KATHMANDU : CPN-UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli has said that his party would play a constructive and active role as the opposition party. A new government has been formed under the leadership of Nepali Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba as per the mandamus issued by the Supreme Court. Presiding over the first Standing Committee meeting […]
BERLIN: More than 60 people have died and dozens were missing Thursday as severe flooding in Germany and Belgium turned streams and streets into raging torrents that swept away cars and caused houses to collapse. Among those killed were nine residents of an assisted living facility for people with disabilities and two firefighters involved in […]
KATHMANDU : The Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) has urged one and all not to use ‘corona guard’. Issuing a notice, the ministry asked not to buy ‘corona guard’ which it said was being sold in the market claiming it would prevent, control and make the coronavirus inactive. Joint spokesperson for the ministry, Dr […]
KATHMANDU : The Nepal Telecom Authority (NTA) is adopting a mobile device management system from Friday in order to monitor illegal use of mobile phones in the country. Those mobile phones that are currently in use without IMEI registration will not function gradually in the coming days, according to the authority. “Mobile phones without IMEI […]
KATHMANDU : Bagmati Province Chief Minister Dormani Poudel has said the party’s leaders were themselves to blame for the CPN (UML)’s exit from the government. Addressing a programme organised to welcome new members who joined the UML at Mayurdhap, Hetauda-14 today, Poudel said the happiness of those who became successful in ousting the KP Sharma […]
KATHMANDU : Chairman of CPN-UML, KP Sharma Oli has maintained that senior leader Madhav Kumar Nepal cannot be accepted in the party even if he acknowledges his mistakes and self-criticizes for the same. Oli also accused Nepal of leading opposition parties to overthrow the government of his own party. “Our own reactionary element [Madhav Kumar […]
KATHMANDU : Milan Ghimire, a 23-year old Nepali youth has been arrested on charge of shooting a fellow Nepali co-worker on Monday. Phu Tsewang, a 56-year-old co-worker of Ghimire was found dead from multiple gunshots. According to the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office, the gas station employee of Mahwah, New Jersey was arrested on charges of […]
KATHMANDU: As many as 31 persons who were forcibly disappeared during the decade-long civil unrest in Nepal have come into contact with their families. In the course of its meeting with the families of conflict survivors to probe their complaints, the Commission of Investigation on Enforced Disappeared Persons (CIEDP) has found that the disappeared persons […]
GENEVA: The World Health Organization’s chief scientist has advised individualsagainst mixing and matching COVID-19 vaccines from different manufacturers, saying such decisions should be left to public health authorities. “It’s a little bit of a dangerous trend here,” Soumya Swaminathan told an online briefing on Monday after a question about booster shots. “It will be a […]
KATHMANDU ; Attorney General Ramesh Badal has resigned from his post. The government’s chief legal advisor submitted his resignation to the President today, through the Prime Minister, as a new government is to be formed after the Supreme Court’s verdict. “I have resigned from my post. I have handed the resignation to the Prime Minister,” […]