment (GEWE). Recognizing the need to use the platform to share […]
Kathmandu, Apr. 27: The government has decided to provide pay and perks as usual to salaried-workers by considering the ongoing lockdown as public holiday. The government, by issuing a notice on Monday in the Nepal Gazette notified that considering the lockdown as public holiday, the government offices, authorities and industries should provide salary to their […]
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