46 years journalist arrested after taking photos in protest of asylum seeker in Kent
By OnlineKhabarHub Desk on 30th January 2021
Kathmandu: A reputed freelance journalist has been arrested after taking and sharing photographs of activists protesting against the conditions in a controversial military camp housing hundreds of asylum seekers in Kent.
Freelance photographer Andy Aitchison, 46, attended a demonstration outside Napier Barracks, in Folkestone, on Thursday morning and took photos as...
Yogesh Bhattarai instructs Air Aribia to refund passenger's fee
By Hira Lama on 02nd September 2020
Kathmandu. The government instructs Air Arabia to refund the passenger's air fee.
Today, the meeting held at the Ministry of Culture, Tourism, and Civil Aviation regarding the complaints of high fares, black marketing in the ticket by travel agencies on charter flights and regular flights. At the meeting, Minister Yogesh Bhattarai...
Nepal and Isreal singed an agreement to let diplomatic passport stay upto 90 days with out visa
By Hira Lama on 21st August 2020
Kathmandu: Nepal and Israel have agreed to give access to each other’s citizens carrying diplomatic passports enter and stay in the other country without obtaining any visa for up to 90 days.
Nepal’s Ambassador to Israel, Anjan Shakya, and Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Gabi Ashkenazi signed an agreement at a function in...
Gorkhas in American war zone have been infected by COVID-19
By Hira Lama on 27th July 2020
According to the U.S. State Department members in the embassy of Afgan capital have been infected by the COVID-19 include diplomats, contractors, and locals.
The State Department did not say how many were affected. An official at the embassy in Kabul, who spoke to Associated Press on condition...
34 Nepalese requests the government for rescue
By Hira Lama on 24th July 2020
Kuwait: Thirty-four Nepali workers have been stock in Jilip, Kuwait for the past five months after the company's working site was shut down due to Coronavirus pandemic. Prakash Magar of Rolpa informed that 34 Nepali workers of Al Rakib Building Construction Company of Kuwait are facing food scarcity on their...
34 thousand Nepalese have returned home from abroad amid COVID-19
By Hira Lama on 23rd July 2020
Kathmandu - Over 34 thousand Nepalese have returned home from abroad during the lockdown period till Wednesday. They were brought in the country via different chartered flights since June 5. The first chartered flight was made from Myanmar on June 5 carrying 26 Nepali migrant workers during the lockdown. It...
160 Nepalese have died from COVID-19 in abroad.
By Hira Lama on 19th July 2020
Kathmandu - The death toll from COVID-19 of the Nepalis living and working outside the country has reached 160. In the past week, eight died in Qatar, three in Kuwait, and five in the United Arab Emirates, according to the Non-resident Nepalis Association.
As of Saturday evening, 160 died of Corona...
COVID-19: UAE updates its visa rules and housands of Nepali migrant workers are likely to be affected
By Hira Lama on 15th July 2020
UAE, July 15: Thousands of Nepali migrant workers in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are likely to be affected as the UAE government has introduced new visa rules earlier this week.
All migrant workers are set to be affected as the UAE government enforced new rules from Sunday against its earlier...
More than 27 thousand NRNA Nepalese have recovered from Coronavirus
By Hira Lama on 12th July 2020
Kathmandu. 27,362 Nepalis who have been living in different countries outside the motherland have recovered from coronavirus.
According to Dr. Sanjeev Sapkot 29,624 Nepalis around the world have been infected with the coronavirus till last Saturday evening. Of the total 27,362 Nepalis have been recovered from the infection, he said. The...