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Nepali migrant workers stuck on Indian border denied entry
Published On: March 31, 2020 06:05 AM NPT By: Republica
KATHMANDU, March 31: Hundreds of Nepali migrant workers returning home from India are stranded in Dharchula on the Indian side of the Nepal-India border since the last few days after the Darchula district administration barred them from entering Nepal citing the nationwide COVID-19 lockdown.
'The society made me infected, I was not'
Published On: March 31, 2020 05:25 AM NPT By: Devendra Basnet
DANG, March 31: After a girl who returned from France to Nepal recently tested positive for the novel coronavirus, the government sought the whereabouts and conditions of others who came in the same flight. This included a young woman from Dang, Laxmi Oli. As the name was also revealed, she soon became a target in her own town in Dang. According to her, everything has changed for her since then. And this continues, even when she has already tested negative for COVID-19.
8,500 lockdown flouters faced action in a week
Published On: March 31, 2020 04:05 AM NPT By: Ashok Dahal
KATHMANDU, March 31: Police briefly detained as many as 8,500 individuals for wandering outside their homes against the government order during the first week of nationwide lockdown.
NTB stops rescue operation with the rescue of 1,331 stranded tourists
Published On: March 31, 2020 03:05 AM NPT By: Muna Sunuwar
KATHMANDU, March 31: Nepal Tourism Board (NTB) has stopped rescue operation of stranded tourists after bringing 1,331 foreigners from different places of Nepal to Kathmandu in five days. The national tourism promotion organization had started rescue operation since Thursday.
Amid extended lockdown, large number of Nepali migrant workers enter home from India
Published On: March 30, 2020 09:40 PM NPT By: Raju Adhikari
BIRATNAGAR, March 30: Although the government has suspended land border crossings with India to prevent the spread of coronavirus, Nepali nationals mostly migrant workers have been defying this restriction and entering the eastern districts of Nepal.
Nepal Press Union urges govt to bring special economic package for media houses, journalists
Published On: March 30, 2020 09:30 PM NPT By: Kunga Hyolmo
KATHMANDU, March 30: Nepal Press Union has urged the government to bring immediate special economic relief package for media houses and journalists.
Govt to extend supports to working-class people, Spokesperson Dr. Khatiwada
Published On: March 30, 2020 08:30 PM NPT By: RSS
KATHMANDU, March 30: The government has made all possible efforts to reduce the impact of COVID-19 and subsequent fears.
COVID-19 patients’ relatives have no infection, says MoHP
Published On: March 30, 2020 07:00 PM NPT By: Republica
KATHMANDU, March 30: Ministry of Health and Population has said that family members of all four coronavirus patients do not have an infection of this deadly disease.
Scope of coronavirus test will be expanded and hundreds will be tested daily: Minister Gyawali
Published On: March 30, 2020 06:58 PM NPT By: RSS
KATHMANDU, March 30: The entire world is presently battling to contain the spread of coronavirus, termed as COVID-19 by the World Health Organisation. The virus which first emerged from Wuhan of Hubei province in China has already taken a pandemic turn. Bearing in mind the global health threat posed by it, several countries have gone into lockdown, as a precautionary measure against the deadly virus. In this connection, the Government of Nepal also announced a weeklong national lockdown beginning from March 24, which was extended Sunday to last till April 7. The extension was as per the Cabinet meeting decision acting on the recommendation of the High-level Task Force on Coronavirus Infection Prevention, Control, and Treatment headed by Deputy Prime Minister Ishwar Pokhrel.
Seventh day of lockdown; Birendranagar wears deserted look (with photos)
Published On: March 30, 2020 06:00 PM NPT By: GANESH BISHU
BIRENDRANAGAR, March 30: As the country is already in the seventh day of nationwide lockdown enforced by the government, capital of Karnali Province Birendranagar is silent with almost empty streets.
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