December 31, 2020 · as published by Nepali news portals, newest first
The AstraZeneca shot doesn't require deep freezing at minus 70 degrees like the mRNA vaccine from Pfizer and its German partner, BioNTech, and has already been produced by the millions of doses. B...
People are letting their guard down while the risk of Covid-19 has not subsided. We are in the middle of a pandemic. The risks posed by the coronavirus remain in Nepal, despite fewer tests and rel...
Image for Representation WASHINGTON: The number of COVID-19 cases has reached 20,196,781 in the United States of America after 214,340 new cases were reported in the country. Currently, 7,875,700...
The year has resembled a rapidly receding tide, forcing us to confront submerged truths. A house of cards. A set of lies we have unconsciously accepted. That’s what our certainties seem like durin...
Nobody is above the law in contemporary Nepal. Nobody ought to be. Prime Minister KP Oli, like any dictator or autocrat before him, by dissolving the Parliament unconstitutionally has brought Nepa...
Supreme Court of Nepal (File photo) KATHMANDU: The Supreme Court (SC) is hearing the writ petition filed against the cabinet reformation has been postponed. A single bench of Justice Ishwor Prasa...
Investment pledges in the first five months of the fiscal year were down 23 percent, according to the Department of Industry. Foreign direct investment pledges to Nepal in the first five months of...
Despite the lockdowns, Nepali publication houses published a range of books for the Nepali reader this past year. The year 2020 was a year like no other. Life as we knew it was upended everywhere....
Province 1 completed the run-chase in 15.1 overs for the loss of five wickets and led the group, after Tuesday’s 46-run victory over Bagmati Province. Province 1 defeated Sudurpaschim Province by ...
Image for Representation KATHMANDU: Two games are taking place under the Prime Minister Cup Women’s National Cricket Tournament 2020 today. Bagmati is taking on Sudurpaschim at 9:30 am while Gand...
Dozens were injured in the blasts (Photo: CNN) SANA: Several explosions hit Yemen’s Aden airport as the newly formed power-sharing government arrived from Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, CNN Reported. ...
Image for Representation KATHMANDU: Two pedestrians have died after being hit by a tipper at Gurjudhara in Chandragiri municipality-12 of the Kathmandu Valley. The deceased have been identified a...
Since the constitution does not provide any substantial role for the Office of the Vice President, it has by and large become an idle institution, experts say. Over the past few weeks, the country...
The visit to participate in the meeting of the sixth joint commission as foreign minister of a caretaker government follows both neighbours’ renewed interest in Nepal. As the political crisis unfo...
US President Donald Trump and the COVID-19 pandemic dominated the news headlines in 2020. Three terms in particular came to symbolize the year: “witch hunt,” “black swan,” and “exponential.” Trump...
Gavi, the global vaccine alliance, has provided $700,000 to establish the facilities, which can store vaccines in temperatures up to minus 20 degrees Celsius. In a bid to store Covid-19 vaccines i...
Sanobharyang and Sallaghari offices have only one mechanical supervisor each to run emissions tests. Their absence means no service. Rajendra Bilash Maharjan reached the Transport Management Offic...
Lawmakers Ram Chandra Mandal (Left) and Jwala Kumari Sah JANAKPURDHAM: Two provincial lawmakers of Prachanda-Nepal faction in Province 2 have joined Oli faction following the split of the ruling N...
The project is estimated to inundate 162 houses including 80 Majhi households. The families of those who will be displaced by the construction of the Dudh Koshi Hydropower Project have demanded th...
Local residents call in a helicopter to spray water, but fail to put out the fire. During the first week of December, a forest fire was reported in Toktoke forest in Ward No. 7 of Sidingwa Rural M...
Provincial governments have been demanding that they be allowed to conduct the exams. Amid government indecision over various aspects of this year’s Secondary Education Examination, the National ...
The government gave up key measures such as testing, contact tracing and isolating and left the people to fend for themselves amid a raging pandemic. The year 2020 will be remembered as the year o...
JANAKPURDHAM: Even though incidents of gender discrimination are on the rise across the country, such instances are relatively high in Province-2 as women victims do not get justice. Their hopes o...
Covid-19 taught Nepalis a painful lesson that overreliance on foreign jobs is dangerous for the households and national economy, but policy makers have failed to employ returning workers, forcing t...
The infighting in the ruling party reached a tipping point as 2020 drew to a close. Oli dissolved the House and called snap polls resulting in the party split and forcing the country towards uncert...
With much of life under lockdown this past year, the culture and arts scene suffered deeply, and in silence. And while the year was one of loss, it was also one of learning, adapting, growing and s...
Projections by various agencies show recovery will be long and arduous, especially with political uncertainty. The country had seen two years of a stable government when it welcomed a new decade w...
China has given conditional approval to a coronavirus vaccine developed by state-owned Sinopharm. The vaccine is the first one approved for general use in China. Chen Shifei, the deputy commissio...
Image for Representation KATHMANDU: The weather is partly cloudy in the hilly region and foggy in the western tarai of the country due to the impact of the westerly wind today. The weather is fai...
Office building of the National Examination Board. (File Photo) KATHMANDU: The National Examinations Board (NEB) has opened registration forms for the Secondary Education Examination (SEE) from to...
A large explosion struck the airport in the southern Yemeni city of Aden on Wednesday, shortly after a plane carrying the newly formed Cabinet landed there, security officials said. At least 25 peo...
Central Party Office of Nepali Congress, Sanepa (File photo) KATHMANDU: The main opposition Nepali Congress (NC) is observing the 45th National Unity and Reconciliation Day across the country with...
Anshika Sharma being crowned the title of Miss Universe Nepal 2020. (Photo: Social Media) KATHMANDU: Anshika Sharma has won the title of Miss Universe Nepal (MUN) 2020, leaving 18 contestants behi...
A tent put up at the backdrop of Mt Kanchenjunga (File photo) TAPLEJUNG: As many as 70 residents of Taplejung district have reached the Kanchanjunga base camp last month. Over 100 locals of the d...
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