Kathmandu: The U.S. has reaffirmed support for Taiwan following China’s dispatch of warplanes near the island in an apparent attempt to intimidate its democratic government and test American resolve. The State Department on Saturday said it “notes with concern the pattern of ongoing (China's) attempts to intimidate its neighbors, including Taiwan.” “We...

Kathmandu, 17 Jan: On Sunday morning Arnab Goswami's WhatsApp chat with (BARC) CEO, Partho Dasgupta has been leaked, it's gone viral on social media, and opposition party leaders are demanding a high-level probe into journalist Arnab Goswami’s alleged leaked chats, suggesting it pointed to collusion and leak of classified security...

 Kathmandu, 16 January: The sixth edition of the India-Nepal Joint Commission was held in-person in New Delhi on January 15, with the Indian side being led by External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar and the Nepalese delegation headed by Foreign Minister Pradeep Kumar Gyawali. The meeting marks a significant improvement in...

Chinese Communist Party (CCP) vice Minister for International Affairs Guo Yezhou's team meets with opposition Nepali congress chairman Sher Bahadur Deuba at Deuba's residence Budanilkatha on Tuesday morning.  Former minister Narayan Khadka and foreign scholar Dinesh Chandra Bhattarai were also present at the meeting.  According to Bhattarai, "the meeting was...

KATHMANDU: A high-level delegation led by the vice-minister of the Communist Party of China. The visiting Vice Minister of the International Department of Communist Party of China (CPC) Guo Yezhou is in the run of having a meeting with the country's first man to NCP top leaders and opposition parties...

Tokyo: Japan has decided to ban all new entries of foreign nationals from December 28 to the end of January following the detection of a new variant of the coronavirus in arrivals from Britain, Japanese media reported on Saturday. The country has experienced a surge that now includes the new, fast-spreading...

Kathmandu: State Councilor and Defense Minister of China Wei Fenghe arrived Kathmandu following the one-day visit to Nepal.  Minister for Home Affairs Ram Bhadur Thapa Badal has welcomed him at the Tribhuvan International Airport. This is the highest level visit from the northern neighbour after President Xi Jinping’s two-day state visit...

Kathmandu, Nov. 26: Foreign Secretary of the Ministry of External Affairs of India, Harsh Vardhan Shringla, has landed in Nepal for a two-day official visit. In his visit, he will be paying a courtesy call to President Bidya Devi Bhandari, Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli, Foreign Minister Pradeep Sharma Gyawali, leaders...

There was no immediate relief for Republic TV Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami, arrested in a 2018 abetment of suicide case, on Friday as the hearing on his interim bail plea before the Bombay High Court remained incomplete. A division bench of Justices S S Shinde and M S Karnik said they would...

Taipei, Nov. 6: An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.4 on the Richter scale occurred in eastern Taiwan at 9:40 a.m. Friday, according to the Central Weather Bureau. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries. The epicenter of the temblor was located at sea, about 107.8 kilometers northeast of Taitung...

Albinism species turtle that is bright yellow has been spotted in a village pond in West Bengal, India. The rare animal is afflicted with a form of albinism which affects its colouration and has been compared online to melted cheese on a burger. It belongs to a rare species called the Indian...

Manila: At least ten people have died in a devastating super typhoon that wreaked havoc in the Philippines, bringing 174 mile-per-hour winds triggering volcanic mudflows that engulfed some 150 houses. Typhoon Goni - one of the most powerful typhoons in the world this year - blasted into the eastern island province...

It’s hard for those of us who live outside of China to grasp how paying for everything has gone digital in the country. Most businesses there, from the fanciest hotels to roadside fruit stands, display a QR code — a type of bar code — that people scan with a smartphone...

MANILA, Philippines — Typhoon Rolly made its third landfall in the vicinity of San Narciso, Quezon at 12:00 p.m. Sunday, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical, and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) reported. BREAKING NEWS: Sa ika-apat na pagkakataon, Bagyong #RollyPH, naglandfall na sa Lobo, Batangas kaninang 5:30 PM, ayon...

The United States has appointed a senior human rights official as a special coordinator for Tibetan issues, amid increasingly tense relations between Washington and Beijing. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on Wednesday that Robert Destro, assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights, and labor, would assume the additional...

Hong Kong (CNN): India says it has successfully tested a missile armed with a torpedo that could in theory strike enemy submarines more than 400 miles (643 kilometers) away. Dubbed the SMART (Supersonic Missile Assisted Release of Torpedo) system, the weapon was launched from Wheeler Island off the coast of India's...

