Sajhamanch Archive

KATHMANDU: Strength from the prior trading day carried over to the last trading day of the week as Nepse traded in green throughout the session. After advancing constantly in the beginning half of the trading session, the index lost some steam in the afternoon. However, the index managed to hold on to earlier gains finishing […]

TOKYO : In yet another setback for the postponed Tokyo Olympics — and another involving comments about women — games’ creative director Hiroshi Sasaki resigned on Thursday after making demeaning comments about a well-known female celebrity in Japan. The Tokyo Olympics are scheduled to open in just over four months, dogged by the coronavirus pandemic, […]

KATHMANDU : Nepal has postponed the vaccination campaign against COVID-19 for the time being as the vaccine maker has failed to deliver the vaccines on time. The Family Welfare Division of the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) has stated that the program has been postponed for some time as no additional vaccine has been […]

KATHMANDU : A Nepali woman was shot dead by bike-borne assailants in the Indian capital New Delhi on Wednesday morning. According to Ram Prasad Subedi, deputy chief of mission (DCM) at the Nepali Embassy in New Delhi, the victim has been identified as Meena Tamang from Dupcheshwar Rural Municipality-1 in Nuwakot district. A mother of […]

SURKHET : The ruling Communist Party of Nepal-Unified Marxist Leninist has decided to withdraw its support to the CPN (Maoist Center)-led government in Karnali Province. A meeting of the party’s provincial parliamentary party held on Wednesday afternoon took a decision to this effect. The meeting also decided to recall its three ministers in the Mahendra […]

KATHMANDU: Nepali Congress (NC) leader and former minister Nabindra Raj Joshi, who is undergoing treatment for brain hemorrhage at Norvic International Hospital in the capital, is in critical condition, the hospital stated in a press release on Wednesday morning. Now, Joshi is being treated on a ventilator support, according to the press release.  Joshi was […]

KATHMANDU: The Ministry of Finance (MoF) on Monday asked the ministries concerned to take prudent measures while formulating the budget document to be forwarded to the MoF by March 28. One of the major concerns expressed by the MoF was to adopt austerity measures and curtail unproductive expenses like those for purchase of vehicles while […]

KATHMANDU : The Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Center) has picked its Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal as its parliamentary party leader. A meeting of the CPN (MC)’s parliamentary party held in Kathmandu on Tuesday made a decision to this effect, according to Devendra Poudel, a lawmaker belonging to the party. Leader Dev Prasad Gurung has […]

KATHMANDU: Today’s meeting of the House of Representatives (HoR) lasted for only about seven minutes and concluded after endorsing a condolence motion. This is the third meeting in a row where the lower house of parliament did not enter any significant proceedings after it was restored through the Supreme Court’s order on February 23. Today’s meeting […]

MUMBAI : India reported 24,492 new coronavirus cases on Tuesday, the sixth straight day of more than 20,000 infections, as curbs to try to stop the spread of COVID-19 were expanded in parts of the country that have recorded a surge. Total cases have now risen to 11.41 million, the highest in the world after […]