Bhaktapur / April 11: Altogether 19 persons were injured in the Bisket jatra, a chariot pulling festival that began in Bhaktapur on Saturday. Some were injured after falling off the chariot while others were injured in clashes that took place among the revelers. When the chariot reached Nasman at around 7:00PM, 79-year-old Krishna Gopal Mulguthi […]
Kathmandu / Apr. 5: The Ministry of Health and Population on Monday confirmed 266 new cases of COVID-19, taking the nation’s novel coronavirus tally to 278,210. “In 4,536 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests done in the last 24 hours, 266 persons were found infected with SARS-CoV-2,” informed the Health Ministry in the regular press […]
Kathmandu / April 3: Nepal needs to diversify its exportable goods rather than just focusing on the niche products in order to gain from trading with other countries. Speaking at a program, European Union (EU) Ambassador to Nepal, Nona Deprez stressed that Nepal needs to switch to more value-added goods than its traditional products while […]
Kathmandu / April 2: The government is providing Rs 400 thousand each to winners of the Three Nations Cup Football Championship. Nepal won the title of Three Nations Cup Football by defeating Bangladesh 2-1 in the final match held at Tripureshwor-based Dasharath Stadium on Monday. Minister for Foreign Affairs, Pradeep Kumar Gyawali, told RSS that […]
Kathmandu / March 29: The Health Insurance Board, the government’s social protection programme, has been implemented in all 77 districts. The programme that was launched in 2072 BS has now reached across the country. The objective of the programme is to ensure people’s access to quality health care services will be launched in six districts […]
Kathmandu / March 24: Under Nepal Telecommunications Authority (NTA)’s Broadband Internet Expansion Project, 75 per cent area of target districts has been connected with the internet till mid-March. The project relating to providing broadband internet service by using the Rural Telecommunications Fund has been implemented in 18 packages. The NEA said till mid-March, 7,489 new […]
Okhaldhunga / Mar. 14 : Three farms in Okhaldhunga have been selected for Sample Kiwi Garden Promotion and Establishment. The selection was done by Siddhicharan Municipality. The programme is accepted as an annual programme of the current fiscal year. Deputy Chief of the municipal agro division, Birendra Tamang, informed that the three farms were located […]
Yalu Joshi, Kathmandu, Mar. 10: Among various specialties of Maha Shivaratri, the presence of sadhus or hermits is one of them. This year the Pashupati Area Development Trust (PADT) has not officially invited hermits because of which the number of hermits visiting the temple has gone down compared to previous years. The hermits who visit […]
Kathmandu / Mar. 07: JICA Alumni Association of Nepal (JAAN) marked its 47th annual function and annual general meeting on Saturday in Kathmandu. Vice-president Nanda Bahadur Pun inaugurated the annual function as a chief guest. Milan magazine published by JAAN was also launched. The magazine contains articles on Covid-19 pandemic by 17 writers—who were felicitated […]
Kathmandu / March 3: The Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) on Wednesday received 6,048 sets of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), 50,000 pairs of examination gloves, 50,000 pieces of surgical mask and 27 sets of Inter-Agency Reproductive Health (IARH) kits that will augment the government’s efforts to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, while ensuring continuity of […]
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