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Govt to review decision to resume aviation service, long-dis...

KATHMANDU, Aug 6: Although the government earlier announced to resume long-distance public transport and lift the suspension of domestic and international flights beginning next week, a sudden spike in the cases of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in various parts of the country including the Kath...
Aug 06, 2020
Latest Updates, Coronavirus

Can you get the coronavirus from secondhand smoke?

Secondhand smoke isn’t believed to directly spread the virus, experts say, but infected smokers may blow droplets carrying the virus when they exhale.
Aug 06, 2020
OPINION, Latest Updates

Gaze of Covid-19 on academia

A usual calendar would have allowed this time of the year for plus two schools and colleges to spread their charismatic slogans throughout the country. A series of billboards would have produced the most photogenic smiles of the students of the given college flaunting their successes, presumably bec...
Aug 06, 2020
SOCIETY, Latest Updates, Coronavirus

25 more cases of COVID-19 detected in Kapilvastu

KAPILVASTU, Aug 6: The community level transmission of COVID-19 is feared in Kapilvastu after 25 fresh cases were detected on Thursday morning.
Aug 06, 2020
SOCIETY, Latest Updates

Road connecting Rolpa district headquarters damaged, locals...

ROLPA, August 5: The main road that connects Libang, headquarters of Rolpa, to Ghartigaun looks like a chain of small muddy ponds posing a threat to the safety of passengers and commuters. This has quite enraged the locals who had demanded that the 31 kilometers long road which was already in a dila...
Aug 06, 2020
SOCIETY, Latest Updates, Coronavirus

43 diagnosed with COVID-19 in Birgunj including medic, army...

BIRGUNJ, Aug 6: Forty-three more people tested positive for the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Birgunj, which has turned into a hotspot of this disease in recent days.
Aug 06, 2020
SOCIETY, Latest Updates, Coronavirus

NCP Executive Chairman Dahal's six security guards test posi...

KATHMANDU, Aug 6: Six of the security personnel for the security of ruling Nepal Communist Party Executive Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal have been infected with novel coronavirus.
Aug 06, 2020
SOCIETY, Latest Updates, Coronavirus

Amid lockdown, Dharan records 13 new cases of coronavirus

DHARAN, Aug 6: As many as 13 new cases of coronavirus have been detected in Dharan Sub-metropolitan City on Thursday morning.
Aug 06, 2020
SOCIETY, Latest Updates

Weather alert: Monsoon low pressure line moving toward Nepal...

KATHMANDU, August 6: After remaining clear for a week, the weather is predicted to be overcast with heavy rain from Saturday. According to the prediction, there are chances for a low pressure line of the monsoon to approach Nepal again from Saturday night.
Aug 06, 2020
WORLD, Latest Updates

Beirut reels from huge blast as death toll climbs to at leas...

BEIRUT, Aug 6: Lebanese rescue teams pulled out bodies and hunted for missing people on Wednesday from the wreckage caused by a massive warehouse explosion that sent a devastating blast wave across Beirut, killing at least 135.
Aug 06, 2020