India says needs to verify troop disengagement with China

Published On: July 16, 2020 05:17 PM NPT By: Reuters

NEW DELHI, July 16: India and China are making progress on ending a months-long military faceoff at their disputed Himalayan border but it is a complicated process and needs verification on the ground, the Indian army said on Thursday.

KATHMANDU, July 16: The intra-party dispute within the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) has shown no sign of abetting after the rival factions led by Executive Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal and senior leader Madhav Kumar Nepal asked Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli to step down from the post of the country’s top executive.

KATHMANDU, July 16: 167 new cases of coronavirus were confirmed in the past 24 hours, according to the Ministry of Health and Population.

BEIJING, July 16: China became the first major economy to grow since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, recording an unexpectedly strong 3.2% expansion in the latest quarter after anti-virus lockdowns were lifted and factories and stores reopened.

KATHMANDU, July 16: Youth protesters from the ‘enough is enough’ campaign have yet again hit the streets in order to jog the government’s memory regarding the agreement reached between them and the government on June 7. Joining the protest in front of the ministers’ quarters in Pulchowk, Lalitpur, this morning most of them were seen holding placards that read ‘implement the agreement’.

KATHMANDU, July 16: The Department of Archaeology (DoA) is preparing to excavate and begin archaeological studies in Thori, which the Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has claimed as the birthplace of Hindu deity Ram.

KATHMANDU, July 16: The top three leaders of the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) are holding ‘decisive talks’ at the Prime Minister K P Oli’s official residence in Baluwatar to resolve their differences within the party, which, according to some analysts, has reached the verge of a split.

Infographics: COVID-19 & Nepal

Published On: July 16, 2020 01:34 PM NPT By: Republica

Infographics: COVID-19 & Nepal

Office of the Auditor General tells govt to control unproductive expenditure

Role of civil society during the pandemic

Published On: July 16, 2020 12:50 PM NPT By: Pramod Bhattarai

We have to make the role of civil society more relevant. Civil society must act as torchbearers to deal with this global pandemic