Kathmandu / Apr. 10 : Minister for Agriculture and Livestock Ghanashyam Bhusal has sought suggestions from local levels to find ways to protect agriculture sector from possible impact of coronavirus crisis. Local levels are asked to provide suggestions on the purchase of agriculture produces and use of barren lands and the role of state and […]
Kathmandu / Apr. 07: The World Bank has approved a fast-track $29 million COVID-19 Emergency Response and Health Systems Preparedness Project to help Nepal prevent, detect, and respond to the COVID-19 pandemic and strengthen its public health preparedness. The agreement was signed today between the Ministry of Finance and the World Bank, the bank said […]
Kathmandu / Apr. 6: The government has appointed Maha Prasad Adhikari as the 17th governor of Nepal Rastra Bank. A meeting of the cabinet on Monday decided to appoint Adhikari to the top central bank job. He is currently serving as the chief executive officer of Nepal Investment Board. His term was expiring in June […]
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 : Minister for Health and Population Bhanu Bhakta Dhakal has said the government was moving ahead following the suggestions of the experts to combat the possible outbreak of COVID-19. In an interaction with experts at the Ministry today, Minister Dhakal said the Ministry was carrying out its activities following the advice […]
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 […]
Dang / Apr. 1: The State 5 government is preparing to build a temporary corona hospital along with a lab facility at the Dang-based Rapti Academy of Health Sciences (RAHS) when the infection of COVID-19 looms large. District Health Office, Dang’s focal person Kamal Chand said the State government was working to operate the corona […]
KATHMANDU: The government has formally decided to suspend the much ambitious Visit Nepal Year 2020 project, in view of the global spread of coronavirus pandemic. A meeting of the cabinet held almost two weeks ago took a decision to this effect, Keshav Bahadur Adhikari, Secretary for Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation, informed. “I […]
Kathmandu / Mar. 30: The government has made all possible efforts to reduce the impact of COVID-19 and the subsequent fears. Minister for Finance Dr Yubaraj Khatiwada, who is also the Minister for Communications and Information Technology, shared that the cabinet meeting held on Sunday has taken special decisions to reduce the impact of COVID-19 […]
Kathmandu / Mar. 28 : Minister for Industry, Commerce and Supply, Lekhraj Bhatta, has stressed the need of cooperation from all sides to cope up with current crisis of COVID-19 pandemic in the country. At a time when the government has enforced weeklong nationwide lockdown for five days to contain the spread of coronavirus in […]
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