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Nepal families face hunger, skip meals as pandemic hits remittances
Published On: June 30, 2020 12:26 PM NPT By: Gopal Sharma/Reuters
KATHMANDU, June 30: Nepali housewife Shiba Kala Limbu grimaced as she recalled how she went hungry in order to feed her five-year-old daughter after the coronavirus pandemic cost her husband his job as a mason in the Gulf state of Qatar.
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Rolpa’s Sunil Smriti Rural Municipality to hire teachers on its own
Published On: June 30, 2020 10:50 AM NPT By: Dinesh Subedi
ROLPA, June 30: Sunil Smriti Rural Municipality in the eastern Rolpa has proposed a new plan to address the issue to privately paid teachers in the community schools.
Mother and son die, three others injured in Chitwan accident
Published On: June 30, 2020 09:55 AM NPT By: Sarita Shrestha
MUGLING, June 30: Two persons died and three others sustained injuries in a road accident at Bharatpur-29, Chitwan on Monday evening.
Govt apathy takes its toll on rice production, imports to surge
Published On: June 29, 2020 07:07 PM NPT By: RAJESH KHANAL
KATHMANDU, June 29: Nepal on Monday is celebrating the ‘National Paddy Day,’ the main day to mark a nationwide paddy transplantation, celebrated with the vision of making the country self-reliant in rice against the fact that the import of the staple food is surging year on year.
‘Prolonged lockdown and restriction measures to contain COVID-19 could push country toward social unrest’
Published On: June 29, 2020 05:30 PM NPT By: Republica
KATHMANDU, June 29: Security experts have expressed fears that the prolonged lockdown and restriction measures put in place to contain COVID-19 without any support to ease the life of ordinary people could soon push the country toward a state of social unrest.
Father arrested for ‘raping’ daughter
Published On: June 29, 2020 03:30 PM NPT By: Republica
KATHMANDU: Police on Sunday arrested a father for allegedly raping his own daughter at Sarada Municipality-12 in Salyan district.
Covid-19 testing stops in Surkhet
Published On: June 29, 2020 03:00 PM NPT By: Republica
BIRENDRANAGAR: Following a technical problem in a PCR machine, the testing of samples for Covid-19 infection has stopped in Surkhet – the headquarters of Karnali. The testing has come to a halt since Friday.
Ruling NCP Vice-chair Gautam wants five-meter tall wall along Nepal-India border
Published On: June 29, 2020 02:57 PM NPT By: Republica
KATHMANDU, June 29: Vice Chairman of the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP), Bam Dev Gautam has demanded that a five-meter tall boundary wall be erected along the Nepal-India border.
Father and son killed in landslide
Published On: June 29, 2020 02:30 PM NPT By: Republica
BAITADI: Two persons died in a landslide triggered by a canal break at Naugadha Rural Municipality-4 in Baitadi district late Sunday evening. According to police, the deceased have been identified as Chandra Singh Mahata, 25, and his four-year-old son Sushant.
One arrested with huge cache of Buddha Chitta beads and seeds
Published On: June 29, 2020 01:46 PM NPT By: Republica
KATHMANDU, June 29: A man on a charge of possessing Buddha Chitta was arrested by police from Swayambhunath area in Kathmandu on Sunday.
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