ECONOMY
NAC’s aircraft leaving for China to bring COVID-19 vaccines
NAC’s aircraft leaving for China to bring COVID-19 vaccines
KATHMANDU, July 8: A Nepal Airlines Corporation (NAC) aircraft is leaving for China to bring COVID-19 vaccines today.
Jul 08, 2021
WORLD
Global COVID-19 deaths hit 4 million amid rush to vaccinate
Global COVID-19 deaths hit 4 million amid rush to vaccinate
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July 8: The global death toll from COVID-19 eclipsed 4 million Wednesday as the crisis increasingly becomes a race between the vaccine and the highly contagious delta variant.
Jul 08, 2021
ECONOMY, SOCIETY
Construction of a suspension bridge shortens walking distance
Construction of a suspension bridge shortens walking distanc...
MYAGDI, July 8: Construction of a suspension bridge over the Ghopte rivulet in Raghuganga rural municipality-6, Pakhapani of Myagdi district has shortened a walking distance of an hour to 20 minutes.
Jul 08, 2021
WORLD
Haiti in upheaval: President Moïse assassinated at home
Haiti in upheaval: President Moïse assassinated at home
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, July 8: A squad of gunmen assassinated Haitian President Jovenel Moïse and wounded his wife in an overnight raid on their home Wednesday, with police killing four suspects and arresting two others hours later amid growing chaos in a country already enduring gang violence and...
Jul 08, 2021
WORLD
Series of attacks target U.S. personnel in Iraq and Syria
Series of attacks target U.S. personnel in Iraq and Syria
BAGHDAD/AMMAN, July 8: U.S. diplomats and troops in Iraq and Syria were targeted in three rocket and drone attacks in the past 24 hours, U.S. and Iraq officials said on Wednesday, including at least 14 rockets hitting an Iraqi air base hosting U.S. forces, wounding two American service members.
Jul 08, 2021
ECONOMY
Nepse sees modest losses as quarter end approaches
Nepse sees modest losses as quarter end approaches
KATHMANDU, July 7: Stocks traded briefly in green before pulling back towards the opening level in the morning. Subsequently, the benchmark traded flat for most of the first half of Wednesday’s trading session. Nonetheless, selling pressure in the afternoon dragged the index towards negative territo...
Jul 07, 2021
ECONOMY
Nepal being self-reliant in tea, electricity wire and conductor, footwear, zinc sheet and...
Nepal being self-reliant in tea, electricity wire and conduc...
KATHMANDU, July 7: The government has included five more items — tea, electricity wire and conductor, footwear, zinc sheets and paints — in the lists of the potential goods in which Nepal is being self-reliant.
Jul 07, 2021
SOCIETY
Commuters in dilemma as bus park remains closed
Commuters in dilemma as bus park remains closed
KATHMANDU, June 7: The general public in the Kathmandu Valley is left in a dilemma regarding the search for means of transportation as the old-bus park was found empty and padlocked. Ram Sundar Poudel, a commuter, could not find a single bus for Dakshinkali even after making his second round of Tudi...
Jul 07, 2021
POLITICS
EC forms a five-member bench to settle JSP's authenticity row
EC forms a five-member bench to settle JSP's authenticity ro...
KATHMANDU, July 7: The Election Commission (EC) has formed a five-member bench to settle the intra-party row within the Janata Samajbadi Party(JSP).
Jul 07, 2021
SOCIETY, Latest Updates, Coronavirus
Nepal’s new COVID-19 cases decreased by almost 10 percent in past one week but risk of tra...
Nepal’s new COVID-19 cases decreased by almost 10 percent in...
2,979 new cases, 1,333 recoveries and 28 deaths due to COVID-19 recorded on Wednesday
Jul 07, 2021