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...

Scotland has become the first country in the world to provide free and universal access to period products after as on Tuesday the period product act was passed through its final stage.  A four-year campaign that has fundamentally shifted the public discourse around menstruation. The campaign – bolstered by nationwide grassroots support...

WASHINGTON, November 24: Incumbent US President Donald Trump has recommended General Services Administration chief Emily Murphy and members of his administration to "do what needs to be done" on initial procedures on power transition. Thus, the Republican in fact ordered to launch the transfer of power to Biden. "I am recommending...

Kabul: Several rockets hit residential areas in the early rush hour in the Afghan capital Kabul on Saturday, killing at least three civilians and wounding a dozen more, police officials said. The explosions, close to the diplomatic enclave, sent warning sirens blaring from embassies and it comes two days before a...

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...

Joe Biden has overtaken Donald Trump in Wisconsin, as the state’s voting count reaches 96 per cent. The Democratic presidential candidate now leads in the state by almost 8,000 votes. ...

Kathmandu, Nov. 4: Finance Minister Bishnu Prasad Paudel has directed the Nepal Insurance Board and insurance companies to make the payment on time of the coronavirus insurance claim.  In a meeting at his office at the Ministry of Finance which held o Tuesday, he asked all the stakeholders, including the...

Kathmandu, November 3: Covid-19 tally has reached 179,614 as of Tuesday afternoon according to the Ministry of Health and Population. The ministry says 3,114 new cases were confirmed in the country in the past 24 hours. Of the new cases, 1,468 are from the Kathmandu valley. In this period, 11,166 swab samples were...

The Vienna gunman who killed four and wounded 17 last night  was nuetralized at 8:09 PM. He was released early from prison on terror charges because of his age. Twenty-year-old Kujtim Fejzulai was jailed in April 2019 because he wanted to travel to Syria to join ISIS, but he was granted...

Butwal: Thousands of people joined in a motorcycle rally organized in Rupandehi demanding the restoration of the monarchy and Hindu state reports. Organized by Bir Gorkhali Movement, the motorcycle rally began from Manigram and concluded at Butwal. Organizer Raj Kumar Shahi Thakui said that this is a part of a nationwide...

President Donald Trump again questions the integrity of the election process; both campaigns have readied armies of lawyersMore than 95 million Americans had cast their votes in the 2020 presidential election by Monday, according to a tally by the U.S. Elections Project at the University of Florida, a harbinger...

 November 2: The death toll of the earthquake that happened in Turkey’s Izmir has reached 76, the Turkish emergency Directorate reported on Monday. "A total of 76 our citizens have died; 743 people out of 962 injured have been released, 219 people remain in hospitals," the Directorate said. Previously, the Directorate reported...

Geneva: The World Health Organization chief said late Sunday (Nov 1) that he was self-quarantining after someone he had been in contact with tested positive for COVID-19, but stressed he had no symptoms. "I have been identified as a contact of someone who has tested positive for #COVID19," Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus...

IZMIR: A 70-year-old man was pulled from the rubble of a flattened building in western Turkey early on Sunday after being buried under the debris for 33 hours following a powerful earthquake which struck the country’s Aegean coast and Greek islands. The death toll from Friday afternoon’s quake rose to 51....

A typhoon has hit into the eastern Philippines bringing “catastrophic” winds and intense rains as about a million people were evacuated in its projected path including in the capital, Manila, where the main international airport was ordered closed. “There are so many people who are really in vulnerable areas,” Ricardo Jalad,...

ANKARA, November 1: The number of people killed in a powerful earthquake that hit Turkey’s Izmir region has risen to 43, the Turkish emergency agency said in a statement. "Forty-three people lost their lives," the statement reads. According to the agency, 896 people suffered injuries. The 6.7 magnitude earthquake struck off Turkey's...

Kathmandu: Police arrested two persons in Ilam and Dhanusha on Friday raping two minor girls age between 11 and 13. Almost every day, the crime related to rape has been increasing in Nepal. According to the latest data of the Women Rehabilitation Center (WOREC), as many as 367 cases of rape...

Kathmandu: Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli on Wednesday has made a partial change in the cabinet.  In the process of taking new monitors in the cabinet, 3 new faces are seen and some of the ministers have been replaced in different than their previous ministry role. The swearing-in ceremony of the...

Kathmandu: The novel coronavirus can survive on smooth surfaces for up to 28 days, a new Australian study suggests.The study by Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia’s national science agency, shows that, at 20 degrees Celsius, SARS-CoV-2 remains “extremely robust” and infectious on surfaces like paper and...

POKHARA: Pokhara Canoeing which was suspended amid COVID-19 is reopened after 7 months. The owner of Pokhara canoeing Mr. Ram Gurung says that proper safety measures are being followed to reoperate the adventurous sport. He said there's no way then following precautions and moving ahead rather than fearing of a pandemic. Canoeing...

