KATHMANDU : The Nepali embassy in India has urged the Nepali nationals living in India to stay safe and adopt precautions against the new variant of COVID-19 that is taking the lives of thousands of people there daily. The Embassy of Nepal in New Delhi, issuing a notice on Tuesday, urged Nepali nationals there to […]
KATHMANDU : Buyers have started to rush to their nearest retail stores to purchase daily essentials citing the possible shortage and excessive price hike after the government enforced prohibitory order to be effective from Thursday. The Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Supplies said there is adequate food in stock. Urmila KC, assistance spokesperson of the […]
KATHMANDU : Stocks came under pressure since the beginning of Monday’s trading session. The Nepal Stock Exchange (Nepse) index fell around 56 points in the morning before recovering slightly. However, equities continued to falter further in the latter trading hours. At the close, Nepse finished 65.58 points lower at 2,506.62. The market continued to fell […]
NEPALGUNJ : District Administration Office (DAO), Banke has decided to enforce a week-long lockdown in the district starting Monday midnight. During this period, all the activities except emergency services will remain closed in the district. The movement of people and vehicles has been restricted during the lockdown period, according to the Chief District Officer, Shiva […]
NEW DELHI : With life-saving oxygen in short supply, family members in India are left on their own to ferry coronavirus patients from hospital to hospital in search of treatment as the country is engulfed in a devastating new surge of infections. Too often their efforts end in mourning. The stories are told on social […]
KATHMANDU: The district administration offices (DAOs) of the three districts in the Kathmandu Valley have decided to suspend all their regular services except emergency ones for a week in wake of the growing risk of COVID-19 infection. A meeting of the chief district officers (CDOs) of the three districts — Kathmandu, Bhaktapur and Lalitpur — […]
NEW DELHI : India on Sunday reported a record daily rise of 349,691 new coronavirus infections, taking its overall tally to 16.96 million infections. A total of 2,767 people were reported dead on Sunday, according to health ministry data, taking total coronavirus fatalities to 192,311.
KATHMANDU : The government is mulling over reducing the customs duty on the import of 20,000 units of oxygen gas cylinders, citing the possible shortage of the oxygen carrying vessels in wake of the rising COVID-19 cases. According to the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP), it has forwarded a letter to the Ministry of […]
INDIA : People across India scrambled for life-saving oxygen supplies on Friday and patients lay dying outside hospitals as the capital recorded the equivalent of one death from COVID-19 every five minutes. For the second day running, the country’s overnight infection total was higher than ever recorded anywhere in the world since the pandemic began […]
KATHMANDU : The second meeting of the CPN-UML’s Tenth National General Convention Organising Committee held on Friday decided to take action against four members of the Karnali Province Assembly for defying the whip issued by the party during the voting process while Chief Minister Mahendra Bahadur Shahi was trying to win the confidence of the […]