NEW YORK: The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) will open its high-profile general debate on September 22, which would also be addressed by Prime Minister Imran Khan of Pakistan, on September 25, and the other world leaders, according to an initial list of speakers released at the UN headquarters on...

A soldier of Tibetan origin with India's special forces has reportedly been killed in the latest border confrontation between India and China on their contested Himalayan border, fuelling concerns of a wider military confrontation between the two regional powers. The death is the first reported from two incidents occurring within 48...

Earlier, Mr. Mukherjee’s mortal remains were placed at his residence in 10 Rajaji Marg to enable dignitaries and the general public to pay their last respects. President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid their last respects.“Paid tributes to respected Shri Pranab Mukherjee. He would be remembered...

This incident comes three days after he mistakenly uploaded a porn video on the firm's Instagram, angering many followers who called him to account. According to police, Jo is receiving treatment after being found unconscious at his home in Yongsan-gu, central Seoul, around 11 a.m. "I don't want to be a burden...

With the pandemic crushing the pace of innovation, most flying car projects backed by American tech giants have remained grounded. But a Japanese startup is quietly taking a manned prototype to the sky and aims to make travel by flying taxi a reality by 2023. Tokyo-based SkyDrive, showed off a test...

The South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported on Thursday that Beijing fired one intermediate-range ballistic missile, DF-26B, from Qinghai Province and another medium-range ballistic missile, DF-21D, from Zhejiang Province on Wednesday in response to US aerial activities in a "no-fly zone" area. In response, Mark Esper, the US defense chief,...

Pakistan on Sunday strongly rejected the "unwarranted and irresponsible" comments made by the Indian Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson on the Joint Press Release of the Second Round of China-Pakistan Foreign Ministers’ Strategic Dialogue. The MEA’s contentions about Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) being the so-called “integral and...

Earlier this month, Trump issued an executive order that prohibits any US-based company to conduct transactions with the app after mid-September. That means any firm interesting in buying TikTok — like Mircosoft or Oracle — will need to finish the deal before the 45-day deadline ends. Popular short video app TikTok...

SEOUL (Reuters) - The Red Cross has sent more than 43,000 volunteers to North Korea, including to the locked-down city of Kaesong, to help fight the novel coronavirus and provide flood assistance, an official with the relief organization said on Monday. North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un declared an emergency last month...

Indian External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar has claimed that Gautam Buddha was an Indian on an event. He says the statement about Buddha while addressing India at 75 Virtual Conference organized by the Confederation of Indian Industry, an umbrella organization of Indian entrepreneurs and businessmen. “We all know two great Indians...

As many as 18 people were killed in the Air India Express flight crash at Kerala’s Kozhikode airport on Friday after the plane skidded off the runway and fell into a 35-feet valley before splitting. The pilot-in-command Captain Deepak Sathe and his co-pilot Akhilesh Kumar were among those killed on...

India’s Covid-19 tally has crossed the two million in the last 158 days while fatalities were recorded at 41,585 on Friday, data released by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare revealed. As many as 62,538 new cases were recorded within 24 hours. India comes as the third nation after...

In the last 48 hours, it is reported that at least 21 persons have died after allegedly consuming spurious liquor in three districts of Majha region of Punjab. Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh has ordered a magisterial inquiry by Divisional Commissioner Jalandhar into these deaths reported in Amritsar,...

KUALA LUMPUR - A Malaysian court on Tuesday sentenced Malaysia's former Prime Minister Najib Razak to 12 years in jail and fined him 210 million ringgit ($49.40 million) for abuse of power linked to a multi-billion dollar financial scandal at state fund 1MDB. The court also sentenced him to 10...

The World Health Organization (WHO) recently launched the COVAX Facility as a mechanism to guarantee rapid, fair, and equitable access to countries to a broad portfolio of vaccines and manufacturers to a demand-secure market. Several experimental vaccines for Covid-19 are in final-stage clinical trials and early results from two of...

On the recent government survey report, it is said that 23.48% of the 21,387 people whose blood samples were tested had Covid-19 antibodies. And, the blood samples were taken in random from the city.  Delhi has so far recorded 1,25,096 cases, equivalent to less than 1% of its population of 19.8...

On April 20, Arun Singh, a civil defence volunteer, worked through the day, but stayed on through the evening and single-handedly managed food at short notice for over 1,000 labourers stranded at Sector 25, Dwarka, the project site of a construction company. The 48-year old was one among the thousands...