Rhea Charaborty get the bail of Rs. 1 lakhs deposited and other two late Sushant's housekeeper and manager, Dipesh Sawat and Samuel Miranda respectively granted bail with Rs. 50000 each in cash, the bail was granted by the Bombay High Court on Wednesday in a drugs case as they were...

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...

Chandragiri Hills Limited brings Dashain and Tihar offer and the company announces 50 percent discount on Chandaragiri Cable Car and a package of Rs. 6500 for a couple with breakfast and delux room at Chandragiri Hills Resort.   The discount package offer is already effective and...

SYANGJA: 10 people from  Syanja have lost their lives on the landslide which occurred on Thursday morning at Waling Municipality-14, Tamadi one in Kaligandaki Rural Village Municipality-4, Syangja  have died in the landslide. Nine members were of from the same family of Tamadi villgage.  According to Syangja Police Spokesperson and DSP...

KATHMANDU: Domestic flight resumes from today. Eight out of nine airline operators of Nepal have started providing services from today. A team of medical professionals and safety precautions has been managed in the Domestic terminal of Tribhuwan International Airport. The airline operator is allowed to make only 25% of their regular...

KATHMANDU: A Nepali peace initiatives worker (Rajendra Senchurey) has been honored with the "Books for Peace 2020" for his contribution in peace building is reported in The Kathmandu Post.  The prize was announced on 12 September at Academic Hall of the Conservatory of Santa Cecilia in Rome of Italy organized with...

NEW YORK, September 13:  At least 28 people were killed in wildfires raging in western US states, CNN reported. The majority of deaths were registered in California, where, according to CNN, 19 people have died. Most of the fatalities occurred in the past few days. In total, more than 100 wildfires are...

Sindhupalchowk: At least nine people have died on the last night landslide and still 22 persons have gone missing at Dhumthang in Bahrabise Minucipality ward no.  7, Sindhupalchowk. It is reported that 10 houses have been buried at Bhirkhar and 8 houses in the Nagpuje. And, Newa Tol has also...

Kathmandu - The flood in the Bhujikhola river of Dhorpatan municipality in Baglung district on Wednesday night has not only caused human losses but also damaged many physical structures in the area. The flash flood was triggered by heavy rain. The flood has damaged 171 structures including houses, schools, hydroelectricity...

After the third day of clash between the local and police the religious ceremony was held in the presence of priests and concerned officials amid curfew clamped by the Lalitpur District  Ksama Puja is held after the meeting of Jyapu samaj and the task force and Jyapu Samaj; Kshama Puja is...

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...

Achary has been raising this issue since 2071 BS. At that time, he was opposed to various allegations.  Poudel is Asia's leading member of the World Hindu Organization, and according to him the Vedas, Puranas, and Hindu scriptures should not be discriminated by anyone and should be read by all....

1221 new cases of COVID-19 on Sunday which is the highest case in a single day in Nepal. With the highest positive case, the tally has reached 38561 said Professor Dr. Gautam on Sunday regular press briefing on COVID-19.  Professor Dr. Jageshwor Gautam, the spokesperson of the Ministry of Health and...

The Ministry of Health and Population has confirmed 743 new cases of coronavirus infection on Thursday, taking the nationwide Covid-19 tally to 35,529 In his daily press briefing in Kathmandu, the ministry’s spokesperson Jageshwor Gautam said 1,111 new cases were confirmed in the country in the past 24 hours....

A study conducted by the Wall Street Journal investigation in 2019 has illustrated that "Nepal a new satellite of China" in South Aisa. And, on the base of research, the Global Watch Analysis publishes an article about the Nepalese leaders being getting involved in the financial transaction...

A meeting of the Chief District Officers of Kathmandu, Lalitpur, and Bhaktapur on Tuesday evening had taken a decision that prohibitory order in the three districts of the valley would be extended by a week in view of the rapidly rising cases of coronavirus infection. The meeting, which also saw the...

Israel said it carried out air attacks on Hezbollah observation posts in Lebanon on Wednesday after shots were fired from across the border towards its troops the previous evening. The country's military had said earlier that a "security incident" was unfolding in the vicinity of Manara near the UN-demarcated Blue Line...

The Ministry of Health and Population has confirmed 743 new cases of coronavirus infection on Monday, taking the nationwide Covid-19 tally to 32,678. In 24 hrs, 246 are females while 497 are males. The new infections were confirmed after testing 10,234 specimens through the PCR. Among the new cases, 224 have...

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...

Motorola will be launching its new Moto G9 in India today, August 24, at 12:00 PM (noon). While the company hasn’t revealed anything about the device, it’s e-commerce partner Flipkart accidentally mentioned about Moto G9 in its listing URL last week.  The Lenovo-owned company is also expected to launch the Moto...

Kathmandu: 818 news cases have been recorded across the country in the last 24 hours, according to the Ministry of Health and Population, the total positive cases have reached 31,935 by Sunday. In the past 24 hours, 166 people have been infected with a coronavirus in Kathmandu Valley. According to the ministry,...

