October 17, 2020 · as published by Nepali news portals, newest first
From femininity to motherhood, Mieko Kawakami’s latest novel Breasts and Eggs is an intense, personal story about the phases of a woman’s life. “Why are books by Japanese authors so sad?” I texted...
KATHMANDU: The greatest festival of Nepalis, Bada Dashain, begins today- with Ghatasthapana which marks the beginning of Navaratri. It is also the longest festival for Nepali Hindus. Special puja ...
Police have now sealed off the area, as their investigation continues (Photo: Reuters) PARIS : A teacher has been beheaded in a north-western suburb of Paris, France, BBC reported. The knife-wiel...
Building of Nepali Congress Central Office in Sanepa, Lalitpur. (File Photo) KATHMANDU: The main opposition party Nepali Congress (NC) has demanded that the government should provide special festi...
Mumbai Indians celebrate as they inflict an eight-wicket win against Kolkata Knight Riders in an IPL match held in the UAE on Friday night. (Photo: www.espncricinfo.com) KATHMANDU: Mumbai Indians ...
Many farmers are switching to rearing fish because it provides a higher return compared to other types of farming. Ratanchha village in Khotang district is turning into a fish farming hub with alm...
Here it starts again, every October, without reason or rhyme. Every act a mere repetition of what was done before; every speech a replica of what was said before. Inside the living room of a dista...
Image for Representation KATHMANDU: India recorded 65,126 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, taking the caseload to 7,430,635. Currently, 795,969 are undergoing treatment at various isol...
Serving and retired bureaucrats say the current administration is stable and it could have done much to strengthen civil service, but it is doing just the opposite. On Thursday, Secretary at the O...
Minister Baijanath Chaudhary (Photo: Social Media) KATHMANDU: Minister for Infrastructure Development of Lumbini Pradesh Baijanath Chaudhary and his wife have tested positive for coronavirus. Mi...
A chunk of the budget was spent on procurement of medical equipment but the government failed to manage the required human resource to use those equipment. The Lumbini provincial government has sp...
A nationwide study on the impact of Covid-19 pandemic on Dalits in the country shows they were hit hard because of the pandemic. Dalit communities across the country have been disproportionately a...
State protection for the guilty is giving rise to such cases, human rights activists say. At a time when the government is looking for excuses not to implement its recommendations to book police o...
In recent years summit hopefuls have been growing since the tragedy on the mountain in 2014 and its closure following the 2015 earthquake. A total of 6,507 mountaineers have climbed Everest from t...
At the start of the year, when COVID-19 was ravaging Wuhan, China, and beginning to envelop the West, I warned that the crisis would likely be replicated across much of the developing world, with s...
Only Rs40 million has been allocated for medicines of non-communicable diseases this year, compared to Rs135 million last year Two out of three deaths in Nepal are blamed on non-communicable disea...
MAHOTTARI: The number of coronavirus cases has crossed 14,000-mark in Provinc 2. A total of 14,620 people have been infected in the provine so far, according to the Ministyr of Social Development ...
Prime Minister of New Zealand Jacinda Ardern (Getty Images) KATHMANDU: Millions in New Zealand are heading to the polls in the country’s general elections, BBC reported. The vote was originally d...
MORANG: Tension has flared at Nobel Medical College in Biratnagar after a patient died in the course of treatment. The kin of the deceased manhandled medical persons after a 51-year-old Laxmi Kum...
CHITWAN: A 49-year-old man has died from coronavirus in Chitwan district on early Saturday. The infected man succumbed to the virus in the course of treatment at Bharatpur Hospital at 1:45 am toda...
Image for Representation SUNSARI: Two additional infected people have died in the course of treatment at BP Koirala Institue of Health Sciences in Dharan. The deceased are a 65-year-old man of D...
Kathmandu, Oct 17 . Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has said that the mission of the present government was to put an end to poverty and establish prosperity in the country. In a message today on the...
Image for representation KATHMANDU: Five additional people have died from coronavirus in the course of treatment in Banke, Chitwan and Sunsari districts in the past 24 hours. Two additional infec...
Kathmandu - A PCR negative report of a test carried out for Corona Virus in the last 72 hours is necessary for anyone to enter Syangja district effective today. The provision came into effect from ...
Kathmandu - The number of people recovering from Corona Virus infection has crossed 12,000 in Province no. 2. Of the total 14,620 cases of COVID-19 as of October 16, 12,272 have recovered, accordin...
Image for Representation KATHMANDU: The government can now record people’s telephone conservations at any time it deems necessary. It has been possible following a provision made in the draft of ...
Kathmandu, Oct 17 . Temples and shrines will not be opened for devotees during the Bada Dashain festival in the country. The concerned priests will carry out the necessary nitya pooja and arati but...
We usually witness two hardware launch events of OnePlus every year: one for regular smartphone and the second for T-Version of the same lineup. This year is different. We got OnePlus Nord as a sur...
Image for Representation GULMI: A man died in a tractor accident in Madane rural municipality-7 of Gulmi district. The deceased has been identified as Netra Bahadur Gharti, a local, confirmed Dis...
Kathmandu - Minister for physical infrastructure development of Lumbini Baijanath Chaudhary has tested positive to Corona Virus. Also the spokesperson of the Lumbini government, Chaudhary was confi...
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