Indian and Chinese troops have begun a partial disengagement from their positions along the disputed Himalayan border region after a tense stand-off lasting nearly nine weeks, sources in the Indian establishment told local media on Monday.Indian officials, according to Bloomberg, said the People’s Liberation Army was seen removing tents...

The Indian government's sudden decision to ban 59 apps from China, including the widely used TikTok and WeChat, has caught millions of users across India by surprise, depriving them of one of this year's most popular tools for recreation and education, and even incurring economic losses to those who make...

Kathmandu: More than 5000 foreign returnees are facing the challenge due to delay in conducting the COVID-19 test for all individuals. These returns are the migrant workers who had made a decision to come back to the home country from foreign lands excluding returnees from India. Due to the...

India has banned 59, mostly Chinese, mobile phone applications in its strongest move yet targeting China in the online space just weeks after a border crisis erupted between the two countries. A statement by the Ministry of Information on Monday said the banned apps include TikTok, UC Browser WeChat and Bigo...

Kathmandu, June 29. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $200 million concessional loan to improve power supply and distribution systems in Nepal. Nepal has made significant progress in electricity supply after years of chronic power shortages. However, its power transmission and distribution systems need further strengthening to increase network...

Kathmandu, June 28: Central committee member of Nepal Communist Party (NCP) Khagaraj Adhikari has said communist leader Madan Bhandari had introduced the world communist movement in Nepal from a different and new angle. In his address to a program organized here in commemoration of the late leader here today, the Adhikari...

Chitwan, June 28 (RSS): Locusts have been spotted in Kalika and Khairhani municipalities in the eastern Chitwan. According to Prime Minister Agricultural modernization project implementation unit Chief Meghnath Timilsina, a tiny band of locusts has been spotted in Kalika-3 and Parsa of Khairhani. As he said, agro technicians from the project,...

Kathmandu - The Hetauda Sub-Metropolitan City has unveiled the budget of Rs 2.86 billion for the upcoming fiscal year. Deputy mayor Meena Kumari Lama presented the annual estimate of income and expenditure of the local government for the fiscal year 2020/21 amidst the sub-metropolis' seventh town assembly meet here today. As...

Sushant Singh Rajput's demise has opened the floor up the debate about nepotism and elite groups in Bollywood, again. Following the actor's suicide, many from the industry have come out and shared their struggle as an 'outsider' and how they are shunned by various groups. Now, late actor Inder Kumar's wife...

Kathmandu - Nepal’s Ashish Gajurel has been elected deputy general secretary of the Belt and Road International Transport Alliance (BRITA). The recently held general assembly elected Gajurel to the post. Gajurel has been advocating the cause of traffic management and transportation management in Nepal. Participants were from Switzerland, Greece, Nigeria, China,...

Kathmandu - Mahalaxmi Municipality in Lalitpur has decided to deploy the daily wagers in the development construction to arrange two square meals to the workers who are facing hardship during the ongoing lockdown order. The Municipality has forwarded the idea to facilitate the daily wagers for the management of the...

KATHMANDU: Nepal has confirmed 10 more new COVID-19 cases on Sunday, taking the total of infections to 69. Speaking at a regular press briefing, Dr Bikash Devkota, Spokesperson at Ministry of Health and Population said that a 36-year-old person from Chhapkaiya of Birgunj Municipality-3, and nine persons in Nepalgunj have tested...

Kathmandu - The Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) has today donated six types of medical items total worth 78,000 US dollars for COVID-19 response to four of its partner hospitals in Nepal. Ambassador of the Republic of Korea Park Young-Sik handed over the medical items to the respective chairpersons and medical...

April-29: Irrfan Khan passed away today in Mumbai. The actor, who was hospitalised for colon infection in the city. His last film 'Angrezi Medium' will be remembered by all. Helmed by Homi Adajania, the film Radhika Madan, Dimple Kapadia and Kareena Kapoor Khan. It was about the nuances between in...

Kathmandu, April 27: As of Sunday, 49 Nepalis living in 24 different countries have lost their lives due to the coronavirus. The pandemic killed 33 Nepalis in the United Kingdom, 10 in the United States, two in the United Arab Emirates and one each in Ireland, Japan, Turkey and the Netherlands,...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is "alive and well", a top security adviser to the South's President Moon Jae-in said, downplaying rumours over Kim's health following his absence from a key anniversary. "Our government position is firm," said Moon's special adviser on national security Moon Chung-in, in an interview with...

Kathmandu - A meeting of the Council of Ministers held yesterday has decided to extend the stay-at-home order till May 7 as a measure to prevent the possible risk of COVID-19. The cabinet meeting held at the Prime Minister’s official residence took such decision to extend the lockdown order till May...