Kathmandu: Sindhupalchok District Administration Office has extended the prohibitory order in the district by one week so as to control the Covid-19 outbreak. Now, the order will be in effect in the district until August 30 midnight, according to a decision made during a meeting of the District Covid-19 Crisis Management...

Professor Dr. Jageshwor Gautam, a spokesperson of the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP), has confirmed 634 new cases of COVID-19 today. With this, the national COVID-19 tally has cross thirty-one thousand. While 12519 swabs were tested in laboratories across the country, the infection has been confirmed in 216 people...

Professor Dr. Jageshwor Gautam, a spokesperson of the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP), has confirmed 838 new cases of COVID-19 today. With this, the national COVID-19 tally has hit 30,483. According to the ministry, 142 COVID-19 positive cases have been reported in the Kathmandu Valley on Friday. Likewise, 102, 25,...

Professor Dr. Jageshwor Gautam, a spokesperson of the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP), has confirmed 838 new cases of COVID-19 today. With this, the national COVID-19 tally has hit 30,483. He said that in 13,579 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction Tests (RT-PCR) conducted in the last 24 hours, 838 persons, 292...

Kathmandu - The players in the national cricket team are to be insured against COVID-19. The Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN) is ensuring the players. CAN Secretary Ashok Nath Pyakurel said they are preparing to include the male cricket players in the national team in the insurance coverage against coronavirus...

Kathmandu - President Bidya Devi Bhandari is not going to the Pashupatinath temple for paying homage on the occasion of the Haritalika (Teej) festival today, the Office of the President has said. There is the tradition of President Bhandari visiting the Pashupatinath temple for offering obeisance on the occasion of Teej...

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...

Amid an injunction in the Kathmandu valley, Nepalese women are celebrating the Teej festival. Hartalika Teej 2020 Date, Puja Muhurat. The festival is celebrated with much enthusiasm by Hindu women.  Hartalika Teej 2020 Date, Puja Muhurat: Among the many Nepali and Indian festivals that mark the second half of the year,...

A restraining (curfew)  order has been issued in Kathmandu Valley from Thursday night. With the issuance of the injunction, the valley is deserted again.Roads that used to be jammed with the opening of lockdown have returned to the state of abandon again. Security personnel is conducting interrogations at various...

In the normal time, Gokarneshwor Mahadev temple used to attract thousands of visitors from around the country and even from India. Kushe Aunshi, which most of the Nepalis celebrate as the Father’s Day as per the Hindu culture. But the temple this seems to be deserted amid COVID-19 Devotees are marking...

District administration offices of Kathmandu Valley have decided to impose one-week curfew across the valley, the most populated urban centre in the country, beginning tomorrow midnight to August 26 to break the chain of COVID transmission. A meeting of chief district officers of all three districts held in Kathmandu on Monday...

(Reuters) - Democrats formally nominated Joe Biden for president on Tuesday, vowing his election would repair a pandemic-battered America and put an end to the chaos that has defined Republican President Donald Trump’s administration. The second night of the party’s four-night national convention, under the theme “Leadership Matters,” featured elder...

The Federal Parliament Secretariat on Sunday made public a new badge for the federal parliament members as per the parliament’s new logo made to incorporate the political map of the country that incorporates the Kalapani-Limpiyadhura region encroached by India. However, social media users have mocked the secretariat claiming the new badge...

Kathmandu - The Tribhuvan University (TU) has closed the regular services of all campus and regulate the work from home strategies.  The TU, which had postponed all examinations as well as closed teaching-learning activities from March 24 amid to COVID-19, has decided to close regular services of all campuses across...

Though the government is taking various restrictive steps to control the spread of COVID-19, the Kathmandu Valley’s cases continue to increase. The Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) has confirmed 169 new cases of COVID-19 in Kathmandu Valley today. Of the 168 new cases, 139 were detected in Kathmandu, 15 were...

An order was issued from the single bench of Justice Deepak Kumar Karki in response to a writ petition filed by Advocate Sunil Kumar Patel against the Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers. The petitioner has demanded an investigation into the death of some patients in Birgunj...

A press release issued by the NRNA from London said it recorded zero death of Nepalis living abroad in the past week. The number of Nepalis diagnosed with COVID-19 in foreign countries has also gone down significantly in recent days. According to a tally of fatalities and infections compiled by...

A religious fair that takes place every year at Gokarneshwor Mahadev Temple of Gokarneshwor Municipality, on the outskirts of Kathmandu on the new-moon-day in the month of Bhadra of the lunar calendar has been cancelled this year due to the COVID pandemic. This year the event falls on August 19. On...

KATHMANDU: Thirteen houses have been buried in a landslide in Lama Tol of Jugal Rural Municipality, Ward No. 2 of Sindhupalchowk. It is estimated that at least 50 people have been the victim of the landslide. The landslide that occurred around 6 am on Friday morning swipe up half of the...

