Kathmandu / Oct 20: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has urged the government to provide free test and treatment to COVID-19 patients and manage the dead bodies of those dying of the coronavirus infection. In a press statement issued by the commission’s Secretary Bed Prasad Bhattarai on Tuesday, the NHRC appealed to the government […]
Kathmandu / Oct 18: The government has decided not to bear the cost of treatment and PCR testing of COVID-19 patients effective from Sunday. A cabinet meeting held recently decided to bear only the cost of treatment and PCR testing of frontline workers including differently-abled, single women, senior citizens, security personnel, and sanitization workers. They […]
Doti, Oct 16 : Paragliding has been started at Rubaskanda Budar of Jorayal Rural Municipality-2 in the district. With this, regular paragliding has come into operation for the first time in the Sudurpaschim province. The Chhatiwan Tourism Promotion and Conservation Committee and the Baitadi Amazing Adventure Pvt Ltd have jointly operated the paragliding service, which […]
Adarsha Subedi / Kathmandu: Monetary policy is the demand side economic policy that is undertaken by the central bank of a country to control the money supply to achieve macroeconomic goals for economic growth. Monetary policy consists of the operations of drafting and implementing the plans of actions taken by the central bank to control […]
Kathmandu / Oct 15: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Thursday unveiled a list of 268 human rights violators. The chairman of the commission, Anupraj Sharma unveiled the report including the list of the violators based on the progress report of the recommendation made by the NHRC in the past 20 years. Those names […]
Kathmandu / Oct 14: A two-year project has been launched in Province 2 and Karnali Province to help minimize the instances of gender-based violence in the provinces. The project has been jointly launched by the Delegation of European Union to Nepal, the United Nations Population Fund and the Ministry of Women, Children and Senior Citizens, […]
Arghakhachi / Oct. 11: The Ministry of Land Management, Agriculture and Cooperatives in Lumbini State has forwarded agriculture programme which would employ to the youths losing jobs at home and abroad due to COVID-19 crisis. Minister for Land Management, Agriculture and Cooperatives Arati Poudel shared that the state government introduced labour insurance and provident fund […]
Kathmandu / Oct 10 : The Bal Gopaleshwor Temple at historic Ranipokhari would be open for public on the day of Bhaitika during Tihar festival this year, it has been said. Reconstruction of Ranipokhari and the temple damaged by the 2015 earthquake was completed in the third week of September. Preparations were underway for chief […]
Bagmati / Oct. 9 : More than 25,000 farmers in Makawanpur district have found their calling in milk production and sale as Hetauda Dairy Distribution Project under the Nepal Dairy Development Corporation purchases milk they produce. Approximately 200 dairy production cooperatives under the Project collect and purchase milk the farmers produce. The project aims to […]
Kathmandu / Oct. 8: Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has underlined the existential threats posed by climate change such as rising temperature, rising sea levels, and melting of glaciers which have impacted the lives and livelihoods from the high Himalayas to the lowlands. The PM highlighted this while addressing the Climate Vulnerable Forum Leaders Event […]
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