April 25: China sent a team that included health-care experts to North Korea to advise on the country’s leader Kim Jong Un, Reuters reported, citing three people familiar with the matter. The move comes amid reports that Kim was in critical condition after undergoing cardiovascular surgery. U.S. officials said Monday they...

Kathmandu, April-25: With Coronavirus wreaking havoc across the word, it has not affected Nepal like as in other countries, though there are few cases. Covid-19 patients have been tested positive from different 12 in the period of three months after a first case of COVID-19 was detected in the country on...

BHOJPUR, April 24: The Ministry of Health and Population confirmed the 48th COVID-19 case in the country on Thursday evening. According to Dr Samir Kumar Adhikari, the assistant spokesperson at the ministry, a 26-year-old man had tested positive for this deadly virus on Thursday. The young man is from Hatuwagadhi Rural Municipality-6,...

New York, April, 20:  Actress Meera has appealed to Prime Minister Imran Khan to arrange for her repartition as she is left helpless in America where coronavirus has taken thousands of lives. In a video message sent to The News, a troubled Meera told that her...

Seoul, April 20: At least 179 recovered South Korean coronavirus patients have tested positive again, officials said. South Korea’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) announced on Sunday that the tally accounted for 16 new cases detected of patients relapsing from the coronavirus, CNN reported. ...

KATHMANDU, April 13: Three suspected coronavirus patients have been admitted to Lagankhel-based Patan hospital on Monday. Director of Patan hospital Bishnu Prasad Sharma told to press that the three persons from the same family who returned from the United Kingdom 28 days ago are kept in isolation. During the Rapid Diagnostic Test...

Kathmandu, Apr. 8: The Department of Immigration (DoI) has suspended all its visa services till April 15, owing to the extended nationwide lockdown. On Wednesday DoI issued a press release statement, the Department took the decision to this effect, in line with the decision of the Ministry of Home Affairs. Director...

Delhi, April-8: India registered 331 new coronavirus cases in the last 12 hours, the government said on Wednesday, taking the number of Covid-19 patients to 5194 and deaths to 149 with 25 new fatalities. The latest data available with the Union ministry of health at 9 am showed out of the...

Kathmandu, April-8: Total test of119 swab samples collected for COVID-19 test in State no. 2, the results of 103 have showed negative. Sharing the results at a press conference held here today, Secretary at the Ministry of Social Development Dr. Ram Prasad Ghimire said 103 people tested negative while the...

Kathmandu April 4: Panauti municipality in Kavrepalanchowk has established a 'food bank' targeting vulnerable communities during the nationwide lockdown amidst the heightened risk of COVID-19. The process to distribute foodstuffs collected in the bank to the needy has begun today, according to mayor Bheem Neupane. "The indigent families identified by...

Kathmandu - 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,...

PANCHTHAR: Today nation is on 11th day of lockdown imposed by government to prevent the spread of coronavirus, a tea estate has deployed its workers for plucking tea leaves at Yangbarak and Falelung Rural Municipalities in Panchthar district.The tea estate has given continuity to tea plucking by mobilizing around...

KATHMANDU, APRIL 2: Nepal conforms the sixth coronavirus positive cases. At a daily press briefing, spokesperson at the Ministry of Health and Population Dr Bikas Devkota said that sixth COVID-19 case was confirmed today. "A sample sent for testing at the National Health Laboratory, Teku has conformed the positive case. She...

JAPAN April 1: Japan's Fuji film has begun clinical trials to test the effectiveness of its anti-flu drug Avigan in treating patients with the new coronavirus, after reports of promising results in China  Trials in China have suggested Avigan (generic name: favipiravir) could play a role in shortening the recovery time...

Piles of money on the road are streaming social media claiming to be from Italy actually turn out to be fake information.  In the pictures, piles of currency notes can be seen scattered on the streets. “In Italy citizens throw their money in the streets… The Lesson: no money or towards...

KATHMANDU, March 31: At this time Nepal's social media is flooded with misinformation on coronavirus the government on Monday said that those creating and circulating misinformation will face legal action as per the existing law. In a press briefing, Dr. Khem Karki, advisor to the Minister for Health and Population, said...

KATHMANDU, March 29: A patience dies in the quarantine of Butwal coronavirus special hospital who was undergoing treatment for coronavirus. A 34 years old patient from Saina Maina Metropolitan city had been admitted to the hospital on 26 March.  On 19 March he had landed in TIA from Dubai and on...