Today on Tuesday, Kathmandu city hit the record of the highest single-day Covid-19 cases as of 110 new positive cases in Kathmandu alone while Lalitpur and Bhaktapur reported 16 and eight cases respectively in 24 hours.  The valley’s coronavirus infection tally reached 134 today leading to the number of active cases...

Kathmandu: The government has made changes to the previous decision of lockdown lift.  Likewise in the previous decision, hotels and restaurants could operate but from on they can give only take away service only.  The statement of government has come to action in order to control and prevent the spread...

Kathmandu - Global IME Bank here has been sealed off after an employee was tested positive for coronavirus. Other employees at the bank have been kept in quarantine. The bank employee of 34-year-old from Mahottari district was found positive for the COVID-19. Lahan Municipality's health section chief Ram Sundar Yadav informed...

Beirut: Lebanese protesters stormed government ministries in Beirut and trashed the offices of the Association of Lebanese Banks on Saturday as shots rang out in increasingly angry demonstrations over this week's devastating explosion. The protesters said their politicians should resign and be punished for negligence they say led to Tuesday's blast,...

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...

Kathmandu: The Gahanapokhari-Handigaun area of ​​Kathmandu has been sealed after eight people were found infected with a coronavirus in the same areas. The area was sealed after corona infections were found in Kotal Tol of Handigaun, east of Gahanapokhari. Chairman Ramesh Dangol of ward -5  informed the press on Saturday morning.  ...

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,...

Nepal's Covid-19 tally has reached 19,771 as of Friday afternoon, the Ministry of Health and Population said on the regular press release.  In his daily press briefing in Kathmandu, the ministry’s spokesperson Jageshwor Gautam said 224 new cases were confirmed in the country in the past 24 hours. In this period,...

The number of confirmed coronavirus cases rose by 253,793 to 16,812,755 in the past day, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). The global death toll passed 662,000. As of 11:00 am on July 29, there were 16,558,289 confirmed cases worldwide and 656,093 fatalities. The WHO statistics are based on official information...

Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard said it launched ballistic missiles from "the depths of the Earth" on Wednesday during the last day of military exercises near sensitive Gulf waters. A video posted online by a news agency linked to Iran's state TV showed clouds of dust before the missiles streaked into the...

Nepal deported 671 foreigners last year (in 2019), informs the Department of Immigration. Of them, 578 were expelled from the country on the charge of overstaying whereas 93 faced other charges. Most of those overstaying their visas in Nepal are Chinese, the department says, adding 415 Chinese nationals were deported from Nepal...

According to the Ministry of Health and Population, on Wednesday fifteen new cases of the coronavirus infection have been detected in Kathmandu valley,  were confirmed.  Of the newly infected, 14 persons hail from Kathmandu district while one case of contraction is from Bhaktapur. The infections were detected through tests conducted at National...

KAILALI: Hundreds of houses have been inundated due to monsoon rains in the Kailali district. According to District Police Office, Kailali, most parts of Janaki rural municipality have been deluged after swollen canal water entered human settlements. Foodgrains, clothes and other belongings have been destroyed in the floods, said Shubham Chaudhary, a...

Preparations for the Army-2020 defense forum has completed amid COVID-19, as only 35 states out of the 133 invited have confirmed the participation of their delegations, a senior Russian Defense Ministry official said in an interview published by the Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper on Wednesday. "Difficult epidemiological situation...

Pushpa Kamal Dahal (Prachanda) another chairman of the ruling Communist Party of Nepal (CPN) has started the party's standing committee meeting. According to a source, the meeting was held in the absence of Chairman KP Sharma Oli. Earlier, Dahal had met Prime Minister Oli. According to the source,  the meeting...

United Arab Emirates (UAE) to hold the T20 World Cup that had been postponed previously this match will open a window for the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) to organize this year’s Indian Premier League (IPL).  When will the IPL take place? The BCCI has written to the Indian...

By Press Association 2020 - US: Over the past weekend, protests took a violent turn in several U.S. cities with demonstrators squaring off against federal agents outside a courthouse in Portland, Oregon, forcing police in Seattle to retreat into a station house and setting fire to vehicles in California and...

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...

KATHMANDU: A man has been arrested on the charge of attacking a girl with acid in Sitapaila, Kathmandu. A joint team of the Kathmandu Police and the Metropolitan Crime Investigation Branch arrested the two acid attackers from Dallu. Mohammad Alam of Laxmipur in Rautahat and Munna Mohammad of Kaligarh were arrested...

For the first time in portland protest history, people are seeing the mystery woman “naked Athena” after images of her confronting federal agents as they faced off with protesters in Portland went viral. Now, everyone wants to know who’s behind the blackface mask. Portland has seen more than 50 days of...

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...

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...

KATHMANDU: The Government of Nepal has decided to end the coronavirus lockdown. The decision will come into effect from Tuesday midnight. Spokesperson of Nepal Government, Minister for Communication and Information Technology Yubaraj Khatiwada informed on the press meet that the government has decided to lift the restrictions that had been imposed...

