NEW DELHI : India will start its COVID-19 vaccination drive from Jan. 16 with priority given to about 30 million healthcare and frontline workers, a government statement said on Saturday. Prime Minister Narendra Modi reviewed the preparedness for COVID-19 vaccination programme on Saturday, it said. India hopes to inoculate 300 million of its 1.35 billion […]
Kathmandu : Minister for Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation Bhanubhakta Dhakal has said the government would mull the decentralization of province-level aviation service in the flights like Biratnagar-Lukla. At a discussion programme organized by Industry Organization Morang, and Morang Trade Association on the problems of tourism entrepreneurs here today, Minister Dhakal informed that he would […]
Kathmandu : Central President of the Federation of Nepali Journalists (FNJ) Govinda Acharya has said as the constitution has guaranteed full press freedom in the preamble itself, the constitution must be protected. President Acharya said it during the 19th annual general meeting of the FNJ Kanchanpur chapter here Thursday. President Acharya reminded that FNJ was […]
Kathmandu : Nepal is sending genes of three Covid-19 patients to Hong Kong for a test to confirm via gene sequencing if they have the new variant of the coronavirus first detected in the United Kingdom. Last week, five people who had arrived from the UK had tested positive for the virus. As the mutated […]
Kathmandu : Deputy Chief of Mission at the Embassy of India in Nepal Namgya Khampa handed over on Wednesday a cheque of Rs 306.6 million to Chief of Nepal Reconstruction Authority Sushil Gyawali for reconstruction of educational institutions in earthquake-affected districts of Nepal. With this cheque handover, India has reimbursed an amount of NRs 819.8 […]
PANCHTHAR : A man who had escaped after murdering his wife was found dead. Dhan Kumar Ubharkoti, 32, a resident of Subhang in Hilihang-5 of the district was found hanging from a tree in the jungle some three kilometers east of his house. Ubharkoti had been on the run since murdering his wife on December […]
SAN FRANCISCO — Twitter and Facebook on Wednesday locked the accounts of President Trump, which prevents him from posting messages to his more than 88 million followers on Twitter and 35 million followers on Facebook, after he published a string of inaccurate and inflammatory messages on a day of violence in the nation’s capital. The moves […]
KATHMANDU: Police have arrested an Indian national on the charge of murdering a fellow Indian by attacking the latter with a weapon in Kathmandu Metropolitan City-16 on Tuesday evening. The Indian national named Subodh Sharma, 25, is accused of killing Kalam Miya, 25, a resident of Mahottari district of India, by attacking with sharp scissors, […]
Kathmandu : The Supreme Court (SC) will begin hearing of 13 writ petitions filed against Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli’s decision to dissolve the parliament starting today. President Bidya Devi Bhandari had dissolved the parliament at the recommendation of Prime Minister Oli on December 20. The apex court had earlier ordered a continuous hearing starting […]
KATHMANDU, The capacity of Dhalkebar substation–the country’s largest substation in Dhanusha– has been increased. The Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) has added 220/132, 315 MVA capacity power transformer in Dhalkebar under the Grid Substation Capacity Expansion Project with the investment of the government. NEA’s officiating managing director Hitendra Dev Shakya informed that an additional 315 MVA […]