Kathmandu / Apr. 13: The Ministry of Home Affairs has put in place e-pass for operating most-essential vehicles during the ongoing lockdown. Organising a press conference here today, Minister for Home Affairs Ram Bahadur Thapa launched the electronic pass distribution services which will come into operation for the public from coming Tuesday. The District Administration […]
Kathmandu / Apr. 12: Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has urged one and all to play national anthem from home at 8 am on the New Year day, as a tribute to those who are on the frontline in a fight against COVID-19. Stating that the program entitled ‘Play the national anthem’ being organized by […]
Kathmandu / Apr. 12: The Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) confirmed three new positive cases of COVID-19 today. “While conducting test of 21 suspected COVID-19 patients residing at a mosque in Birgunj Metropolitan City-2, Parsa, three men of age 37, 55 and 44 have tested positive for the virus,” informed the ministry through its […]
Dev Bahadur Kunwar / Kathmandu: The police have taken actions against at least 4,000 pedestrians and more than 7,500 drivers in the last 20 days for defying the lockdown orders in the Kathmandu Valley. The number of punishments went up along with increasing number of people leaving the Valley. The security officials said that today […]
Kathmandu / Apr. 11: Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli on Saturday said that lockdown measures will not be lifted immediately. Addressing chief ministers of all seven provinces through a video conference call, the prime minister made it clear that the lockdown measures will not be lifted unless the situation goes back to normal in India. […]
Kathmandu / Apr. 11: The Ministry of Health and Population has stated that no positive case of COVID-19 was recorded in the last 24 hours. “897 tests were conducted in the last 24 hours, where none of the suspects tested positive for COVID-19,” informed Dr. Bikash Devkota, spokesperson of the Ministry today. In the daily […]
Kathmandu / Apr. 11: The Agriculture, Cooperatives and Natural Resources Committee under the Federal Parliament has directed the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development to ease supply of grains during lockdown. The directive aims to ensure supply of agriculture produces to customers during lockdown, said the Committee’s chair Purna Kumari Subedi. The committee has drawn […]
Kathmandu / Apr. 10 : Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi today held a telephone conversation. The conversation was focused on further strengthening mutual collaboration in the fight against the COVID-19 and providing better care and support for those citizens stopped in each other’s countries during lockdown. Prime Minister Oli […]
Kathmandu / Apr. 10: Minister for Industry, Commerce and Supply Lekhraj Bhatta has said there is no issue in the import of foodstuff from India despite restriction in cross-border people’s movement. In his statement from the Nepal Television today, the Minister said trucks and containers from India carrying food and other essentials are being disinfected […]
Kathmandu / Apr. 10: A total of 630 swab samples of the suspected people were tested for the novel coronavirus, SARS-COV-2, in the last 24 hours in Nepal. However, no sample tested positive for the virus or the disease COVID-19. Dr. Bikash Devkota, spokesperson of the Ministry of Health and Population, informed this at the […]