Kathmandu - Traffic along the Narayangadh-Muglin road section has come to a halt after the landslide occurred at Charkilo this morning. The vehicular movement was totally obstructed after the recurrent flow of landslides covered the road stretch since 5.00 am Monday. With this, the District Police Office, Chitwan has urged the...

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...

Kathmandu - Seven people have died in a road accident that took place in Swargadwari municipality last night. The mishap took place at Rumble in ward no. 3 of the municipality involving a tractor (Lu. 2 Cha. 4234). The tractor was carrying laborers working on the Bhingri- Swargadwari road section to...

KATHMANDU, July 15: The price of gold has hit the new record high as it was traded for Rs 92,800 per tola (11.66 grams) on Wednesday. According to the Federation of Nepal Gold and Silver Dealers’ Association (FENEGOSIDA), the precious yellow metal was traded for Rs 92,800 on Wednesday while the...

According to the Ministry of Health and Population report of Wednesday afternoon, the country’s Covid-19 tally has reached 17,177. In his daily press briefing in Kathmandu, the ministry’s spokesperson Jageshwor Gautam said 116 new cases were confirmed in the country in the past 24 hours. In total, 5,090 swab samples were...

More than 60 percent of the 753 local governments in Nepal have failed to present their annual budget by Wednesday for the next fiscal year beginning from 16-07-2020 Whereas the law stipulates Asar 10 (June 14) as the deadline for announcing the annual budget, less than 40 percent of the governments...

Agency: The election campaigning that precedes the August 9 presidential election in Belarus begins in the country on Wednesday amid to COVID-19.  On Tuesday, the country’s Central Election Commission (CEC) registered five candidates. They are to submit their campaign platforms to the media selected by CEC until July 19. The registered candidates...

The British charity cited UNESCO data showing that in April, 1.6 billion young people were shut out of school and university due to measures to contain COVID-19 -- about 90 percent of the world's entire student population. "For the first time in human history, an entire generation of children globally...

BHOJPUR: With the monsoon at its peak, landslides and floods triggered by heavy rainfall have displaced at least five families in Bhojpur district. According to the Bhojpur District Police Office, five families of Dingla Bazaar in Shadananda Municipality-8 have been relocated on facing threats from recurring landslides since Saturday night. Inspector...

Kathmandu - Chairman of the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP), Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda' has assured the party cadres that the NCP would not split. During a cadres' meet here today, Chairman Dahal reiterated that he was determined to keep the party unity intact. "Party remains integrated. I assure you...

MYAGDI: Seven persons died after being buried in a landslide triggered by a flash flood at Raghuganga Rural Municipality-6, Kotgaun, here in the district on Tuesday night. Eleven people are badly injured in the incident and however, one person saved himself by escaping from the spot. The deceased have been...

Sindhupalchowk: Landslides triggered by monsoon rainfall have swept away 15 houses in Jambu village of Nepal’s Sindhupalchowk district, killing at least two people. As many as 15 others have gone missing in the landslides and three have been rescued. Earlier in the morning helicopter have returned from Dhukhel due to bad weather...

Shailesh Thapa Chhetri as been appointed the new chief of Nepal Police by the government on Tuesday.  A cabinet meeting held on Tuesday evening decided to promote Chhetri from the position of additional inspector general to that of inspector general. Chhetri will succeed Thakur Prasad Gyawaly who is retiring from the...

The government has made face masks mandatory at public places. The Home Ministry on Monday has instructed the Nepal Police headquarters to arrest anyone going out of the house without a mask even as COVID-19 cases escalate in the country. The arrested persons will be punished as per the Infectious Disease...

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...

A report carried by a US media outlet quoted Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office Lt. Ryan Higgins that the two planes collided over Coeur d’Alene Lake in Idaho and then sank. He said that many people witnessed the incident or its aftermath as they were boating on the lake during the holiday...

Kathmandu - Ramchandra Neupane The transportation has been completely halted in Dolpa district since the government imposed the nationwide lockdown on March 24, to prevent the spread of COVID-19. As a result, people are facing hardship to travel from one place to another. Most of the places are beyond the...

GENEVA: The World Health Organization reported a record increase in global coronavirus cases on Saturday, with the total rising by 212,326 in 24 hours. The biggest increases were from the United States, Brazil, and India, according to a daily report here The previous WHO record for new cases was 189,077 on June...

Butwal: A total of 380 people have committed suicide in Gandaki Province in the last 100 days of the government's lockdown on the Corona epidemic. According to the Dang State Police Office, 380 people have committed suicide in 12 districts of the Gandaki Province from March 26 to July 30. Among...

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:  Coronavirus was found in two places of Kathmandu valley while testing samples taken from sewage at four places in Kathmandu. According to the Center for Molecular Dynamics Nepal (CMDN), Dr. Divesh Karmacharya's team had collected samples from 4 different places 10-11 days ago after the test it is reported  SARS...

