Four succumb to COVID-19 in Dhangadi

Published On: May 3, 2021 01:10 PM NPT By: RSS

KAILALI, May 3: Four people died of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at the Seti Provincial Hospital in Dhangadi of Kailali district.

Health condition of Ex-PM Bhattarai improving

Published On: May 3, 2021 01:08 PM NPT By: Republica

KATHMANDU, May 3: Health condition of former Prime Minister and the Chairman of Federal Council of Janata Samajbadi Party, Babu Ram Bhattarai, is gradually improving.

KATHMANDU, May 3: Civil society leaders have expressed grave disappointment over lack of government’s proactive action to control and manage the COVID situation and defaulting into lockdown as the last resort.

KATHMANDU, May 3: Eighteen employees of the five-star hotel, Hyatt Regency in Kathmandu, which has been providing services even under the prohibitory order, have contracted COVID-19.

SURKHET, May 3: The Karnali Province government has decided to provide Rs 100,000 to the family of those dying of COVID-19.

KATHMANDU, May 3: Tokha Municipality has suspended all its services except for the most essential ones after its employees and elected representatives tested positive for the COVID-19.

The pandemic left Bangladesh's fourth estate, the very profession that demands accountability from state and society, riddled with labour law violations.

Target on their backs

Published On: May 3, 2021 09:03 AM NPT By: Republica

Honest reporting in Pakistan draws the ire of powerful quarters  and some journalists pay the ultimate price

Nepal’s health reporters brave the pandemic

Published On: May 3, 2021 08:30 AM NPT By: Anjali Subedi

KATHMANDU, May 3: Kailash Joshi, a journalist from Far West Nepal, has not taken a break from his work for the past one year. Just when he thought that COVID-19, that is wreaking havoc worldwide, was perhaps making an exit from Nepal, 'it came back with a bigger roar'. The country is engulfed by the second wave of COVID-19, and Joshi is also infected by the virus. The 30-year-old local of Dhangadhi tested positive for the virus on Thursday. But unlike other patients with COVID-19 symptoms, Joshi cannot take a full rest.

Collective action needed to stop domino effect of silencing independent media