KATHMANDU, Oct 20: As many as 3,093 new cases of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) were confirmed in Nepal on Tuesday, the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) reported.

One killed, 14 injured in Dailekh bus accident

Published On: October 20, 2020 04:20 PM NPT By: Nagendra Upadhyaya

SURKHET, Oct 20: A man died and 14 others were injured when a bus met with an accident at Tallo Dungeshwar along the Karnali Highway on Tuesday.

The government itself is breaking the law

Published On: October 20, 2020 04:08 PM NPT By: Bhasha Sharma

The government asking the citizens to pay for the treatment of COVID-19 is against the constitution and the verdicts issued by the country’s top court.

KATHMANDU, Oct 20: A minor, who was kidnapped from Imadol in Lalitpur district on Monday evening, was rescued by the police within three hours of the incident.

KATHMANDU, Oct 20: Police on Tuesday recovered the body of a Nepal Police constable, Ram Bahadur Saud, posted at a temporary police post in Jugeda in Kailali, who had been missing for the past three days.

Sunsari sees two more coronavirus-related deaths

Published On: October 20, 2020 01:00 PM NPT By: Rohit Rai

DHARAN, Oct 20: Two more coronavirus patients died at the COVID-19 Hospital under BP Koirala Institute of Health Sciences (BPKIHS) in Dharan in the past 24 hours.

KATHMANDU, Oct 20: The District Administration Office (DAO), Kathmandu, has urged one and all in the district not to come outside of their houses unless necessary during the celebration of Dashain festival.

India says Chinese soldier apprehended in Ladakh, to be returned

Published On: October 20, 2020 10:49 AM NPT By: Reuters

NEW DELHI, Oct 20: The Indian army said on Monday that it had captured a Chinese soldier after he strayed across a contested de facto border in the western Himalayan region where both countries have amassed thousands of troops after a deadly clash in June.

Mazhar Javed is a medical doctor by training. He has been appointed as Pakistan’s new ambassador to South Africa. Ambassador Javed came to Nepal in February, 2016, and left the country today after completing his four-year tenure. Republica sat down for an extensive interview with him last week, before his departure to South Africa.

GENEVA, Oct 20: Europe and North America should follow the example of Asian states by persevering with anti-COVID measures and quarantining anyone who comes into contact with infected people, a World Health Organization (WHO) expert said on Monday.