August 6, 2020 · as published by Nepali news portals, newest first
KATHMANDU: A number of Beirut port officials are being placed under house arrest pending an investigation into Tuesday’s huge explosion, BBC reported. The explosion killed at least 135 people and ...
KATHMANDU: As many as 102 people were infected with the coronavirus in the Kathmandu Valley on Wednesday. Senior Public Health Officer Uttam Koirala at Epidemiology and Disease Control Division, K...
KATHMANDU: A prohibitory order has been imposed in Bidur Municipality of Nuwakot district since Wednesday evening after coronavirus cases spiked. According to a press note issued by the District A...
Image for Representation KATHMANDU: A passenger boat with more than 40 people on board capsized Wednesday in a marshy wetland in northern Bangladesh, killing at least 17 people. According to a BB...
As new measures to curb the coronavirus spread, authorities impose odd-even rules for vehicles in the Valley and other districts with over 200 cases and bar social gatherings at hotels and restaura...
Image for Representation DAMAULI: A toddler has died after being attacked by a leopard in Shuklagandaki municipality-2, Masar of Tanahun district. The deceased has been identified as one and a ha...
Remittance money has always played a crucial role in disaster recovery. But Covid-19, which has left many migrant workers without work, has now made it much more challenging to recover from disaste...
Maize planted in around 3,500 ropanis of land was destroyed in locust attacks in June and July but authorities are yet to come forward to help farmers survive the ordeal. When Mankali Sunar first ...
Most districts have reported new cases since the nationwide lockdown was lifted in July, prompting local governments to step up safety measures. Most local units in the country have started reimpo...
Bangladesh, as a disaster-prone country, where disaster poses a huge challenge, and where post-disaster reconstruction generally focuses on the immediate needs, makes it difficult to incorporate lo...
The survey showed that half of the companies’ business is financed by debt and as a result, they were unable to pay their employees as their cash flow dried up. The four-month-long lockdown impose...
Address the warnings beforehand to stop an unemployment pandemic. If Nepal needed a nudge, the fresh warning by the Asian Development Bank is it. In its latest report released on Monday, the Mani...
What Prime Minister KP Oli and his challenger, Pushpa Kamal Dahal, seem to have forgotten is the sorry state Nepal is in, caught between a killer pandemic and a disastrous monsoon. As I had allude...
By arresting a prominent reporter, the Zimbabwean government has once again demonstrated to use the law as a political weapon. On July 20, the Zimbabwean authorities arrested the internationally...
Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli (Left) and ruling Nepal Communist Party Chairman Dahal (File photo) KATHMANDU: Ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) Chairman duo KP Sharma Oli and Pushpa Kamal Dahal ar...
The idea of being out in the social world can be overwhelming, but here is how you can deal with it. While the country goes back to business, 22-year-old Dollie Shah is having a hard time re-adjus...
The racketeers who sold the fake VAT bills have been found to have registered firms in the name of poor and ignorant people from rural areas so that they can avoid being indicted by law enforcement...
KATHMANDU: Economic Digest, a daily morning email digest, is basically a relatable summation of important business news from Nepal into easy-to-understand summaries. Ncell is now a public company ...
Kathmandu, Aug 6 : Fortified rice, lentils and vegetable oil, totaling to nearly 1,500 MT, were distributed to school children (from Grade1-8) in rural areas of SudurPaschim and Karnali State...
A flight of Nepal Airlines Corporation (File photo) KATHMANDU: As many as 1,494 Nepali people stranded due to lockdown in various countries abroad are returning home today. According to Civil Av...
Minister for Internal Affairs and Law of Province 2 Gyanendra Kumar Yadav (File photo) JANAKPUR: Minister for Internal Affairs and Law of Province 2 Gyanendra Kumar Yadav has tested positive for ...
KATHMANDU: Meteorological Forecasting Division (MFD) has forecast heavy rains from coming Saturday. With the low pressure monsoon trough surging towards Nepal, there is a high possibility of heav...
Facebook has deleted a post by US President Donald Trump for violating its policy against spreading misinformation about the coronavirus. The post in question featured a link to a Fox News video i...
The government has decided to impose odd-even rule on public and private vehicles from Thursday to control the COVID-19 pandemic. The rule is enforced in the Kathmandu Valley and the districts with...
Office building of Federation of Nepalese Chamber of Commerce and Industries (File photo) KATHMANDU: A committee has been formed to prepare the election modality to conduct 54th Annual General Me...
A man out of three persons who died with COVID-19-like symptoms in Saptari has tested positive. Senior public health administrator with the Province 2 Health Directorate Bijay Jha confirmed that t...
As Lebanese rescuers counted the dead and combed rubble for signs of life a day after a huge explosion shattered swaths of Beirut, nations near and far pledged Wednesday that the country, already t...
The dwindling witnesses to the world’s first atomic bombing marked its 75th anniversary Thursday, with Hiroshima’s mayor and others noting as hypocritical the Japanese government’s refusal to sign ...
Ministry of Health and Population. (File Photo) KATHMANDU: Minister for Health and Population Bhanubhakta Dhakal has said government was committed to conducting coronavirus test on more and more p...
KATHMANDU: Gold price increased by Rs 1,100 per tola in the domestic market on Thursday, setting a new high of Rs 1,02,500 per tola (11.664 grams). According to Federation of Nepal Gold and Silver...
Kathmandu - The Jhaputar-Chalise road stretching from Rishing rural municiplaity-1, Jhaputar to its ward-6 in Tanahun has been obstructed for the past three weeks. Landslides triggered by incessant...
Prime Minister KP Oli (Left) and Pushpa Kamal Dahal (File photo) KATHMANDU: The intra-party differences have widened in the ruling Nepal Communist Party with heavy weights sticking to their respe...
Kathmandu - In a bid to contain the further outbreak of coronavirus ifnection, Mirchaiya municiplaity of Siraha has enfroced lockdown effective from today onward. Following the confirmation of viru...
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