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...

Hetauda, June 30: Two persons from the same family died in a jeep accident that occurred on Muglin-Narayangadh road on Monday evening. The jeep with a family tour was heading to Hetauda from Kathmandu. The jeep with the family trip of Makwanpur chapter Chairman of Non-government Organizations' Federation,...

Kathmandu, June 30: Speaker of the House of Representatives Agni Prasad Sapkota and National Assembly Chairman Ganesh Prasad Timilsina has extended best wishes to all Nepalis on the occasion of the Parliament Day today. They paid tribute to all those sacrificing their lives for the establishment of 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...

Khotang - Halesi Tuwachung Municipality in Khotang district has decided to recognize the Chamling, Bambule and Tilung languages as the official ones through its policy and programmes for the fiscal year 2020/21. Mayor Iwan Rai said some villages in ward-1 and 2 has majority of Bambule speakers while more people at...

Dubai, June 29: Dubai is all set to welcome foreign tourists in the country from July 7, but only those who present a recent COVID-19 negative certificate or undergo testing on arrival at Dubai airport, Khaleej Times reported.The Dubai government media office on Sunday said that the airports would...

Kathmandu, June 28: The Gandaki State government is to ensure health insurance coverage to all citizens of the state within the next three years. Accordingly, the State government has allocated Rs. 20 million for the purpose in the Fiscal Year 2020/21 budget. The health insurance coverage will be established in coordination...

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...

Kathmandu: A total of 463 new coronavirus cases — 358 males and 105 females — have been confirmed in Nepal in the past 24 hours, according to the Ministry of Health and Population. Spokesperson at the Ministry Dr. Jageshwor Gautam said with this, the total number of confirmed cases in the...

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 - A total of 214 persons have returned home from the hospital after recovering from Corona Virus on Saturday. They include 201 men and 13 women. Of them, 205 are from Dailekh. Altogether 132 persons including three women returned home from the isolation center in Naumule rural municipality of Dailekh,...

Kathmandu, June 25: With 434 new cases of coronavirus in the past 24 hours, Nepal's Covid-19 tally has climbed to 11162, the Health Ministry (MoHP) said. At a daily media briefing, Jageshwar Gautam, the spokesperson for the MoHP, said that 386 males and 48 females tested positive for coronavirus in the...

Kathmandu - Giving top priority to education and health care services, Tokha Municipality in Kathmandu has brought the budget of Rs 1.58 billion for the fiscal year 2020/21. Deputy Mayor Gyanmaya Dangol tabled the budget on Wednesday in the seventh municipal assembly by allocating Rs 1.44 billion for capital expenditure. Likewise,...

Kathmandu: A total of 629 new COVID-19 cases have been added to the country on Wednesday.  The infected include 519 men and 110 women, said Dr. Jageshwor Gautam, Spokesperson for the Ministry of Health and Population at a regular press meet here. With this, the number of Corona Virus-infected people...

Bharatpur | Bharatpur Metropolis has unveiled the budget of Rs 4.15 billion for the fiscal year 2020/20 today. The budget was presented before the sixth Metropolitan Assembly. Among the total budget, Rs 480 million has been allocated under the current expenditure. Unveiling the budget, Deputy Mayor of the Metropolitan City, Parbati...

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...

Kathmandu - The Armed Police Force deputed along the Nepal-India border against the coronavirus has continued its campaign to take control and quarantine the individuals covertly entering Nepal without any permission. The campaign has been strictly put in place along with the border checkpoint which falls under the coverage area...

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, June 23: The number of Coronavirus (Covid-19) cases in Nepal has crossed 10,000-mark with 538 new cases of coronavirus on Tuesday.  The total number of COVID-19 cases stands at 10,099, according to Jageshwar Gautam, the spokesperson for the Ministry of Health and Population. "538 persons tested positive for COVID-19 in the...

Kathmandu, June 23: A 35 years old man from Dullu Municipality, Dailekh has died of the coronavirus infection. He was undergoing treatment for Covid-19 for a week at the Karnali Provincial Hospital. The infected man breathed his last on Monday night at around 9:30, according to Dr. KN Poudel, the corona focal...

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 - The Center for Investigative Journalism (CIJ), Nepal has requested Nepali journalists abroad to do investigative news reports about the state of Nepalis in the respective countries. The journalists working in Europe were asked to report on the concerns and problems facing Nepalis in the continent. In online training for...

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 - Nepali migrant workers, who were stranded in various border towns in India due to the lockdown, are returning home today after one month. Some 2,000 Nepalis had been living in quarantine in Jhulaghat, Dharchula and Pithouragadh towns in India after the border between Nepal and India was sealed...

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...

 April 29: A Nepali died from coronavirus infection in the United States on Tuesday. The deceased has been identified as Mahesh Panthi living in Virginia. He was admitted to the hospital on April 8. With the death of Panthi, the number of Nepalis to die of the contagion in the US...