KATHMANDU, March 29: The Chinese government has provided medical aid to Nepal government on Sunday to combat the novel coronavirus. Hou Yanqi, Chinese Ambassador to Nepal, handed over medical supplies to Minister of Health and Population Bhanu Bhakta Dhakal amid a ceremony at Ministry of Health today. Chinese Embassy in Nepal, Sichuan...

KATHMANDU, MARCH 23: Government on Monday has decided to enforce a week-long nationwide lockdown to be effective from 6 am on Tuesday. A meeting of high-level government task force to prevent and control COVID-19 chaired by the Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Ishwar Pokharel decided to this effect. the decision...

Kathmandu, March 23: A 19 years Nepali girls who has been tested positive on coronavirus today. She is now undergoing treatment at Sukraraj Tropical & Infectious Disease Hospital, Teku in the capital. The number of COVID-19 infection cases in Nepal has hit 2 on Monday.  On the travel, she was with...

KATHMANDU, MARCH 23: A Nepali student who recently returned to Nepal from France has tested positive for coronavirus, the Ministry of Health said today. Organizing a press meet at his office, Minister for Health Bhanu Bhakta Dhakal said that the 19-year-old girl has tested COVID-19 positive. She had been traveling to...

Basanta Chaudhary has announced to donate Rs. 10 million to a trust established by the government to fight against coronavirus. The cabinet on Sunday has decided to set up a Trust with Rs. 500 million rupees. He announced this donation will be done through Narvic and Basanta Chaudhary Foundation on his...

KATHMANDU: Nepal is now complete lockdown after the government sealed 170 border points with China and India in an effort to avert the spreading of the COVID-19 pandemic from Monday. The decision of lockdown was imposed after the cabinet meeting on Sunday evening. The meeting has also instructed the Ministry of Home...

One person has died and another has tested positive for the novel coronavirus in Bihar, in the first case from the eastern state, officials said on Sunday. The Bihar man’s death takes the number of fatalities due to Covid-19 to six in India. A 63-year-man died from Covid-19 in Mumbai in...

Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak in Southeast Asia is worsening, with rising cases across key countries in the region. As an indicator of this, the World Health Organization (WHO) has now called on Southeast Asian states to do more to stop the spread. though the number of coronavirus cases in South Asia has...

KATHMANDU, March 21: Co-founder and former executive chairman of Alibaba Group Jack Ma is China's richest man, with an estimated worth of $38 billion. The 55-year-old is the co-founder of the e-commerce giant Alibaba. It's China's biggest digital marketplace, responsible for an estimated 80% of all online sales in China...

KATHMANDU, March 18: The government on Wednesday restricted gathering of more than 25 people at one place in view of the possible outbreak of coronavirus. A meeting of the high-level government committee formed to prevent and contain the COVID-19 made a decision to this effect today. As per the decision, people will...

KATHMANDU, March 17: A high-level coordination committee to prevent coronavirus outbreak has decided to set up 115 beds for Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and 1,000 isolation wards in the Kathmandu Valley to curb the possible outbreak of the deadly disease that has spread to more than 100 countries across the...

India, 17-March: The total number of confirmed COVID-19 coronavirus cases in India has touched 130, with Maharashtra reporting six new cases, Kerala confirming five cases, Karnataka recording four cases and one by Telangana. These cases are not included in the latest official update of 114 released by the Union Ministry...

India on Tuesday reported 11 new cases of the novel coronavirus taking the total number of infections to 125, up from 114 a day earlier, with the highest numbers in Maharashtra and Kerala, the Union health ministry said. India has so far reported two coronavirus deaths—one in Delhi and another in...

KATHMANDU, March 14: Video conference among the leadership of SAARC countries on tackling coronavirus outbreak in the region proposed by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday, will be taking place at 5 pm on Sunday (tomorrow), Delhi-based WION reported referring to unofficial sources at the Ministry of External Affairs...

ROME, March 11: The death toll from an epidemic coronavirus in Italy has risen up by 168 to 631, an increase of 36%, the Civil Protection Agency said on Tuesday, the largest rise in absolute numbers since the contagion came to light on Feb. 21. The total number of cases in...

KATHMANDU: The Pokhara regional airport has arranged a self-quarantine facility for 71 Chinese workers. As many as 190 Chinese workers are involved in the under-construction regional international airport here. Airport chief Binesh Munakarki shared that they were placed in the self-quarantine as preventive measures against the spread of deadly coronavirus. The Chinese...

REUTERS BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Wuhan, the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak, on Tuesday, marking the first time he has done so since the epidemic began late last year. Xi was mostly absent from Chinese state media coverage of the crisis in its early days. Starting last month, he has...