COVID-19 has taken heavy toll on women's entrepreneurship in Nepal

Published On: September 18, 2020 08:34 AM NPT By: Republica

KATHMANDU, Sept 18: Women Entrepreneurs’ Associations of Nepal (FWEAN) on Thursday organized a virtual interaction on the COVID-19 impact on businesses run by women in Nepal.

Over 1,000 cargo trucks stuck at Nepal-China border points

Published On: September 18, 2020 04:35 AM NPT By: Republica

KATHMANDU, Sept 18: More than a thousands of Nepal-bound cargo trucks have remained stuck at the Nepal-China borders as the Chinese authorities are reluctant to allow cargo movement via the land routes.

WHO says more than 170 countries have joined COVAX vaccine facility

Published On: September 17, 2020 07:00 PM NPT By: Reuters

SINGAPORE, Sept 17: More than 170 countries have joined the World Health Organisation’s COVAX facility to boost development of vaccines to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, the body’s director general.

Family of deceased patients claim hospital’s rejection to admit for treatment led to his untimely demise

KATHMANDU, Sept 17: Nepal’s coronavirus case tally has neared 60,000 after the confirmation of 1,246 new cases and four more deaths related to the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the past 24 hours, the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) said on Thursday afternoon.

Khotang, Sept 17: The District Administration Office in Khotang has requested public vehicle operators to run theirvehicles with one passenger in a row. The decision passed by the Council of Ministers on Wednesday has allowed the vehicles to resume public vehicle service that had been halted to contain the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, in order to prevent and control the transmission of the virus, the DAO has requested the vehicle operators to resume the service with less than 50 percent of the seat capacity.

618 new cases and one new death in the past 24 hours in the Valley

KATHMANDU, Sept 17: President Bidya Devi Bhandari nominated Nepal Communist Party (NCP) Vice Chairman Bamdev Gautam as a National Assembly member on Thursday.

Cases of dengue and scrub typhus surge in Gandaki Province

Published On: September 17, 2020 03:04 PM NPT By: Hari Krishna Gautam

In the past five months, Mygadi district alone recorded 64 cases of dengue fever and 43 of scrub typhus

Seven settlements at high risk of landslides in Parbat

Published On: September 17, 2020 02:29 PM NPT By: RSS

PARBAT, Sept 17: A total of seven settlements in Phalewas Municipality in the district are at high risk of landslides. The local authorities have recommended shifting the settlements to safer zones after geographical assessment.