October 18, 2020 · as published by Nepali news portals, newest first
JANAKPURDHAM: Province 2 case tally has inched closer to the 15,000-mark with 227 new cases of coronavirus added on Saturday. According to Dr. Kamalesh Yadav, a senior doctor at the Province Healt...
CHITWAN: Three people with coronavirus infection have died in Chitwan. They were under treatment at various hospitals in the district. Two infected died at Bharatpur Hospital and another one at Ch...
DHANGADI: Sudurpaschim State has witnessed growing food insecurity due to adverse effect of COVID-19. A study has shown that the food insecurity index has further slid to 23 notches from 15. As pe...
Mahouts ride on elephants at Bardiya National Park located in western Nepal. (File photo) BARDIYA: The Bardiya National Park that was closed for some seven months due to the coronavirus pandemic h...
Health Ministry estimates 320,000 additional new cases in the worst case scenario, and 148,000 new cases in moderate conditions in the next four months. In the next four months, an additional 320,...
KATHMANDU: President Bidya Devi Bhandari and Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli have decided to cancel the program of offering tika to the public on the day of Vijaya Dashami. Due to the high risk of co...
Whenever under pressure, Dahal vacillates, and such moves may do him more harm, as he needs to be clear how he wants to proceed at least until general convention, insiders say. Pushpa Kamal Dahal ...
KATHMANDU: The police have intensified its action against hooliganism in the country over the last few years. As a result, some of the goons have died in police encounters whereas some others have...
The contraband was found in the apartment of an Indian national on Saturday. Police seized a huge amount of smuggled gold and silver from an apartment in Birgunj Metropolitan City-5 on Saturday. ...
Nepal’s biggest challenge is not poverty. It is the impunity with which politicians operate. Kulman Ghising was the managing director of the Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) until he was recently...
The rosy picture presented by the central bank does not reveal a recovery phenomenon. Nepal Rastra Bank recently published the current macroeconomic updates for mid-August 2020. Amid the intractab...
Delhi Capitals players celebrate after defeating Chennai by five wickets in in IPL match held in the UAE on Saturday night. (Photo: www.espncricinfo.com) KATHMANDU: Delhi Capitals has climbed atop...
There are not enough passengers to cover operation costs and fuel expenses, long haul bus operators say. Twenty-eight-year-old Deepak Bhujel on Saturday morning spent over two hours inside the mic...
While some of them want to go abroad for work again due to lack of opportunities in the country, others want government help to stay in the country to start their own business. Over two-third of w...
The prices of food items like rice, lentils, legumes, edible oil too have increased by Rs10 per kg on an average—adding strain to already struggling denizens. Every Dashain, Sunil Shrestha spent a...
In developing countries, it can be a challenge to convince people that finance is not a bad word, and that the financial system is not necessarily a perverse mechanism that serves only the rich and...
As a stop-gap measure, the Inland Revenue Department has ordered Janak Education Material Centre to print nearly 100 million stickers. Nearly a year after the tax authority invited a global tender...
Two years passed with no information about Junkiri. And Sunkumari had forsaken all hope of ever seeing her daughter again. Dhobi. That was what he was called by the village people. But his real na...
Image for Representation KATHMANDU: Five people have died in a road accident at Katari municipality-14 in Udayapur district. The deceased have been identified as 46-year-old Ram Bahadur Sarki and...
Officials say they plan to conduct the exams in such a way that the risk of transmission of Covid-19 is minimised. Two weeks have passed since the government decided to allow all test administrato...
WASHINTON: The global coronavirus caseload now stands at 39.5 million cases, according to the latest updates provided by Johns Hopkins University. According to the University tracker, there are 39...
Incomplete road expansion project has made the road section prone to accidents. The Butwal-Narayanghat section of the East-West Highway has become accident prone due to poor visibility caused by d...
Health officials have a tough time tracing contacts as Covid-19 suspects move freely in the community. A 49-year-old woman from Jaimini Municipality-7 in Baglung reached the Bharatpur-based Chitwa...
Mt Everest. (File Photo) KATHMANDU: Nepal and China are set to release a report on the height of Mt Everest at the same time. Both countries have completed the measurement of the height of the hi...
Image for Representation KATHMANDU: India recorded 62,092 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, taking the caseload to 7,492,727. Currently, 784,264 are undergoing treatment at various isol...
Office of Nepal Army headquarters (File photo) KATHMANDU: Nepal Army (NA) is organizing a three-day conference of division commanders to review the status of security condition and COVID-19 pandem...
Anil Keshari Shah. Photo: Shah's Facebook KATHMANDU: Anil Keshari Shah, Chief Executive Officer of Nabil Bank has tested positive for COVID-19. Posting a Facebook message, Shah confirmed that he ...
SUNSARI: A 79-year-old man of Itahari Sub-metropolis-9 of Sunsari has died of coronavirus infection while undergoing treatment at BP Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan. He died at 3:05 t...
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern won a second term in office Saturday in an election landslide of historic proportions. With most votes counted, Ardern’s liberal Labour Party was winning ...
China Southern Lounge at Guangzhou Airport. KATHMANDU: Seven Nepali students have been stranded in Guangzhou in China due to incomplete and incompetent instructions given by the Health Desk at the...
Image for Representation BARDIYA: A 42-year-old male from Thakur Baba Municipality-6 of Bardiya has died of coronavirus in Nepalgunj. Chief of the District Health Office Gokarna Giri informed tha...
Building of Central Investigation Bureau of Nepal Police. (File photo) KATHMANDU: The Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) of Nepal Police has nabbed two alleged murderers of Dil Bahadur Yonjan aft...
Kathmandu - A child has died after being swept away by the Bhimgothe river in Badigad rural municipality in the district. The deceased has been identified as seven-year-old Anup, the son of Anuj KC...
KASKI: As many as 52 persons have tested positive for COVID-19 in Gandaki Province on Sunday. According to the Health Directorate of Gandaki Province, 19 persons in Nawalpur, 16 in Tanahun, eight ...
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