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...

April-27: The current hub of corona virus USA the death toll and most infected number is at the peak, has reported deaths 55, 413 as of Monday morning. No new deaths have been reported in the last 24 hours according to Worldometer. Currently, 812, 966 coronavirus patients are undergoing treatment at various...

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: New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Friday pointed to research showing that strains of the novel coronavirus entered his state from Europe, not China, and said that travel bans enacted by U.S. President Donald Trump were too late to halt its spread. Cuomo cited research from Northeastern University estimating...

Kathmandu, April-25: Nepal Bank Limited (NBL), the first bank of the country, has been rated as the 'A Class Bank' by ICRA Nepal Limited, NBL spokesman Prakash Kumar Adhikari stated in a press release on Friday. Adhikari said that this ranking from the world-famous rating company, Moody's, has enhanced NBL's...

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...

Kathmandu, April 24 - Police have taken Dilip Chand, nephew of Netra Bikram Chand, under control in Nawalparasi (Bardaghat Susta West) on Thursday. Police held Dilip soon after he was released from detention on the Supreme Court's order. The Supreme Court had directed the District Court to release him in...

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 20: Coronavirus pandemic around the world has caused the death toll to 165,229 after 4,883 people died in the last 24 hours as of Monday morning. According to the latest figures collated by Worldometer, with 74, 557 new cases, the number of infection cases has reached 2, 405,325. Currently, 1,615,484...

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...

LISBON: An emergency relief fund has been set up in Portugal for assisting the Nepali diaspora in Portugal. Honorary Consul of Nepal, Makar Bahadur Hamal is the coordinator of the fund set up through Janachetana Samiti. It is said the fund has been established by targetting the Nepalis those who are...

Kathmandu, April-8: The Armed Police Force (APF) has set up a number of temporary posts at the Nepal-India border in order to strictly implement lockdown and stop the illegal entry via border. The APF tightened the security at the porous border in Jhapa district establishing additional 58 temporary posts. The...

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...

President Trump lashed out at the World Health Organization, saying he may withhold U.S. funding from it in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.   ‘We will be giving that a good look. Fortunately, I rejected...

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 7: Amid concerns over Prime Minister K P Oli is silence over the crisis triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic in the country, he is scheduled to address the nation at 11 am on Tuesday. Surya Thapa, his press advisor, said that PM Oli is scheduled to address at 11...

Kathmandu, April 5: Nepali living in various parts of the US have been affected by Coronavirus that has taken a huge toll in the country. So far, around 500 Nepalis have been infected with the COVID-19 disease. The number, however, could not be independently verified, according to RSS. The Nepali Embassy in the...

By JENNIFER PELTZ, AMY FORLITI and DAVID RISING NEW YORK April 5, (AP) — The New York governor said Saturday the Chinese government was facilitating a shipment of 1,000 donated ventilators to his state, highlighting the extreme measures leaders are taking in what has become a cutthroat scramble to independently secure...

By JANIE HAR, SAN FRANCISCO, April 4 (AP) — Since the beginning of an international pandemic, experts have known one population is particularly vulnerable to contracting and spreading the coronavirus: the homeless. California Gov. Gavin Newsom and other elected officials have vowed repeatedly to get them indoors. On Friday, News om...

Kathmandu, April 4 : Government of Nepal has intensified facilitation to send back the foreign nationals to the homes via chartered the aircraft. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Department of Immigration and Nepal Tourism Board are making coordination through the embassy of respective countries in this regard. The foreign...

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 3: Today Prime Minister Scott Morrison said internationals students to go back to their home countries if they are unable to stay there owing to the worsening situation amid novel coronavirus outbreak. As a consequence, thousands of Nepali students in Australia are likely to be affected by the...

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...

KATHMANDU: The number of confirmed coronavirus cases worldwide is fast approaching the one million mark. "In the past five weeks there has been a near-exponential growth in the number of new cases and the number of deaths has more than doubled in the past week," the head of World Health...

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...

ITALY MARCH 31: Italy conduct’s the day of mourning marks at the end of a month in which Italy saw more deaths from a single disaster than at any time since World War II.Coronavirus "is an injury that hurt the whole country," Rome mayor Virginia Raggi said after observing...

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...

Australian opening batsman David Warner has devised an all-new way to show his support towards professionals who are currently the first line of defense against the coronavirus pandemic. Medical and security professionals all over the world are currently risking their lives to go out and fight COVID-19 and Warner wanted...

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...

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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...

Washington, March 27: Nearly 3.3 million Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week — almost five times the previous record set in 1982 — amid a widespread economic shutdown caused by the coronavirus. The surge in weekly applications was a stunning reflection of the damage the viral outbreak is inflicting...

