Kathmandu / Apr 05: Nepali Congress president Sher Bahadur Deuba Sunday held talks with former prime ministers and called for joint action to save the country from the current crisis. Leader Deuba telephoned five former prime ministers and former chair of the Cabinet urging them to join hands in the fight against the COVID-19 to […]
Kathmandu / Apr. 04: Following the report of first local transmission of coronavirus infection in the country, the meeting of the Council of Ministers held on Saturday took some important decisions as further precautions to curb the spread of COVID-19 in the country. Following the cabinet meeting, Government Spokesperson, Minister of Finance Yubaraj Khatiwada, informed […]
Kathmandu / Apr. 04: Three new coronavirus cases confirmed in Nepal, the Ministry of Health and Population said today. According to the ministry’s latest Facebook update, the patients are 21-year-old male of Kailali who returned from Mumbai in India and 41-year-old male of Kanchanpur who returned from the Indian state of Uttarakhand bordering Nepal. Likewise, […]
Baglung / Apr. 04: The Dhaulagiri Hospital in Baglung got a ventilator sent by State Health Directorate on Thursday evening. Last week, the Hospital had denied receiving the ventilator, saying it had not all accessories for full functioning. It is the second ventilator sent by the Directorate. However, Dr. Pradip Shrestha lamented, “We got the […]
Kathmandu / Apr. 03: Laborers have started returning to work at the Melamchi water project following the government allows operation of big projects by meeting the stipulated health standards. Construction of the project however continued in the first week following the first phase of lockdown as most of the workers from outside Sindhuplachok district where […]
Butwal / Apr. 03 : In an effort to suppress the spread of COVID-19 pandemic, almost all local levels in State-5 have set up relief funds and begun distributing relief to the daily wage earners. The relief distribution has been made from the fund, especially to the families of breadwinners who have been rendered jobless […]
Kokila Dhakal / Ilam: This is the season of the ‘first flush’ – qualitative tea leaves. Farmers begin to pluck the first flush by the third week of March every year. But this year the leaves are growing in the tea plants even though it is already April. The lockdown put into effect to save […]
Kathmandu / April 2: Sixth case of COVID-19 has been confirmed in Nepal. A woman from Baglung has tested positive for the virus, informed Madhav Prasad Tiwari, press advisor of the Ministry of Health and Population. The infected person had landed in Nepal from Belgium by a flight QR 652 via Doha, Qatar on March […]
Kathmandu / Apr. 2 : Minister for Land Management, Cooperatives and Poverty Alleviation, Padma Kumari Aryal, has said the cooperative movement would help meet the national aspiration of ‘Prosperous Nepal, Happy Nepali’. Minister Aryal said this in a message of best wishes that she gave on the occasion of the 63rd National Cooperative Day, today. […]
Kathmandu / Apr. 2: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has urged the government to manage accommodation and security of people who have been stranded due to lockdown while returning home from abroad. The NHRC, in a statement issued on Thursday by NHRC Secretary Bed Prasad Bhattarai, said Nepalis remain stranded at Nepal’s borders with […]
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