SOCIETY, Latest Updates
Govt decides not to bear cost of COVID-19 treatment, PCR testing
Govt decides not to bear cost of COVID-19 treatment, PCR tes...
KATHMANDU, Oct 18: The government has decided not to bear the cost of treatment and PCR testing of COVID-19 patients effective from Sunday.
Oct 18, 2020
SOCIETY
Use of face shields made mandatory for public transport users
Use of face shields made mandatory for public transport user...
KATHMANDU, Oct 18: The government which has been unable to enforce its previous rules and measures has been announcing additional rules one after another as the cases of COVID-19 spike in the country.
Oct 18, 2020
WORLD
UN arms embargoes on Iran expire despite US objections
UN arms embargoes on Iran expire despite US objections
TEHRAN, Iran, Oct 18: A decade-long U.N. arms embargo on Iran that barred it from purchasing foreign weapons like tanks and fighter jets expired Sunday as planned under its nuclear deal with world powers, despite objections from the United States.
Oct 18, 2020
SOCIETY
Families of those dying of COVID-19 in home isolation have to manage funerals themselves:...
Families of those dying of COVID-19 in home isolation have t...
KATHMANDU, Oct 18: The government has now asked the people to manage the funeral rites of their family members who die of COVID-19 in home isolation.
Oct 18, 2020
POLITICS, Latest Updates
People’s representatives in Lumbini not getting festival allowances this year
People’s representatives in Lumbini not getting festival all...
BUTWAL, Oct 18: The Lumbini Province Government has stated that the people’s representatives in the province have not been provided festival allowances this year.
Oct 18, 2020
My City, Entertainment
Second teaser of “Euta Yesto Prem Kahani” released
Second teaser of “Euta Yesto Prem Kahani” released
Second teaser of moive “Euta Yesto Prem Kahani” has been released on Friday. The movie is presented by actor Shiva Shrestha, who has contributed continuously to the Nepali cinema industry for the past four decades.
Oct 18, 2020
POLITICS, Latest Updates
Parliamentarians Pathak, Khad say they will not take Dashain allowances this year
Parliamentarians Pathak, Khad say they will not take Dashain...
KATHMANDU, Oct 18: Parliamentarians Surya Pathak and Balkrishna Khad have written to the Federal Parliament Secretariat informing it that they are not taking the Dashain allowances this year.
Oct 18, 2020
ECONOMY
Former Sebon chairman Babu Ram Shrestha no more
Former Sebon chairman Babu Ram Shrestha no more
KATHMANDU, Oct 18: Babu Ram Shrestha, a former chairman of the Securities Board of Nepal (Sebon), passed away on Saturday.
Oct 18, 2020
WORLD
Thousands protest Trump's Supreme Court pick at Washington Women's March
Thousands protest Trump's Supreme Court pick at Washington W...
WASHINGTON, Oct 18: Thousands marched to the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington on Saturday to commemorate the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and protest President Donald Trump’s rush to push through Amy Coney Barrett as her replacement.
Oct 18, 2020
SOCIETY, Infographic, Latest Updates, Coronavirus
Nearly 42 percent of COVID-19 cases in Nepal are from Kathmandu Valley; 1,698 new cases re...
Nearly 42 percent of COVID-19 cases in Nepal are from Kathma...
This is 57.71 percent of the total cases added across the country in the past 24 hours.
Oct 18, 2020