Message by Speaker, NA Chairman on Parliament Day

Published On: June 30, 2020 05:24 PM NPT By: RSS

KATHMANDU, June 30: Speaker of the House of Representatives, Agni Prasad Sapkota and National Assembly Chairman Ganesh Prasad Timilsina have extended best wishes to all Nepalis on the occasion of the Parliament Day today.

Nepal records 316 new cases of COVID-19 in past 24 hours

Published On: June 30, 2020 05:23 PM NPT By: Republica

KATHMANDU, June 30: Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) has recorded 316 new cases of coronavirus in the past 24 hours, taking Nepal's COVID-19 national tally to 13564.

KATHMANDU, June 30: Taking strong exception to some of the provisions of citizenship bill which proposes granting naturalized citizenship to foreign women married to Nepali men only seven years after the marriage, the Janata Samajbadi Party (JSP) staged a demonstration in the capital on Tuesday.

KATHMANDU, June 30: Traffic police have taken control of more than 350 cabs from the Kathmandu Valley as taxi drivers staged protests in different places of the capital by parking taxis on the roadside.

CHENNAI/GUWAHATI, India, June 30: Several Indian cities prepared to extend their lockdowns to combat the spread of the novel coronavirus on Tuesday, as daily cases in the country remained close to 20,000.

KATHMANDU, June 30: Himalaya Airlines and Huawei Cloud, a Chinese multinational technology company, signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for strategic cooperation on Sunday.

SHANGHAI, June 30: A new flu virus found in Chinese pigs has become more infectious to humans and needs to be watched closely in case it becomes a potential “pandemic virus”, a study said, although experts said there is no imminent threat.

How risky is flying during the coronavirus pandemic?

Published On: June 30, 2020 01:58 PM NPT By: Associated Press

NEW YORK, June 30: Flying can increase your risk of exposure to infection, but airlines are taking some precautions and you can too.

KATHMANDU, June 30: Sudan Gurung, a 35 years old man participating in the Satyagraha being organized by the campaigners of Enough is Enough was admitted to a hospital on Tuesday.

The legacy of Madan Bhandari

Published On: June 30, 2020 01:00 PM NPT By: Tika P Dhakal

Madan Bhandari is one politician of the Left on whom there has been significant discussion in the mainstream polity of Nepal. And yet, one feels that the narrative is inadequate. Despite all that has been written and said, the very fact that that he led a communist party makes academicians and writers hesitate to properly locate his contributions in Nepal’s 70 years of democratic struggle.