UK MARCH 27: Mr. Johnson said he developed mild symptoms over the past 24 hours, including temperature and cough.He said he will now self-isolate in No. 10 but will "continue to lead the government's response via video-conference as we fight this virus".Mr. Johnson was last seen on Thursday...

ReutersNEW YORK, MARCH 27- The number of positive cases of coronavirus has climbed above 85,000 in the US on Friday, surpassing the national tallies of China and Italy.With medical facilities running low on ventilators and protective masks and hampered by limited diagnostic testing capacity, the U.S. death toll...

Reuters CAIRO, MARCH 26 - Egypt and it's capital Cairo, a mega-city home to some 20 million people, has also been shut down on Wednesday evening as authorities launched a night-time curfew to tackle the spread of the coronavirus. Cario is a city that never sleeps where restaurants and cafes are usually...

KATHMANDU, MARCH 26: A chartered plane of Buddha air is flew to Pokhara on Thursday morning to rescue 47 French nationals, sources said. Due to lockdown, about 300 tourist has been stuck in Lukla, around 500 in Pokhara and half a dozen in Manasulu area are being rescued back to Kathmandu....

In order to make facts regarding COVID-19 accessible to government authorities, health professionals, reporters and the general public, the World Health Organization (WHO) has put up a system in place to answer any questions regarding the novel coronavirus and current updates and developments on this pandemic.  WhatsApp, owned...

CHITWAN, MARCH-24: A 30 years patient died at 7 ma in the morning today at a special hospital for the treatment of novel coronavirus He was suffering from high fever and flue and he was recently referred to a special hospital for the treatment of novel coronavirus from Chitwan Medical College....

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...

KATHMANDU, MARCH 21: Police on Saturday apprehended a youth from Sipadol of Bhaktapur on the charge of spreading fake news on COVID-19 through social media. According to Spokesperson of Nepal Police Sailesh Thapa Kshetri, Bibek Thapa Magar, 20, of Ramechhap was arrested by the Cyber Bureau of Nepal Police. On the...

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, 21 MARCH: Nepal Telecom has started to provide awareness messages of coronavirus VIRUS (Covid-19) through the calling ring back tones. Ntc has initiated this move from the afternoon of Chaitra 6, 2076 (March 19, 2020). As the CoronaVirus (Covid-19) pandemic has already breakout on one-third of the globe, Nepal is...

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 20: Hotels in Namche Bazaar, known as the gateway to Everest, are closed until further notice. The emergency meeting of the Lodge and Hotel Association Namche Bazaar, Solukhumbu, has decided to close the hotel from March 20 till further notice. According to Mingma Sherpa, President of the association, the...

KATHMANDU, March 20: Hotel and tourism entrepreneurs have demanded the government to pay half of the salary of the staff who are currently on the work from the Social Security Fund. After the global outbreak of Corona Virus (COVID-19), hotel and tourism entrepreneurs' Association of Nepal, Bagmati State has demanded...

KATHMANDU, March 19: Amid novel coronavirus outbreak fear, Public Service Commission (Lok Sewa Aayog) has postponed all the scheduled written examinations of civil service, security bodies and various government bodies. The meeting of the PSC (Lok Sewa Aayog) held on Thursday decided to postpone the exams to be held between March...

Kathmandu, March 18 The government has appealed to the people not to leave their homes unless it was urgent. It also urged the general public not to organize cultural or religions gatherings of more than 25 people at locations such as banquet halls and temples. A meeting of the high-level coordination committee for...

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 17, MARCH: The government has pressed a button directing for the shut-down of movie theaters, cultural centers, including others to minimize the possible risk of the coronavirus which has spread across the world. Likewise, on the press release, Deputy Prime Minister Ishwor Pokhrel made an announcement to postpone the SEE...

With an aim to create awareness among the people about coronavirus pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) is calling on high-profile figures to take its Safe Hands challenge. WHO has asked several big names, including Leonardo DiCaprio, Ivanka Trump, Blake Lively, Ryan Reynolds and Greta Thunberg, to share videos of themselves...

With the suspension of issuance on entry visa, many expats, especially those on visit and tourist visa, are left with so many unanswered questions. Will the suspension cover those who are inside the country? Can still they renew even after March 17? According to Hoopla Tourism's spokesperson, a travel agency...

Kathmandu, March 16Nepal’s sole international airport — Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) — is seeking public cooperation to keep the airport safe and to generate awareness about the coronavirus (COVID-19). The TIA authority has stated that the bottles of hand sanitizer placed in the bathrooms and other areas for safety purposes...

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...

The cyber cell unit of Malad police on Tuesday, with the help of social media, traced and arrested a 37-year-old driver from Sion for allegedly creating a fake profile of the complainant and posting her phone number purporting it to be number of a commercial sex worker. In November last year,...

KATHMANDU, March 9: Minister for Industry, Commerce and Supplies Lekhraj Bhatta has claimed that import from the third countries has not been affected due to the spread of coronavirus outbreak. Amid the widespread news citing the halt of export and import to and from China, India and third countries due to...